Yes, that tinfoil site is cool. Wish they used MP3 instead of RealAudio, though.
Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.
'Shindig'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Spidra Webster - Dec 18, 2005 6:48:05 pm PST #1600 of 10003
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
tommyrot - Dec 18, 2005 6:52:06 pm PST #1601 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It seems to me that it must have been bizarre and mindblowing back when the first sound recordings were produced. We've now had 130 or so years to get used to the idea.
Also, that 1878 recording is available in mp3 [link] Dunno about any others on that site....
DavidS - Dec 18, 2005 9:04:12 pm PST #1602 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hey Jilli! I saw a new collection of reasonably priced Bauhaus videos on DVD. I think it's just out.
At Amoeba I found a VHS of the Smashing Pumpkins videos for $5.99 so I got it. JZ kept saying that she'd never seen the video for "Tonight, Tonight" and I knew she'd like it. She declared it the greatest video she'd ever seen. (Then we had to go watch a bunch of silent films.)
Then I watched some other Smash Pump videos that I'd never seen. They had a lot of goth interest, Jilli. "Thirty Three" has all the scary doll girls and the Alice in Wonderland bits. And "Ava Adore" is like Nosferatu in Satyricon. Cool and creepy and stylish. And "Stand Inside Your Love" was Aubrey Beardsley's Salome done cyberpunky.
Atropa - Dec 18, 2005 9:06:07 pm PST #1603 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Hey Jilli! I saw a new collection of reasonably priced Bauhaus videos on DVD. I think it's just out.
Wah-ha-ha-ha? Ooooh.
Then I watched some other Smash Pump videos that I'd never seen. They had a lot of goth interest, Jilli.
Smashing Pumpkins had some *great* videos, but I can't stand the lead singer's voice.
DavidS - Dec 18, 2005 9:08:18 pm PST #1604 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Smashing Pumpkins had some *great* videos, but I can't stand the lead singer's voice.
Well...maybe put on some Bartok and watch them. Billy Corgan makes a great vampire in "Ava Adore." Tall and looming and Nosferatu in a cassock, wondering around through a decadent party/video shoot.
Atropa - Dec 18, 2005 9:10:36 pm PST #1605 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Well...maybe put on some Bartok and watch them.
Heh. I remember talking to a friend about how I didn't like Smashing Pumpkins because I thought the lead singer was intolerably whiny.
"But you listen to Morrisey, the King of Whiny!"
"That's a different sort of whiny. It doesn't make me want to hit people."
tommyrot - Dec 18, 2005 9:13:49 pm PST #1606 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"That's a different sort of whiny. It doesn't make me want to hit people."
British whiny is cooler than American whiny. Especially when the British whiny is somewhat Wilde-esque. (In my head, anyway.)
Atropa - Dec 18, 2005 9:16:12 pm PST #1607 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
British whiny is cooler than American whiny. Especially when the British whiny is somewhat Wilde-esque.
Exactly!
... and now I'm tempted to change my tag to "British whiny is cooler than American whiny."
DavidS - Dec 18, 2005 9:19:56 pm PST #1608 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Morrissey isn't just whiny, though. He's the Maestro of Miserablism. Nobody suffers as he suffers. He knows how Joan of Arc felt, when the flames rose to her Roman nose and her Walkman started to melt. (A line worthy of Cole Porter or Lorenz Hart, I've always thought.)
Atropa - Dec 18, 2005 9:21:37 pm PST #1609 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Nobody suffers as he suffers.
Which is why he is the best person EVER to listen to when you're feeling down. Because you can't be as depressed as him, so just start laughing. And singing along. Possibly with sweeping, dramatic hand gestures.