Chad Vader Season 2 Part 2

Season 2 heats up with a much funnier second episode. Dalek references, a laser scanner issue and some misc. silly hoo-hah. Enjoy!

YoYo Battles!

Here is a clip from the show that inspired Yo-Yo Girl Cop (mentioned last month). Pretty rad battle sequence!

muslimgauze

I've recently gotten into the band muslimgauze again. Bryn Jones did some amazing material in his short 38 years. Here's a cut from Gun Aramaic with a rather shocking video to accompany it. The track itself is pretty creepy too, there's an "early industrial/sound collage mixed with Middle Eastern instruments" vibe that no one but Jones could totally do justice to.

Chad Vader Season 2 Part 1

I was going to post a few of the Chad Vader shorts but I didn't really find them very funny so I decided to jump into season two straight away. A new corporate take-over, a new love interest, Chad on a bike and lots of snow. It's an OK start, we'll see where it goes.

Anime Doctor Who (part two)

Here's the second part of the "making a proper Doctor Who anime". Please enjoy!

Boards Of Canada + LEGOs

Robotech Episode Two: Countdown

I just finished the Macross Saga this morning, hurray! Here's the second episode of Robotech for all rabid Robotech fans here at www.mrmississippi.blogspot.com

Beach Boys v. J Dilla

Get it here

New Blog (pt. 2)

Hi friends! I've started a new dedicated yoga blog today, it's at www.jaifive.blogspot.com I'm going to start that one out by simply re-posting the majority of my yoga related posts from here onto there. As I start to create new material I'll make sure to crosspost it here as well, I just wanted something that was a little more focused on the mechanics of yoga and playlists without the personal stuff and weirdness that I welcome here.

Jai!

Chad Vader Part Eight

Here it is, the grand finale to the first season of Chad Vader! The epic showdown between Chad and Clint with the management fate of Empire Markets to be determined once and for all!

Next week: Some random Chad Vader silliness, then Season Two will begin shortly thereafter.

Ratatat "Drugs"

Here's another Pitchfork find. Best Ratatat song I've heard in ages and a enjoyably odd video to boot:
Drugs

RATATAT | MySpace Music Videos

Anime Doctor Who (part one)

Here's the first part of a "making of" feature for a short anime styled Doctor Who story that an inventive and talented fan has been working on. Freakin' awesome to my nerd eyes!

Popol Vuh "Hosianna-Mantra"

Popol Vuh at their best are one of my favorite krautrock bands. Their track "Aguirre III" is my favorite song of all time, pure bliss! I have been listening to their Hosianna Mantra album since getting home from CorePower and am blown away by how beautiful it is! It is available for preview from this blog and you can listen to the title track on this Youtube video:

Please enjoy!

Tillsammans (Together)

Just watched this last night, the trailer below is a little poopy but the movie but the movie itself is wonderful! It's a loving and understated drama that is genuinely "feel good" in the best sort of way. It's a Swedish movie about a woman who flees her alcoholic husband and moves in with her brother's hippy commune. It's streaming on Netflix (which is how I found it), watch it please!

BananaSLOTH I Love To Ride the Shikansen

This is a new cEvin (Skinny Puppy) Key project. Like most of his recent material, the majority of the album doesn't interest but it contains one or two great tracks, here is the GREAT bananaSLOTH track:

I am currently using this as a core track on my second to most recent yoga playlist, every time I hear the track it makes me happy! The video, as you may have noticed, isn't that amazing but that's OK.

Yoga Playlists (Part Seven)

I went through a period of using pretty up-tempo techno as the bulk of my playlists. I've never posted one of these before, so without further ado, here it is yo:

ka-ba vinyasa 26

1. Galaxy "La casa de Can Raco" from Science of Ecstasy

2. Markus Schulz "Traveling Light" from Without You Near

3. Alex Gaudino "Watch Out (Extended Mix)" from Watch Out

4. Art of Trance "Madagascar (Domi Nation Remix)" from Madagascar Remixes

5. Morgan Page "The Longest Road" from Elevate

6. Deep Theory "Do It (Miguel Migs Large Dub)" from Summer Night Sessions

7. Mimic "Re-Solve" from Afterhours Ibiza

8. OceanLab "On A Good Day" from Sirens of the Sea

9. Ratnabali "Spiritual Trance" from Shiva Lounge

10. Bonobo "Transmission 94 (Parts 1 & 2)" from Days to Come

11. Legion of Green Men "Constellation (Adam Shaikh Remix)" from Polymorphic Convolutions

12. Galaxy "Meet the Buddha" from Science of Ecstasy

Bonobo, OceanLab and Morgan Page are all great for yoga playlists and can easily work in playlists not so techno oriented. I went through a period where one of the three were on just about every playlist I made. Mimic is the "break after inversions" track and it's a great one for that. The intro track is a little beat heavy, I keep meaning to switch it out. "Meet the Buddha" is a pretty cool closer though. The Art of Trance track reminds me of 1999 and Oakenfold's classic Tranceport mix.

This is the sort of playlist I can only really use for specific, high energy sorts of classes - it's just too much otherwise. These days I'll use my techno playlists (I've got three of them) maybe on average once a month. If I use them on the right days the reaction from the class is great but on the wrong days they hit like a lead balloon.

Chad Vader Part Seven

Going back to the dawn of www.mrmississippi.blogspot.com I realize that there was a great uncompleted task, the first season of Chad Vader. So as to deny my faithful readers no more of Chad's nefarious schemes, I present to you finally - Episode Seven:

Newer readers may click on the Chad Vader tag to see the previous six episodes! After this episode we'll return Chad to his regular Tuesday slot on this fine blog!

Robotech Episode One: Boobytrap

So I've stuck with Robotech longer than I thought I would have done, I'm on the 20th episode right now and really enjoying it. I was browsing YouTube for other stuff and realized that they've got the whole series on there. So, for you viewing pleasure, here's the first episode of this classic Americanized Anime from my youth:

Yoga and Dancing and Living the Good Life

Mark Farina was a great show made even better by the fact that everyone I went out dancing with actually stayed boogying on the dance almost all night long! Usually I dance more than others when I go with a group and having everyone boogie down made it a truly excellent dance experience.

Speaking of truly excellent experiences, I just got back from Hot Yoga with Sanj and it was the best Hot Yoga class I've taken. I have now truly found the deep resonant love for the Bikram/Hot practice which I enjoyed before but didn't truly "get". What made it so great, outside of great teaching, was that tonight I could really hear my mind start to throw crap at me, and I had the ability to get in deep with my breath and instead of just allowing the mind to distract me, I sent my breath in to the areas where I was resistant. In my shoulders, with claustrophobia, fear of pushing further, etc - I just kept sending the breath through and letting the emotions and thoughts fully rise up without resisting them. Having the full minute in poses means that the practice can be a lot more confrontational than a more flowing practice and that confrontation was just what I needed tonight.

Hurray for yoga and hurray for life!

Dream Machine on the Dance Floor

Going to see Mark Farina tonight! Here's a great track of his: