Dawn: Any luck? Willow: If you define luck as the absence of success--plenty.

'Touched'


Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan  

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.


erikaj - Aug 20, 2005 8:31:53 pm PDT #9805 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!

Well, not any more than I do on most people I know, Tep I've not been in "Chaka" for a year. Cause I'm ignorant and don't wanna go around "showing myself", but I'm really excited about that, almost indecently so.Thank you does not seem adequate.I owe you porn, or something. My Saturday night's a bit too spot-on...sitting around watching "Rear Window"...if I wrote that in a story my editor would say "Nuh uh!" But, I shit you not. And, what Tep said.


Atropa - Aug 20, 2005 10:17:48 pm PDT #9806 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I cannot imagine why this isn't Jilli's favorite rock band of all time. It's so swoony and grand. (Way way better than Placebo, Jilli! And just as pretty.)

Because I haven't heard as much of them (most of Pete's Suede collection is still at his folks' house in the UK, and he, I quote, "refuses to buy any version of their work that says 'London' Suede"), and because what I have heard of them doesn't instantly grab me the way Placebo did. The first few songs I ever heard by Placebo went straight to my hindbrain and made it their own.


DavidS - Aug 20, 2005 10:30:52 pm PDT #9807 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Well there's a fair amount of Suede on your imminently incoming package. Glam, Neo-Glam and dark lovely Cabaretish things. The Hunger itself is set to TiVo which will allow me to include "Bela..." on the Gothish video tape, which means it's about done. (Despite the non-inclusion of "The Perfect Drug" or "Where The Wild Roses Grow" which The Alternative refused to air).


Atropa - Aug 20, 2005 10:35:15 pm PDT #9808 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Well there's a fair amount of Suede on your imminently incoming package. Glam, Neo-Glam and dark lovely Cabaretish things

Yay!

Despite the non-inclusion of "The Perfect Drug"

I found my NIN video box set, and discovered that "The Perfect Drug" was the very last video on the collection. I now have to show it to the other half of the GothFashion Hivemind, as (somehow) she has never seen it. I threatened to revoke her GothCard.


DavidS - Aug 20, 2005 10:55:29 pm PDT #9809 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

"The Perfect Drug" was the very last video on the collection. I now have to show it to the other half of the GothFashion Hivemind, as (somehow) she has never seen it. I threatened to revoke her GothCard.

Curiously I had a long conversation recently with a guy who was an expert on absinthe. Did you know that traditionally absinthe came in both the green version that we are familiar with, and also an amber version (heavier on the wormwood, lighter on the anise)? I did not know this.

This guy was cool! I wanted to hook him up with a single Buffista immediately. He's a co-owner of Green Apple books.


Daisy Jane - Aug 21, 2005 2:20:12 am PDT #9810 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Can't believe it wasn't mentioned in the art songs convo- Virginia Wolf

Also- Be My Yoko Ono- Barenaked Ladies and I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono- Dar Williams


Atropa - Aug 21, 2005 9:37:00 am PDT #9811 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Did you know that traditionally absinthe came in both the green version that we are familiar with, and also an amber version (heavier on the wormwood, lighter on the anise)? I did not know this.

I knew this, but that shouldn't come as a surprise. There's also a white version of absinthe, that is fairly heavy on the wormwood, but with a much lighter taste.


Jim - Aug 21, 2005 10:43:37 pm PDT #9812 of 10003
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

I went off Suede pretty soon, but their first 3 singles (which is more or less disc 1 of Sci-Fi Lullabies) are astonishing. Just brilliant. I saw them just before the first album, and they were electric, too. Once Bernard Butler left they plunged downhill, though.

Hec, any chance of trading, oh, a kidney, for a copy of that Soul box?


Jim - Aug 21, 2005 10:44:26 pm PDT #9813 of 10003
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

Songs about artists, BTW: the whole of Songs For Drella (Warhol)


erikaj - Aug 22, 2005 4:48:39 am PDT #9814 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!

Wow, I'm gonna have something somebody would give up vital organs for? In a non- "If I had tits, I'd never leave the house," context. This is new.