Writer's Block: Newsworthy
BBC International.
OT: One thing I love about the Dresden Dolls is how interpretable their music is. Okay, sure, I know Half Jack is about Amanda Palmer's relationship with her dad, not hermaphroditism. Like I care. It's always going to be about hermaphrodites to me.
It's half biology, and half corrective surgery gone wrong.
You'll notice something funny if you hang around here for too long.
Long ago in some black hole, before they had these pills to take it back,
I'm half Jill,
And half Jack.
And YOU TELL ME, who else writes jazzy songs about back-alley abortions?
Yes, I can do everything you need out of my new SUV,
All my work is guaranteed to last the length of your recovery.
Put away those pliers, honey, trust me 'cause I know the options:
How about a nine month long vacation, and a two foot coffin?
Also, they write some of the most genuinely creepy songs I've heard. Slide ("A late April day, and it's sunny outside, and a little red girl's at the top of the slide, and an orange old man at the bottom wants to take her for a ride...") made it onto the TVTropes High Octane Nightmare Fuel section, and The Sheep Song starts out as a throwback to classic children's books like Goodnight, Moon and turns into... this...
Counting sheep,
I lay me down to sleep,
But I see a sheep who will not leap.
From the back, they catch him in a trap,
Hit his head, and send him off to bed...
Cutting by numbers is kinder,
Invest in one with a silencer.
All of the studies say,
If they're calm when they die then they taste better.
The Gardener is also really... something. I couldn't stop listening to this song when I first heard it, because even though I had no idea what it was about, it's got a very sinuous, attention-demanding sound. People can't seem to figure out whether this song is about global warming, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, society's approach to intersexuality, media brainwashing, low self-esteem, capitalism, loss of innocence, or what. My opinion is that it's about an extremely abusive family that has a child with either gender/orientation issues, or an intersex condition. Or possibly both...
My little misbegotten,
You're quite a stubborn bud!
If we can't make it open,
We will take it out in blood.
Other recommendations include: Delilah, which definitely is about domestic abuse ("There's no end to the love you can give when you change your point of view to underfoot. Very good- you may be flat, but you're breathing."); Dirty Business, about manipulative people ("She's the kind of girl who leaves out condoms on the bedroom dresser, just to make you jealous of the men she f*cked before you met her!"); Pretty in Pink, a cover song about a girl who sleeps around a lot ("All of her lovers all talk of her notes, and the flowers that they never sent. 'And wasn't she easy?' And isn't she pretty in pink?"); The Jeep Song, about someone who's continually being reminded of their ex ("But with every Jeep I see, my broken heart still skips a beat. I guess it's just my stupid luck, that all of Boston drives that same black f*cking truck."), and Lonesome Organist Rapes Page-Turner, an oddly catchy number about statutory rape ("Now, there there, I'm a friendly man. I joke about sex because it's funny when you're frightened, ha-ha, ha-ha.").
OT: One thing I love about the Dresden Dolls is how interpretable their music is. Okay, sure, I know Half Jack is about Amanda Palmer's relationship with her dad, not hermaphroditism. Like I care. It's always going to be about hermaphrodites to me.
It's half biology, and half corrective surgery gone wrong.
You'll notice something funny if you hang around here for too long.
Long ago in some black hole, before they had these pills to take it back,
I'm half Jill,
And half Jack.
And YOU TELL ME, who else writes jazzy songs about back-alley abortions?
Yes, I can do everything you need out of my new SUV,
All my work is guaranteed to last the length of your recovery.
Put away those pliers, honey, trust me 'cause I know the options:
How about a nine month long vacation, and a two foot coffin?
Also, they write some of the most genuinely creepy songs I've heard. Slide ("A late April day, and it's sunny outside, and a little red girl's at the top of the slide, and an orange old man at the bottom wants to take her for a ride...") made it onto the TVTropes High Octane Nightmare Fuel section, and The Sheep Song starts out as a throwback to classic children's books like Goodnight, Moon and turns into... this...
Counting sheep,
I lay me down to sleep,
But I see a sheep who will not leap.
From the back, they catch him in a trap,
Hit his head, and send him off to bed...
Cutting by numbers is kinder,
Invest in one with a silencer.
All of the studies say,
If they're calm when they die then they taste better.
The Gardener is also really... something. I couldn't stop listening to this song when I first heard it, because even though I had no idea what it was about, it's got a very sinuous, attention-demanding sound. People can't seem to figure out whether this song is about global warming, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, society's approach to intersexuality, media brainwashing, low self-esteem, capitalism, loss of innocence, or what. My opinion is that it's about an extremely abusive family that has a child with either gender/orientation issues, or an intersex condition. Or possibly both...
My little misbegotten,
You're quite a stubborn bud!
If we can't make it open,
We will take it out in blood.
Other recommendations include: Delilah, which definitely is about domestic abuse ("There's no end to the love you can give when you change your point of view to underfoot. Very good- you may be flat, but you're breathing."); Dirty Business, about manipulative people ("She's the kind of girl who leaves out condoms on the bedroom dresser, just to make you jealous of the men she f*cked before you met her!"); Pretty in Pink, a cover song about a girl who sleeps around a lot ("All of her lovers all talk of her notes, and the flowers that they never sent. 'And wasn't she easy?' And isn't she pretty in pink?"); The Jeep Song, about someone who's continually being reminded of their ex ("But with every Jeep I see, my broken heart still skips a beat. I guess it's just my stupid luck, that all of Boston drives that same black f*cking truck."), and Lonesome Organist Rapes Page-Turner, an oddly catchy number about statutory rape ("Now, there there, I'm a friendly man. I joke about sex because it's funny when you're frightened, ha-ha, ha-ha.").