I played Summertime to show Babycakes what a trumpet sounds like (she has an old Aristocats book), and now she'll point at her lips when she wants it played again. And again. And again. I wish I'd filmed her the first time, because her face when Louis Armstrong started playing was like... Wooooow. Completely fascinated. And it'll calm her when she' ( Read more... )

I've had this craving all day for a Jessica Rabbit-style cover of I Need Somebody (Iggy and the Stooges). The best I can find is Dorothy Zink here, and it's incomplete (why would you even do that):

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Goddamn it. Why do I only know black metal guys?

Seriously awesomely weird; a cover of Toxic using what, a limited xylophone palette, I don't even know.

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...and I'm sure no one is surprised that I post only to blather about Homestuck...

...but I imagine Gamzee's voice sounds pretty much exactly like this ("Tiny Rubberband" by Butthole Surfers/Moby from the Spawn soundtrack, shut up, it has like 50% good songs). Gibby Haynes has a perfect near-moronic croon that's maybe JuSt A lItTlE bIt WhImSiCaL ( Read more... )

See, I like to swear. I learned from sitting in the car with mom and at an early age embarrassed my dear aunt by repeating some favourites quite loudly in the hardware store. I don't really think there's anything wrong with swearing, as long as you know when it's not appropriate, and I think substituting for "harmless" words in the presence of ( Read more... )

Am I the only one to think there's more than a passing resemblance between the young Dave Gahan and Shia LaBeouf? I mean, I look at the video to Just Can't Get Enough and go, "Oh Shia, is that a mockery or do you really think you're cool?" - and then I realize it's the real thing. Which also says something about the eighties that I guess no one ( Read more... )

I'm in an angry frame of mind, mostly because I'm better at being angry than I am at being sad. It isn't anything much, I just want to break something. Eventually, I will succeed at something.

I'm all defeatist today and everything I do seems pointless.

Have this instead:

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Now that I'm older and further away from the people I built my identity upon not being, I can allow myself to enjoy the things I avoided because Everyone Was Into It. Like Kent, a band I can now admit is pretty good:

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I still wince every time they come to a festival I'm attending, though, because their fans are often assholes ( Read more... )

I decided to do something for myself every day, however small. Videogames don't quite cut it after a while (I know, I'm shocked too), so I yanked a meme. I'll try to keep it going.

Day 1: Your favourite song
WTF, this is an impossible question, but since I've posted some of my other favourites before, this lovely piece will do fine.

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( 30 day meme )

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Oh, Ane Brun. Not only have you made a song about a song that sticks in your mind that is one of those songs, there's this absolute gem of a video to go with it.

I can't remember being this moved by a music video since I was seventeen. Hormones?