MFT: The Band - The Title - The Tracklist As a Poem

More often than not, the tracklist contains more than just a list of songs in a particular order. Sometimes it tells a story of its own. Other times it evokes a stream of images of its own that just ebb and flow independently from the music they designate.  

There are also those rare instances when every element of the equation clicks in a different way - when the name of the band, the title of an album and the tracklist form a thing in itself, a poem of sorts. 

Today i've stumbled upon one of such.

MFT: Badiousian - Zizekian sounds too funny

Things are strange these days. I've been working on an article about tongue twisters (coming soon) and while editing it my editor suggested to make a reference to Badiousian-Zizekian thing which is not exactly a theory but a curious thing nevertheless. It was a throwaway reference but the title of it was just beyond comprehension. I know what it is. But it sounds so funny. Just try to spell it a couple of times - Badiousian-Zizekian, Badiousian-Zizekian, Badiousian-Zizekian. See? It is just beyond reasonable.

And since i'm the man of action - i've made a permutational sound poem out of it. 

Here's how - i got loaded for a Mars Mission and kept pronouncing "Badiousian - Zizekian" to a phone which was trying to transcribe what i was saying. It was quite a feat since i was slurring and mumbling all the time thus numerous distortions occurred. The other challenge for the transcriber were other noises. There was a cat hunting her shadow nearby and it was a bit too noisy and the phone had no idea what to do with these noises so it just added an additional dash here and there.

The resulting text was something to behold - no spaces whatsoever, lots of dots breaking the words because the transcriber was failing to comprehend incoming stream of words. It needed some editing. Basically, not many changes were made to the text - dots got erased completely due to adding nothing to the text, overall it got cleaned up and formatted. Everything else is left unchanged.

MFT: Ariel Pink - Pom Pom Album Cover

This is a front cover for an Ariel Pink's album titled "pom pom". It was released in 2014 on a record label 4AD. It is one of my favorite album covers. But not because of its content but because of the creative possibilities it offers. The thing is - it is comprised of a handwritten text. And such as, it is quite ambiguous and for the lack of the better word - unassuming. The title also happened to be on a pink background. And when it is pink - you need to think pink and pink means you gotta move around a bit and put it upside down and backwards inside out.

MFT: Two eminent Artists quarrelled violently (Backwards story about nothing (really)

Let me tell you one story. The one that makes no sense and is nothing of particular importance but will surely entertain you. It happened a long time ago. Not so far away. Relatively not so far away. Few months ago i’ve stumbled upon a curious article in Hyperallergic.

It was about one peculiar episode from the dawn of sensationalist journalism. And it was beautiful self-contained imagination provoker.

MFT: Henry Rollins - Frozen Yogurt

This is a segment from The Eric Andre Show in which Henry Rollins, the man who can tell stuff like no one else, goes on a minimalist and rather straightforward albeit roundabout rant about frozen yogurt.

The reason for him going on the explosive rant is simple - Frozen yogurt is not what it seems. It is not frozen, it is just very cold thus the title "frozen" is illegitimate and is blatant unmitigated lies. The story is augmented by the disjointed jazzy background score and cutaways to temporarily displaced trombonist being full of himself.