Music: February 2008 Archives
Guess what! Carrie Brownstein is the new Carrie Bradshaw! (Not really, but have you ever noticed they have similar names?!) Anyway, America's favorite member of Sleater-Kinney now has a BLOG at NPR, where she talks all about music. First Slate, now NPR... who is this lady's agent? I'm guessing it's the same as Janeane Garafolo's. Carrie, if you work really hard, maybe you can work your way up to a coveted spot at SALON'S perpetually-disapproving woman blog! And maybe-- just maybe, if your journalism is FEARLESS ENOUGH-- MOTHER JONES!
Anyway, yes, I read about this on Gawker, which is pretty lazy of me and means you've already seen it, but look at the funny picture I made to make up for it!
PS Now that I look, she's been doing this forever, so maybe I already knew about it and forgot? Whatever, so it's OLD NEWS. i'm still going to keep it up because i already made this dumb picture.
PPS Why is Gawker being so HOMOPHOBIC about Sleater-Kinney? Everyone knows "SHRILL" is code for ANGRY CASTRATING LESBO. Oh, what's that you say? Sleater-Kinney IS shrill? Okay then. I still loved them though. I will post a bonus Sleater-Kinney video after the little button pressy.
Continue reading Wanna Be Your Jessica Coen.
Attention nerds: this is a video of a man playing TELSTAR on a theremin. Thank you to l'il ronnie for tipping me to this.
A total fey klassic! Could anything be gayer than an animated Madonna singing lyrics like "pink elephants and lemonade" and "the golden gate where the fairies all wait"???
And also: she recounts a dream about Frank Sinatra, pretends to get shot and plays dead, sings a German version of "We Are the World," extols the virtues of a vegetarian diet through song, and snippily characterizes her singing voice as "My Individual God Identity."
And some other stuff.
I had no idea the erratically brilliant British riot grrl/queercore act Huggy Bear ever put out a video. Apparently they did, and for "Pansy Twist" -- their faggiest song -- no less!
Huggy Bear meant a lot to young, music-loving gays of the time because they showed us you could be gay and punk...without being Pansy Division.
Special bonus: penis in the bathtub!
Check out more hot pics of Jenny From The Block at Planet HIltron.
Oh, this old thing? An udderly irresistible PETA ad about milk. (h/t BOBO)
...through Song!
I expect amateurish, off-key political songs from liberal-arts feminist street-theater types, but I thought one thing I could count on from conservative pundit chicks is that if they can't sing they, you know, wouldn't.
I was wrong. :(
I expect amateurish, off-key political songs from liberal-arts feminist street-theater types, but I thought one thing I could count on from conservative pundit chicks is that if they can't sing they, you know, wouldn't.
I was wrong. :(
Can you name this CLASSIC tune from the 80's by the lyrics alone?
Mmm BowBow
Chicka chicka
mmm bowbow
Chk...chicka chicka
Beautiful
BowBow
Oh yeah
BowBow
Chk...chicka chicka
(Hint...I put the title in the title of this post!)
The answer--and an mp3 of the classic track!--after the jump.
Continue reading Fey Favorites: "Oh Yeah".
So here is the thing: Courtney Love looks terrible, if the "home Polaroids" on her Myspace page are any indication. And unlike in the past, when her "terrible" was actually 90% amazing (the thrown-together heroin-unchicness of her early days; the blown-up Amanda Lepore look in recent years), she now looks terrible in that tanned-leather-shoe way, more Tampa than Malibu. Still, could anything be more Courtney Love than displaying yourself in all your glory, however wretched?
Why I'm still having a pointless argument in my head with the people who've dared to not adore Joanna Newsom I don't know. But if you happen to be a fence-sitter, and you've got 9+ minutes to spare, I'd imagine this video of Joanna performing "Sawdust & Diamonds" in Philadelphia might be just the thing to cure what ails you.
And no, I am not going to report on the rumor (or the photographic evidence) that Joanna Newsom is currently dating Andy Samberg. I'm simply not prepared to give up my dream of being her gay husband.
And no, I am not going to report on the rumor (or the photographic evidence) that Joanna Newsom is currently dating Andy Samberg. I'm simply not prepared to give up my dream of being her gay husband.
Electronic music duo, Bjork collaborators, and longtime gay lovers Matmos have released a free bleepy-bloopy mp3 single from their forthcoming LP, "Supreme Balloon"...and it's called "Rainbow Flag."
I bet they timed it especially for the FeyFriends launch.
Matmos - Rainbow Flag.mp3
(h/t Pitchfork)
We’d like to announce the introduction of a new feybulous feature – TRASHY GRAVES!!! Once only reserved for dead child stars, trashy graves are now popular among many kinds of third-rate celebrities. The wonderful people at findagrave.com have collected thousands of dead people’s gravestones, but unfortunately they are not categorized in terms of trashiness. That’s what fey friends are for! Finding new ways to celebrate the trashy dead since 2008.
Our inaugural trashy grave belongs to Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, aka ¡SELENA!, the unforgettable performer who was murdered by the president of her fan club in 1995. Equally unforgettable is her final resting place. The giant stone replica of Selena’s face is accented by a gravestone spelling out her name in sassy, seductive font fit for a Tejana queen.
Click here for a excellent tour of Selena's grave and memorial created by one of her dedicated fans.
Artemisbell (aka Diana Campanella) currently has 257 videos of herself dancing in front of her front door to a wide selection of jams, including those by Deee-lite and the B-52s (natch) and CeCe Peniston.
