Last month Tom Ewing ran a World Cup Of 1990 on Twitter and nearing the end asked, "For voters here, I'm interested - has the relatively deep dive of this poll changed your opinion of 1990 at all? (assuming you had one!)" My basic response is too long for 280 characters, or even 2800, so I'm blogging it here, also referring to and embedding a ( Read more... )

Was going to use the title "Trap Hegemony And The Italotrot Question" because I knew it would make Chuck Eddy smile; but I decided "Where 'Galaxy,' naturally enough, means 'Italo'"* was funnier, though maybe David Frazer will be the only one to smile. David's the person who came up with the genre title "Italotrot" to describe Hong Jinyoung's "Love ( Read more... )

2018 my favorite idol-like tracks were not K-pop but Q-pop from Kazakhstan: Ninety One "Ah!Yah!Ma!" KeshYou & Baller "Swala La La," Crystals "Неге мен?" Off-year for K-pop or just my hearing of it? /1 @MargaretMayHan
- Frank Kogan (@koganbot) January 21, 2019

Best K-pop track TheEastLight. "Don't Stop" will forever have asterisk due to bandmembers ( Read more... )

I found it! Live recording from the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival, 1965, Duke Ellington "Second Portrait of the Lion," first track I heard affixed to the word "jazz": instrumental (so to speak) in fixing in my brain the idea of jazz as quick notes in a pointillist haze.

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(Surely I'd heard jazz previously in movie scenes and on TV shows: lounge singers ( Read more... )

Remember five years ago we were talking about Japanese freestyle?
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Dick Enberg of NBC Sports, watching the Irish team on parade during the opening ceremonies of the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona; he goes into a somewhat more-meandering-than-usual monologue about Irish long-distance runners of the past, listing the great ones, concluding with, "Those were the days when Irish guys were miling."

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This entry was ( Read more... )

In the meantime, Badkiz cover a Badkiz song.

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(This is a very subtle post that only davidfrazer will appreciate fully.) (Also see our conversation regarding Badkiz' impact on Korean Taekwando outfit K-Tigers, and the impact of Melbourne bounce on each.)

I chose Debbie Deb, Clare chose Fatboy Slim.

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Saw Ash-B's first appearance on Unpretty Rapstar and went, "Oh, no, they're making her/she's making herself sound tough and real and it won't work and she'll lose," so I averted my ears and avoided the show ( Read more... )

I discovered by blocking Shockwave Flash - which I highly recommend you also block* - that, when I embedded videos using the LiveJournal video template, the video playback employed Shockwave Flash (it wasn't part of the visible code, so I didn't know). If you've got an old CPU, this may have caused your computer to labor. In any event, blocking is ( Read more... )