Glee Live Tour 2011
Shocking – we attended a concert 2 years in a row. Stephanie took me to see Glee for my birthday this year
Glee Live Tour 2011
Glee Live Tour 2011. Stephanie got me tickets for my birthday.
Paula Cole: Mississippi
This song falls under the heading of really awesome music I’ve rediscovered in my music library recently. Of course I was listening to Paula Cole something like 10 years ago (1996 – so 15 years ago.) At a particular time in my life when I was completely in love with a woman who was in love with one of my exes – so the “piece of my heart on the sole of your shoe” line really hit home with me.
If you want the mp3 – Amazon has it: Mississippi (Album Version) [Explicit]
I’m skeptical sometimes of the lyrics you find out there on the lyrics sites – I wonder if these are quite accurate? I’ll have to pull out the album and see if it has lyrics in the notes.
I know I’m big and proud all over
not just on the stage
my secret self has many sides
that laugh and crush and stain
I’m red and thick like fire
I like it from behind
but round to black
and red to white
I’m pure and sad and silent
CHORUS:
I know I’ve
gotta piece of my heart
on the sole of your shoe
I’ve got a little bit of thunder
trapped inside of a cloud
the dog in you
spit me out into the Mississippi
I know who can love my many selves
the wife, the bitch, the Rapunzel
the one who cries
and calls for you
the one who is always alone
chorus
oh Mississippi
come and wash my pain away
oh Mississippi
come and take my pain away
I feel I’m drowning
I feel I’m drowning
I feel I’m
I feel I’m
dying
chorus (3 times)
Kickstarter Project: Double Masterpiece: A Nerdy & Dirty Comedy Hip Hop Album
My cousin Sean (AKA ‘Bearclaw’) is in a comedy hip-hop group called Le Roy (see their website) – and they’re trying to make an album. So they’ve set up a kickstarter page to raise money – pre-order a CD and potentially get a bunch of stuff like t-shirts and stickers along with it. Or go all out and plunk down some cash and they’ll do a show for you.
Not only is Le Roy promoting their recording efforts, they’ve also got a nice article written about them in the Quad City Times, too.
I figure since I’ve bought every Glee album every produced, kicking in a pledge for them and giving them a little extra exposure is the least I can do to rehab my music karma.
Glee Recaps
I really enjoy reading recaps of Glee episodes because it’s funny to read someone trying to write a coherent narrative about a program that doesn’t actually make any fucking sense whatsoever. It’s mostly “and then this happened” followed by “yeah, I don’t know what that was about, either. WTF.” And yet I watch the show religiously, because I like music and the girls are all pretty. Which we all know is the reason why I watch any show, really.
Let’s be honest. To me the Bechdel Test boils down to:
1. It has to have at least two women in it (more than one woman to fantasize about)
2. Who talk to each other (so that I can infer subtext and imagine them having sex with each other)
3. About something besides a man (it’s hard to imagine them having sex with each other if they’re talking about boners)
I know, I know. I’m a shallow person and a bad feminist.
We need a little christmas
Mame (1966 Original Broadway Cast)
Mame:
Haul out the holly;
Put up the tree before my spirit falls again.
Fill up the stocking,
I may be rushing things, but deck the halls again now.
For we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute,
Candles in the window,
Carols at the spinet.
Yes, we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute.
It hasn’t snowed a single flurry,
But Santa, dear, we’re in a hurry;
So climb down the chimney;
Put up the brightest string of lights I’ve ever seen.
Slice up the fruitcake;
It’s time we hung some tinsel on that evergreen bough.
For I’ve grown a little leaner,
Grown a little colder,
Grown a little sadder,
Grown a little older,
All:
And I need a little angel
Sitting on my shoulder,
Need a little Christmas now.
Mame:
Haul out the holly;
Well, once I taught you all to live each living day.
All:
Fill up the stocking,
Young Patrick:
But Auntie Mame, it’s one week from Thanksgiving Day now.
All:
But we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute,
Candles in the window,
Carols at the spinet.
Yes, we need a little Christmas
Right this very minute.
Agnes:
It hasn’t snowed a single flurry,
But Santa, dear, we’re in a hurry;
Ito:
So climb down the chimney;
Put up the brightest string of lights I’ve ever seen.
All:
Slice up the fruitcake;
It’s time we hung some tinsel on that evergreen bough.
For we need a little music,
Need a little laughter,
Need a little singing
Ringing through the rafter,
And we need a little snappy
“Happy ever after,”
Need a little Christmas now.
Need a little Christmas now.
links for 2010-04-17
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Tea baggers want smaller government – except when challenged on the entitlements THEY receive. Then they change their minds – they only want government to help them – but they don't want to pay for it. Or for all those other people who they think are gaming the system – in the same way they are!!! Deadbeats. Freeloaders.
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WOW. Very cool – watch the Lada Gaga Telephone video. "There's no hidden sounds, there's no lip-synching, there's no overdubbing. What you see is what you hear," Conte says. "Sometimes, there might be two or three Natalys harmonizing with herself, and then you'll see those three videos juxtaposed together on the screen."
links for 2010-04-16
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Poor Tesla. Always getting kicked when he's down.
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Awesome discussion of sexism in Emo music, and how women's experiences are devalued and women's voices ignored in music genres.
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Learning how to separate and move the irises in our backyard bed. July or August after the flowers have bloomed, apparently.