This week’s episode is a little on the long side. I just had so many  songs I couldn’t cut down the playlist or else it wouldn’t be a complete experience!

Like the name says: it starts out slow, then builds up, then gets slow, then builds up, then…there’s some metal type stuff at the end! How crazy is that!? Not very, but you get the idea. In other words, this is a giant post-rock sandwhich and the buns for your luscious meat are obviously *not* post-rock.

Yeah. Or something.

Man.

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Bro notes:

Intro – 0:00
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat – All Movements Are Targets in the Minds of Tigers – 1:08
Women of the SS – Iron Skirt – 4:08
Lotus Eaters – Alienist On A Pale Horse 4 – 8:00
Randy Greif – The Rabbit Hole – 13:55
Toe – tremolo+delay – 17:31
eksperimentoj – piano sustained – 20:31
Downy – Meiteii Freak – 23:05
a picture of her – now i’m weaving hundred words – 25:52
Folio – Minuet – 29:16
Red Sparowes – A Hail of Bombs – 33:08
The American Dollar – Red Letter – 37:30
OVUM – reflection – 42:07
LITE – Tomato – 47:12
Rururu – & – 52:25
Ef – Longing For Colors – 58:17
Robedoor – Hall of Skulls – 1:07:15
Abandon – Somnambulistic – 1:13:48
Mastodon – Blood And Thunder – 1:20:42
Isis – Hall of the Dead – 1:24:30

Programme Total Running Time: 1:32:10

I am happy to formally announce that BFM Podcast is now part of the Draw Go Radio Network.

DrawGo started out as a Magic The Gathering podcast, but has expanded into further territories that include blogging, and other wicked cool endeavors.

We are honored to be a part of the network. I feel like DGR does their best to try to bring geeks etc. together, and so do we. Not only is it an honor, but it’s also a great privilege to be able to work together to attain this goal.

So if you’re into Magic The Gathering and also like the general geekery that BFM provides I would right+click on ‘Make Default Home page.’ As someone famous once said, “You get the best of both worlds!”

http://drawgoradio.com/

It’s Spring time, and that means a new season of anime to watch while the pollen pollutes the air.

This week we discuss all the latest anime to come straight out Japan. We also talk about the amazing new LCD Soundsystem album, and the crazy new movie Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl. Andrew’s import Cave shooters finally arrive, and he talks about the pros and cons between these two bullet hell shooters. Tony has been playing skating games, and shares his impressions of Where the Wild Things are. Of course, that’s just the tip of the iceberg. We’ll sink your Titanic, so watch out!

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Occasionally, I’d like to consider myself as a creative person. This is the story of why I do what I do, and other tales of setting the box on fire instead of simply thinking outside of it.

Sometimes I’ll doodle in class, record painful or dissonant sounds on my computer, create a level in LittleBigPlanet, or even try my hand at video editing.

During the Spring of 2009, I saw fit to make a couple of AMVs (short for anime music video). In order to create an AMV one must first get video footage of an anime show that he or she is partial. Then you’ll find a song that will go along with your edited footage of said anime. To put it simply, you make a music video out of footage from an anime. People have done this with video games and other video as well; however, anime seems to be the most popular.

Just like with any fandom, an anime music video community has appeared. Like with real communities, there are certain standards one must live up to in order to be part of the community. Personally, I didn’t like those standards. As a matter of fact, I don’t like most AMVs nor its fans. I feel that creativity is stunted at the cost of getting “internet fame” and lots of views. Very many share the same styles, concepts, and other methods.

I wanted to try something different. I didn’t care if it was good or not, I usually don’t. Trying to do something different is good enough for me, I don’t really know how to do it any other way. I proceeded to make a few short AMVs with very little direction and more repetition to match the noise songs which I had decided to use as my signature music picks. There were a lot of Evanescence AMVs, and very few with loud and abrasive noise songs. This had to change.

I just wanted to see what I could get away with. Two AMVs were from Evangelion: one was an homage to John Cage’s 4’33″ and the other was just a seizure-inducing speedcore song. Both used only 1 small scene of animation from one of the last episodes, but focused on how much I could manipulate a single 1 frame scene. The other I did was 4 minutes of someone cutting the tip off a cigar.

All of those used songs that were not my own. Eventually, I decided to use one of my own songs for a video. There was an anime I was really enjoying in Fall 2009 called “Kuchu Buranko” (Trapeze), and I knew I had to make an AMV using footage from it. I couldn’t think of any noise songs that would go well with it, though. So I had decided to create one.

The end result was me screaming into a pickup microphone “I Love You” to my wife in the other room. Since it was a pickup mic, very little discernible speech comes through except whatever was conducted through my teeth when I was able to bite down and yell at the same time. Perhaps it was a little cliché, but it was one of the first times I had ever put that much passion into one of my songs.

Eventually, the end result was something I was actually proud of. A very colorful production that entranced me when I watched it. I enjoyed it, and that’s what mattered. Some people get creative for attention, I get creative because it’s just exercise for my brain. Sharing it is just what I do. I guess that happens to kids who grew up with the likes of Soulseek. That was the perfect place for that, but I digress.

I got a fair amount of positive feedback from friends and strangers alike at various places on the internet. I thought it was pretty amazing that I could just tinker in unfamiliar territory,  intentionally do things people don’t like, and then still have people appreciate the work.

Then several months later I received a private message on youtube.

When I first read this message, I couldn’t help but to bust out laughing. Most of the time people will either get angry, or have some sort of negative reaction to it not being Country Britpop. I’ve never heard anyone, ever, seriously think that there was something actually wrong with the recording. It warms my heart.

The guy is a cool guy. I even got his permission to use his private message for this post!

Comments like these is why I still do what I do. This is why I create. Perhaps it’s the dadaist in me, but hearing someone honestly think your sound is broken has to mean something. It’s not like it was intentional to sound “broken” or that I wanted comments like that. No, the creative things I do is a cathartic release, an exercise. Some would call it a mental defecation.

I could agree to that. In this modern time, we are the receivers of so many messages. If you don’t digest and expunge your waste, you will get sick. I don’t want to be sick.

Sorry about the lateness of this show. I totally forgot it was my week to do it. You see, my last “.5″ was not official, I only did it as something to fill the void until our post MGC show. Regardless, I’ve got a pretty strong lineup of music this time around. Mostly rock based music this time around, but this being me, I have to throw in a little variety here and there. Also, I’m featuring a set by artists I’m going to be seeing live in the next month which is really exciting. So yeah, download it. I think you’ll enjoy the musical journey.

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Totally awesome playlist bro:
LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls
Intro [3:39]
Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat [4:33]
The Stooges – Search and Destroy [7:17]
Romanes – Teenage Lobotomy [10:38]
Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant [12:23]
Midtro 1 [15:39]
Reel Big Fish – The Set Up [16:44]
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy – Paralysed [21:02]
The Fleshtones – All Around the World [23:17]
Lupe Fiasco – Daydreamin’ (feat. Jill Scott) [26:32]
Midtro 2 [30:24]
RX Bandits – My Lonesome Only Friend [31:12]
De La Soul – Potholes In My Lawn [35:03]
Erykah Badu – Turn Me Away (Get MuNNY) [38:47]
Funkadelic – Hit It And Quit It [44:13]
Outro [48:00]
Deftones – Diamond Eyes [49:06]

Final Fantasy XIV testing has begun and screenshots have been leaking all over the internet for quite some time now.

I’ve managed to compile a list of leaked screenshots from 2ch. Many of these screenshots have identifying information blanked out. The quality settings of the game were also lessened during testing. The quality of graphics usually don’t come into play until later phases of testing.