I wanted to see if "penguins dubstep" would bring up a lot of shit on YouTube.
It sure did.
Apparently, penguins and dubsteb go together like mice and cheese.
Here are the first few clips.
Spoiler alert. There are penguins and dubstep.
Presumably, the concept of "penguins" gets less concrete and more abstract as you travel from top to bottom here.
Well, except for the last clip, which is again the concrete sense of penguins.
I accidentally stumbled on that funny Werner Herzog "depressed penguin" clip looking these up. I am that penguin
Tidal/Rambutan – Split 7.3
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"I ain't no bunny rabbit!!" 'Scuse the throwback language, but man, I dig that crazy penguin.
ReplyDeleteThe kiddo hates the dubstep as much as he hates the Bjork (both sound scary to him--funny, I have a few Bjork dubstep remixes favorited on YouTube).
The thumpy crunked up music is what I use when I need a nail in the head ala Roy Batty. Except I need something different lately because the blood pressure is mostly spiking instead of dropping. Mostly. It goes both ways, LOL. I used to listen to aquacrunk and mainline coffee just to stay on my feet but a high blood pressure spike sent me to the ER yesterday. I need to load something calming onto the iPod. Open to suggestions there.
I am saddened by the demented penguin. I hope it at least had some kickass hallucinations, endorphin level spikes, or something while it wandered off to die.
Sorry to hear about the blood pressure. Hope you have that under control soon. That's what kills the male side in my family so I should probably be taking that, but I keep playing the devil's gamble (fool's gamble?) with exercising, which brings it down for a while, then I feel happy and forget about it. And then I check it later and it's up again. I've had some scary numbers too, usually diastolic. I try to pretend it's insignificant but I know I should be more serious than this since (I'm sure you know) high BP can damage major organs and even eyesight. I don't take a lot of meds (synthroid's the only one I truly need) but after my experience with "new drugs" that almost killed me I'm really afraid of the way my body will react to those bp meds, which have so many side effects for so many. I am only recently exploring dubsteb (consciously). At first, I hated what I heard but then I found artists like Jogo with that sense of humor. I thought, how can that first penguins video not have gone viral but then I saw it elsewhere and it had. That's just someone else jumping someone's train. I hope P. & N. are well! I have no idea what aquacrunk is but will Google it later today and probably use the word in some Tumblr art because it's fun to play with today's buzzwords. And that's a neat sounding one. Calming for the IPOD? Hmmmm...but if calm things are not your natural element, won't calm things make you uncalm? I don't want to cite "condescending" music (one step above muzak). I can only speak from personal experience. And you probably already know all that music...I (personally, speaking only for myself) find Cocteau Twins' Moon and the Melodies and Victorialand albums calming--there are some dramatic spikes on both albums but in general the "emotions" feel less like human emotions than emotions nature is "having." Harold Budd has that desert album that's pretty mellowing. There has to be a lot of great mellowing Eno. I just know the tracks, like the Deep Blue one and such. Or there's the somewhat crappy New Age stuff like Narada. My mom likes those natural sounds mixed with new age music cds. I think they sell them at Target. I think she can't be listening to them as music because she doesn't talk about them as music, and I know what kind of music she generally likes. So it must be working for her as mood altering. I don't think. Maybe I'm being condescending to that music, but on those cd's it's usually just space noodling with a few funny chords. I think dubsteb would turn a heart attack into a song and dance to it. It's so the opposite of calm. And I think post-dubsteb (those words exist only to make fun of them) is 130 beats a minute or something. Bassdrop, okay, whatever. It's still unz-unzing. A prayer for more health for ya, less aggravation. Lee called me from work in the middle of the night to read me some legal document his workplace had circulated and while he was reading the document I was examining a mysterious cut on my tongue and talking about cancer. I swear the first day they allow us to go in and be transformed into Terminators, I'm replaced all my parts with those. :-)
ReplyDeleteYah, the dubstep and aquacrunk really hits the spot sometimes, even if it's a lot of noodling and sampling, like the flip side of the new agey stuff, LOL. There's this dude in Glasgow named Rustie--great stuff for when I want that stimulation. Electronica-hiphop sort of stuff.
DeleteHere's a funny video someone did to Rustie's "Hyperthrust."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOHAXsJHPuw&feature=colike
I know what you mean about too calm making me uncalm--lately I've been listening to opera for that calm/uncalm thing. To get the thrill without the thumpy throbbing thing, LOL. Some of Laurie Anderson's stuff is good for that, too.
My mother liked the new-agey nature mix stuff. Pianos with loons on a lake, violins with seagulls and surf.... The spouse also likes Enya and etc. It all makes me antsy; I think you know what I mean. But I'll go check out the other stuff for when I'm about to blow a gasket, thank you kindly! I'm not usually in the market for soothing music. In the meantime I gave up the coffee.
The scariest thing isn't when the blood pressure spikes--it's when it drops. Every day I have dips as low as 75/40, some days even lower. My primary care guy asked how it felt when it drops, and I characterized it as very peaceful, pleasant, but at the same time, kind of sort of like I'm about to die.
The spikes aren't that bad, the highest average around 155/115. The worst is when the dips are immediately followed by a spike, like my brain is trying to shock itself back to life. Which may be what is happening. High-five, brain!
The ER doc said more than once that I am a "puzzling case." No shit Sherlock! They oughta put that on my tombstone. Not that I want one--I'm more of a donate my body to science sort of person. I hate the idea of taking up space or using money I don't need after I'm gone.
Hee hee, Terminators. I'd definitely consider an upgrade. One of those later model, liquid metal type bodies would be cool as shit. Especially if I turned out as hot as what's-her-babe.
If I get a pacemaker or something I'll start telling people to call me "Mom 2.0."
Thanks for the link. I loves me some Laurie Anderson. I find a lot of her stuff sanity-restoring. Her attitudes about ill health, death, etc. Is there an etc. after death? lol. That must be scary to be all over the place. I always figured low blood pressure is the safe one (I'm glad my Mom has that) but yeah I remember my Dad's plumetting when he was dying...and standing there starting at that machine for days, trying to WILL the numbers to change and move upwards. 115 is very scary diastolic. I paid more than I can afford for this little bp taker downstairs and I still don't know if it's right or if my bp fluctuates so much from moment to moment. Because I was 98 then 107 (horrors!) then 91 then I forget but not real high. These are all awful (3 of them hypertension stage I or whatever). And the irony is when I exercise every day even a little it goes back down below 90 at least and I was even back to an average of 78 a few months ago. But I'm gonna kill myself with ignoring the problem probably. God, I hope they get yours figured out. I wouldn't worry about it though, because that can only make things worse. And yes, quitting coffee (and I hope you don't smoke!!) can have amazing effects for some people. Do NOT underestimate the effect of caffeine on the body/heart.
ReplyDeleteI forget what medicines you're taking but I'm sure the doctors looked at those as a possible cause for the "dips." I'm sure you've researched dietary things too. Not that I can think of anything offhand that would do that much. Lastly I guess someone would look at environmental factors...like chemical toxicity. Do heavy metals cause low blood pressure? I'm just winging it. I'm no Quincy or that annoying House dude. If I were House, I would say "It's not lupus. It's NEVER lupus." I bet you have one of those abnormalities that you'll wonder about all your life and then die at 102 because you trip over a butterfly. At least, that's what I'll wish for you. Unless you want 128 like Marie Calment. She sold colored pencils to Van Gogh as a child and told people about it in like the 1990s. I think she smoke and drank and whored around. You know the French. They brag about everything and especially their degradation.
The BP has been higher than that, but I don't want you to worry....
ReplyDeleteWorrying is bad, yeah. I had a little spike a couple of days ago while mentally replaying the last doctor appt. I was remembering the doctor looking at one specialist's writeup, saying "oh, I see here he recommended Cymbalta." Grrrrr.... They keep throwing antidepressants at me like they are magic pixie dust, but I've already tried six different ones. I like the St. Johnswort best (Perika or Kira are good brands). I've begun to see mentioning antidepressants as code for they are too stupid or lazy to properly diagnose me.
I never find people like House annoying, but he's my type as far as men go (minus the creepy hooker thing). I like 'em intellectually brilliant and emotionally retarded. Though anyone who manages to diagnose me can have whatever personality disorders/quirks/nasty habits he or she wants.
Hee hee, Quincy was a Medical Examiner. I'll only end up being diagnosed by a Quincy if I die first. But better late than never.
Mme. Calment thought Van Gogh was a disgusting rude man or something like that, LOL. She smoked until just a few years before she died (just 2 cigs a day). She gave them up because she could no longer see well enough to light them herself. She kept trying new things--took up fencing in her 80s. Consumed lots of olive oil, port wine, and chocolate. Once said "I only have one wrinkle--I'm sitting on it." I don't remember reading anything about whoring around, but perhaps experience taught her to be discreet!
Well, I did my mumbo jumbo prayers so BP should be fine in a few days if not hours. Unless I'm in arrears with "those beings" in which case, maybe not. Quincy did the dead, that's right! I don't think I watched that show either. I was searching for another solver guy. Wrong type of solving, soz! I woke up from bizarre dreams I'm still trying to process. Don't they mention heart stuff on that Cymbalta commercial and say that about the whole class? Could the herbal be to blame? I've had days like that day, where I feel I'd trade myself for a Magic Physician. Or the Magic Physician Husband fantasy. If I had a Gay Magic Physician Husband he would no doubt euthanize me--I'm an exception to the Hippocratic Oath, I've no doubt. ;-)
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