Hoodwinked

it has been said, on occasion, that i have questionable taste in films...

there maybe some truth in that...

but in contrast to my usual zombie-related fare, i am currently 'proper feeling' the hoodwinked vibe...

and if you haven't seen it (i'm not known for being especially up-to-date, so chances are it may have gone global with me none the wiser) - i recommend you check it out!

its like a post-modern take on little red riding hood... and in a bizarre take on the way things normally go, its got songs in it and i like it! i've seen/heard the 'd-na-me-tay' joke somewhere before - but i'll let it off...

[as an interesting aside, i heard the jo brand hignfy "make the cockneys love abu qatada" gag before on the wireless... they were both broadcast by the bbc, hence the 'cross-referencing, by punt and dennis' execution was much better]

anyway, assuming you haven't seen hoodwinked, i shouldn't really tell you anything more about the plot than i already have...

i like the goat...

thing is, i tend to listen to hoodwinked a lot more than i watch (you know how it goes)...

and i've come to the realisation that its almost certainly one of my favourite in-film soundtracks ever...

it has been said that i have questionable taste in film soundtracks (although much less often), just putting it out there - also on the list is the billy corgan 'dicking around' on mel gibson vehicle 'ransom'...

but i digress... the opening number (aside from the dvd music which is pretty funky the first 20 or so times) sounds like something on mr e's first solo album with a really nice melody... later on there's 'red is blue' which has a proper 90's ethereal shoe-gaze vibe about it... and there's even some angular punk...

nice...

oh yeah... and the goat.

i like the goat.

he's been cursed, and has to sing everything...

he also has interchangeable horns...

i'm not normally big on the banjo/buegrass/yodelling, but its impossible to like the goat without likin' his song - because of his affliction...

he's a pretty darn melodic goat - check it out
 

and of course, here it is again - backwards!!!

so does this sudden liking for 'goat music' mean there maybe something bluegrass-y coming off of planet bwoi soon?! probably not... 

unless its going backwards... 8)

bite me...

word up you crazy cats!!

i hope you had a good easter weekend, and didn't overdose on too much chocolate... me, i was egg free, but did indulge in a bag of my favourite fruit flavoured sweets on saturday - them not being eggs, i didn't have to wait!!

but i am not here to discuss eggs... unless you really want to that is...

no i am here to present a new video, which i found lurking on my memory card...

si! its a version of 'bite me' recorded live at NB's... and personally, i love the camera angle!! its the backstage angle, with a full and glorious view of the fruit machines immediately stage left and very little bwoi... well you can see my *ahem* rear, and my face pops into shot briefly at the end. there's something nice and fly-on-the-wall about it...

so without further ado...

everybody need a little help sometimes... 

peace-out y'all 8)

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Jazz Hands - Live @ Musoplex

word up you crazy cats!! how's it goin?! all good i hope...

remember that lil' trip to musoplex way back in january, for an interview and some filming...?! well the music video from that night has emerged from the editing suite, and is now available for your delectation via the magic of youtube... and this blog...

crazy lights, some funny faces, and a lil' bit of counting auf deutsch... educational!!

so without further ado...

Fatbwoi - Jazz Hands Live @ Musoplex

big love, and maximum thanks go out to andy and the abstract reaction video boys for making it possible, and eventually providing coffee in addition to audio visual giggles...

peace-out y'all

chris's sexy dance... (& the roscoe experiment)

word up you crazy cats... how's it goin'?! all good i hope...

here-in lies the answer to a question i'm pretty sure was never asked... that old doozy, what would happen if the bwoi downed tools and started making electronic music?! (and as questions go... that's pretty specific right about there...)

but there would be some sense in asking it... because before i got on this fatbwoi tip, i used to make electronic music under the guise of the roscoe experiment... kinda funky bigbeat/breakbeat largely based around a collection of samplers and the desire to shake some funky thang...

T.R.E started in 2004, and there's occaisional evidence that the experiments (of an unknown nature obviously) continue to this day... i can neither confirm or deny this...

one such piece of evidence would be the 'Chris's Sexy Dance' project (aka the monday night club)... rumour has it that each of these tracks were written and recorded in one night, across a series of mondays in the summer of 2009...

but that's just rumour... really, when it all comes down to it... who knows?

but its a dirty pleasure you can sample right about now thanks to the joys of bandcamp and the interweb...

the title track never actually made it onto the final release... but there is a video, hidden deep within the bowels of youtube... it features the magic cornflake box hat - which is, quite frankly, possibly the worst bit of stage-gear ever; and some snow...

in fact... here it be 8)

three's another two tracks, that are currently lost in the mists of time... an electro dub type thing, and some experimental electronica loosely based on dennis hopper's truck from land of the dead... with one night to write and complete a tune... things can get a bit strange...

so there you have it... the answer to a question that was probably never asked... and a lovely lil' bit of ear candy...

peace-out y'all

here come the spider people...

wicked lo-fi video by world famous visionary, mind-bending iconic leftfield director rasterpopulos for the experi-jazz creation that is 'here come the spider people' from 2008's 'experi-jazz sessions - minus one'...

the track, as too the genre, simply defy pigeon-holing, and rallies in the face of definition...

an improv recorded in mono, featuring rasterpopulos on the t-type electric and fatbwoi on vocals/acoustic 'spider people' is the final track of the minus one session (which was indeed, quite as session...), and it takes the listener back to the exact point in time where the album begins...

'plectrum in my mouth'

messing with your perception of time... man

yeah right, it would appear that the heavy session that lead to the creation of this work may also have involved a large amount of wreck-ed philosophy and a healthy smattering of conceptualising... 

far out

here comes the spider people

look at their eight arms... and lots of eyes

they are THE SPIDER PEOPLE

spider spider, spider spider, spider spider, spider spider, spider spider

here come the spi-der people...

... i need to change the sound.