Duchy of Prunes Official Blog: abril 2006

lunes, abril 10, 2006

NEO-SOUL and POPULATION 1 (NUNO BETTENCOURT)

The good thing of having no prejudices (or was it taste?) with music is that you can post a neo-soul vid along with a Nuno Bettencourt one unashamedly. Let's do it in 2 parts, cause up to today I posted videos which had something in common (2 funk videos, 2 glam ones...). Here we go:

D'ANGELO- BROWN SUGAR
This guy is Marvin Gaye back in Earth. I'd had posted "Untitled (How Does It Feels)" if I had found a decent- in terms of audio quality I mean- version. Anyway. I know Mister Gaye loves this, he plays it on and on in his Angel-limited-edition-I-Pod. I know it's a bit strange coming from a pasty faced white boy but I love this song.



POPULATION 1 (Nuno Bettencourt)- QPD (acoustic version)
What can I say about Nuno? If you like this song wait until you listen to the CD version. You'll be hooked to it until you learn how to play it. That was my case. There it goes.



Enjoy them suckers. ;)

jueves, abril 06, 2006

MYSPACE BULLETINS
Don't wanna search for vids and all, still lazier than past week so I'm gonna post my recent Myspace bulletins, what I call the "Advice of the Day" series:

Advice #1: 8 legged creatures are ...
...cool. Just look at octopuses. Not only they rock but they are delicious. This is my advice of the day, whenever you see an octopus try and eat it (please don't while still alive-the octopus I mean- or if it's beyond 3 metres/9.8 feet). Good luck.


Advice #2:I'm totally hooked on...
...multiverses. "Hey Zowie stop it, are you gonna post crap like this everytime you feel like doing it?" YES. Because I do believe you're wasting your time and you could use some of this surplus wisdom that has no room in my tiny yet handy brain. So, as I was saying multiverses are cool, cause in one possible universe I'm the leader singer of AC/DC. And in this other one I just knocked Paris Hilton's doggie with my bionic knuckles. Just measure the possibilities. I've just been crowned (then deposed)King of the Octopuses in some of them!

To sum up, my daily advice: whenever you feel like doing anything useful, STOP! Count to 3 then let yourself drift along the infinite possibilities of multiverses.


Advice #3: Be careful when...
...lifting up stones. You never know what's under them. It might be a rattlesnake, bugs, a gnome, a door for a parallel dimension, black holes... The best thing you can find is some buzzing hole flashing in a zillion colours going "zzzooomm...zzzzooommm....zzzoommmmm" that turns out to get you to:

a)the Middle Ages where you are taken for a sorcerer and you end up marrying the princess.

b) Bill Cosby's Show, also known as the Purgatory. And you're the guest star baby.

So what can you do then? The Middle Ages option is easier to solve, as you just gotta walk outta the castle and lift every stone you find until you get to the right door. But then, in the Cosby thing, you'd have to wait to the picnic episode to find a decent stone.

Today's Advice:
Do not mess with stones and rocks unless your life is not exciting enuff. Be sure to carry any flashing object with you all the time (camera with a potent flash, lighters, flashlights...) to scare the plebs- face it, sooner or later they're gonna try to lynch you. Learn some jazz to be accepted in the Cosby family. Better yet, get you an mp3 player with luminous screen and fill it with Charlie Parker themes.


That's all. I know, I should stop snorting glue, but it's darn catchy.

Me in Myspace, if you think you need more advices.

domingo, abril 02, 2006

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE
God bless the Black Panthers for pushing this genius into drugs by threatening him for having white members in the band. They were the main reason for the lost of Sly; the only man on Earth who can dispute the title of greatest funk musician of all times with George Clinton. Have a bit of Sly and the Family Stone but be warned: it is highly adictive.

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE- (I WANT TO TAKE YOU) HIGHER, Central Park NY 1969


SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE- LOVE CITY


Recommended album for Sly and the Family Stone newbies: The Essential.

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