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LTTLE MRMD 20TH BIRTHDAY

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tag: mermaids/xgender

Dive deeper, Little Mermaid as a Gay/Transgendered Symbol

The Disney Film Little Mermaid, celebrates it's twentieth birthday. I've always enjoyed Disney's approach at the Little Mermaid. Something that I always noticed about this movie was the gender queer subtext embedded within this jewel... with by the way one of the most epically heartbreaking Disney ballads "A Part Of Your World."

So lets dig in here... why not? Look at Arial, she is DIFFERENT, unlike her sisters Arial obviously has some eclectic taste in men... to be blunt, a transpeicial interest.

The story, as I'm sure you all know, goes that Arial falls in love with a dreamy human Prince Eric. King Triton [her father] finds out, shit goes down, and he destroys her relics of the human world. This is her boot into reality and forces her departure in to the right of passage.

Triton hates humans because they are different, nothing but murderous fish-eaters he calls them. This fear and hatred of humans is very similar to the real life prejudices and fear that the lbgt community often faces from their own parents and peers.

So because of her Father's freak out Arial flees the castle walls and gets quick species change operation from a fabulously masculine sea witch doctor by the name of Ursula over a wry deal. This has very obvious similarities with sex change operations or in other instances transformations that queers will make when they are forced from their homes because of the fears of there parents such as moving to the city, or a new boy/girlfriend or just being thrust into the world, often to make poor, rash decisions like Arial did.

She then has to make this guy fall in love with her in three days, and of course Ursula totally cheats cuz she's evil and shit. But in the end, love prevails, Ursula totally gets shanked and Arial's dad even turns around on the whole "hating humans" dealy and lets her live as she'd most happy, with Prince Eric as a human... also at this point I am usually balling, because I am so easily touched by Disney Cartoons, and to me it's acceptance from her family which is usually one of the most important things people, myself included.

Anyway. /endrant. I just wanted to do some writing I guess. Maybe if you read this it made you think a little, that might be cool.

Related: The Celluloid Closet (a documentary based on the book by Vito Russo)

FEVER RAY IS HERE

IT'S HERE

The highly anticipated solo album by Karin Dreijer Andersson from one of my all time favorite duos, the Knife, is now available to download off of Klicktrack here.

I've only had one listen, but so far its epic, daring and haunting. What else would it be?

Here's the single for the album:

Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart

and the video

and hr website

u get it

NU YEARS RESOLUTIONS

10 SHORT FILMS

1 ALBUM

STAY TUNED

//LOVE//XXX//LOVE//XXX//

STUFF HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND

SIGUR ROS @ REDROCKS
PONYTAIL + HIGH PLACES @ RHINO
DR DOG @ HI DIVE

UNICORN TATTOO
NU HAIRDOO

CAN'T WAIT.

PS : GOOGLE CALENDAR IS THE NEW NOT GOOGLE CALENDAR

ADD MINE

MAGIC CAN HAPPEN

NYC DREAMS: SLEEP TILL BROOKLYN

As some of my friends may know, I'm heading to Brooklyn for a week (5/14-5/20) to visit with some friends and check out some events going on in the city. It will be my first time traveling on my own to New York. Wish me luck.

DREAMERS ptDUEX

I had such an amazing weekend. I made some close friends with some prodigious artists and became closer with the prodigies already residing in my homeland. Thank you so much to Alala [One] and Kara and Brandon and everyone who made this weekend a little extra special for me. We all have to step out of our hazy (lazy) sunday (monday) and return to the din of the working world. Let me edify the situation with some of my personal favorite down tempo tracks. Throw on a good pair of cans and let these tracks soak in.

Untrust US (trash thrash vrsn) - Crystal Castles
You can never have enough Crystal Castles, this Trash Thrash version of Untrust Us takes the 8-bit melodrama to an all new level

La Sforzo - Night Facilities Rough Remix
A reprise from his usual BANGER sound-aesthetic, the La Sforzo remix makes me think that Night Facilities should maybe smoke more pot and write a down tempo album

Rollerdisco - Black Moth Super Rainbow
AAAUGHHHHH! Where did this track come from (probably a blog) I found it in my music player and have become quite enamored. Def check this one out. I have to check out more Black Moth Super Rainbow right now!

Enjoy the music. I'll have some ultra-fresh dreams coming your way next week.

CMKY DREAMS

I was immersed in a beautiful Dream at the The Dushanbe Teahouse in Boulder this Sunday. My only crutch is that I did not appear earlier and only caught the last two and a half hours of the show. The festival as a whole was a lucid, integral, phantasma of beautiful IDM, downtempo, techno, and ungenrable electronic music, however, the music, in the sun, on this beautiful April, 20th was particularly surreal and a personal highlight. My good friend SMIRK played some beautiful mnml sounds that blew souls away, followed there after with a BANGIN techno set by Bruno Pronsato that blew our minds away!

HERE ARE SOME PICTURES FROM THE TEA PARTY!

Other highlights included Tipper @ the Boulder Theatre; Pole at Trilogy Wine Bar for the Finale; and too many other amazing artists to catalog.

One of my favorite aspects of the Festival was that some of the local talent such as Brandon Brown, Tom Hoche and CacheFlowe brought some of my favorite sound elements to the celebration.

Thank you COMMUNIKEY I cannot wait for CMKYFEST09!! (more deets)

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MONDAY DREAMS

Some dreams for Monday
melody.harmony.melody.harmony.melody

You Don't Know Me _ Apparat
Limelight _ Apparat
Apparat's new album Walls is one of the most beautifully produced albums I've heard this year. If your into amazingly rich beats, you should definitely give this album a check out every track on it is flawless.

Run Into Flowers _ m83 _ Jackson's midnight Fuck Remix
Despite its harsh intonation it is one of the dreamiest remixes of the noise band m83 I've ever heard, put on your headphones and submerse yourself in this track.

Nylon Smile _ Portishead _ The Scienticians Remix (v2)
Picked this one up on Get Weird Turn Pro, still continues to pump out some of my favorite tracks every week. Cheers mate.

Wanderlust _ Bjork _ Ratatat Remix
This track has been floating around the music blogs, and with good reason, its enormously beautiful

Have a happy Monday.