Sunday , June 13, 2010
Heavy Rotation: Fishbone, Danzig, Sara Schiralli, Patients, A Beatles Double-Header from LJ
Fishbone, "Subliminal Fascism"
The one thing I know for sure about Fishbone is that John Cusack loved them, which is a funny thing to know about a band. Supposedly in that famous iconic Lloyd Dobler moment in Say Anything, he was playing Fishbone in the boombox as he held it over his head. John Cusack is also a Cancer, which is why that moment is so believable because only a Cancer guy would so something so cheesy with such authentic angst. No one really talks about Fishbone anymore, and honestly, I've never been able to get through an entire record by them, though I am told they are really good. But I always liked this song and conjecture that early exposure to it set me up for a lifetime of loud, fast noise, and so I am grateful. (Kat)
Danzig, "Devil's Plaything"
I read in his Wikipedia entry that Glenn Danzig was invited to audition for the Wolverine in the X-Men movies; wouldn't this have been just so awesome? I really would like to be Glenn Danzig's imaginary Hollywood agent. I'd like to see him play Christopher Walken's son one day, or Keanu Reeves' brother, and I'd really like him to play the Phantom of the Opera as well. There's something deliciously theatrical about Danzig that just works for this; it's this patina of theatricality that makes him a good gateway drug for darker kinds of metal. I don't know, though; rather than travel onwards, it's kind of more fun to stay at the gate with Glenn, if only because his crooner vocal-style makes Danzig an unusually good karaoke choice. Let his theatre become yours! (Kat)
"Bang Bang" by Sara Schiralli & "Body Song" by Patients
"Bang Bang":
"Body Song":
The best thing about the book Just Kids by Patti Smith, besides how it's a beautiful story that made me cry, is that ever since reading it I'm not scared of work anymore. I used to always worry that if I worked too much I'd implode or get sick or hate life, but that's such hogwash. Tommyrot, even. "You're full of old shoes!" my grandfather might have said, had I ever told him of my work dread. 'Cause Patti Smith worked really hard - worked at her bookstore day job and then went back to the Chelsea Hotel and worked on all night long, on her paintings and poems and all her other art - and she didn't implode or get sick or hate life. On the contrary, she did just the opposite of all those things. What a great role model she is! What a killer Capricorn.
So, I'm not scared of work anymore; superb. But sometimes you have to stop working, and go eat food with your friends, or drink beer with your friends, or dance to David Bowie with your friends, or however else you get your kicks. And sometimes you've gotta do even less than that - like watch TV on DVD in bed, with snacks.
For instance: When I wake up on Saturday morning, it will be raining out. I'll make an egg and an English muffin and a cup of coconut chai, and I'll bring it all back to bed and watch the first episode of the second disc of the fifth season of Weeds. And maybe the second episode too. AND MAYBE EVEN THE THIRD. I will try not to get egg yolk or tea on my white down comforter, and will probably succeed. Then the rain will stop. I'll get up and get dressed, get my iPod and walk down to the Silver Lake farmer's market. I will buy two organic Pink Lady apples, and a $3 politically correct iced coffee. Instead of half and half, there will be soymilk. Instead of sugar: molasses. Molasses in my iced coffee: A thing like that!
And on the walk back the songs on my iPod will probably include "Bang Bang" and "Body Song," because they're both from the fifth season of Weeds and when I'm in the midst of a new Weeds it's kind of all I ever want to think about. The latter makes me feel glamorously imperiled like I'm Nancy Botwin herself, the former makes me feel like I'm in love with Andy Botwin. I am in love with Andy Botwin, truly: I love Andy Botwin a million times more than molasses. A million-trillion, even. I hope life works out really beautifully for him, somehow. (Liz)
The Beatles, "Matchbox"
Imagine, if you will, a crazy-mazing parallel Universe where there was no John Lennon, no Paul McCartney, no George Harrison, but totally Ringo Starr. And in this Universe, Ringo Starr solo is as famous and important as are the John/Paul/George Beatles of our own. In Ringo-verse, "Matchbox" is the most popular song of all-time. The extreme cultural relevance of "Matchbox" is equivalent to that of "Yesterday", "Hey Jude", "She Loves You", and "I Am The Walrus" combined. And why shouldn't it be? Ringo really knocks this vocal out of the ballpark and into a parallel Universe. Honestly- if a basset hound could sing, guys. If a basset hound could sing. And I know the Beatles didn't, like, write this song, but the lyric? THE LYRIC? "If you don't want my peaches, honey, please don't shake my tree"?!? "Let me be your little dog, 'til your big dog comes"?!? "And when your big dog gets here, watch how your puppy dog runs"?!?!?! From Ringo??? It's all just so adorable, it makes me want to run away to Ringo-verse and get Ringo's names tattooed on my arms. (Laura Jane)
The Beatles, "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues"
"Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues" is probably like my thirteenth or something favourite Beatles song of all-time, which is a shockingly high ranking for an irrelevant throwaway from Disc 2 of Anthology 3. Not even Disc 1, you know? I love "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues" because it is the "No" that answers the question, "If you love something and hate something at the same time, shouldn't it balance out to indifference?"
You are the main character in a movie about your actual life and something horrible and heart-breaking has recently happened to you. Something so horrible and so heart-breaking, that you don't even have it in your broken heart to tell anybody. This song plays over a montage of you going about the actions of your day-to-day life, only as this new sad person you are, the saddest person there ever was, and nobody knows. You do all the same things you normally do, make jokes even, but now you're so tired, and your eyes are so hollow, despondent. And this is real life, where so few people bother to look deep enough into your eyes, to see your blues.
The other day I wanted to ask people if John Lennon was good at guitar, because I genuinely don't know. I also don't care. This song is dedicated to my passionate and undying love for emotional manipulation in the creative arts. (Laura Jane)
Tags: breakfast, Cancers, Capricorns, dancing, emotional manipulation, John Cusack, Laura loves the Beatles, molasses, Nancy Botwin, Patti Smith, Ringo, Ringo Rising, Ringo Starr, talking like Pete Campbell, Weeds, work
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By Tatyana on February 25, 2010 4:57 PM
oh yeah, forgot to mention that that's not really the cover art for 'body song.' i couldn't find the actual cover art, and 'the fairy grandmother' was one of the first image search results when i googled 'patients' + 'body song.'
By Liz
on February 25, 2010 4:59 PM
That video is TERRIFYING
By Laura
on February 25, 2010 7:38 PM
i thought it was HOTTTT. i'm in love with him now.
By Liz
on February 26, 2010 12:07 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE!!!!!!
By Ellen on February 26, 2010 11:33 AM
that video is kind of amazing. sometimes i can't believe that glenn danzig is even REAL, if you know what i mean.
By Kat
on February 26, 2010 2:27 PM