zing

i like zing lawyering in that it is tried via zings, the only way to win is if yr zings are better than the original zings, which is tuff obvs as the original zing is a select zing

lol

http://i.imgur.com/r1vZG.png

attempted zing quashings can be a heartily enjoyable read.

I love to zinga
About the sunna and the moona and the springa

http://www.thebestlawyersguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Lawyer.jpg

i demand you repeal that zing!

"your zinger..."

my cousin zingy

'objection ur honor the zing, while snappy, clearly lacks substance and could have been swiftly tailored to fit any prominent ilxor'

Part 3...

Okay, so I've been listening to this album for three weeks straight now and am starting to fall in love. I initially disliked Kill for Love quite strongly (see above). I felt that its accolades were lazy and undeserved, that it was little more than an unfocused exercise in cynical, vacant and rather tediously predictable style. I wanted to dismiss it with prejudice, but felt that I should get to know it in order to more effectively eviscerate its pretensions. Thing is, the more I listened to it, the more distinctive and mysterious it came to seem. The melodies, textures and narratives didn't jump out and grab me at first, but I found that no matter how much I listened, I could neither satisfactorily solve for them nor leave them alone.

Two weeks ago, I allowed that I was "starting to come around". Now I'm almost certain that Kill for Love will wind up being one of my favorite albums of the year. Maybe that's a simple product of time invested, but there aren't many new records that I'd care to listen to 20 or 30 times in the space of a month, and fewer that I could still be productively exploring by that point. I'll happily admit that I don't fully "get" Chromatics, because that's what keeps me coming back.

The first thing I want to talk about here is the idea of distance. Over the past couple weeks, I've read a great many reviews of both Night Drive and Kill for Love, and I'm surprised at how little attention most critics have paid to the way Chromatics "distress" their sound through the application of faux vinyl crackle. This strategy is quite prominent on both albums, and it distances the listener from the music in at least three ways. First, it creates an illusion of separation in time. We are listening to something that does not exist in the now, but is instead arriving to us from the past, from the vinyl-only era of postpunk, Italo-disco and Carpenter-style synth horror soundtracks. The second way the distressed sound distances us is by calling attention to the mechanics of audio reproduction. We are not allowed to sink into the music as immediate/vicarious experience because we are constantly reminded that it is being brought to us via the agency of a medium. The effect is similar to that produced by scratches and dirt on an old motion picture film print. We cannot fully inhabit the vision because we are forced to notice the screen on which it is projected. Finally, the "surface noise" distances us from the music simply by obscuring it. At 2:14 in Chromatics' cover of kate bush's "Running Up That Hill", Ruth Radlet's voice is momentarily lost in distortion and crackle. Here the distancing actually eclipses the music for a moment. This trick is duplicated on the Kill for Love track "Birds of Paradise".

Chromatics' use of this kind of distancing is interesting to me because it helps make sense of their overall aesthetic and approach. When Night Drive came out in 2007, most critics addressed the band's radical shift from fragmentary postpunk rock to sleek, club-friendly electropop, but few admitted how little they'd really changed. Skeletality, noise, mechanical disaffection and staggered rhythms were a big part of the early Chromatics' game, and these are still some of the key elements of their sound. Night Drive and Kill for Love may sound slick and synthetic on the surface, but the individual sonic elements of which they're composed are often quite harsh and awkward. We hear fingers on strings, piercing highs and layers of hissing, curdled static. The rhythmic propulsion is often slightly awkward, lacking dance music's in-the-pocket drive, and most of the tracks feel weirdly scooped out, as though several key elements were missing. Riding over all this discombobulated emptiness is ruth radlet's paper thin whisper of a voice. She has no range to speak of and almost no expressive power. Her singing denies us even electroclash's comedy of confrontational disaffection.

These elements and approaches combine to create an interesting inversion of way "humanity" is conventionally constructed in pop. To some degree or another, we typically equate musical humanity with emotionalism and sentiment. Chromatics flip this completely on its head. In their music, the humanity is the inexpressive. It's the rhythm that doesn't quite come together, the hiccup in the bassline, the failure of the vocals to hit notes or convey emotion. Surrounding this frail and complacent vision of humanity are the mechanisms of music and sound: icy synth arpeggios and plodding drum machines, a fixation on medium and technology, the familiar phrases and melodies that pop songs ordinarily use to convey and induce feeling.

The problem with Kill for Love, mentioned by most critics, is that it's a sprawling, unfocused mess. Not only is it overburdened with second-rate filler, it's very poorly sequenced. Everyone seems to love the band's cover of "Into the Black", but to my mind, this is the song that plays over the end credits. It simply doesn't work as an opening theme. (And I'd like to object very strongly to the Pitchfork review's contention that it is in any sense a "deconstruction" of Neil Young's original. It is not. It does nothing particular novel to or with the song. It does not cause it say anything it didn't say the first time around. It is simply a cover. A nice one, but by no means a reinvention, illumination or deconstruction.) The album's running order as released puts too much emphasis on crispy, brittle, bleach-blonde sunshine up front, sickly horror soundtrack darkness towards the back. Both wear out their welcome, which is unfortunate because there are at least as many worthwhile songs on Kill for Love as there were on Night Drive. The playlist version I'm currently enjoying:

1) Dust to Dust
2) These Streets Will Never Look The Same
3) Kill for Love
4) The Page
5) Candy
6) There's a Light Out On the Horizon
7) Lady
8) Birds of Paradise
9) The River
10) Running from the Sun
11) Into the Black

― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Monday, April 23, 2012 2:53 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

could you elaborate

― Deverly (Bangelo), Monday, April 23, 2012 3:02 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

would like to see a zingo judo thread, where attempted zings are deflected back at the would-be zinger with much added zinginess

lol @ "Part 3 ..."

― Deverly (Bangelo), Monday, April 23, 2012 3:02 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ catch a wry zing star

Part 3!

I was gonna post that one but decided not to. I need to trust my zing-stincts

The World of Coca-Cola in Atlanta has Mexican Cokes for sale for like $2 per in the merch area.

― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Saturday, April 28, 2012 4:15 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what an entirely unremarkable fact

― thomp, Saturday, April 28, 2012 6:56 AM (9 hours ago)

:-)

my sympathy for people who repeatedly reference their "$200,000 education" is approximately nil

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, May 5, 2012 3:11 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

your hardman stance is a mighty steed and it will take you far in life.

― how did we get here how? (ytth), Saturday, May 5, 2012 3:13 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ fortune cookie fortunes of the post-ironic future

it's weird how little I care about this

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, May 9, 2012 2:02 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is it? go on

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, May 9, 2012 2:02 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r250/gordonthomas/382oh_snap.jpg

re: Tom Gabel

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

How nice that selling out enables her to afford such an elaborate operation.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 2:59 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if you save up long enough, maybe you can get an operation that allows you to go fuck yourself

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 3:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A+

these are all terrible of late

to whom, st. peter?

imo hoos' zing would have been more elegant if he'd gone w/ "removing your head from your ass" or something else that necessitates surgery

backdoor brag?

backiotomy

welcome back sanskrit!

glad to have you back

WHAT sanskrit omg!

something else that necessitates surgery

that would make more sense. hi all, never left.

don't call it a comeback

"only posting on ILB" = leaving

fyi

contenderizer have you ever considered blogging

― ♆ (gr8080), Sunday, May 13, 2012 9:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's considered everything

― the late great, Sunday, May 13, 2012 9:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/EZYFf.png

haha

took me a moment

pronounced zingaaaaaah

Birth name Jung Hana
Also known as Zinger
Born February 2, 1990 (age 22)
Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Genres hip hop, R&B, pop,
Occupations Songwriter, rapper, singer, dancer
Instruments Vocals
Years active 2009–present
Labels TS Entertainment
Associated acts Secret, Jeon Hyosung, Song Jieun, Han Sunhwa, B.A.P

should form duo with this guy?
http://www.nndb.com/people/232/000084977/isaac-bashevis-singer-1.jpg

from this thread (guy wrote a review about how ugly he found Florence Welch and then started a thread promoting his own duderock band):

They're all really ugly. They have terrible hair, I don't like their clothes, and I don't want to fuck any of them. Also their shoes are really ugly, I think they're too skinny and possibly need to gain some weight. Maybe do something about their faces. Grow some beards. See if they can't look a couple of years older. Or maybe younger. They should look more like they're in a boyband. They should look more like they're in Radiohead. They should be more tall and have different fat distribution. Maybe bleach their hair. Maybe pierce their ears or get cosmetic surgery to look more like Justin Bieber. Actually they're so ugly, I'm not sure it will help. Man, I do not want to put any of them in my vagina, so why on earth would I want to put them in my ears? Look at their awful clothes. They can't seem to make up their minds whether the weather is warm or cold. Like, half of them are wearing leather jackets and the other half are wearing vests. Seem like a total image band to me. And their image screams "I am going to hate this." However, two of them appear to making out in the promo photo, so there might be some good slash fan fiction potential at some point. I don't like the way their legs are all so open. Dirty sluts. They probably want it.

Oh wait, I've just realised that my sound card has gone again. I've just watched the video without sound. But, you know, they're men. It doesn't matter what they sound like, it just matters what they look like. And based on how ugly they are and how much I dislike their clothes, they definitely suck big hairy moosecock.

Now go away.

― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Sunday, May 20, 2012 10:37 AM (1 hour ago)

amazing

A++

amaZING

awesome

That is pretty epic

Unfortunately 'Man, I do not want to put any of them in my vagina, so why on earth would I want to put them in my ears? ' is way too long for display name purposes

not really a zing imo

Halfway across the river, the frog suddenly felt a sharp ZING in his back and, out of the corner of his eye, saw the scorpion remove his stinger from the frog's back. A deadening numbness began to creep into his limbs.

"You fool!" croaked the frog, "Now we shall both die! Why on earth did you do that?"

The scorpion shrugged, and did a little jig on the drownings frog's back.

"I could not help myself. It is my nature."

Then they both sank into the muddy waters of the swiftly flowing river.

i would crosspost that to "solitary posts, etc." but you've been taking up too much turf in that thread lately