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Figurine (band)
Figurine is an American electronic music group. The band members, friends since high school, use the pseudonyms David Figurine (Forster David Rudolph), James Figurine (Jimmy Tamborello) and Meredith Figurine (Meredith Landman). While the band seems to be inactive , all three members are also involved in other bands or have released solo work under their respective Figurine monikers. Mainly a long distance collaboration, the band was a precursor to James Figurine/Tamborello's later, more commercially successful project The Postal Service. Tamborello has also used the Figurine pseudonym for an official remix of Bright Eyes' ''Easy/Lucky/Free'' in 2005 and a solo album in 2006. Meredith is also a vocalist for Boothby. Figurine lyrics commonly tell whimsical love stories involving technology, such as space stations, instant messaging or internet cafes. Their song "New Mate" was featured on the soundtrack of the 2004 cult film ''Napoleon Dynamite''. Discography Albums * ''Transpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indietronica
Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or " guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement, Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Manchester and Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "indie" (or "indie pop") started to shift from its reference to recording companies to describe the style of music produced on punk and post-punk labels.S. Brown and U. Vol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Station
A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew in orbit for an extended period of time, and is therefore a type of space habitat. It lacks major propulsion or landing systems. An orbital station or an orbital space station is an artificial satellite (i.e. a type of orbital spaceflight). Stations must have docking ports to allow other spacecraft to dock to transfer crew and supplies. The purpose of maintaining an orbital outpost varies depending on the program. Space stations have most often been launched for scientific purposes, but military launches have also occurred. Space stations have harboured so far the only long-duration direct human presence in space. After the first station Salyut 1 (1971) and its tragic Soyuz 11 crew, space stations have been operated consecutively since Skylab (1973), having allowed a progression of long-duration direct human presence in space. Stations have been occupied by consecutive crews since 1987 with the Salyut successor M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake
''Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake'' is an album by Dntel, James Figurine, released in 2006 under the Plug Research record label. It includes ten tracks. Track listing # "55566688833" # "Leftovers" # "Ruining The Sundays" # "Pretend It's a Race and I'm on Your Side" # "You Again" # "Apologies" # "One More Regret" # "White Ducks" # "All the Way to China" (featuring Erlend Øye on vocals) # "Stop" References External links''Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake'' at Plug Research Dntel albums Plug Research albums 2006 albums {{2000s-indietronica-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discard EP
''Discard'' is an EP by Figurine released in 2002 on 555 Records. Track listing # "Miss Miss" # "Don't Stop Dancing" # "Connections" # "Not Love Yet" {{2000s-electronic-album-stub 2002 debut EPs Figurine (band) albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reconfigurine
''Reconfigurine'' is a remix album by Figurine A figurine (a diminutive form of the word ''figure'') or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them. Figurines have been made in many media, with cl ..., released in 2002. Track listing #"F>I>G>U>R>I>N>E> (Reconfigurine Theme)" (Figurine remix) – 1:02 #"I Wait for You (By the Telephone)" (Pacifica remix) – 2:58 #"Eurodiscoteque" (Technicolor remix) – 4:45 #"My First UFO" (ckid remix) – 1:49 #"You" (David Figurine remix) – 3:53 #"Tired Eyes" (DJ Blank remix) – 4:15 #"International Space Station" (David Figurine remix) – 5:48 #"City 2 City" – 4:25 #"S.O.S." (Double Agent remix) – 3:24 #"Batteries (Can't Help Me Now)" (Mall remix) – 4:26 #"The European Beauty" (Phasmid remix) – 3:48 #"Robots 2002" (Figurine remix) – 2:28 #"New Mate" (Steward remix) – 2:45 #"New Millennium Song" (Flowchart remix) – 6:55 #"An Elec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Heartfelt
''The Heartfelt'' is an album by Figurine, released in 2001. It was re-released in 2005. Critical reception ''Tiny Mix Tapes'' wrote that "there is little room to breathe, as we are continually fed the same staccato synth noises, coated with extra sugar and a side of jellybeans." The ''East Bay Express The ''East Bay Express'' is an Oakland-based weekly newspaper serving the Berkeley, Oakland and East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is distributed throughout Alameda County and parts of Contra Costa County every Wednesday. The ''E ...'' called the album "a post-''Kid A'' masterpiece of wistful futurism and powerfully minimalist programmed beats." Track listing #"International Space Station II" – 3:48 #"IMpossible" – 4:10 #"Pswd:stdum" – 1:28 #"Rewind" – 4:04 #"Way Too Good" – 2:12 #"Stranger" – 5:01 #"Time" (His mix) – 2:09 #"Instrumental" – 4:02 #"Pswd:natur" – 1:29 #"Our Game (Is Over)" – 6:14 #"So Futuristic" – 2:08 #"Pswd:pttrn" – 1:2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transportation + Communication = Love
''Transportation + Communication = Love'' is the debut album by American electronic band Figurine A figurine (a diminutive form of the word ''figure'') or statuette is a small, three-dimensional sculpture that represents a human, deity or animal, or, in practice, a pair or small group of them. Figurines have been made in many media, with cl ..., released in 1999 then re-released in 2002 under the BlackBean & Placenta Tape Club record label. It includes twenty tracks. Track listing # "I Wait for You (By the Telephone)" – 3:26 # "F>I>G>U>R>I>N>E" – 1:10 # "New Mate" – 4:14 # "An Electronic Address" – 4:09 # "S.O.S." – 4:59 # "Batteries (Can't Help Me Now)" – 2:55 # "Robots" – 1:06 # "My First UFO" – 3:33 # "The European Beauty" – 4:13 # "Tired Eyes" – 3:55 # "Digits" – 3:18 # "Eurodiscoteque" – 3:34 # "New Millennium Song" – 3:42 # "International Space Station" – 3:06 # "Lifelike" (hidden track) – 2:50 # "You" (recorded Live in Berlin) – 2:20 B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napoleon Dynamite
''Napoleon Dynamite'' is a 2004 American comedy film produced by Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt and Sean Covel, written by Jared and Jerusha Hess and directed by Jared Hess. The film stars Jon Heder in the role of the titular character, a nerdy high-school student who deals with several dilemmas: befriending an immigrant who wants to be class president, awkwardly pursuing a romance with a fellow student, and living with his quirky family. The film was Hess's first full-length movie and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, ''Peluca''. ''Napoleon Dynamite'' was acquired at the Sundance Film Festival by Fox Searchlight Pictures, who partnered up with MTV Films and Paramount Pictures for the release. Filming was done at Preston High School, and in different areas in Franklin County, Idaho, in the summer of 2003. It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2004. Most of the situations in the movie are loosely based on the life of Jared Hess. The film's total worldwide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cult Film
A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following. Cult films are known for their dedicated, passionate fanbase which forms an elaborate subculture, members of which engage in repeated viewings, dialogue-quoting, and audience participation. Inclusive definitions allow for major studio productions, especially box-office bombs, while exclusive definitions focus more on obscure, transgressive films shunned by the mainstream. The difficulty in defining the term and subjectivity of what qualifies as a cult film mirror classificatory disputes about art. The term ''cult film'' itself was first used in the 1970s to describe the culture that surrounded underground films and midnight movies, though ''cult'' was in common use in film analysis for decades prior to that. Cult films trace their origin back to controversial and suppressed films kept alive by dedicated fans. In some cases, reclaimed or rediscovered films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Cafe
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing. The origins of the Internet date back to the development of packet switching and research commissioned by the United States Department of Defense in the 1960s to enable time-sharing of computers. The primary precursor network, the ARPANET, initially served as a backbone for interconnection of regional academic and military networks in the 1970s to enable resource sharing. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instant Messaging
Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network. Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties, when each user inputs text and triggers a transmission to the recipient(s), who are all connected on a common network. It differs from email in that conversations over instant messaging happen in real-time (hence "instant"). Most modern IM application (computing), applications (sometimes called "social messengers", "messaging apps" or "chat apps") use push technology and also add other features such as emojis (or graphical smileys), file transfer, chatbots, voice over IP, or Videotelephony, video chat capabilities. Instant messaging systems tend to facilitate connections between specified known users (often using a contact list also known as a "buddy list" or "friend list"), and can be standalone applications or integrated into e.g. a wider social media platform, or a website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy/Lucky/Free
"Easy/Lucky/Free" is a single by the band Bright Eyes from their album ''Digital Ash in a Digital Urn''. It was released July 25, 2005. The music video features Conor Oberst entering a room, and then writing the lyrics and drawings on a transparent wall as the song plays. "Easy/Lucky/Free" is featured in the 2008 Mexican film ''Voy a Explotar''. Track listing #"Easy/Lucky/Free" - Radio Edit #"Gold Mine Gutted" #"Gold Mine Gutted" - Her Space Holiday Mix (packaging incorrectly lists "Easy/Lucky/Free" - Her Space Holiday Mix) Official Versions #Album Version 5:32 #Radio Edit 4:35 #James Figurine Remix 4:48 #Danger Mouse Remix 3:37 #Dawes Cover 5:25 References External links Listen to "Easy/Lucky/Free"on NPR's ''All Songs Considered'' (RealPlayer, Windows Media Player Windows Media Player (WMP) is the first media player and media library application that was developed by Microsoft for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Window ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
