For some reason, about 50 times a day, when I’m in my own apartment, I hear the beginning of the Happy Birthday song played over some mysterious loudspeaker system run by some mysterious person. It must be one of the schools nearby. I live in a university village, but there’s also a primary school and [...]
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Pandas Like to Sing Happy Birthday
Posted in China, Music, tagged anyang, China, Music on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Music, YouTube, tagged Feist, Sesame Street on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Feist on Sesame Street
Dear Sister,
Why you gotta be hatin’ on Feist? She teaches the wee ones how to count! (But only to four because she doesn’t know about “seven” and “eight.”) Eh. Who am I to judge? I get lost after ten because I run out of [...]
Horse and I
Posted in Music, YouTube, tagged Bat for Lashes, headband, Horse and I, Nathasha Khan, Stonehenge on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bat for Lashes-Horse And I LIVE Mercury Prize 2007-09-04
Here’s a video from the group I mentioned before- Bat for Lashes. Natasha Khan isn’t wearing a headband in this one, but can’t you picture her twirling in white around Stonehenge? (She recorded a portion of the their album in a forest- [...]
Rock My World, Cello
Posted in Music, YouTube, tagged cello, headbanging, nerdy on May 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
apocalyptica – for whom the bell tolls (live)
The sexist thing in rock music: a cello quartet playing METAL. A couple weeks ago Chris and I went to Apolcalyptica’s show here in Chicago. If you want a nerdy deconstruction of the show check out Chris’s blog. But all you [...]
The King of Carrot Flowers
Posted in Music, YouTube, tagged King of Carrot Flowers, Neutral Milk Hotel on April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is an absurd song.
I have this video to thank for showing me the sad, moving side of a song named The King of Carrot Flowers. But I guess it makes a little more sense since Wikipedia has informed me that the album the song comes from (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea) was [...]
Museum of Broken Relationships
Posted in Music, Musings, tagged Celine Dion, despair, love, Musuem of Broken Relationships, Post Secret, tearfest, voyeur on April 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Museum of Broken Relationships.
A sanctuary of heartache open in Croatia. Dozens of objects are on display, like letters, love tokens, t-shirts, even a prosthetic leg sent in by the lovelorn. Each is complete with descriptions regarding the failed romance. (One particular terse description of a little Nokia reads “It was 300 days too [...]
Paris is Burning: Days 16 and 17
Posted in Music, Writing- NaNoWriMo, YouTube, tagged NaNoWriMo, Paris is Burning, St. Vincent on January 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve decided this song is my favorite of St. Vincent’s and am using it as a theme song for my January Project. Helps get me in the writing mood. It’s strange and playful. I imagine myself in a stylized version of early 20th century Paris, wandering the streets of Montmartre in [...]
A Character Takes Over: Day Nine
Posted in Music, Writing- NaNoWriMo, tagged Mistaken For Strangers, NaNoWriMo, The National on January 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
An amazing thing happened. Something clicked in my brain as my fingers scurried across the keyboard- one of my characters spoke up! Where before I’d poked, prodded and demanded that she do something. And finally- she did! She steered the scene in a different direction than what I’d intended (and my fingers [...]
White Stripes
Posted in Music, tagged Icky Thump, sexy, White Stripes on September 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t stop listening to Icky Thump. Over and over I’ve been playing that CD this weekend, reveling in that sexy, coarse rock that is The White Stripes. What it is about Jack White and Meg’s quiet sensuality (either she is so innocently oblivious to how sexy she is or she just doesn’t care so [...]
