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December 07

December 31, 2007

New Year’s Eve at The Warehouse

If you’re looking for something magical to do tonight, consider going to The Warehouse for food, booze, music and art. Be Thou My Vision (formerly Punk Rock Gods) and Poesis will be playing their musical songs, there will exist art on the walls and there will also be a naked monkey, just kind of, well, you know, jacking off his penis and/or vagina.

This thing starts at 7:30 pm and goes until the streets run red with whore’s blood.

$25
at door includes food (9:30pm-11pm) provided by Chef Lawrence "Chip"
Johnson, and 1 glass of champagne.

If you’re not familiar with Poesis, watch this goddamned thing:

If you’d like to familiarize yourself with Be Thou My Vision, here’s this:

If you’re not familiar with art, look at this:

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December 30, 2007

Top Tens, People!

TOP TEN SONGS 2007, in no order: (16, actually)

ROSCOE (Acoustic) - Midlake “Oak and Julian - EP”
This song has permeated every cell of my being. I used to have a permanent penchant for John Phillips Sousa poisoning the perma-song in my mind (thanks elementary school)… now it’s Roscoe… forever Roscoe… a window into the great universal song that we all long to hear.

TWO KINDS - FIlm School “Hideout”
I knew the shoegazers weren’t done. Glad we’ve finally buried “dream pop” and we’re back to the start. Glad knowing that if the White Stripes can turn me into a Led Zeppelin fan, then Film School can make me roll around in a Pale Saints stupor and feel like every stone in my path since then has meant something.

JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE - Radiohead “In Rainbows”
Come on and let it out. It drives and makes you shake.

ON HIGH - Soundpool “On High”
I finally feel like two of my favorite musical worlds collided this year. The shoegazers met the the Kranky-esque noise folk. And, they had a surprisingly kind communion.

DETLEF SCHREMPF or IS THERE A GHOST or NO ONE’S GONNA LOVE YOU - Band of Horses “Cease to Begin”
What concern I would have for a basketball player, I don’t know. But, though not a Funeral, these are wonderful songs. I love the Ozzy Osbourne gone indy vocals.

TED - Clark “Body Riddle”
This song is a mess and it manages to create a whole out of the messy parts. Gives me hope. Not to mention it was a handy song to play during the demise of another Ted.

SEA LEGS - The Shins “Wincing the Night Away”
A song that makes me feel like I’m tiptoeing in stocking feet, whispering to the world that I’ve found the song that I’ve been composing in my mind since I was able to think. The perfect song… each turn is necessary–Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings for the 21st Century.

HATCHET (Optimimi Version) or SANDINISTA (live) - Low “Drums and Guns”
A fairly disappointing album from Low, but the live tracks and b-sides were positively, unbelievably good in 2007. It makes me feel like Alan is trying to live up to some industry standard, or he’s grown tired of Low, right as the band hits its ultimate peak. Sandinista live was one of the highest points of my life, Oct ‘06 Armstrong Hall… it’s hard to believe they released that shabby thing on Drums and Guns, knowing the potential of that song.

23 - Blonde Redhead “23″
Desperate, like most Blonde Redhead… that’s good and I’m glad we got more last year. Viva la 4AD! Temper your freaky squealing with David Sylvian more often, please.

HOW CLOSE YOUR SOUL - Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd “Before the Day Breaks”
Hard to say which I love more from these tandem released CDs (Before the Day Breaks and After the Night Falls - Darla). I can mostly say that in a long year, filled with more sadness, both globally and personally, than usual, these albums have been a refuge.

GHOST OF LOVE -David Lynch “Inland Empire Soundtrack”
Had to have it since I saw the first trailer. I don’t care that no one bothered to see it, or that so many have written David Lynch off, there is a quality to his films and music that can bring me right back to a scary, fun place that I pine for in daily life. It’s like there were no sun to suck my life away.

SONG FOR THE FIELDS - Fields “Everything Last Winter”
Go Iceland! Sort of a one-hit wonder, but what a hit!

HOUSE/TECHNO/ELECTRONIC TOP TEN

Given the fleeting nature of electronic music, I told myself that a top 10 of tech/house would only be worthy if I could actually remember the track without having to sort through my library. So, here goes:

EASE YOUR MIND - Inland Knights/A Riley “Drop 50 Special Edition, Pt. 2 - EP”
Simple, stupifying bliss. The Inlands have never produced a release unworthy of owning.

AFRICAN PEOPLE (Jokke Ilsoe Remix) - Trentemøller “African People - Single”
Mirco gone wild. I’ve never heard a more sedate and fucking delicious break/build ever… it’s the calmest part of the song and the tension rips you in half. Nip ons.

G STRING BLUES - Bobby & Klein - Guesthouse 12″
It’s nasty, yet oddly flattering… that’s what my gal pals tell me. I’ve never been a good judge of what’s totally nasty and what’s fun.

SHAKE THAT - LC - AllHouseMusic 12″
I defer yet again to my gal pals. Filthy fuckin’ track (”I get more ass than a toilet seat”). But, apparently, aware enough of its nastiness to be a little sexy. Tee-hee.

A DIFFERENT ERA - JT Donaldson- Imprint Music 12″
I’ve always been a sucker for a well placed organ.

DANCE YOU DANCE ME (Inland Knights) - Larry Fives - Drop Music
Drop is the holy center of the universe.

THE GROOVE BUG - Mario Fabriani - Jackin’ Tracks 12″
Mr. Fabriani, it seems, can’t make a bad song. Funky… perfect.

SWAY THE FEEL - Troydon featuring Femme Audes - Phonoshuffle 12″
Don’t know. I just loved it. Felt more like a complete song, than something that needed to be mixed.

NORTH AMERICAN SCUM - LCD Soundsystem “Sound of Silver”
Self-loathing, yea!

CLIMACTIC PHASE #3 (Overnight Mix) - Seefeel “Quique” (re-issue)
I had no idea my original copy was worth so much. The “Quique” re-issue was very welcomed by many. I loved to hear the new, clean versions of everything… and the bonus tracks. If you’ve ever played a song on the radio and gotten an email saying “please make this stop,” you know you have a winner. Oh yeah, and Mark Clifford changed music forever, ‘n’ stuff.

Post your top tens in the comments! Happy New Year, bitches.

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December 28, 2007

America’s most literate cities

The 2007 results are in:

1. Minneapolis, Minn.
2. Seattle, Wash.
3. St. Paul, Minn.
4. Denver, Colo.
5. Washington, D.C.
6. St. Louis, Mo.
7. San Francisco, Calif.
8. Atlanta, Ga.
9. Pittsburgh, Pa.
10. Boston, Mass.
. . .
30. Colorado Springs, Colo.

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December 28, 2007

Found Photo #1

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December 27, 2007

Lesson in politics….

Challenge a puppet dictator of the United States, and you die.

1953-2007. RIP

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December 26, 2007

Welcome Back Brian!

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December 25, 2007

Oh Xmas …

Look at this:

Now watch this (you don’t have to watch all of it–just through the chorus):

Now watch this (you do have to watch all of it):

Now sing my No-So-Boring Lesbian Mom’s Contraceptive Christmas Carols with your family:

Sung to the tune of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

You know condoms, and foams, and contraceptive sponges
IUD’s, nonoxynol nine and oral contraceptives

But do you recall…
The most famous method of all
(bu dum pum pum..)

Darla the pasty cervical cap
Had a very bulbous nose
And if you ever saw it
You would even say it’s gross
All of the other methods
Used to laugh and call her names
They never let poor Darla
Join in contraceptive games

Then one torrid Christmas Eve
Ovum came to say
Darla with your nose so white
Won’t you guard the os tonight

Then how the methods loved her
As they shouted out with glee
Darla the pasty cervical cap
You’ll go down in history

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Sung to the tune of Oh Little Town of Bethlehem

Oh, little condom stretched too tight
How thou shalt fail today
When come is nigh
The sperm will fly
And baby is on the way

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Sung to The First Noel

My IUD is killing me
and poking my partner in his pee-pee

I asked them please
To ta-ake it out
But it moved from my uterus
Up to my snout

Oh, jeez
Oh, jeez
Oh, jeez
Oh, jeez

I’ll have to wait
for a great big sneeze…

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Sung to the tune of Angels We Have Heard on High

Darling we have had our children,
We know we will want no more
Though we still enjoy the *!#*&ing
Birth control’s a total bore

Oh, Va Ha Ha Ha Ha
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha-sectomy
Why don’t you go get a
Va Ha Ha Ha Ha
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha-sectomy

It would be a ble-e-ssing

Thanks Mom.

Now enjoy the rest of this miserable day!

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December 24, 2007

Mewy Kwismas fwum Stanwee and Fozzie

Stanley_elf

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December 23, 2007

Very Important!

The article on Nemeth will NOT appear on Xmas day, but rather on the 1st or 2nd or something according to Andrea Brown. We’ll keep you posted. Hopefully this xmas card from a lesbian friend of my (maybe not so) boring lesbian mom’s in the Czech Republic will console him in the meantime: