We saw Cut Copy Monday. They were great.
Here is there first North American TV performance. On Carson Daly.
I love the arm in the air thing he does - it's like, "I'm inviting you to dance."
Cory, oops, I mean Dan, looks so professional in his button down. And who is that crazy girl in the back standing on a bench? Does she have a cast on her leg? Why yes, she does, and she is STILL dancing!
(for those of you not in Austin, that was me at their show at Emo's). And the bass player that was at SXSW was not there, I think. I'm on my lunch break. forgive the weirdness of this post.
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
10.03.2008
Cut Copy
9.21.2008
I absolutely love
the chairs. I adore them. I need them in my apartment.
BAH-GCH. Ba-ug-ckuh. tam-ber.
Bruno's like, Clavichords, la-ti-da. Gould is all, Step off, motherfucker.
9.20.2008
Bjork and Antony: Dull Flame of Desire
Love this video, especially the second part. The third part is freaky, but great.
9.16.2008
which reminds me...
Tracy Chapman reminds me of Joan Armatrading. You guys know her? LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wish I could sing like that. But I'm a silly white girl with weak vocal chords.
Another good song from same taping, Show Some EMotion (I used to sing this with my pops!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yqgqd4nkoc
And she reminds me of...Nina Simone.
Watch this when you have 11 uninterrupted minutes, watch this. I had never really heard this song until I watched this. Her face, her talk, her piano playing - she goes Chopin all over that song - are inspiring. To me.
Songs that made me cry when I was 7
Nostalgia, people. It's a strange thing. For years I would think about this song as being one of the most meaningful songs of my childhood. My dad would watch MTV constantly in the 80s, and when this video came on, I was riveted. Hearing the song in the car, in the grocery store, watching the video, I would cry. Lots of tears, lots of staring out the window.
The song was a sort of hit, so it was off the radio and MTV within a year or so. I never knew the name of the song, nor did I know the band. Only the chorus stayed with me. Then, 11 years later, senior year in high school, I was reminiscing about favorite songs from childhood with a friend, and she new instantly the name of the song. Watching it now, it still made me cry BECAUSE I AM A LOSER. Okay, the song doesn't move me anymore, but my memory of my experience listening to the song is very strong.
Read on to see what it is. Be underwhelmed. Laugh at me. Then let's see if we can figure out why the song got to me.
Apologies, you have to go to the url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSyRFLlYnWI.
So, WTF? I have a few ideas about why it made me cry: the lovers across-time theme. I actually thought the refrain was, "I know you're out there somewhere/somewhere, out there/I know you're out there somewhere/somewhere in eternity out there." In reality, the refrain is: "...I know I'll find you somehow/and somehow I'll return again to you."
Now that I think about it, I know exactly why the Moody Blues' song made me cry. Just a year or two that song was released, I was sobbing like a fool in the movie theater because of this:
Oh. My god. Don Bluth was an evil monster. Mystery solved: sadness and fear about being separated from family becomes sadness and fear about being separated from loved one.
Here's another song that had me in tears every time I heard it in the car:
Fast Car also came out in 1988.
9.03.2008
...teleport the whole planet here through music.
I just requested this at the library. Can't wait to watch it! Afrofuturism! Crazy jazz! Science fiction! *LOVE*
8.29.2008
8.28.2008
8.08.2008
Thank Jah for Ex-Boyfriends
Ludacris - Obama is Here
Great song and great video, in my opin
We Are the World in Japan
Celebrity impersonators! This may be the best video on YouTube period.
Which one is your favorite? I think my favorite is the Bruce Springsteen, but I love the roar from the crowd when the Cyndi Lauper comes on. When did they do this?
8.06.2008
Holy Crap!
Big Boi loves Kate Bush. Me too!
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/142781-big-boi-welcomes-us-to-the-world-of-luscious-left-foot
I also like his detailing the creative process.
Cry me a river - I lost my iPod! (And a question for you, my friends)
True, it is only a shuffle (the old version - the shape of a lighter); true, it is most likely somewhere in my apartment; true, my radio and cassette player work in my car and I have iTunes at work.
But I need me my Kool Keith on my morning commute! In the last several
weeks, I have been listening almost exclusively to his soothing voice and eloquent raps about robots, secretaries, the feds, spacemen, hot wings, and gynecological matters. I have no way of getting him onto a cassette. After I type this, I am going to put Black Elvis-Lost in Space and Octagonecologist on CDs. And Matthew.
So here's my question:
What is the most recent album/artist/composer/song/genre of music that you have discovered? That you love and can/couldn't stop listening too? How did you find it? What do you love about it?
I will post my answer later in the comments section.
Thanks!
PS At work I listen to Fine Girls twenty times in a row and daydream he's singing to me.
7.08.2008
Yes.
I really wish I could see him/them live. I had tickets to a Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds show in September or October of 2001. You can guess why they had to reschedule most of the tour...anyway, I didn't make it to the rescheduled show. :(
I love this. Such a great song, and the performance is right on, and they sound so tight. LOVE. I listened to this song so much last year. Refuckindickulous.
7.07.2008
7.06.2008
6.30.2008
6.29.2008
Nirvana
Just remembered I had a dream last night that someone (a younger acquaintance?) asked me if Nirvana was really "that good" and "that important to music."
Thoughts?
I wore a black armband that day at school (or the next day, didn't have the internets then, so probably the next day). Oh, I'm talking about when he killed himself in case that wasn't clear.
Before and After
Here are two David Bowie videos for Space Oddity. I LOVED this song when I was a girl - it made me cry, so of course I loved it. Dad always sang along. I would turn my head and look out the window as tears welled up and eventually streamed down my cheeks. All I could think about was this man, facing emptiness, silence, looking it square in the eye unable to do anything about it. He loved his wife, he had a family, and he had to leave them behind. I just assumed he was sacrificing himself for the greater good. It always made me very sad.
Anyway, the top video is the original. I actually like this version of the song a lot, maybe better. It's a little less sentimental and more weirdo-cosmic - his voice sounds like what I imagine a shy robot would sound like. The bottom video includes the track you are familiar with along with a dyed and made-up Bowie.
PS I want a GC ground control hat.
6.23.2008
Like to this Cat, the only reality is death, Man
love, love, love. watched it a meellion times. damn p-bear has the dvd. grrr.
and I swear I'm going to get one of those white circulatory system bodysuits. think them sell 'em at american apparel? HA, bitches!
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