| The rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated... |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|02:17 pm] |
Remember that little whiny poor-me post I made a few weeks ago, about not having time to post anything substantial on LJ, all the photos I was posting weren't mine, blah blah blah?
Well, firstly, let me just say a big thank you (THANK YOU!)to everyone who commented - you all made me feel special and worthy and kinda sexy, too. :)
The other thing is...work is hitting its slow period (nobody schedules meetings around the holidays, and nobody has any $ left in their budgets anyway...), so I need to use this time wisely: to study, to catch up on my pleasure reading, and to post on LJ!!!
The other post I made, about needing a project for photo-posting...? That one is taking some time. All very good ideas (again, THANK YOU!), but I just can't seem to get motivated enough to make them happen. So, you'll just have to deal with my posting of others' photos until then. :)
Namaste, y'all. |
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| Ontariana |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|12:28 pm] |
 Some time ago a friend found a box of 45s by the side of the road and gave them to me. Amongst well used singles by The Toys, Gene Chandler, Paul Anka and the Beatles was a near pristine copy of the Ontario song from the Ontario pavilion at Expo '67 in Montréal.
Maybe I've worked at Local History too long and have become to sentimental. But I can't help but consider the provenance. Did this young girl travel to Montréal and visit the Expo bringing this record back home to Hamilton? Or maybe they were given out at school? Nobody can know for sure.
What I do know is that these songs can transport me back to a time in Canadian history of unfettered idealism that I missed out on.
A Place to Stand (Theme I) by nfotxn
A Place to Stand (Theme II) by nfotxn |
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| I'm in love with you. Want you to love me too. |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|08:56 am] |
Slow night spinning music at the bar. I've finally sort of settled into the new format where I play everything and not simply harsh/heavy punk rock and metal. And my transitions between mini-sets of guitars and electronics are now smooth enough that I wound up playing "Holy Diver" and "Like a Motorway" within 15 minutes of each other.
Weird fact: playing "Like a Motorway" always inspires at least one gay to come to the booth, thanking you for it. I don't know why that is. I like those people. They seem so happy to be hearing the song and grateful that you put it on for them because they'd never considered they'd get to hear it while drinking in a barely lit bar with blowjobs playing on the TV screens.
Best drunk person moment of the night:
Guy standing on booth steps staring at me, when asked what I could do for him says: Play The Creatures.
Me: I don't have any on me tonight. I have some Siouxsie and the Banshees though.
Guy just stares at me while I look for a Siouxsie track. Every so often I turn around and he's still standing on the steps of the booth, just looking at me. I find "Spellbound" and, even though I've played it way too often thanks to at least one Siouxsie request every time I work, I play it again. I need more Siouxsie. I think I have like four songs that I just play over and over. It's not that I dislike her. It's just that every single gay on every single night wants to hear her. It's weird. She's #1, Debbie Harry wins second place, then a big group of random female rock vocalist requests after that.
I play "Spellbound." I step toward The Guy. "Anything else you want?" I ask. He takes my hand and kisses it.
(Dear gays, please never do that, ever. It's not alluring. It's like sneezing cooties. But he was drunk, so whatever.)
Guy: No, that's all. I didn't think you'd know who Siouxsie was.
Me: I'm the DJ. I know.
I also played this:
I've always enjoyed the Black Box-ish thing of putting someone else in the video or on stage to lip-sync an entirely sample-driven track, as though they were the actual singer. This person--who I believe is Saffron, future actual lead vocalist of Republica, a band that I never paid attention to--would have you believe she is both Gwen Guthrie, Caron Wheeler of Soul II Soul and possibly either Aretha Franklin or Loleatta Holloway (whichever one of them it is who's responsible for the spoken line: 'True love can be hard to find'). But she can make her legs go Rockette high in the air, which is something.
Anyway, for nerds, major vocal sample taken from:
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| New Stuff...and a Show! |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|07:23 am] |
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NOW AVAILABLE AT WUVABLEOAF.COM:
For the first time online!
AND INTRODUCING:
Trapper Keeper sold separately!
AND THESE ARE BACK TOO:
Go to wuvableoaf.com or come to the Goteblüd Store to snag yours!
And speaking of the store...the new Goteblüd show OPENS THIS WEEK:
You Are Her
Riot Grrrl and Underground
Female Zines of the 1990s
Opening Friday, November 20th 2009, from 7-9pm
766 Valencia between 18th/19th, San Francisco
Goteblüd salutes an incredible period of self-publishing. On display are nearly 700 creative and inspiring publications that shook the world, including Riot Grrrl zines, Riot Boy zines, Not Riot Grrrl zines and mainstream magazines. Also available is a listening station devoted to cassettes.
The entire contents of "You Are Her" are available for reading and listening. This show is interactive!
A photocopier is onsite.
The show is open during store hours - Saturdays and Sundays (only) from 12-5pm, 11/21/09 through mid-January 2010.
For more info go to goteblud.com!!!
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX |
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| The Fantastic Fantastic Mr. Fox |
[Nov. 16th, 2009|09:30 am] |
One of the few advantages of living in NYC (besides our plethora of museums, theater, and ethnic restaurants) is that around this time of year we get to see movies that are given an early release here before they're given a full release to the rest of the country -- sometimes several months later.
So on Friday Brian/![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) wonderboynj and I got to see Wes Anderson's new film, Fantastic Mr. Fox, based on a children's book by Roald Dahl. I'm happy to report that it's delightful and totally charming, smart enough for adults and silly enough for kids. Mr. Fox is half heist film, half children's adventure, and was done in old-school stop-motion animation, all herky-jerky like Gumby and other ersatz Saturday morning entertainments. Its coming attraction really undersells the movie, which is fine in my book, as you don't feel like you've already seen the picture, and it makes all the surprises and jokes and details in the movie all the more delightful (whoever thought glass eyeballs could be used so well as a running sight gag?).
George Clooney, Meryl Streep, and Willem Dafoe contribute voice talent, along with (of course) Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, and Owen Wilson. George Clooney is perfect in the title role, and Bill Murray surprisingly underplays his comic sidekick role as Badger. Also of course, being a Wes Anderson film, there are father issues (warmly resolved, though, being a children's movie), and Anderson fans may be surprised that although the movie is being marketed with a heavy dose of Futura, in the film Anderson forsakes his regular typeface for Helvetica for the many framing intertitles!
Right now you can only see Fantastic Mr. Fox in NYC, L.A., and (oddly enough) Colorado Springs, but it opens wide on November 25. It's worth seeing in the theaters -- although there are plenty of close-ups, Anderson also likes doing many of the scenes as long shots with indulgently large and detailed sets, and you're only going to get the rich textures and details on the big screen. I think it should get an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Film, although in past years the Academy's restricted that category to three films, and 2009 has been a strong year for animation, with 9, Coraline, Ponyo, and Up also in contention.
If you live in or visit NYC, Bergdorf Goodman's men's store (on the east side of Fifth Ave at 58th St -- just across from the flagship Apple store) has many of the puppets and sets from the movie on display in their windows, and you can see for yourself their surprisingly small scale and all the loving detail with which they were made.
After the movie vernnyc joined us for a quick expedition through The Strand bookstore, and then for some mighty fine grub at Silver Spurs, with great conversation.
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| Warm & Fuzzy - Cuddle Club Play List 11.13.09 |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|11:12 pm] |
Miike Snow - Animal (Mark Ronson Remix)
Thom Yorke - Black Swan
Dark Captain Light Captain - Circles (Hatchback Remix)
Longview - Can't Explain (Ulrich Schnauss Mix)
XX - Shelter
Belle & Sebastien - If You're Feeling Sinister
Blonde Redhead - Silently
Pale Saints - Kinky Love
Tealights - Passport
Radio Dept. - David
House of Love - Feel
Guitar - Just Like Honey
Beatles - Taxman
The Cure - Lovecats
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
Cut Copy - Time Stands Still
Au Revoir Simone - Another Likely Story (Neon Indian Remix)
Home Video - Melon (Home Video Remix)
Health - Die Slow (Pink Stallone Mix)
Carl Sagan/Stephen Hawking - Glorious Dawn (Cosmos Remixed)
Boards of Canada - Sunshine Recorder
Memory Tapes - Bicycle
Asobi Seksu - Thursday (Ulrich Schnauss Remix)
Owl City - Fireflies **For Luke
Frou Frou - Must Be Dreaming
New Order - Regret (Fire Island Mix)
Ruby Isle - So Damn High (Will Eastman Remix)
Royksopp - What Else is There (Thin White Duke Mix) **For Don
Erlend Oye - Ghost Trains
Miami Horror - Sometimes
Seefeel - Clique
XX - Night Time (What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow Extended Mix)
Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than the Stars (St. Etienne Mix)
School of Seven Bells - Chain
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Slowdive
You Say Party We Say Die - Laura Palmer's Prom
Bad Lieutenant - Sink or Swin (SOS Radio Edit)
Echo and the Bunnymen - Back of Love
Midnight Juggernauts - TNT (Memory Tapes Mix)
Friendly Fires - Jump in the Pool (Broken Dreams & Tambourines Mix)
Siouxsie - Arabian Knights ** For Robert
The Cure - Primary
Health - We Are Water
New Order - Tempation
Doves - Sky Stars Falling
Whitest Boy Alive - Burning
Girls - Lust for Life
Flaming Lips - Convinces of the Hex
Yo La Tengo - Periodically Doubles and Triples
Ministry - Just Like You (Negativ Magick Re-edit)
Visitor - Los Feelings (Clockwork Remix)
St Etienne - Methods of Modern Love (Richard X Remix)
Phoenix - Rome (Lanny Merge Remix)
Phoenix - 1901 (Mother/Father Nuwave Remix) **request
Yeasayer - Ampling Alp (Memory Tapes Remix)
Passion Pit - The Reeling (Calvin Harris Remix) **telepathic request
XX - Crystalized (Rory Phillips Mix)
Amanda Blank - Shame on Me (Yuksex Remix) |
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| Happiest Birthday Wishes... |
[Nov. 15th, 2009|05:38 pm] |
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...to my amazing and beautiful friend Connor ubermunkey.
I can't say enough to express how thankful and honored I am to have you in my life, munkey.
You are a force of nature, a complex and intriguing beast, a hard candy exterior with a gooey center, my favorite wooly mammoth, and so sexy you make me dizzy.
Thank you for being you.
Much love to you, handsome.
Namaste |
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