I recently saw this meme ‘getting mad blog coverage’ so I decided to watch it. It is a bro ‘playing a tree’, like he ‘turned the tree into an actual instrument to make music with.’ I listened to the music, and it sounds ‘very stupid’ but possibly ‘a lot like Ratatat.’ Wonder if he is a bro who ‘loves nature’ or did he just have to come up with his art/music graduate school final project, and wanted to go semi-viral. I hope that he ‘gets invited to play his tree on the Today show’ and has to uproot the tree in order to take it on tour.
Feel like this video meme really deconstructed my newfound interest in conceptual music that sounds like it is a mix of being ‘from nature’ and ‘from the modern world.’ Wonder if some of my fave conceptual bands like the Grizzling Bear or AnCo or Here We Go Neon Indians might start incorporating ‘plants’ into their live set. Seems like it would make them ‘incredibly meme-able.’ Wonder if this bro will get signed by an indie record label. Seems like he has a lot of talent. Maybe he can write a jingle for the Toyota Prius, or another hybrid automobile/trendy ‘green’ product.
I feel ‘ashamed’ to have blogged about this, because it sort of reminds me of a ‘cool science teacher’ sharing something ‘interesting’ with a glass of 7th graders to get them pumped about photosynthesis. h8 tree playing bro s00 bad. But I think he created a really sweet typeface/’font.’
Sorta wish I could just be a ‘regular bro’ who would just say that this meme is ‘cool’ and move along in search of the next ‘kewl web bit’/viral vid…but I feel like I’m searching 4 more than that in my eExistence.
This meme sorta reminds me of when that old bro David Byrne ‘played a building.’ Think that was more of a metaphor about ‘the city’ and ‘urbanization.’ Seems like a bro who has gone ‘off the conceptual deep end.’ Feels alienating when ‘artists’ take ‘art’ s000 srsly.
Not sure how I feel about bros playing things that ‘aren’t real instruments.’ Seems like they are just ‘huge ass holes’ who are ‘making noise.’ Seems unnatural and forced even though they are trying to seem ‘natural.’
Might chainsaw that bro’s tree down as some sort of metaphor, kinda like Banksy/other ‘vandal’ artists. Just want to destroy ’something beautiful’, kinda like Tyler Durden in the The League of Fighting Men Clubs.
(chainsaw meme by carles)
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smoke trees
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//////////Reply by January
//////////Posted July 21st, 2009 at 8:09 pm
@hank, hi! what’s up? Anyways. I’m responding to ur comment so people will see my comment [via hijacking other peoples blogs and message boards].
So what do y’all think about Hermione Granger going to the Brown College? Don’t y’all think that’s sorta 2002? What if its all just a bunch of kids who ‘gained college admissions’ because of their compelling stories re: asbergers? They are ‘diverse’ but Hermione might not be counting on all that drooling.
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//////////Reply by †®åπP
//////////Posted July 21st, 2009 at 8:26 pm
\-\3®π¡ø/\/£$ å $¬µ†
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In the fl0wers c.mpp leak
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since when d we haev nature?
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‘a glass of 7th graders’
lulz
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In Mexico we make music out of marichis… do you think their outfits seem natural?
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omggg soooo meaningful. its like playin a guitar in an early stage of evolution, cause guitars r made out of wood n stuff. totes looking forward to pandy bear learnin to play the tree 4 his next album
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Carls, plz upgrd ur server/bandwidth or whateva….
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I think Carles is starting an iconoclastic campaign against Mother Nature – sorry Carles, totally not alt.
My hypothesis is that Carles will attempt to make Hummers relevant in his next post.
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it sounds ‘very stupid’ but possibly ‘a lot like Ratatat.’
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//////////Reply by pfft
//////////Posted July 21st, 2009 at 12:26 pm
@chong, best line.
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soul patch bro.
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//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted July 21st, 2009 at 6:35 pm
@daffy, pretty sure soul patches r gonna b used ironically pretty soon
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“real instruments” weren’t “real instruments” when they were first invented, there’s not some magic list that says these are instruments always have, always will be. and maybe the bro was making a comment on instruments, lots of instruments are made of wood so maybe he is just literally getting back to the “roots” of music via ironically making music on what is used to make music.
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//////////Reply by skybreads
//////////Posted July 21st, 2009 at 5:00 pm
@livz,
damn.
‘it began in Afrika yall’ – the chemical bros
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Heard a rumor that AnCo is replacing Panda Bear with a real Panda Bear.
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//////////Reply by lols
//////////Posted July 21st, 2009 at 12:22 pm
@unouomedude, how bout replacing geologist w/ a real geologist lol, 1 that can play rocks
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//////////Reply by suckdicker
//////////Posted July 21st, 2009 at 5:02 pm
@lols,
this meme suggestion doesn’t make sense because if you wanna go all the way, there’s only one lil’ avey tare
waste of my ‘fucking time’
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is ‘playing the building’ anything like ‘dancing about architecture’
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Yeah… noise does usually seem irrelevant. But then Hanatarash drags a cat carcass onstage and machetes it in half, and that seems relevant. Maybe noise is better when it’s violent, like benign noise feels too much like the rain droplet song in the opener of Bambi.
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the tree kinda sounds like the opening to ‘i was a lover’ by the television on the radiobros
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This song sux
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can’t wait for the Clasixxxxx remix [treemix?] y’all!
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trees are for climbin’ not for playin’
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i wish that old guy would’ve played an actual song with the building.
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remember that ‘final frontier’ instrument meme that bjork used at like coachella 07 or some shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNeCHI4NAzw&feature=related
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//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted July 21st, 2009 at 6:42 pm
@†®åπP, reminds me of microsoft surface meme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY
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crls. think you would freak the fuck out via einsturzende neubauten
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yo its talking headsbro
hella irrelevant since ‘79
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sounds like he’s ’sexually abusing’ the tree
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another aggregatable video is that wackie composer guy people w/ bad senses of humor like ‘playin a bike’ on some 60s talkshow
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Matmos called. It wants it’s music concrete aesthetic back.
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that was random noise. this video is quite conceptual, and musical. http://videos.aclevercookie.com/video/ALvrdtoi
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people playing non-natural instruments and no mention of john cage?
oh, and this post is absolute crap, would you consider the saw a non-musical instrument? a standard saw when played has a feminine like ghostly sound, almost similar to a theremin which is electronic. both are their own instrument, and it’s just wood, and metal, the guitar is just wood, and metal, that has strings that vibrate. is there really a difference between those and a tree?
CRAP.
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