mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Secrets", Regen Rantseni
Found this musician through Youtube "similar to"… surfing and a synthesizer noodling video he made, then checked his other videos and it was all… Spanish classical guitar. Rather good Spanish classical guitar. I guess that's what I should have been listening to to start with.
Here's a gentle 5-minute acoustic performance playing with different fingerings. Feels soft like a big warm blanket
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Flashdrive", Snail's House
It's not quite the music I usually like, but sometimes I get in a Mood and I pull up Snail's House on YouTube and listen to ALL OF IT.
Snail's House is sugarhigh hypeblast j-pop with startlingly progressive production. The way I think of this album is "NES chiptunes made with real instruments".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VBUxMjisnE
PS: Snail's House's music videos have a shared cinematic universe with recurring characters and I think that's cute.
Ted Makes Games :astro:
@mcc same; most days I am not Snail's Housing, but some days? Some days, my house is Snail's House.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "groove 17.1", ski feat. swrcfx
Choppy noises. You put something in the cuisinart that isn't supposed to go in the cuisinart. You're standing in a freeway median and violins are flying past on either side. You and the drummer have had a quarrel, he doesn't want to talk about it so instead he flutters the kick drum at you passive aggressively. John, can we just talk about this. He's not listening to you. He's intently murdering the hi hats
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "I Asked For Water (She Gave Me Gasoline)", Howlin' Wolf
1959 Chicago blues
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Coastal Array", Bauer + Katharina Schmidt
There is a thing which is faraway and cold, and there is a thing which is close and warm and looms above you shedding its unearthly light
https://moonvillainrecords.bandcamp.com/track/coastal-array
The swamps still feel like home to me
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "OUTERWRLD", CLOUDNET
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mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Where do I start?", zabutom
This is a DOS FastTracker II tune from 2004 designed to push the boundaries of what is possible in tracker music. It succeeds hard, both in its chill lo-fi opening and the "impossible" middle segment (spoilers: what you are hearing is the FastTracker II executable itself, reinterpreted as PCM).
The video is posted by the original artist and contains some live commentary scribbled in the right side text field.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Dimension 4", Virtua Point Zero
Often when I link tracker tunes I have to kind of do detective work. This YouTube video is labeled:
"A micro (63kb) DnB track which appeared on an ASCII art / music disk by Hoffman."
When was this recorded? Who is Hoffman? It sounds like a hype late-2010s progressive club banger. The artist has a SoundCloud, where this was posted… two weeks ago, but maybe it's a repost from the 90s. The world is a mystery.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "You Made Me Realise", My Bloody Valentine
MBV is best known for "Loveless", where they re-imagined indie rock with so much filtering it sounds like it was recorded by aliens, but then there's this one transitional-fossil track with max production but legible pop vocals. It's so so Much. Bright, airy lyrics with super dark lyrics, cutup VHS-core video. In live versions, the guitar breakdown in the middle reportedly lasts like, half an hour.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Pink Turns to Grey", Slow Attack Ensemble
I don't know much about this group but one thing I'll say: They really do have slow attack. Here's eight minutes of layered guitar, waves of butterflies, flitting invisible beautiful but a bit too much, feels nice but the niceness feels like anxiety, worrying, a thing that's too nice, is this what "manic" means? a typhoon of butterflies gentle breeze like a winter gale too much too much too much too
https://slowattackensemble.bandcamp.com/track/pink-turns-to-grey
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "glitch/techno/something patch in pure data", Artiom Constantinov
A PD patch that just sorta tries a lot of different things. Low-resolution dubstep / something metal in the washing machine / saw wave overflow / rabbits-foot kick / acid on acid / Miku Hatsune again? / gabber benediction. Unlike previous Constantinov pieces I've linked he doesn't expose the full PD flowchart in the video but instead gives us sort of a cool hacker console
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "The Culprit", Zü and Nobukazu Takemura
N.T. is a glitch musician I really like from the early 00s; this is from a 2007 collaboration with a jazz/metal¹ group from Italy. Here a noise that kind of sounds like someone opened up a non-audio file² in Audacity Import->Raw Data plays counterpart to drums and bass produced like metal but fit to free jazz patterns. If you like Sacto postrock listen to this
https://zuband.bandcamp.com/track/the-culprit
¹ God, genres are so fake.
² Like, a .exe
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Restless", The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination
I had this one on vinyl and listened to it a ton then had some period in the 10s I couldn't find it anymore, because I'd got it in my head it was The Cinematic Orchestra and kept going through the Cinematic Orchestra discography going "no, that's not it…". Anyway. Ninja Tune jazz with huge vibes. Humphrey Bogart is walking through a city with giant Cabinet of Caligari architecture angles
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Plain Song", Sidewinder
I think about: Jazz as it developed grew to abhor repetition. First reorienting itself on solos, then spiraling out into free-jazz anarchy. But then there was that circa-2000 electronica movement that got really into jazz, and *they'd* sample the most interesting six seconds of a jazz improvisation and hyperfocus on it, reintroduce repetition.
Here's that second thing, a funky groove from 2000 AD exactly. Good piano
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Doom-Mantia", wizardinblack123
Today I was going to link you this song from Electric Wizard's 1997 doom-metal opus "Come My Fanatics…", but looking for a copy on YouTube I accidentally instead found this cover recorded in 2013 by literally three guys in a garage, and I was *so* overcome by the "three guys in a garage" energy intensity that now I'm linking you this version instead. God these tones are so grubby. It's incredible
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Buchla Music Easel and Tape Loop Feedback Patch", Elabor
Gorgeous, dark throbbing tones and feedback moans. A short walk through a concrete tunnel lit only by the daylight at the end. Somehow the Buchla here is being augmented with tape loops made with guitar and a Lyra-8 but the sounds can't really be discerned, it's all just one single Thing
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "hissquiet live at the hive somerville ma"
Finally, some real friggin noise. The musician's got a granular sampler, it's got an audio clip inside that it scrubs back and forth, and they're controlling it by waving their hand in the air, playing an infared sensor as an instrument. The result defies description, waves of metal wasp grinding and filter howls, a wildly different texture every minute. Video feels like something recorded covertly
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Concentric | Tapeloop & Eurorack Dark Ambient", MJ:Mu
An 18-minute, highly structured sound journey accompanied by ocean waves and some very good nail polish. The musician starts a loop of tape-saturated pads then improvises with two abstract instruments embedded in their modular suitcase, the first a sort of shimmery dub organ, they other (they mounted an Elmyra in a eurorack! I've never seen that) a sort of 90s-style saw-wave violin drone
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Strega Agitation | Part I", Bottle Makes Music
Five minute solo on the "what if we made the entire synthesizer out of reverb" synth Alessandro Cortini co-designed with Make Noise. Quiet but with an incredible richness and complexity to the sound if you can bring yourself to focus on the structure below the hiss, faraway echoes of unknowable machinery, the corridor to a hangar for planes powered by ghosts
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Konlied Mx", Autechre
A mysterious Autechre b-side, from a Warp collection named "Routine" from 2001. A gummy, understated groove. It makes me think of empty subway stations. The tint of fluorescent lighting. A busy signal for the universe. Sounds at the other end of the platform, the feeling your eyes are closed when they're open, a temporary moment that stretches on endlessly. A hiss
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Over", Analogue Seaotter
Recorded in a bedroom with a pile of guitar pedals and some unseen keyboard, this is an enigmatic 5-minute ambient noise piece. Feedback corridors and underwater organs. 30 views on YouTube. Placed the jumper cables directly on the artery. Arranged more like a space than a piece of music, lots of little corners where you can comfortably curl up in a single sound and enjoy a bit of sleep paralysis.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Open Circuit", Assunta Alegiani and Pedro Ferreira
L.E.P. is a very small scale creator of "opinionated" electronic instruments from Italy. Here they have invited two musicians to come make music with some of their devices. Two minutes of strange, satisfying drone. Chiptune bagpipes in distant fog. Starts suddenly and cuts off suddenly; I think they must have made a longer recording, and then cut out the two minutes that felt like a "song".
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Tratto II", Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Zimmerman was a mid-1900s German composer whose career seems too large to get a handle on without a visit to the reference library, but the running theme seems to be soaking up like a sponge everything happening in midcentury music from New Music to atonality to jazz. From 1969, here he drops a serene 12-minute "electroacoutic" piece, single notes held for minutes at a time, wallowing in a nameless emotion
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "2024-04-28 sync test wip", Catface McVideo
This was supposed to be a test for synchronizing an analog video synthesizer with a drum machine. It winds up being a cool, crisp dance piece that I feel like could have been longer. The rhythmic but semirandom audio-synced visuals give this a cool hypnotic feeling, like you're experiencing the obligatory drug freakout scene from a 1960s movie.
⚠️ Photosensitivity warning?
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "MULLE", Deidream
Arch synthwave with drum & bass incursions. A strange little video, this documents a night at a probably-80s, probably-European dance club, but with a cognitive-dissonance-inspiring indecision over whether or not the video is synchronized to the music. Shut off the part of your brain that analyzes and just watch, experience maybe this feeling of a dream hovering on the edge of becoming a nightmare
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Underground Sea", a0n0
Until this week I always recapped each week's posts as a linear mixtape on Cohost. Now that's over. I try to remember why I do this thread. Is it for me? Is it for you? If it's for me only, why isn't there more
⚠️ HARSH NOISE, FLASHING ⚠️
Here's 5 minutes of hardcore noise and gorgeous glitch video. It's posted on the Farmer's Manual YouTube account but I don't know why. IDK anything. Follow @Lime she has good recs
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "DRAGONKING", CLOUDNET
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mcc
What I'm listening to today: "greim69 FOREVER {mended}", AGF / @poemproducer
A tiny solar system of grunged-up drum machine samples, orbiting each other slowly, occasionally moving into temporary alignment. You should be able to dance to this as long as you experience time nonlinearly
The word "greim" shows up in some of AGF's song titles, I asked her once what it meant and she said it's a mashup of her last name on her father's side and the music genre "grime".
https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/track/greim69-forever-mended
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Theme for The Irishman", Robbie Robertson
"The Irishman" is a thing that's not supposed to be possible, an underrated Martin Scorsese movie. (IMO it would have helped if Netflix had let the man use the original, more interesting title, "I Heard You Paint Houses".) This movie is 3 hours 30 minutes long and throughout it, this dread-soaked 4 minute 30 second track repeats over and over. This track slaps. It sounds like the violins are dying.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Silk Drift", Arcologies
Floaty, refreshing drum & bass. Classic styles as interpreted through renoise. They seem to trying to bring in every class of synth that sounds like liquid. For the Youtube upload they intentionally recorded this album to a cassette tape and back, just to soften it a bit more.
Link goes to the full album, so you'll have to press stop at 8:20 or you'll wind up listening to a full hour of chill d&b. Sorry about that.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Aryx", Karsten Koch
Let us make a journey to the land of ravers! Created in (I think) MS-DOS using Scream Tracker 3, this s3m file claims it was created in 1995 and it is the eurodanciest eurodance. In 1995 I wanted to live in Europe because I thought you could get music there that sounds like this.
There's more than one copy of this on YouTube & I'm intentionally linking the worst quality one because it adds a nice fuzz
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Unforgivable improv Industrial Techno Jam w/ Eurorack", ALXDPO
Thumping industrial techno, just as it says on the can. If I danced I would dance to this. Made on one of those eurorack battlestations that has been set up as a conscious, designed instrument, it's all very organized, it's got color-coded cables and little velcro-tie bundles. Not sure what the Plinky is doing. Overall totally relentless
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Dream Seed", Machine Girl
Machine Girl are the godparents of zoomer breakcore (i.e. they're millennials) and kinda stand apart in their own little self-confident nanogenre, covered in smiles and blood. This is an unreleased track, which would be a surprise given it's incredible, except also it doesn't quite "sound like" machine girl. It more sounds like if Boards of Canada actually wanted to make you dance. Super unique track, great energy.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Infoldings 2", Mark Fell and Will Guthrie
Unsettling metal sounds floating in darkness. Has this acoustic feel, a percussive troupe plays in a circle around you, but on listening carefully it seems like some of the sounds or at least some of the patterns couldn't have actually been made with human hands. 20 minutes long but continuously changing, continuously gripping. This was a lime68k rec and I've been listening to this album a lot since
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Notice", Moe Shop f/ TORIENA
From the French Touch, Tokyo Branch album I linked the other day, this is some fun, zippy Japanese rap. Cool stuttery organ sounds. If you look up a lyrics translation it's got the recurring lyric "That sensitive age where you wanna start a coup".
Apparently the vocalist on this track also composed music for Team Sonic Racing (multiple platforms, 2019).
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Sick Beat", Kero Kero Bonito
Windows 98 remember those days
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Retro Vibes: Creating Synthwave Tracks with Yamaha QY70", I go REC
Here the QY¹'s synthesis engines get pushed to the absolute wall, spooky dub flowing into a half dozen sounds that would make Com Truise weep. Music for driving your 3D-rendered convertible over a glowing grid in circles around a giant black monolith, reaching into the sky with no apparent upper bound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev00XIaSvp8
¹ Yamaha's portable 1990s attempt to create a 2010s groovebox.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Worthless Order", Then the Letting Go
Lo-fi skittering beats and pads like little plodding cat feet. Sounds like someone in 2005 listened to a bunch of Postal Service and BOC and promptly disappeared into a DAW for a week before emerging with this track. Except actually it was made this year on Polyend's portable tracker, which here kinda serves as its own visualizer. Lookit the little blinking lights
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Virtual", Moe Shop f/ Puniden
This is a really interesting album that doesn't quite sound like Moe Shop's other offerings, in which they produce this amazing 50-50 mix of French house and "J-Pop". No, it's not "futurefunk" exactly, they picked a different 50% from each genre. Here's some idol pop with chill '80s beats and overwhelmingly huge '10s synths
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Binary ConnectioN", kanemiko
In 2003, Capcom released "P.N.03" for the Gamecube, featuring a critical innovation to gaming that almost no one has learned from: *The protagonist should be able to hear the soundtrack, and be bopping their head to the music as you play*.
Anyway.
This is the music you hear as you hyperskate down an abandoned freeway blasting robots. You are throwing things that leave polygon trails. You are doing combos
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Bionic Emphasis", VOUNΔ
Filipino hyperpop with smooth jungle beats. Music for surviving re-entry
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Flicker", Porter Robinson
I'm trying to decide what's most important to me.
Porter Robinson is a musician from North Carolina who now operates out of Japan. This track from the tail end of the '10s electro boom has this super memorable video that shows the world as I want to see it, animated GIF sunrises, neon everything, giant cubes dominating the horizon. Warning, contains flicker (I mean, the video does)
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Microtonal Guitar/Modular Synth/Vhikk X/Chase Bliss Mood mk2, Habit, Blooper", Steve Flato
A 24-minute abstract guitar solo. A mysteriously lit man is playing guitar into a chain of transforming/resynthesizing electronics which turn his performance into an orchestra of strange cross-interacting sounds. Cyborg chainsaw-arm math rock. Into this he feeds a subtle, varying composition with a particularly strong start and finish.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "danaus plexxipus", Beek
Due to historical distribution methods, the "tracker sound" is bound up with low-fidelity samples. When a tracker song uses high-rate samples, it sounds like a magic trick.
This 2019 funk cruise produces fun cognitive dissonance by mixing CD-quality soul drums (the file is 2.4 MB for a 1 minute song!) with pure chiptune on every other instrument. You just don't expect those sounds together. Nice track too, if short.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Our planet the voice", Croaker
This 1997 tracker jam by Croaker (who, as you'll remember if you've been reading this thread the entire three years, later designed the video game "Angry Birds"?) is a buffet of jangling vibes, cheesy 90s PC synths moshing against hype, progressive electronica beats. Flavors of acid, Jungle, glitch, house flit in and out. Anyone who had this on their PC in 1997 probably felt like the coolest kid in high school
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "dead street . 1:54 am", Xavier Dang
ImpulseTracker tune from the year 2000. Self-explanatory from title. Good upright-bass sounds. Trip-hop for MS-DOS
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Yes, I see!", Andreas Rohdin
FastTracker .xm file from the year 2002. Good chiptune sounds (tho I'm pretty sure the chiptune waveforms are just sampled). Nice and busy, it has 16 channels & they're *all* in use! Bright 90s vibes, kinda… triumphant? I'm trying to figure out what experience produces this song's particular qualia. "Being 15 and originally learning to use Linux" is the memory that my brain is producing. Sorry, I might be a nerd
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "random noise 131 --noisevember 29-- Kastle ARP, NTS-3", glenn clyatt
Slow fade in what sounds like a guitar solo, an interstitial on an MBV record or something, but coming out of two little bits of handheld electronic gear. Gradually dissolves into noise, then the glinty shine of moonlight beneath the ocean, drowned out by the booming sounds of mermaid construction equipment. You know there's a second moon at the bottom of the ocean, right?
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Ecstatic Erratic Encounters", N. Excelsia
@excelsia is a black metal guitarist who's gone by a few different names (if you remember my Bandcamp recommendations list, she's on it as "Charlene Maximum"). She's recently picked up drums and is playing them in a band named Vitality Ritual, but on the border she dropped this altered-state-inducing album of drum-only improvisations. Wall of sound noise ritual / very loud ambient
https://tronmaximum.bandcamp.com/track/ecstatic-erratic-encounters
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "finish y0 self", Kist Killa
Hip-hop noise blast. Like a surreal zoomer meme, or an abrasive joke, but then you let it run a bit and hey yeah this works, as music. The vibe works. When you're dreaming you don't question what's happening to you. I have no idea what this is sampling, I thought the strings were Silent Hill, it sounds like it *could* be, but I checked and no the Silent Hill 1 soundtrack is CD audio and sounds very professional
mcc
What I'm listening to today:
"Subtle Anticipation", James Frederickson
"Curious Substance", James Frederickson
Crunchy, satisfying dub techno. Cover photo conveys what you'll hear here better than anything I could say. I recommend letting the first two tracks run; the first is more energetic, the second more chill.
This could have been recorded in the year 2000, but was not. We missed a dub album, as a species. Someone had to go back this year and record it.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Shipwrecks", The Drowning World
This is a new band that caught my eye because it features Jasper Byrne aka Sonic, who I know from his indie game work. They've got this very specific and unique style that seems to be chunks of Everything But the Girl from the 90s, Peter Gabriel from the 80s and like, I dunno, basically Mogwai from the 00s all crammed together, and it *works*. Here's a 20-minute mood journey. Fresh and clear and high-energy
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Elektron Digitone IDM 7 新発田市加治川", Masaaki Haga
Here a man stands slightly off-camera in the rain playing a small black rectangle. (The title translates to "Kajikawa, Shibata City".) The Digitone packs a powerful punch both as a groovebox and as an FM synthesis device, and Mr. Masaaki gives us a feast of alien glowing metal sounds and slow beats. The first time I listened to this, when the kicks came in I actually said "oh!" out loud.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Ah!", Oval
Oval spent two decades cultivating this very particular scratchy glitch style so this crisp clean 2010 track was a surprise, chaotic staccato string plucks and like, drums, acoustic jazzy drums. The (incredible) video is a weird, fuzzy dream about an all-bones/no-bones dancer doing ballet on a floor covered in sand, incidentally drawing cryptic sigils with each sweep of the toe. Anyway watch this if you're pansexual
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Elevator Music", Medasin
Fast beats and jazz piano. This drum pattern is "drum & bass" plus one step of refinement. When D&B landed, those of us who listened to but did not make electronic music believed a door had opened and an infinite descent of new and unique drumbeats was to come. No, D&B was just one new drum beat. Less diversity than Jungle. But the infinite revolution was already here, jazz was just always doing this if we'd listen
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "What The Fuck Are You Doing This Side?", Khodumodumo
"The name of Khodumodumo is an archaic Sesotho term, most likely meaning 'great noise',—"
"The khodumodumo was a cryptid reported from South Africa in around the 1930's. With a name said to mean 'gaping-mouthed bush monster'—"
Music by a impressionist painter. Shoving your face in shuddering drums & South African history. Like breathing mud. He wants you to know it is like breathing mud
https://khodumodumo.bandcamp.com/track/what-the-fuck-are-you-doing-this-side
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Breaths", Mount Eerie
This is The Microphones, if that means anything to you. Loud shuddering blasts, everything is so loud, nothing is happening but it is so loud, the microphone is much too close, the drums are clipping, the master tapes have been deep fried. He is whispering but you may or may not hear him over the silence. The silence is so loud. This album has 26 tracks but none of them sound like this one
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Immersion Crystals", Indricothere
So this is an *hour and a half* single song. Not like, an album, the album it's from is 15 hours and 16 minutes long. Somebody sat down and played on a single synthesizer for an hour and a half and it's got like, a coherent internal structure like an 8 minute song stretched out. I didn't think I'd be able to listen to the whole thing but it went down real easy. Dark and determined. Slow-chords space ambient
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Iambic 5 Poetry", Squarepusher
At this exact moment, I would like you to hear something beautiful.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "16521235326544312165352", 121534312
Hello, is this thing on? Dialtone for a disconnected universe. Howls and hums, breath on the microphone, heartbeat signal for a deep space probe, elevator music ambient for the descent into a black hole. A thought that flees from you just as it's starting to make sense.
Video accompaniment is the kind of greebly feedback art I love and YouTube compression hates.
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Gaze", Flagitious Idiosyncrasy in the Dilapidation
I saw this grindcore band in Tokyo last month. Fucking amazing. All-female group, except for "Shinji", the lead guitarist from Disgunder. The concert had nine bands on the bill and, I found out after arriving, was being held for Shinji's birthday. The venue was so small, and there were so many bands, the performers were most of the audience. I accidentally crashed a grindcore birthday party
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "Alkebulan", Ras_G & The Afrikan Space Program
Messy jazz soup set to afropunk video samples. Drums like a bag of empty cans hanging off a back porch. Blown in the wind, falling to the ground. There is a vision of something here, something forbidden to me, Sun Ra, "the 1980s". The last UFO off this planet may or may not have already left and I don't know if this is a vision of the future or the past. Good kick drum sounds tho
mcc
What I'm listening to today: "full moon 20240918", Veltenhill
This one the focus is more the video than the music, but what a video! Pure abstraction, JPEG macroblocks the size of planets, no content, no structure, nothing for your brain to grip on. Stare directly into the laser. To me the function of art is to construct qualia that we cannot experience in ordinary life and cannot express the character of through any method other than to re-experience the artwork itself
mcc
What I'm listening to today: Autechre Live at Oscillate (Birmingham 1993)
According to interviews this was the first "proper" Autechre live set; they didn't initially believe their style could work live until the Oscillate operator talked them into it. One month before Warp published "Inculabula", this set is *incredible*, a bridge from Lego Feet, dance percussion over dreamy vibes, closing at 25:20 with an alluring, gentle funk track that's one of my favorite Autechres
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@mcc no fucking way angry BIRDS?!
people take some turns in life for sure huh
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