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May 3, 2009 21

How To: Engage a stranger, if of course, that stranger, is a robot.

Photo: Laura Bentley

This marks the beginning of a new series of posts under the title of  “How To:_____“. Instructional playlists for the most important events in your life. For this post I bring one of the most important moments in a person’s life, meeting up with a Robot. Remember when you met a robot? Was there a soundtrack in the background to enhance the experience? No? Figured as much. Here’s where I come in and help you enhance those lively, unforgetable moments that should go down in our hearts in all 5 senses.

I was sitting by my window early this morning going over images in my head, over and over, like a slideshow, and the image above hit a note, I’d seen it the other day while looking for visual stimuli. That of course led me to fantasize about a meeting with that charismatic little fellow, which inevitably lead to me searching my iTunes for songs that would accomodate the moment, which inexplicably led me to the kitchen with a sudden urge for tuna fish and rice, but that’s another story altogther. At first I could not decide between if I wanted this robot to bounce up and down at a pulsating electronic dance mix, with his halogen eyes beating to an hypnotizing bass line, his arms flying all krump style or stretch out his arms in warm glitch sounds, the lights in his chest slowly turning on and off, like breathing. I guess I had to stick with neutral territory.

I’d love to receive suggestions from you guys on themes for these How To playlists.

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01. Pornophonique – Sad Robot
(8-bit lagerfeuer, 2007)
02. I Monster – Hey Mrs. (Glamour Puss Mix)
(Neveroddoreven, 2005)
03. Air – How does it make you feel?
(10,000 Hz Legend, 2001)
04. Japanese Seizure Robots- Alone in A Crowded Room (Extended Version)
(Knobtweakers Best of 2005, 2005)
05. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Half Ghost
(Twinkle Echo, 2003)
06. I am a Robot and Proud – Places We’re Trying to Find
(The Electricity In Your House Wants to Sing, 2006)
07. Prefuse73 – Página 5
(Reads the Books EP, 2005)
08. Larvae – Raindelay
(Dead Weight, 2006)

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Category: Electronica, Experimental, Motel de Moka

May 2, 2009 10

It Belongs to you and me

Fuck the future!
No, Tony, you can’t fuck the future.

The future catches up with you, and it
fucks you if you haven’t planned for it.

Tonight is the future, and I’m planning
for it. There’s a shirt I have to buy… (Saturday Night Fever, 1975)

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” The Disco List. New Era mix. ”

01. The Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive (Misio More-Bass Edit)
(Found somewhere on the net, 2009)
02. The Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
03. Lady GaGa [ft. Colby O'Donis] – Just Dance (Downtown Party Network Blend by Luminfire)
(Found somewhere on the net too,2009)
04. The Vanish – Heartbeat
The Vanish (The Vanish, 2009)
05. La Roux – Quicksand (Mad Decent Remix)
Quicksand EP (2009)
06. Parliament - Mothership Connection
Mothership Connection (1975)

note: Things are a mess out there. Flu, war, economy, more war. How about little disco? You can’t go wrong with disco. :D Everybody take out your polyester suits!

Hey we won an award. It has nifty logo too. I guess now we can’t post ugly pictures. winning award and all. Thanks guys.

image: ArtWerk
see also: Origin of disco, Disco (wiki), BBC docu on Disco.

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Category: Pop

With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up the world's great cities,
And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure,
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down. [1]


Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end! `I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?' she said aloud. `I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think--' (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes, that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.) [2]



O long-silent Sybil,
you of the winged dreams,
Speak out from your temple of light
as the serious constellations
with Greek names
still stare down on us
as a lighthouse moves its megaphone
over the sea
Speak out and shine upon us
the sea-light of Greece
the diamond light of Greece

Far-seeing Sybil, forever hidden,
Come out of your cave at last
And speak to us in the poet's voice
the voice of the fourth person singular
the voice of the inscrutable future
the voice of the people mixed
with a wild soft laughter--
And give us new dreams to dream,
Give us new myths to live by! [3]


So our princes who have lost their principalities after many years’ of possession shouldn’t blame their loss on fortuna. The real culprit is their own indolence, going through quiet times with no thought of the possibility of change (it’s a common human fault, failing to prepare for tempests unless one is actually in one!). And when eventually bad times did come, they thought of •flight rather than •self-defence, hoping that the people, upset by conquerors’ insolence, would recall them. This course of action may be all right when there’s no alternative, but it is not all right to neglect alternatives and choose this one; it amounts to voluntarily falling because you think that in due course someone will pick you up. If you do get rescued (and you probably won’t), that won’t make you secure; the only rescue that is really helpful to you is the one performed by you, the one that depends on yourself and your virtù. [4]

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