I've been listening to a lot of folk music recently - the vintage of my parents' early 60s record collection, preferably - and Pete Seeger's voice sounding out "To everything, there is a season... " seems like the appropriate, if perhaps hackneyed soundtrack for this moment.

Although what's actually playing for the Equinox approaching is tacky pop ( Read more... )

More writing exercise, hi!  Three sources have independently touted Janelle Monae to me:

Sound Opinions review on NPR. The science fiction themes caught my attention there.

My fuckbuddy from the midwest (and currently living there), cited her being five foot tall and ninety pounds soaking wet but having a-maz-ing pipes, and James-Brown-channeling ( Read more... )

Gee. and OMFGoodness. It's been some while since my last post. Hi.

I am moved to do so because my fabulous pandora.com station (programmed for early, short form funk and soul, exemplified by Sly and the Family Stone) just produced some Al Green. It was one of the songs played by the radiation techs as they zapped my lymphoma into oblivion. Full of ( Read more... )

Visiting with my Sweetie,  pull_toy, for a lovely extended weekend. She who happens to have cable, and specifically, Logo. And I find I quite like these

( these videos )

Damn, I've been listening * T-Rex alot, and not just cause Marc Bolan was glitter-strewn pretty. Even the shmaltzy strings on some of the numbers don't often bug me. `Course there are some that are overly long, and darned jejune as well. Some of the yelps and affected gasps are a bit embarrassing/verging on too risque-seeming to listen to at work ( Read more... )

I've no particular desire to travel - I spend enough time in busses and subways to chill my attitude towards it, I suppose.

Well, until I I get promo emails from Club Wotever, a totally brill sounding endeavor in London, UK. Their guest performers include bands I might actually _buy_ recordings from - a rare urge, for me.

Kelly and the Kelly ( Read more... )

So I'm going to go ahead and break my one-drawing-to-every-two-text-LJ-postings rule. Cause, uh, I can. I guess.

I am indeed bored with my weightlifting routine. I am not tired of my hot-if-I-do-say-so muscles, however, so I guess I must find a

way to continue... maybe it's time for a portable personal music device to beguile the repetitive tasks. ( Read more... )

I may be limber enough in, say, several years ( Read more... )