A movie about Meryl Streep teaching Anne Frank how to box.
Friends, fox1013 and I need your help. Today we were talking about porn, as we do when former Big Brother houseguests appear in it, and we realized that there is porn we both want but do not know how to find. We have similar turn-offs: fake boobs, women with blank looks on their faces, penetrative sex without condoms. This leads fox1013 to not really watch porn and me to pretty much only watch m/m. This is sad, because we both enjoy looking at naked chicks. And forgive me for being shallow, but I have a strong preference for feminine-looking women: a lot of the porn I've found that's by and for queer women features butch/androgynous women and women with lots of piercings and tattoos, which in theory I respect and think are awesome, but in practice do not get me off like long hair and curves do. So does anyone have suggestions for m/f or f/f porn where the girl(s) look like they're enjoying it; have the breasts their DNA blessed them with; are pretty and femme; and don't make us worry about the STIs being passed back and forth? Pictures or video, free or not. I know it's a lot to ask; I would not be surprised if it doesn't exist. But if it does, and you know where we can find it, please come to the rescue of two picky bi women in search of new entertainment.
In exchange, I give you mp3s of the stuff I've been listening to lately.
Bloc Party - Signs
Bloc Party's sound and mission are in perfect alignment: they fuse African and Western musical influences but sound like nothing else I've heard, and they wear their political aspirations all over their lyrics but also tell universal stories of love, struggle, and loss. I love this song's instrumental hook - chimes! - as well as its bittersweet depiction of a man unable to accept the death of a lover.
Dixie Chicks - Easy Silence
A lesser-known song from their angry political 2006 album, which I thought was from much earlier in their career until I looked it up. It's a sweet country-pop ballad about a happy and comfortable relationship - introverts in love - and I want to dance to it at my wedding.
Freelance Whales - Generator First Floor
Fans of Chuck will recognize this from the season premiere - when I heard it there, I was reminded that the music coordinator of Chuck keeps stealing my Zune. I love the layers and textures of this song, in the vocals and the instrumentation, and its expression of warm and comfy joy.
Good Night, States - Arsonist's Blues
Some songs hit you right away; some sit in your playlist for almost a year before they grab you. I like this one a little more each time I hear it. Vocally, it's an Americana ballad about a vengeful teen fire starter, but underneath that are layers of synthesizer lines that make it sound both retro and blog-rock of-the-now.
Hungry Kids of Hungary - Wristwatch
Spirited, rough-edged Australian blogrockers with the kind of adorably stupid band name that makes me hit the download button. I like how the vocals go all fugue-y towards the end of the song, and the loud, amateurish, cymbal-heavy percussion that reminds me of Animal from the Muppets.
La Roux - Cover My Eyes
My love for La Roux has led me to request Elly Jackson femslash in every applicable ficathon. This song is my current pleasant earworm, a midtempo electro-pop ode to self-destructive jealousy that begs to be covered on Glee.
Leslie and the Badgers - Los Angeles
Included here because it came up on my Zune in the car when I was driving with Msss and Mr. Sss, both of whom were like, "Who is this and can I have more of it?" More girl-with-guitar stuff, which I suppose I am enjoying a lot of lately.
Susan Werner - Sorry About Jesus
Pretty girl-with-guitar folk from the late '90s that's new to me, but comforting in the way of all music that I might have heard in a coffee shop in college. Like, clearly she's internalized her Michelle Shocked and her Joan Baez and made them her own. Don't be put off by the song title: it's about a teenage girl who goes overboard with religion to escape her unhappy family life.
Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work
My current happydance song, full of breezy autumn optimism. I love the relentless, packed-together vocals against the laid-back guitars and percussion.
Washington Irving - The Magician
Not the writer of "Rip Van Winkle," but a Scottish indie band. Flutes and drums and whimsical lyrics: start making your Merlin vids now.
As always, if you like a song, support the artist by buying the album or seeing a show.
In conclusion, Tanith Belbin realized she needed to make me love her more, so she tweeted about how she was reading about homosexuality in ancient Greece and how cool she thought it was, and I squeed out loud, and then a well-meaning fan informed Tanith that ancient Greek culture was also misogynistic, and Tanith detweeted it, and the well-meaning fan is technically right but I am still sad because that tweet plus Tanith's killer post-retirement curves had made me fall in love with her all over again.
In exchange, I give you mp3s of the stuff I've been listening to lately.
Bloc Party - Signs
Bloc Party's sound and mission are in perfect alignment: they fuse African and Western musical influences but sound like nothing else I've heard, and they wear their political aspirations all over their lyrics but also tell universal stories of love, struggle, and loss. I love this song's instrumental hook - chimes! - as well as its bittersweet depiction of a man unable to accept the death of a lover.
Dixie Chicks - Easy Silence
A lesser-known song from their angry political 2006 album, which I thought was from much earlier in their career until I looked it up. It's a sweet country-pop ballad about a happy and comfortable relationship - introverts in love - and I want to dance to it at my wedding.
Freelance Whales - Generator First Floor
Fans of Chuck will recognize this from the season premiere - when I heard it there, I was reminded that the music coordinator of Chuck keeps stealing my Zune. I love the layers and textures of this song, in the vocals and the instrumentation, and its expression of warm and comfy joy.
Good Night, States - Arsonist's Blues
Some songs hit you right away; some sit in your playlist for almost a year before they grab you. I like this one a little more each time I hear it. Vocally, it's an Americana ballad about a vengeful teen fire starter, but underneath that are layers of synthesizer lines that make it sound both retro and blog-rock of-the-now.
Hungry Kids of Hungary - Wristwatch
Spirited, rough-edged Australian blogrockers with the kind of adorably stupid band name that makes me hit the download button. I like how the vocals go all fugue-y towards the end of the song, and the loud, amateurish, cymbal-heavy percussion that reminds me of Animal from the Muppets.
La Roux - Cover My Eyes
My love for La Roux has led me to request Elly Jackson femslash in every applicable ficathon. This song is my current pleasant earworm, a midtempo electro-pop ode to self-destructive jealousy that begs to be covered on Glee.
Leslie and the Badgers - Los Angeles
Included here because it came up on my Zune in the car when I was driving with Msss and Mr. Sss, both of whom were like, "Who is this and can I have more of it?" More girl-with-guitar stuff, which I suppose I am enjoying a lot of lately.
Susan Werner - Sorry About Jesus
Pretty girl-with-guitar folk from the late '90s that's new to me, but comforting in the way of all music that I might have heard in a coffee shop in college. Like, clearly she's internalized her Michelle Shocked and her Joan Baez and made them her own. Don't be put off by the song title: it's about a teenage girl who goes overboard with religion to escape her unhappy family life.
Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work
My current happydance song, full of breezy autumn optimism. I love the relentless, packed-together vocals against the laid-back guitars and percussion.
Washington Irving - The Magician
Not the writer of "Rip Van Winkle," but a Scottish indie band. Flutes and drums and whimsical lyrics: start making your Merlin vids now.
As always, if you like a song, support the artist by buying the album or seeing a show.
In conclusion, Tanith Belbin realized she needed to make me love her more, so she tweeted about how she was reading about homosexuality in ancient Greece and how cool she thought it was, and I squeed out loud, and then a well-meaning fan informed Tanith that ancient Greek culture was also misogynistic, and Tanith detweeted it, and the well-meaning fan is technically right but I am still sad because that tweet plus Tanith's killer post-retirement curves had made me fall in love with her all over again.