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Les Franglaises

They translate famous English songs into French literally and it's fucking hilarious. There's more going on, because there's a narrative in between the songs.

Also, I appreciate how LGBT friendly it is (they do Blur's "Boys and Girls" for example) and that one time one of the guys takes "You can leave your hat on" as a list of ( Read more... )

So today wasn't a great day and I basically did fuckall except listen to the 10th anniversary album of My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade, The Black Parade/Living With Ghosts, on repeat. And then it was basically just "Welcome to the Black Parade" on repeat.

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Listen, I hear those opening notes and suddenly I'm back in time -- not that ten years ( Read more... )

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There's an Indochine concert on TV right now (D17) and I'm suddenly reminded of how much this group means to me.

Troisième Sexe was a fucking revelation, for more than one reason, but especially for Une fille au masculin / Un garçon au féminin. I don't think I've ever seen the lead singer wear anything other than black; you wouldn't think that would ( Read more... )

I believe the following supervillain/superspy music video is of interest to some of you.

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This entry was originally posted at http://dhampyresa.dreamwidth.org/122229.html and has
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This has been running around my head for the last two days or so and I haven't been able to get anything done because of it. Hopefully posting it will mean I'll be able to do something else, now.

There are two ways to go about making a crack fanmix. One is to use humorous songs in a serious manner and the other is to use serious songs in a humorous ( Read more... )

So I've been listening to Mika pretty much on repeat for the past couple of days. At some point, I realised that all the songs of his I had on my MP3 player were from either Life in Cartoon Motion (2007) or The Boy Who Knew Too Much (2009) and I asked myself, "What's Mika done since then?" Because I'd kind of lost track of what he'd been doing, ( Read more... )

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