Red Face (adj): flushed with embarrassment or anger

Beware...hipsters and indie will be key words on the following post. But don´t worry...this is a blog you probably *cof most certainly cof* nobody heard of, so...away from all the mainstream scene. For now...

If you like to laugh to the expenses of the internet and if you had the luck (or not) of finding something more than cats on that same internet you may have come across a thing called memes.

Of a gazillion memes (check Urban Dictionary for definition...everything there is legit!) existing nowadays some are made to the expenses of hipster stuff. And I loved them. Not so much now...they are too mainstream... Anyway, despite not being an hipster (or...am I?) and laughing at those memes I must say that I enjoy the hipster side of life. Some girls don´t look that bad in vintage clothes and hipster glasses while listening to some music you probably never heard of. And all of that pictures with deep captions [font: Helvetica!] and some Photoshop vintage effect are quite good. And/or fish eye lens. I know...I go to DeviantArt... *hipster alert*

Hipsters particularly like indie music...I think. Ask an hipster... I find the term indie a bit interesting. To me it always meant a band that is independent from the huge [mean!!!] labels. But somehow now is a music genre. Because "alternative" was too mainstream already. One of the biggest fears of hipsters, as you might have noticed already, is something that they found by themselves and love to death to become mainstream. Which I find a bit silly when it comes to music. And one funny thing is hearing hipsters complain nobody likes that cool music they listen to but when suddenly people start to pay attention to them, or [GOD FORBIDS!], that same music is played on a radio or some public place those indie musicians are some sell out bastards! How dare they??! Being famous and having more than 100 albums sold?! Ugh! And those following albums?! All sounding like crap?! That first album and those non-released songs are far cooler than this mainstream stuff!!

I would want the artists I love to be the most successful possible. I´m not saying that the feeling of being part of a small group of people that know a certain artist doesn´t feel special...it does (oh, such an hypocrite this blog writer!), and I´ll give an example of that (yes, we are getting to the main point of all of this thing...it will be worth it) but it would be cool if other people also start to listen and to support that artist. In fact, what´s the point of sharing (even hipsters) our brand new music discoveries if not to introduce and make people listen to our brand new find?

At last it takes me to the point of this post. While wondering on a hipster Youtube channel I found my latest addiction.

I´m not gonna elaborate how much I [platonically] love her. It´s one of those unhealthy addictions.

One last one:

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do. No hipster.

If You Like...Daniel Radcliffe

If you like Daniel Radcliffe here´s a nice interview of him as only Craig Ferguson knows how to do them.

Save the Interwebz!!!!

Hey you devoted readers of my blog *cof*

Hope everyone had a great beginning of 2012. The last year you will live. Ever. World ends in December. True story.

Or not. Some guys just got tired of making calendars and they stopped in 2012. So, some people, logically, thought the world is coming to an end. Humans...

Meanwhile...if you want to enjoy Internet on this very last year of your existence you have to be aware of this bill USA is trying to pass. I will let a video explain the foolishness:

PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

What is SOPA?

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, H.R. 3261) is on the surface a bill that attempts to curb online piracy. Sadly, the proposed way it goes about doing this would devastate the online economy and the overall freedom of the web. It would particularly affect sites with heavy user generated content. Sites like Youtube, Reddit, Twitter, and others may cease to exist in their current form if this bill is passed.

What is PIPA?

The Protect IP Act (PIPA, S. 968) is SOPA's twin in the Senate. Under current DMCA law, if a user uploads a copyrighted movie to sites like Youtube, the site isn't held accountable so long as they provide a way to report user infringement. The user who uploaded the movie is held accountable for their actions, not the site. PIPA would change that - it would place the blame on the site itself, and would also provide a way for copyright holders to seize the site's domain in extreme circumstances.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation laid out four excellent points as to why the bills are not only dangerous, but are also not effective for what they are trying to accomplish:

The blacklist bills are expensive. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that PIPA alone would cost the taxpayers at least $47 million over 5 years, and could cost the private sector many times more. Those costs would be carried mostly by the tech industry, hampering growth and innovation.

The blacklist bills silence legitimate speech. Rightsholders, ISPs, or the government could shut down sites with accusations of infringement, and without real due process.

The blacklist bills are bad for the architecture of the Internet. But don't take our word for it: see the open letters that dozens of the Internet's concerned creators have submitted to Congress about the impact the bills would have on the security of the web.

The blacklist bills won't stop online piracy. The tools these bills would grant rightsholders are like chainsaws in an operating room: they do a lot of damage, and they aren't very effective in the first place. The filtering methods might dissuade casual users, but they would be trivial for dedicated and technically savvy users to circumvent.

If you tomorrow come across websites that aren´t working they are protesting against this bill. Wikipedia is one of them. So hurry up on doing your homework and then protest against this bill!

Thanks!

Season´s Greetings

Merry Christmas dear blog readers.



Hope you enjoy the season and that you get all that you wish for.

If You Like...Jason Segel

Long story short...he´s awesome.



Yup...another video...

Murmuration

I know, I know I said on the last post that a blog full of videos is rather dull...but...look at it...look!

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

New segment

Thought in introduce a new segment here on the blog. It will be something like "It´s Music To Your Ears", meaning a video will be the main point of the post, with just a short introduction or description of what it is about.

The idea vanished since the first time I had it because I think a blog full of videos, as sometimes happens when I embed music videos 3 or 4 posts in a row, are a bit...dull. The problem is that I don´t have ordinary [life] stories - as the blog title goes for - on a regular basis (at least blog worthy ones...and, also...I´m lazy) to keep the blog updated, which for me means write a few posts, at least, every month.

Thus, rather than only having a music segment the blog will now have an "interview" segment. The goal is, since I found a few Youtube channels who have quality interviews, bring it to the blog...so it can end up being not a music video but a video of a musician being interviewed...which will happen often I presume...and the first post will prove that. Other YT channel that might appear often is one that uploads episodes of the American talk-show Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson since I watch it every time it appears on my subscription box...which usually happens just one day after the episode originally aired on US tv and has a great host, great sidekick and great guests.

It will be called "If You Like..." Therefore, If you like...Feist:

37 minutes of Feist where she talks about radio (this is a radio interview...yes, you are watching a radio interview...so, like, futuristic right?...yeah...), about music, and on that subject, her brand new album "Metals" where she does a track-by-track analysis. It´s a great interview. Although I can´t help but feel...awkward at some parts. I know music moves people, and I´m one of them, but it´s always slightly weird for me see a journalist (which, and this is the case) also a fan, try to undress the songs and explain what do they mean in front of the artist...and sometimes I feel like the artist agrees just to be cool. A song can have different interpretations to each person and that comes from a different experience that usually people connect the song with. And sometimes I just imagine songwriters writing a song, or choosing a line or a certain word just because it sounds good...not everything needs to be metaphorical and/or literal. I think that, because if you wonder the blog you might find a few poems I wrote and despite I mean what I wrote it doesn´t mean I wrote it for a particularly someone or situation. If I meanwhile found someone to whom the poems apply? Yes. And she´s awesome!