karen o at home (the karen o demos) - C or D

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thank you. i am due to learn a new kind of forgiveness. a kind that all of of humanity will need to learn as we betray eachother , hurt eachother, steal from eachother to fill the "content void" that has become the worldwide networks, our worldwide lives . i am not shocked that you are in possession of something you obtained through dubious means..... nor am i shocked that you posted it on the internet and by its very naming acknowledged whom it belonged to ... and did not return it to that person. you would surely not return the 'found wallet" , let the person in front of you know they dropped their passport, nor would you correct the mistake that benefited you at the craftfair/bakesale... because you too are in line to learn this very same lesson... and you surely WILL be betrayed... someone you know will turn you in for this , or someone you dont know will dig through your trash, will obtain your mothers medical records , etc... and you will feel empty... sick to your stomach, as though there is no humanity left ... you will CERTAINLY, WITHOUT QUESTION, get out of life what you put into it... what i AM confused about is this :

WHAT MOTIVATES YOU ?

as far as i can see , you havent turned a profit , and i (the person you did NOT return something dear to ) feel the same as i always have about you. you are a tired and confused animal who has no grasp on consequences ( i coincidentally feel that way about ALL of our species since we have outlived our usefullness (1970) ) You gained NOTHING ... unless you and those around you who "over look " these thoughtless acts get a betray-o-rection for swiping at someones belongings and making them public .... but even still.... that boner will go down... your "hard cock idea" will go soft whe you realise that you never got any credit.... never got any money .... never got to highfive someone pretty in the sun for this ... it will probably be RIGHT around the time you are getting what you deserved for this . all you got was what you just gave me as i read about it. a heartsickening murmur and an INSISTANCE that we are dumb animals with no purpose and too much free time. we will continue to go to wars , we will die of disease , we will kill our children , we will shame our parents , we will steal from our family, we will poison the land that gives us life , we will deny the existence of the godly, and we will become extinct ... this will not help you in the least in your quest to become immortal... if you were brave ( and shorty, i wont hold my breath for this NOWAY ) my door is open to return what ever else you found rummaging through my things without question, and i WILL forgive you..... and if you choose not to , you MUST seek the same forgiveness from yourself... for chipping away at someones security. this is and will always be a matter of the heart to me. you win . now please put the brakes on this before you hurt someone you DO care about.

O Is For Outrage: Demos By Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O Leak Online

Incident began with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek misplacing luggage.

By James Montgomery

There's been something of a controversy swirling on the streets of Brooklyn, New York — and throughout the blogosphere — this week. It involves an album's worth of rough demos recorded by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O; a very, very (very) irate music producer; some old luggage; and one extremely lucky/mystified music fan.

Confused? Well, so is pretty much everyone associated with what is quickly becoming known as "The KO at Home Situation," a sticky web of privacy violation, enraged e-mail missives, prophetic apologies and some seriously misplaced suitcases.

The whole thing started late Sunday night, when an album called KO at Home began making the rounds on various file-sharing sites. The album contained 16 rough — and we mean real rough — sketches of songs recorded by YYYs frontwoman Karen O and given as a gift to her friend, TV on the Radio mastermind/producer Dave Sitek. Also circulating was a scan of the note O taped (with tiny South Korean flag stickers) to the inside of the album, in which she quotes Oscar Wilde and signs off with the blessing, "We're in it for the long haul, kid, we feel cuz we're real. All the love + safe travels + good luck, Karen."

Taken at face value, the songs — scratchy acoustic numbers with purported titles like "Beside Me" and "Save the Seeds" — and the sparse packaging were nothing particularly special: simply an inside look at O's writing (and gift-giving) methods. But just how did the album make its way from Sitek's possession to the wild world of the Internet? Well, that's where things get a little more interesting.

"Mike," the guy believed to have leaked the album, wrote an e-mail to music blog Stereogum.com, saying he received KO at Home from a friend who found it in a suitcase Sitek left behind when he moved out of an apartment. Mike wanted to give the album as a gift, but, being a YYYs fan, he made MP3 copies of all the songs for himself too. He then leaked those MP3s online, because, as he put it, "The tracks were interesting, and I thought other fans might appreciate them."

Of course, that explanation didn't fly with the YYYs themselves, who contacted Mike via MySpace and asked him why he had leaked the material. Nor did it jibe with Sitek, who said he saw the entire thing as a tremendous violation of his privacy. As such, he fired off a response on his blog in which he wished karmic retribution upon Mike and basically blamed him for the downfall of mankind as we know it. A sample line reads: "You are a tired and confused animal who has no grasp on consequences (I coincidentally feel that way about ALL of our species since we have outlived our usefullness (1970).

"To whomever found/stole/'unearthed' the demos that Karen gave me and posted them on the internet: Thank you. I am due to learn a new kind of forgiveness. A kind that all of humanity will need to learn as we betray each other, hurt each other, steal from each other to fill the 'content void' that has become the worldwide networks, our worldwide lives," Sitek wrote. "I am not shocked that you are in possession of something you obtained through dubious means ... nor am I shocked that you posted it on the Internet and by its very naming acknowledged whom it belonged to ... and did not return it to that person. You would surely not return the 'found wallet' ... because you too are in line to learn this very same lesson ... and you surely WILL be betrayed. Someone you know will turn you in for this, or someone you don't know will dig through your trash, will obtain your mothers medical records, etc."

Of course, the whole thing left Mike — as he wrote to Stereogum — feeling "completely sh---y" and "like a di--," and he said he now regrets leaking the songs in the first place. And Sitek, who must've gone for a nice long run or dunked his head in a bucket of ice water, seemed to accept his apology, updating his blog with an all-capped apology of his own. He wrote: "I APOLOGIZE FOR THE TONE OF THE LETTER I WROTE A FEW HOURS AGO."

Continuing with all caps (but slightly modified here), Sitek expanded on his apology. "My friend Pete threw away some suitcases of mine," he wrote. "Someone who knew they were mine, went through them, found the disc, posted it online. ... I freaked out (not thinking it was my suitcases discarded by a friend ... but rather [assuming] (wrongfully) it was from one of many boxes discarded by the firemarshall after a house fire)," he continued. "Since then, the story was told to me, by the person I was not very articulately appealing to ... his name is mike, he apologized. ... He didn't see what that would trigger in me ... what affects it would have on me, my friends and my ever dwindling sanity. I re-read the post, felt like I wrote it out of anger and confusion. I apologized to mike for my tone."

Of course, two apologies aren't going to change the fact that an album's worth of unreleased personal material by O is now floating around the Internet for all to hear, but both Mike and Sitek seem content to just put the whole incident behind them. And while Interscope Records — home to both the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and TV on the Radio — confirmed that KO at Home is O's work, the label had no additional comment on the songs or the leak.

dave does seem to misplace a lot of things though. i read in some other interview that he had just recently found a load of cds of the very first TVOTR cd in his sofa.

I am really, really mystified by this brief little tune:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRUOOvFwqQc

I have never heard her demos or the remainder of this soundtrack or more than a couple YYY songs.