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 [...]
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- [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Writing- NaNoWriMo, YouTube on January 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Had myself another productive early morning!
This writing business is getting easier. I’m cranking out roughly 1,000 words an hour. But still that obnoxious voice pops up, is this working? What can you do with this later? Accordion players? Seriously?
My defense? An ever-looming word count. Without it, my fingers would freeze.
Do I really need accordion [...]
