Things you should know about me before this post:
a.) I love cheese. All kinds of cheese. My best friend and I used to have a system of rating men by comparing them to a scale of increasingly fine cheeses.
b.) I took voice lessons for like 12 years and my first big role in a musical was "Cheerleader #2" in a grade school production of "Sis! Boom! Bah!" In fact, (and I type this while wearing jeggings and a skull print cotton t from Urban Outfitters so bear with me), I revert to a NKOTB-crazed tween when you put me in proximity to an orchestra pit. I love the drama and the theatrics. Theatre is proof that God or Jebus or whoever wants me to be a total ham and that I am actually not annoying to others.
c.) 9 times out of 10 I judge a song or singer strictly by their vocals. What occasionally makes me the target of sporadic hipster ire is that I will orate my respect for nearly anyone who can sing a solid vocal regardless of their popularity at frat mixers and/or a 12-yr-old girl's slumber party. For this reason I have respect for the Beyonces, Christina Aguileras and Mariah Careys of the world because they have raw natural talent.
d.) ...as such I must confess: I CAN'T STOP WATCHING GLEE! AHHH$%^&*@#$!!!!
I need to accept the truth that nothing about my affinity for show tunes and covers of Top 40 hits by Broadway stars makes me a badass.
Annnnnnnnnd now all my friends whose bands are listed on The Deli officially disowned me. Fanfuckingtastic. Thanks again, FOX. Dicks.....
12/23/10
Werewolf Weekday
Things that are overhyped: Vampires and Vampire Weekend.
Things that deserve to be overhyped: Vampire Weekend.
Facts about the aforementioned:
1. If one more network comes out with their version of a supernatural beings show I am going to go all Sissy Spacek on the entire fucking universe, no joke.
2. True Blood not included.
3. Hipsters are all over Vampire Weekend's 2nd album Contra like blue on Crypts. And I can't say I blame them. It's easy to eff up a sophomore album by overly modifying your recipe (cough cough Flash Delirium cough sneeze hack 'Thanks for the hankie.') I think I like the former because it reminds me of a slightly-more-playful, 40-minute extended version of "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes." with less third world abodiginals....
Things that deserve to be overhyped: Vampire Weekend.
Facts about the aforementioned:
1. If one more network comes out with their version of a supernatural beings show I am going to go all Sissy Spacek on the entire fucking universe, no joke.
2. True Blood not included.
3. Hipsters are all over Vampire Weekend's 2nd album Contra like blue on Crypts. And I can't say I blame them. It's easy to eff up a sophomore album by overly modifying your recipe (cough cough Flash Delirium cough sneeze hack 'Thanks for the hankie.') I think I like the former because it reminds me of a slightly-more-playful, 40-minute extended version of "Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes." with less third world abodiginals....
12/14/10
Like Captain Planet. But better...
SO I get that to understand and appreciate SUPER GROUPS you have to have an inert sense of music snobbery. This is mostly to be able to identify and freak out screaming over what bands the other members of the super group are from.... Sorry, SUPER GROUP....
And to have an inert sense of music snobbery you have to sometimes sit in or around a beanbag chair with holes ripped in it while smoking a hookah and/or think about enrolling in art school and/or already have graduated from art school.
If this doesn't describe you, there might be some basic questions floating in your head:
What is a SUPER GROUP?
CAN I JOIN A SUPER GROUP?
The answers are Shut up. And also, No, unless this is Springsteen and Ringo sitting in a room reading this together, in which case please return my voicemails about the SUPER GROUP...
Arguably the best of this new musical trend is Them Crooked Vultures. Josh Homme (decently awesome but not worth Biebering over), Dave Grohl (totally awesome. I loved you at first Mentos) and John Paul Jones (are you shitting me???).
Open letter to Dave Grohl, if you're the one in charge, please come to Philly and play a show in my apt. Or anywhere near where I live. I make really good spinach artichoke dip you have to like that.... Anyways this song is my favesies. Ugh it's like those crooked ass vultures know that 80% of the time all I wanna do is have my mind erased. Preferably at the Gingerbread Man in Happy Valley or at Calamari's in Erie, PA.
And to have an inert sense of music snobbery you have to sometimes sit in or around a beanbag chair with holes ripped in it while smoking a hookah and/or think about enrolling in art school and/or already have graduated from art school.
If this doesn't describe you, there might be some basic questions floating in your head:
What is a SUPER GROUP?
CAN I JOIN A SUPER GROUP?
The answers are Shut up. And also, No, unless this is Springsteen and Ringo sitting in a room reading this together, in which case please return my voicemails about the SUPER GROUP...
Arguably the best of this new musical trend is Them Crooked Vultures. Josh Homme (decently awesome but not worth Biebering over), Dave Grohl (totally awesome. I loved you at first Mentos) and John Paul Jones (are you shitting me???).
Open letter to Dave Grohl, if you're the one in charge, please come to Philly and play a show in my apt. Or anywhere near where I live. I make really good spinach artichoke dip you have to like that.... Anyways this song is my favesies. Ugh it's like those crooked ass vultures know that 80% of the time all I wanna do is have my mind erased. Preferably at the Gingerbread Man in Happy Valley or at Calamari's in Erie, PA.
12/13/10
Fancy Footwork.
Things that are funny about Chromeo:
1. They are Canadian
2. They are the self-proclaimed "only successful Arab/Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture."
3. Their first album was compared to Hall & Oates
4. I like Chromeo and Hall & Oates
5. They were on an episode of Live from Daryl's House once (FWD to 3:50 for the beginning of the actual song)
THEY WERE ON YO GABBA GABBA! FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!
(Annnnd they totally played that song when I saw them live and it ruled.)
Anyways --'double although' -- I am even less likely to label them hipster shit because they have been sent out on the BEATS list serv that I have with my boys who are very STRUNG, very non-hipster, Penn State frat boys who I helped buy matching Puma sneakers. Here are a few favesies:
Triple extra points for The Eagles cover <3
1. They are Canadian
2. They are the self-proclaimed "only successful Arab/Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture."
3. Their first album was compared to Hall & Oates
4. I like Chromeo and Hall & Oates
5. They were on an episode of Live from Daryl's House once (FWD to 3:50 for the beginning of the actual song)
THEY WERE ON YO GABBA GABBA! FOR CHRIST'S SAKE!
(Annnnd they totally played that song when I saw them live and it ruled.)
Anyways --'double although' -- I am even less likely to label them hipster shit because they have been sent out on the BEATS list serv that I have with my boys who are very STRUNG, very non-hipster, Penn State frat boys who I helped buy matching Puma sneakers. Here are a few favesies:
Triple extra points for The Eagles cover <3
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