the beat robots
mad requests from all fronts asking what's playing in my ear (my taste is just That Good...lies, all lies-i just needed the encouragement-i think if most of my urban family were asked to describe my music proclivities in one word, that word would be...hmmm...probably "weird"-because most of my friends have really crap vocabularies. fact.)
yeah cubed. yyyeeeaaahhh.
(i'm a riot, alice).
before the list (is your heart racing yet? are your palms sweaty, your eyes rolling back into your head, like you're having a seizure? is your breathing shallow & weak? i know. parfait.) last.fm is siQ-download it, just have it going in the background somewhere. basically, if you are over listening to the same blech records you have in your itunes library, you can listen to a song you kinda like & find similar artists. found some of my favorite bands this way. you also can get reco's, meet randos with their whole encyclopedia britanica of opinions & loves & anathemas (BAM, pee wee herman comes out & the toaster & hat & flowers outside the window all dance-AAAAAAAAA). point? if you want to improve your taste, or just get out there a little more (MOVE OUT of your MOM'S HOUSE, GD*it, man, grow a pair!) get last.fm.
my musical routine (which obviously involves a high hat, a cane, and some wicked dance moves, in public, where my back up singers sing a kicky harmony) is to be OCD - read "TOTALLY obsessed"- with about 5 songs for a coppola (yes, i know) weeks - & i end up looking back nostalgically some weeks/months/years later at those songs that took hold of me & let them make the soundtrack for that particular time. then there are songs that i play here & there, that i grow to love & they will be on the soundtrack of my life. epic difference.
none of what i just said has anything to do with the songs i am going to list - i'm just filling the void. (i had you going there for a bit, though, didn't i? meh.)
(thanks to billi kid for making rad stickers & just generally for being bad ass-click on picture to see his stuff)*discotraxx, ladytron
*seventeen, ladytron
*scattered pearls, casiotone for the painfully alone
*smother + evil = hurt, the kissaway trail
*the genocide ball, the robot ate me
*glitter & twang, tullycraft (fun fun funsies song)
*doin' the raccoon, george olsen (no, this has not changed from yesterday, geesh)
what's it all about songs (for those deeper moments, when you need to have a reason for the ridiculous, a meaning behind the mess-or if you're just feeling emo & want to wallow in your own misery)*moving pictures silent films, great lake swimmers
*trance manual, john vanderslice
*follow through, hotel lights
*owl waltz, seabear (the entire album the ghost that carried us away is laid back chill)
*love will tear us apart, susanna & the magical orchestra
*your hand in mine, explosions in the sky (yes, this song doesn't come off this list)
ok, i've got stuff to do too. i'll leave you with this:
"an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools." -ernest hemingway
(maybe ole "papa" should have pushed the bottle every once an awhile-so he would have become something other than a skeavy old lech living in a dirty cabin in the middle of nowhere when he died ALONE...hindsight, i guess...)
