tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73951232024-03-14T03:55:31.794-04:00advanced theory blogHome of the Advanced Genius Theory, a celebration of the least-celebrated work by the most-celebrated minds in pop culture.Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.comBlogger2245125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-49876762150687111602015-11-18T13:53:00.000-05:002015-11-18T13:53:02.134-05:00George Lucas's Favorite Star Wars Character Is Jar-Jar BinksFrom <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/11/george-lucas-jar-jar-video/">Wired </a>(from <a href="https://thescene.com/watch/vanityfair/george-lucas-on-why-he-s-done-directing-star-wars-movies">Vanity Fair</a>): <br />
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[T]he most interesting thing VF got from the director is his choice for his favorite Star Wars character: Jar Jar Binks. In bringing up the most widely disliked character in the galaxy far, far away, Lucas was likely defending his past creations. But the choice also touches on why Lucas seems to have stepped away from helming Star Wars movies: freedom from one’s creations.
“You go to make a movie and all you do is get criticized and people try to make decisions about what you’re going to do before you do it,” Lucas says. “It’s not much fun, and you can’t experiment … I don’t like that.”
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Meesa no souprised. George Lucas didn't mind taking chances with Star Wars, either in tinkering with the originals or making a clownish CGI character a central figure in the first of the prequels. The same spirit that drives the Advanced to be so amazing when they are
young drives them to be so confounding when they mature. It's a package deal: you have to take your Wookies with your Gungans. <br />
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Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-80501908372926653212015-11-09T11:12:00.000-05:002015-11-09T11:12:15.958-05:00Prince to Tour With Piano and MicrophoneFrom <a href="http://www.spin.com/2015/11/prince-new-tour-piano-microphone/">Rolling Stone</a>:<br />
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[Prince will] be forgoing his guitar in favor of a more intimate piano for a just-announced, globe-spanning new tour. The Prince Spotlight: Piano & A Microphone Tour — which is rumored to make stops in a dozen countries in less than a month — will feature solo Prince performances where he only wields (you guessed it) a piano and a microphone.
“Why do this now? For several reasons. For starters it is a challenge,” he told Cultura, who broke the news. “I rarely get bad reviews because this is something that’s been perfected for over thirty years. You have to try new things. With the piano it is more naked, more pure. You can see exactly what you get.”</blockquote>
As a fan of his guitar playing, I hate this. As a believer in Advancement, I love this. Then again, if his piano looks like this (below), everything will probably be okay.<br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-22730844355172189602015-10-24T13:31:00.000-04:002015-10-24T13:32:42.517-04:00Are Friends Acoustic?: Gary Numan Doesn't Care About Electronic MusicTake it away, <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/gary-numan/89247">NME</a>: <br />
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Numan admitted in an interview with Bang Showbiz that the technology of modern electronic music still fascinates him, but emphasized that he's largely doing his own thing these days, and doesn't really relate to the modern style.
The 'Cars' and 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' man said: "I don't really care [about Electronic music] to be honest. I just look after myself. I do my own thing and make sure I am doing what I want to do and the rest of it does what it likes. I'm not a flag waving champion for electronic music.'' </blockquote>
I'd really like to see him take up folk music, personally. Or maybe dixieland.<br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-36078931664134389022015-10-15T09:19:00.000-04:002015-10-15T09:19:20.428-04:00Danzig Covers the Everly Brothers, ZZ Top, and Others<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/danzig-to-excavate-skeletons-covers-album-with-elvis-sabbath-songs-20151014">This </a>is really my kind of thing, let me tell you:<br />
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Glenn Danzig will dig up his musical influences on a new covers album titled Skeletons, which features the former Misfits singer putting his mark on tracks by Elvis Presley, Black Sabbath, ZZ Top and Aerosmith. The covers LP, Danzig's first album since 2010's Deth Red Saboath, will arrive on November 27th. Pre-order Skeletons now through the Nuclear Blast America site.<br />
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"These are my skeletons," Danzig said in a statement. "You may or may not know that I dig these songs. You could say that some of this music is the actual basis and skeleton of what I listened to growing up – ultimately informing the kind of music I like. It's the foundation. If you took Elvis and Sabbath out of my life, I probably wouldn't be the Glenn Danzig you know! I'm glad both sides are represented on this record." </blockquote>
It's always interesting to know what influenced artists whose output is pretty narrowly defined within a genre. When you first hear someone like Danzig and you're, say, 12, it's hard to imagine him sitting around listening to Fleetwood Mac or Leo Sayer, but when you get older you realize he probably knows at least the first verse of "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing."<br />
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Anyway, my favorite choices on this record are "Crying in the Rain" by the Everly Brothers and, even better, "Rough Boy" by ZZ Top. The album cover is pretty awesome, too (see below).<br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-45635634442097638552015-10-12T09:39:00.002-04:002015-10-12T09:39:32.106-04:00Terrence Trent D'Arby/Sananda Maitreya Talks About Dying at 27Great interview at the <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2015/10/i-was-killed-when-i-was-27-curious-afterlife-terence-trent-d-arby">New Statesman</a>. Here are some good bits:<br />
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“Oh my God, I can’t believe you thought I was a socialist,” he says now. “I was nothing more than an opportunist. Any socialist tendencies I may have had were cured when I got my first tax bill. All artists are socialists until they see another artist with a bigger house than theirs.”
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He talks about how at the time he thought the failure of his second record was to lack of support but now he says<br />
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“The good news is, most record company people are motivated by the same reason most of us are: greed,” he says. “So, no, when you look back at it, it didn’t make much sense for management not to want my second record to succeed.”
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Thought he does add that Michael Jackson saw him as a threat and held "more power than the Pope." He says that Lenny Kravitz was a sort of replacement for him and says of the video of Kravitz's penis (with cock ring) coming out in a concert:<br />
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“Choreographed for sure. The only thing I could think to do with a cock ring now is keep my house keys on it.”
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I recommend reading the whole thing. I'm not going to say that he is Advanced, but it's really interesting how he goes from being very realistic and pragmatic to neither (e.g., he says "angels named him Sananda" but that he needed a second name because he didn't want to "piss off" Madonna"). His new project is a concept album (double, of course), with songs like "Giraffe" (sample lyric: "Giraffe/can I have your autograph?/Please sign it to Sananda"), which was inspired by songs from Sesame Street and other children's music. Like I said, read the whole thing. Also please note what he is wearing in the photograph below.<br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-29740096242412193442015-10-09T09:13:00.000-04:002015-10-09T09:13:10.801-04:00Father John Misty's Overt Explanation of Overtly Taking Down His Overt Covers of Taylor Swift<a href="http://pitchfork.com/news/61554-father-john-misty-reveals-story-behind-his-taylor-swift-covers-and-her-camps-reaction/">Pitchfork </a>has the story:<br />
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[T]he covers of "Blank Space" and "Welcome to New York" came together over the span of "like, an hour", when he passed by his tour manager's office and found her listening to Adams' 1989. Tillman says that he never heard Swift's originals prior to that day (although he concedes, "I’m sure I’ve been walking by a Cinnabon or something at the airport and heard it"). To record the new versions, he referred to a printout of Swift's lyrics.<br />
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After he uploaded the covers, Tillman became surprised by their immense popularity. "By the time I got back to the bus that night," he recalls, "my TM [tour manager] was like, 'It’s the top trend on Facebook! It’s on USA Today!', and I was like, 'this is ridiculous,' so I went and took them down, thinking, 'now that’s over'."<br />
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Except it wasn't. Media outlets (including this one) began reaching out asking why he took down the covers. Even Taylor Swift's camp got in touch to ask why they came down and encouraged him to put them back up.<br />
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So Tillman decided to troll everyone by issuing a statement that Lou Reed came to him in a dream and asked him to take down the covers. "I was annoyed at the media," he explained. "I was like, 'these people will print anything', so I went and gave them the most fraudulent, the most blatantly absurd, unprintable piece of surrealistic nonsense – and they printed it!" </blockquote>
I guess he thinks the people who printed that thought it was something other than surrealistic nonsense but I can assure him that was not the case. It must be interesting to live in a world where you assume people are so dumb. Anyway, this is pure Overtness all around: capitalizes on someone else's really good idea, gets embarrassed about it, tries to be clever/weird, and then finally can't just let that be the last of it because he's worried people might have thought he was serious, which really would have been better than recanting. Poor form, sir!<br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-89434843565794360162015-10-08T14:52:00.000-04:002015-10-08T14:52:55.619-04:00The Best Version of Walk on the Wild Side: Gerty MolzenIt's by this lady, Gerty Molzen:<br />
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Dappity doh, dappity doh...Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-57249112679914904822015-10-07T11:28:00.003-04:002015-10-07T11:29:27.749-04:00Billy Corgan Says No to Twitter, Yes to People and Their CarsFrom <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/10/billy-corgan-people-and-their-cars/">Consequence of Sound</a>:<br />
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[Corgan's] latest left-field venture comes in the form of People and Their Cars, a new website filled with faded, vintage images of — you guessed it — people and their cars, along with additional pics of old bridges, ships, and bedrooms. It’s like a hipster’s Instagram account, but like, filled with the the real deal. The photography project is so near and dear to Corgan’s heart, that he’s even quit Twitter to focus on it more, per his very final tweet on Monday.<br />
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For those interested in keeping up with Corgan and his Cars (that sounds like a good idea for a weird documentary, no?), there’s a “Red Border Club” email list that folks can partake in. Club members will “not only the chance to receive additional images, but to be ‘first-in-line’ for updates on new merchandise and forthcoming People And Their Cars/Hexestential books. An it’s all for FREE: with no catch, fees, or obligation to buy.”</blockquote>
I really, really wish his early music were better because he just seems so damn Advanced sometimes. <br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-38719400828460026842015-10-06T16:08:00.002-04:002015-10-06T16:08:31.160-04:00Grace Jones Is Not AdvancedI love Grace Jones, and she displays many Advanced qualities. But I'm having a hard time with <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2015/09/grace-jones-throws-shade-at-miley-rihanna.html#">her recent criticisms of current stars</a> like Kanye West and Miley Cyrus. <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/grace-jones-just-couldnt-find-lady-gagas-soul.html#">And now there's this</a>:<br />
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In another interview on SiriusXM, Jones recalls the first time she met Gaga in the flesh: "Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from Church — maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn’t feel a soul."
Though Jones adds that Gaga "might have been freaked out with meeting me," their interactions never got any better. Jones says she met with Gaga through designer Philip Treacy three more times, each occurrence leaving a sour taste in her mouth. "I know Philip needed to make some money, but you know what, can you just wait until I finish my tour before you repeat what we are working on?" she says, referring to the headpieces he's created for Gaga.</blockquote>
The Advanced move is to partner with seemingly <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVNGY1pInfI">lesser artists</a>, especially if your fans think they are awful, and sometimes even say they are better than you. <br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-16031017429014709542015-10-06T09:15:00.001-04:002015-10-06T09:15:50.910-04:00Bob Dylan's IBM Commercial Is Advanced Times TwoBob Dylan has a new commercial, where he <a href="http://advancedtheory.blogspot.com/search?q=embracing+technology">embraces technology</a> while <a href="http://advancedtheory.blogspot.com/search?q=selling+out">selling out</a>:<br />
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Remember when you could barely understand him when he spoke? I wonder what that was all about.Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-53313302478497662392015-10-05T18:10:00.001-04:002015-10-05T18:11:15.757-04:00Björk's Strings-Only Version Of Vulnicura Is Okay, But No Thrillington<a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1835589/bjork-announces-strings-only-version-of-vulnicura/mp3s/">Stereogum, take it away</a>:<br />
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Björk’s been messing with her latest creation in interesting ways since its release, first through a three part remix project, and now through a special “strings-only” version of the record. The website’s also dubbing it the “acoustic” cut of the album, which I guess is technically true, but these songs sound just as grand with only the strings, her voice, and the viola organista in play.</blockquote>
That's pretty cool, I guess. But Paul McCartney beat this a long time ago with <a href="http://www.mcbeatle.de/macca/a/thrillington_gds.html">Thrillington</a>:<br />
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In 1977, EMI released what has become Paul McCartney's most obscure and least known album of his career - Thrillington. The album, an instrumental, orchestrated version of his Ram LP, was hardly noticed by the press or the rest of the music world. Hardly surprising, considering the almost complete absence of Paul's name anywhere on the album. Even the artist was listed as someone else - somebody named Percy "Thrills" Thrillington.<br />
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Time has revealed that the man behind Percy was none other than Paul McCartney. As chronicled in the Spring 1995 issue of Club Sandwich, McCartney's official fan club newsletter, Paul and Linda dreamed up the idea of the fictional socialite, going as far as placing ads in British newspapers detailing his whereabouts and announcing his upcoming activities (there were, of course, none). But as much as Paul was behind the Thrillington persona, as well as being the source of the songs appearing on the album (which he also produced), there was another man who was as much responsible for what became Thrillington, arranger Richard Hewson.<br />
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The story of Thrillington begins nearly a decade before with the beginning of Apple Records. In the mid-60's, Richard Hewson was attending college at the Guild Hall in London. Though studying classical music, he had a strong interest in jazz. "We had a little band; there was only three of us," recalls Hewson. "I played guitar in those days. We had a drummer called Nigel Anthony, who's now an actor." The bass player was another friend of Hewson's, former Peter and Gordon member Peter Asher, who played upright bass in the combo. "We used to go around to his basement in Wimpole Street and practice. At the time, Paul was going out with Peter's sister, Jane, so I got to know him then."</blockquote>
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-73826734682864950592015-10-02T14:34:00.000-04:002015-10-02T14:42:16.642-04:00Taylor Swift Inspired John Fogerty to Play VegasVegas is <a href="http://advancedtheory.blogspot.com/search?q=las+vegas">big in the world of Advancement</a>, and a lot of people just love it for some reason. Not me, but I guess that's just Overtness. Anyway, I still found it surprising that <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/10/02/john-fogerty-peace-love-creedence-las-vegas/72982250/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatodaycommusic-topstories">John Fogerty is taking his act there</a>:<br />
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Fogerty is indeed going to Vegas, and bringing a new show with him. The 70-year-old rock icon describes Peace, Love and Creedence — set for eight performances at the Venetian Theatre, inside the Venetian Las Vegas, between Jan. 8 and Jan. 23 — as an extension of the "1969" tour he launched in 2014 to commemorate the year Creedence released the albums Bayou Country, Green River and Willy and the Poor Boys.
"The production we've been doing certainly had extra elements, a lot of visual elements," says Fogerty, who plans to perform other band and solo favorites, from Have You Ever Seen the Rain? to Centerfield. "We're going to use that as a frame of reference, and see if we shake it up a little bit."
Fogerty has taken daughter Kelsy "to see Taylor Swift, who I really love" </blockquote>
Even more surprising is how unsurprising it is that, like everyone, he loves Taylor Swift. <a href="http://www.avclub.com/article/john-fogerty-suing-his-former-bandmates-again-222178">Hates his old band</a>, loves Taylor Swift. Really, he wasn't inspired to play Vegas because of his love for Swift, he was just commenting on all the choreography in her show and how his show would likely not live up to that, but it's still fun that he loves her.<br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-10305827927729989692015-09-22T16:38:00.001-04:002015-09-22T16:38:46.287-04:00Father John Misty Claims Lou Reed Appeared to Him in a Dream, Doubles Down on OvertnessHis "statement," from <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/09/father-john-misty-says-lou-reed-appeared-to-him-in-a-dream-told-him-to-take-down-taylor-swift-covers/">Consequence of Sound</a>:<br />
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I had a very strange dream that I abruptly woke up from around 3am early this morning. I was crab-walking around a neighborhood in New Orleans that, though it does not exist, is a recurring location in my dreams. My childhood friend Brian Kawamura was was telling me I still owed the tennis rental place $7000 when the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan was suddenly standing over me, saying over and over, “The only thing crazier than a peasant who believes he is King, is a King who believes he is a King.” He put one of those birthday Burger King crowns on my head and out of the clouds a sort of “Switched on Bach” version of “Ode To Joy” began to play. A crowd which had formed around me began to sing along, with tears streaming down their faces. The crowd was obviously hypnotized and I assumed if I crept away discreetly no one would notice. The earth become a sort of treadmill, and though the locations (The Great Wall of China, a McDonald’s where I had my 3rd birthday, the town from Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon, Vignola’s restaurant in Rockville, Md.), “Ode To Joy” and the crowd remained all around me.<br />
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All of a sudden it was time to soundcheck, which I was late for, and Barack Obama offered to give me a ride on Air Force One. He told me he needed urgent advice regarding some important policy decisions, and we spent the day in Hawaii playing basketball, petting his dogs, golfing and the like when I, gripped with anxiety, told him I really needed to get to soundcheck so we needed to discuss the ruling of the free world. By this time he had turned into an obscene visage of my Father and said, “I have one injunction for you, son: That you enjoy life. It is by this mandate that all is ruled. It is the true tyranny; the equalizing force that binds us all.” I jumped out of Air Force One and landed on top of this massive pink, sparkly, glowing blob that stretched for miles beyond miles, covering entire cities, and I had to keep gulping down chlorophyll because the thing was emitting insane levels of EMF’s, so my mouth and hands were stained dark green.<br />
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Down inside the blob I could see thousands of familiar faces and one of them was Lou Reed on a catwalk hand-cuffed to supermodels who had adopted babies handcuffed to them and Lou said, “Delete those tracks, don’t summon the dead, I am not your plaything. The collection of souls is an expensive pastime.” Then I woke up.”</blockquote>
My statement: this is really, really Overt. <br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-76655341733901249132015-09-22T10:23:00.001-04:002015-09-22T10:24:05.086-04:00Snoop Dogg's Startup to Merge Cannabis and Pop Culture, Finally!From <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/21/snoop-dogg-founds-media-company-merry-jane">The Guardian</a>: <br />
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Entertainment icon Snoop Dogg and media entrepreneur Ted Chung have launched what they say is a marijuana-based media company.<br />
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The co-founders presented Merry Jane, a “premier media platform at the intersection of cannabis and pop culture” at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on Monday.<br />
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Merry Jane plans to publish information on every facet of cannabis, including a video interview series called Deflowered that will profile innovators in the industry, cultural and lifestyle features and the latest news on cannabis policy, business and economics. Information about marijuana products and a location mapping service for dispensaries will also be made available <br />
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"After watching where the cannabis industry is headed, I wanted to create a platform that will take this movement further by creating a destination where people could find fresh content,” Snoop Dogg said. “Merry Jane is a game-changing platform for pop culture. It’s a new frontier y’all!”</blockquote>
Seth Rogen is also involved, but you knew that already. <br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-80069828860264180502015-09-21T17:32:00.002-04:002015-09-21T17:33:02.506-04:00Father John Misty's Cover of Ryan Adam's Cover of Taylor Swift Is OvertI haven't decided how to categorize Ryan Adam's cover of Taylor Swift's 1989 (I think it was just a straight-up fun thing to do), but Father John Misty's "reinterpretation of the classic Ryan Adams album 1989” is Overt. <a href="http://www.spin.com/2015/09/father-john-misty-ryan-adams-taylor-swift-1989-blank-space-cover-what-is-happening-stream/">Spin gives you a listen of the song</a>, which they say features a melody "inspired by Lou Reed’s drawling, disinterested vocal rambling circa the Velvets’ 1967 debut album." I would have rather heard the Pizza Underground's version.<br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-43556682042168861592015-09-18T13:50:00.000-04:002015-09-18T13:50:27.644-04:00 John Malkovich's Collaboration with Ric Ocasek: Good Old-Fashioned WeirdnessNot Advanced, necessarily, but I'm down with <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-john-malkovichs-terrifying-ric-ocasek-collab-20150918">this</a>:<br />
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John Malkovich: actor, director, portal vessel, sonic explorer. The performer has teamed with an eclectic group of musicians – including Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, the Cars' Ric Ocasek, OMD, Young the Giant, Dweezil Zappa and the Dandy Warhols – to create Like a Puppet Show, a Record Store Day Black Friday vinyl exclusive. The album finds Malkovich reciting classical musician Eric Alexandrakis' version of Plato's Allegory of the Cave over original material composed and produced by Alexandrakis, paired with bizarre photos of Malkovich taken by Sandro. </blockquote>
An eclectic group indeed! I just don't know how David Byrne wasn't involved.<br />
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Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-66824603195503510562015-09-17T13:51:00.000-04:002015-09-17T13:54:40.932-04:00Musicians Love Professional Wrestling, Amy Winehouse EditionThere is just something about professional wrestling musicians love, including Advanced ones. Amy Winehouse never got the chance to Advance, but if she had, we might look at this clip below (source: <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/amy-winehouse/88386">NME</a>) as early evidence of her ascendancy. In it she "shows off a number of different accents and expresses interest in visiting The World, a WWE themed restaurant open in Times Square between 1999-2003.
Winehouse appears particularly impressed that female wrestler Chyna had dined in the restaurant as had The Rock (Dwayne Johnson)." It's sad she never got to Advance or see <a href="http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Rock-Fired-His-Representatives-Tooth-Fairy-43524.html">The Tooth Fairy</a>.<br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-20663179989306651442015-09-16T17:50:00.003-04:002015-09-16T17:50:42.763-04:00Stereogum Has a Dickish Take on a Potential New Rolling Stones Album<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"<a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1831349/the-rolling-stones-officially-threaten-25th-studio-album/news/">Threaten</a>." Get it? Such <a href="http://advancedtheory.blogspot.com/search/label/Overt">Overtness</a>. Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-53789841150016992032015-09-15T15:13:00.000-04:002015-09-15T15:13:34.620-04:00Metallica Making Limited Edition Beer with BudweiserLet's let <a href="http://www.metalinjection.net/bands-and-booze/metallica-teaming-up-with-budweiser-for-limited-edition-beer?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=metallica-teaming-up-with-budweiser-for-limited-edition-beer">Metal Injectio</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">n</a> tell us all about it:<br />
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To commemorate their two shows in Qubec City on September 14 and September 16, where they will close out the Colisée Pepsi on the 14th and open up the new venue, Centre Vidéotron, the band will be giving out free cans of Metallica-branded Budweiser beer, brewed in Canada by Labatt. The beer will be available in cans, coming in cases of 15 and 24 with over than 91,000 black cans being printed.</blockquote>
At first I thought it would be better if they had chosen a better beer, but then I realized that this is the right partnership because it is the most American beer and is being brewed in Canada by Labatt and given to Canadians. Plus, you have to image that the guy in this photo would have thought it was pretty awesome to have his own brand of Budweiser.<br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-39959379198170039992015-09-14T15:16:00.000-04:002015-09-14T15:17:28.677-04:00Blues Magoos Version of "Tobacco Road" the Most Influential Song of All Time?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Maybe not, but I hear a lot of music I love in this song, including VU, David Bowie, Camper Van Beethoven, and so on. I think this is known by some, but I just discovered it recently (the record, not this live version) and was struck by how similar it is to my favorites. Another reminder that things that sound like they came from nowhere have some precedent that will make you question everything you ever believed. Luckily Advancement lets me live with that.</div>
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-78661498066641804802015-09-10T15:47:00.000-04:002015-09-10T15:47:38.461-04:00Velvet Underground Matrix Tapes To Be ReleasedFrom <a href="http://www.musictap.net/2015/09/09/4cd-the-matrix-tapes-set-to-be-released-featuring-legendary-velvet-underground-live-tracks/">Music Tap</a>:<br />
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On October 30, Polydor Records will release a 4CD The Matrix Tapes set with over 40 live performance tracks. Some have been heard on various prior releases including the Quine Tapes Box Set, the Super Deluxe Edition of The Velvet Underground, and 1969: The Velvet Underground Live. But there are a few previously unreleased tracks as well here. </blockquote>
Check out the site for the track listing! <br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-2214711402874344792015-09-08T11:05:00.001-04:002015-09-08T11:05:39.664-04:00Prince Is Better at Guitar Than EveryoneThis is old, but I hadn't seen it until this morning. Note how he throws the guitar up in the air at the end.<br />
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<br />Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-81263502588767576992015-09-07T13:04:00.000-04:002015-09-07T13:04:47.900-04:00Trainspotting 2, or Please Hammer Don't Hurt MeDanny Boyle <a href="http://screenrant.com/trainspotting-2-danny-boyle-cast/">has confirmed that Trainspotting 2 is coming</a>:<br />
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Up until this point in time, no concrete plans have come to fruition but speaking to Deadline at the first public screening of his latest film, Steve Jobs, Boyle confirmed that Trainspotting 2 (as it is currently called) will happen soon. In fact, the director is intending to make it his next project.</blockquote>
I'm excited about this for a very specific reason: once or month or so, I wish that someone would hit me over the head with a hammer to erase my memory of seeing <i>Trainspotting </i>so I could watch it again for the first time. Now I can just watch the sequel and save myself that brain damage. But wait, you might be thinking, aren't sequels always terrible? And doesn't this terribleness ruin the first movie for you? And wouldn't it be better to have a completely new original movie?<br />
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As for the first objection, some are good and I'm an optimist. I think Danny Boyle will pull it off, and I like that he isn't overly reverent of the original. I don't think Boyle is Advanced, but not being afraid to mess with your "legacy" is an Advanced trait <br />
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If it turns out to be bad, that won't affect my feelings about the original. Why should it? If anything it might make me appreciate the first one even more, so I can't lose.<br />
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And while yes, I would love there to be another totally new movie as good as <i>Trainspotting</i>, there can be both this sequel and another good movie. A lot of movies come out every year!<br />
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Advanced Genius Theoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17867735475599591317noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7395123.post-78159424813431834972015-09-06T15:22:00.000-04:002015-09-06T15:23:03.338-04:00Miley Machine Music (or Dead Petz Sounds)I don't know about you, but <a href="http://www.vulture.com/2015/09/miley-cyruss-dead-petz-is-hard-to-like.html?mid=facebook_nymag">this review</a> makes me want to listen to, and like, Miley Cyrus's <i>Dead Pets</i>:<br />
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I don’t want to write the whole project off, because there are actually a few moments where Coyne’s influence benefits Cyrus. A few of these songs, taken out of context, are actually lovely. The second one, “Karen Don’t Be Sad,” is simple, glum, and sweet — a Beatles-esque ballad that sounds like the Lips would have had Miley fronted them circa Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (you know, back when she was 9).
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What does "taken out of context" mean here? I guess that means if you don't know who is singing? And is there something bad about her being 9 at some point in history?<br />
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That describes a lot of my favorite albums! <br />
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The reviewer seems like she wants to like this album, but she also wants it be something it's not (a noble project, striving for spiritual insight, carnal pleasures, and creative liberation) and wants Miley to mature ("I suspect it’s something Cyrus had to get out of her system before finding a more mature middle ground between shapelessness and structure"). It may be that the album is not good, but I suspect that if the reviewer just listened to it rather than tried to be its producer, she might get more out of it.<br />
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