I love G. Beckham and I thought Peavy was a good pickup.
Did you know that by his request they play The Outfield's "Your Love" when Beckham comes up to bat? SwOOOON. I love him. And Peavy will be great though losing Thome was tough.
What did you think of Animal Collective's last album?
I bought the last Animal Collective and it just didn't stick with me. I have been on a nothing but Archers of Loaf/Superchunk or sad slow country/bluesy stuff (the Everybodyfields, The Dutchess and The Duke, William Elliott Whitmore and the obsessively wonderful Bon Iver) kick for the last year, so I think it was just not fitting in with that groove.
Recent pictures of: Matilda and Emmett.
OhMyGosh! Emmett is so big and grown up! And Matilda! What an adorable girl. I have been away too long. They are all grown and stuff!
A month ago, on one of the hottest days of the year, I volunteered to be in a music video for the band Hallelujah the Hills. Here are the results: [link]
A month ago, on one of the hottest days of the year, I volunteered to be in a music video for the band Hallelujah the Hills. Here are the results:
Dance moves! You should have lobbied to be in the first row.
Cool song. Sort of Feelies-esque at first, and then more of a big chorus experience.
Oh, there was lobbying. But it was people trying NOT to be in the first row.
(sigh) "Beloved" by VNV Nation just came on my Slacker station. This was "our song" when I was with Alfredo; we're still friends, but oh the very teeny-bopper melancholy this produces instantly.
This arguably sucks donkey balls....
Smells Like Teen Spirit, Sounds Like…
Whatever the reason, Chilean singer Abigail’s version of the Nirvana classic Smells Like Teen Spirit remains a stupendous atrocity; a pop-techno re-imagining devoid of irony but instead recorded with what seems to be a complete lack of understanding. I’m no great fan of the band but, really, I think they deserve better than this. Of course, I could be completely wrong. This could, in actuality, be an exquisitely orchestrated trolling a thoughtful deconstruction of Grunge; ruthlessly exposing its teen existential angst as petulant whinging and bubblegum philosophy.
Is it the 'Kick Kurt Cobain from beyond the Grave' week and no one told me? Because only two days ago I was exposed to this: [link]
If it makes you feel any better, just remember that Australia's Triple J had another Hottest 100 of all time, and
Smells Like Teen Spirit
was voted #1.
This maybe would fit better in Natter or something, but it's narrated by Nick Cave so I'm putting it here:
The Cat Piano, Narrated by Nick Cave
“The Cat Piano”, a marvelous animated short film by The People’s Republic of Animation, directed by Eddie White and Ari Gibson and narrated by Nick Cave.
In a city of singing cats, a lonely beat poet falls for a beautiful siren. When a mysterious dark figure emerges, kidnapping the town’s singers for his twisted musical plans, the poet must save his muse and put an end to the nefarious tune that threatens to destroy the city.
