Monday , May 4, 2009
WHY DON'T YOU?: Help a Brother (& Sister) Out!
I am so happy I have so much new Fiery Furnaces news to promote! It's really rewarding for me.
According to my new favourite website on the entire Internet (besides this very blog and Emily Richmond's Tumblr), THE FIERY FURNACES' TWITTER, the Fiery Furnaces are holding some sort of weird contest where Fiery Furnaces Fans are invited to:
1) Take a look at the tracklisting of the upcoming Fiery Furnaces album, I'm Going Away (Conveniently for you, you can do this on nogoodforme.com! You don't even have to go to another website! It is 8 posts ago)
2) Imagine what the songs on I'm Going Away would sound like, based on their titles, your prior knowledge of Fiery Furnaces music, and, I don't know, your intuition or whatevs.
3) Write down descriptions of your imaginary opinions on Fiery Furnaces songs you haven't heard yet.
4) Send your "Deaf Descriptions" ("Deaf" as in "def," according to the Fiery Furnaces Twitter) to the band at thefieryfurnacesemail@gmail.com
5) This is all out of your control now, but apparently the Fiery Furnaces will then "remix all those deaf/def descriptions into a fan-made word-only totally-unrelated new version of I'm Going Away"
That sounds awesome, and I really want it to happen! But it won't happen if nobody participates. I am worried and nervous that nobody will participate, since I am the #1 Most Likely Person in the World to Participate, and even I feel like I might laze out. But I will not! I AM NOT LAZING OUT. I am doing this for Matthew Friedberger; so are Kat Asharya and Liz Barker (I just decided), and SO SHOULD YOU.
To remind you of how awesome Matthew Friedberger is and motivate you to help Matthew Friedberger carry out his dreams, here are two Matthew Friedberger Twitters from this morning that I thought were pretty rad, especially when you consider how on my personal Twitter feed, they were located dangerously close to Nicole Richie letting us know that she may be joining the Miami Sound Machine, and Heidi Montag quoting some fucking Bible passage:
"All cars are Rock n' Roll, really. To some degree. --But some cars more than others. For instance, Pontiacs."
"Sad days. Maybe FF should make a horror music video. With a demon-possessed Old English Sheepdog. Too cute to believe; too deadly to ignore!"
Tags: Emily Richmond, Fiery Furnaces, Heidi Montag, Helping a brother out, I'm Going Away, Matthew Friedberger, Miami Sound Machine, Nicole Richie
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Tuesday , July 29, 2008
The nogoodforme.com Why Don't You? Along with Chuck Klosterman, Emmanuelle Alt, and possibly Michael Showalter, Diana Vreeland belongs to the elite group of human beings that we would allow to join the nogoodforme.com team if they asked politely. Which is great, because I'm quite sure that if DV were around today, she would drop her editorial position at Vogue like a sack of hot potatoes if the opportunity to join forces with Kat, Liz & Laura Jane came up. I mean, duh. If Diana (pronounced Dee-Ann, for glamour's sake) Vreeland hadn't moved on to Fashion Heaven in 1989, today would have been her 103rd birthday. And if Diana Vreeland had lived to be 103 years old, boy, would she ever have revolutionized 100+ dressing! I'm thinking peacock-embellished wheelchairs, yellow diamond-studded hearing aids, and prune-tinis. Hot. We at nogoodforme.com are all about breaking any and every rule of fashion, stomping all the hell over Vuitton Youth culture with the rubber souls of our comfy flats (NOT Jimmy Choos!). Nobody in the history of haute-whatevs broke rules like DV, and so on this day, we are honoring our Patron Saint of Ready-to-wear Rebellion with a scrappified and contemporary update of Vreeland's infamous Harper's Bazaar "Why Don't You?" column. Some sample "Why Don't You?"s of Diana's include: +Why don't you... wash your child's hair with champagne? Why don't I have every cigarette I smoke individually stamped with LJF? Good point, Diana. And now... WHY (THE HELEN KELLER) DON'T YOU? 
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+Why don't you... wear violet velvet mittens with everything?
+Why don't you... have your cigarettes stamped with a personal insignia?
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Tags: alcohol, Babysitter's Club, crosswords, Diana Vreeland, Laura loves The Beatles, Michael Showalter, sleepovers, Tom Yum Pops, vegan goodness, why don't you
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