Tuesday , March 9, 2010
nogoodforme Superlatives: Stuff We're Most Psyched About For 2009
PJ HARVEY & JOHN PARISH DO NOT SIT IN A TREE, K-I-S-S-I-N-G -- BUT THEY MAKE AWESOME RECORDS TOGETHER
A good while ago, PJ Harvey put out a sort of quasi side-project record with her mentor and friend John Parish called Dance Hall at Louse Point. It was hot on the heels of her masterwork To Bring You My Love, and it couldn't have been more different. That's kind of when I realized that she was a true artist and a real bona-fide genius, because she was willing to throw off the things that brought her such acclaim and really challenge herself and her audience. Now it's thirteen years later, and Harvey/Parish are putting out a new record, A Woman A Man Walked By, on March 30, 2009. (Don't you love that title? Isn't it mysterious and alluring?) I'm sure it will be awesome and slightly weird and a bit difficult and sometimes even super-rollicking, since it promises to be more rocking guitar-based stuff, in stark contrast to the piano-based ghost ballads of White Chalk. Finally there is something right in the world.
And in non-music news, I am also looking forward to screening my non-thesis short here in NYC in May 2009. Of course, you are all invited and I'm sure someone will make me tell you all the details when the time is right. But, yes, if you are in NYC in late April/early May, you should totally come and I will buy you a cookie. (Kat)
2009 IS THE NEW 2004, ONLY 8 MILLION TIMES MORE AWESOME
2004 was a beast of a year, quite possibly the beastliest in all my life. But musically it kind of ruled: John Frusciante (aka My Favorite Human Who Doesn't Like Me) and Courtney Love (aka My Favorite Human Whom No One Else Likes) both put out records in the first two months of '04, and Auf Der Maur (aka The Band I'd Most Likely Be If I Were Band Instead Of A Girl) had an album come out sometime in the summer. And guess what's happening in '09? J.F. and C.L. are putting out new records this month and next, and Auf Der Maur's due to give us something hot and gorgeous a few months down the road. It'll be like 2004 all over again, only without all the rotten lousy wickedness (please!). Here's how I predict it'll all go down:
+ JOHN FRUSCIANTE'S THE EMPYREAN comes out on January 27, lays claim to my soul, and then all I ever wanna talk or think about is John Frusciante and his "awesome mind puzzles" (TM George Michael Bluth) but no one UNDERSTANDS. So now suddenly I'm an angsty 16-year-old all over again, and it's sort of maddening but at the same time so good to reclaim my charmedly wacky youth. Oh, dear horrible John: You make worm's meat of me.
+ It's due to come out February 9 but COURTNEY LOVE'S NOBODY'S DAUGHTER doesn't have an Amazon page yet, which makes me slightly nervous and also hinders my psychic powers. So let me just say that CLove's first solo record (America's Sweetheart) certainly makes my top 20 albums of this crazy decade of ours - it's a mess but a gem of a mess, or a mess of a gem, or whatever in god's name you damn well feel like calling it. Just don't call it late to dinner!
+ As of now there's no release date set for AUF DER MAUR'S OUT OF OUR MINDS, which is also nervous-making, but I'm trying not to fret about things beyond my control in the new year. It's pretty likely that I'll almost-love about half the album, halfheartedly listen to the rest, and think many more thoughts about horses and heavy metal than I usually do for at least three weeks after the record drops. Mostly I hope Miss Melissa plays some shows in support of the album; her gig at Spaceland after Auf Der Maur's release was a magical beam of pixie-dusty light in the Dark Depths of Dreary 2004.
Oh, and I'm also so much looking forward to the movie of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. That one totally made me cry in the middle of a coffee shop and I couldn't even help myself. (Liz)
Tags: Auf Der Maur, Courtney Love, George Michael Bluth, Harry Potter, John Frusciante, John Parish, KAT'S MOVIES, PJ Harvey
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Ooo, I'm totally going to try to come see your movie Kat, and I also love Courtney, Liz, you're not alone!
By John on January 14, 2009 1:23 AM
bubbles, i was thinking the very same thing about the 2004/2009 dichotomy earlier this week. "without all the rotten lousy wickedness" indeed! you are such the poet when writing about john frusciante.
By sarah on January 14, 2009 9:43 AM
thank you, precious! we are so psychically connected!
btw, i was going to include something about my dream of you calling those dudes 'very 2004,' but it was really hard to explain...
By Liz
on January 14, 2009 12:47 PM