Leonard Cohen: Book of Longing I can't make the hills
The system is shot
I'm living on pills
For which I thank G-d
I followed the course
From chaos to art
Desire the horse
Depression the cart
"The title is a reference to a book called Limits to Growth and the Club of Rome think-tank who would create a "map of the problematique" detailing the "global problematique" - a set of likely challenges the world might face in the near future." MuseWiki via Ultra8201
Priceless: The faces of the radio personnel when Devonte Hynes said "This song is called Happy Fucking Birthday" at the NPR/World Cafe live broadcast. + NPR blog: Lightspeed Champion
+ SXSW Review: Duffy ("Shelby Lynne, your career will be history when Duffy’s “Rockferry” is released in the U.S. in May.")
" I can't move my arm for the fear that you will wake " elbow - the bones of you
Because I heard about them from a girl when they came to showcase during it back when their first album came out, SXSW reminds me
of Elbow. Their latest album continues the trend that it's always worth waiting for a new Elbow album.
* whose name escapes me
now, but I do remember one thing about her: she didn't like the word
'Danish'.
It wasn't until I was done watching Wong Kar Wai's "My Blueberry Nights" that I realized it was the sort of film I was missing, needed, required. Romantics need only apply. The performances the director generated out of all the actor's was great but to me the highlights were David Strathairn & Rachel Weisz. They were just amazing. As usual in his films, music was a character of its own, wrapped between a Norah Jones song and with an appearance in the film and soundtrack by Chan Marshall herself. The soundtrack comes out April 1st.
+ Capitol Records in association with Dentyne Ice are offering an all access trip to SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas this March to one lucky winner and a guest for playing theBen's Brother "Stuttering" Music Quiz
ACL Fest LOVES Regina Spektor, she had a Huge crowd and was visibly overwhelmed when she first came on stage. She said she wanted to just stand and stare at us.
+ ACL (Day 1): A Rant: I learned today I have an incredible superpower: I have the power to
turn whoever I stand next to at a large outdoor concert into the most
annoying person in the world.
The architecture is all Albert Speer does art deco (A), but the world, called Rapture, is beginning to crumble and let in water. You're soon beset by deranged flappers and dandies, like Jay Gatsby's party guests gone feral (B). And, as in any first-person shooter, you reach for your gun...
" The first LADIES OF THE 80s Sing-Along was one of our most popular shows of all time, but it was also one of the most difficult Sing-Alongs to put together. After compiling all of the videos we wanted to put into the program, we realized that we were trying to make a Sing-Along show that was almost five hours long. The solution, of course, was to put together a whole new show that built upon the awesomeness of the first but added even more. This time around we'll right the wrongs we committed by not having ELECTRIC YOUTH in the first show. We'll put in more Cyndi Lauper with SHE BOP and TRUE COLORS. Our Mondays will be manic and the rain will come again, falling on our heads like a memory. "
I felt sick at first but I was actually waking up from numbness. It
was your existence, it made my guts hurt ( and I need that, I suppose.
) I’ll stop painting a new coat on the rancor in my heart when you stop
lying your heart out. Only then will we recall our past and sing it
like a karaoke song. I’m your most important footnote, that song you
keep listening to over and over. And the ugly irony is that we miss our
insanity, it was a pure blissful tension. This is how I came to realize
that I need you, in some shape or form.
"The Boatman's Call", Originaly released on March 4, 1997 is one of my desert island albums.
"The world is obsessed by Cave and in turn he is obsessed by love,
religion and redemption. His are the psalms that bring warmth in the
chill of the night, they are the croon of the heartbroken, the cry of
the lonely albatross who soars eternally across cold neurotic seas and
the strum and weeping of violins that herald pain and loss in its most
desperate hour of need.
He's Leonard Cohen on bended knees
praying at the shrine; the black crow king swooning to vaudevillian and
burlesque strums, a drunken sailor of shipwrecked, bittersweet blues
and an evangelist of the sweetest ballads that drinks from the chalice
of dark haired nymphets.." The Boatman's Call Interview [1997] by Jayne Margetts (The I Magazine)
[ Into My Arms, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ] "I'm not sure which is more lilting about Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds'
'Into My Arms': the promise of an ecclesiastic love from a man who
doesn't believe in God, or the juxtaposition of Cave's ghoulish
baritone with a delicate piano ballad."
{ (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? Video } Back in January I had bookmarked the Boatman's Call era live performances on MTV but of course they are now gone, so if anyone has them or can point the way....
[ Green Eyes ]Interview from "Mojo Magazine" [1997] Nick Cave: ...and Green Eyes is dedicated to Tori Amos. Especially the line about Twinkling cunt... JM: Are you kidding? NC: No, I am absolutely serious. Tori rubs sparkles into her pubic hair.
" ALBUM: The band starts pre-production on their 2nd full length record next month. Richard Gibbs (Oingo Boingo w/ Danny Elfman) - film scoring, orchestral, mogul - writer/producer of 50+ films including Queen of the Damned, Battlestar Galactica, many Disney films - will produce Eisley's next record..."
Of all the MySpace band/music bulletins I've gotten, this one from Michael Leviton is my favorite....
Every summer, thousands of innocent hearts are broken by the plague often referred to as "Summer Romance". And it must stop! I am writing you now to spread the word of my personal community service project "YOUTH FOR AN UNROMANTIC SUMMER" to stop bonfires, romantic walks on the beach, beautiful people in bathing suits, etc.
Also, if you haven't yet, be sure to download the YUS anthem "Summer's
the Worst" for free from my myspace page and/or buy my debut album, "My
Favorite Place to Drown" and play it for your friends, especially your sexiest and most alluring friends who are singlehandedly responsible for 90 percent of summer lust and sexual frustration!
Q: I lost an iPod several months ago. It has never turned up. I think
it is still in my house. Could you let me know a psychic or someone who
could help me find my iPod?
A: At first I thought your query too odd to answer. I have interviewed local
psychics, and this does not seem to be psychics' bailiwick. However, Jim
Bentley, local psychologist and hypnotherapist, has some suggestions
I re-posted a few videos I uploaded in the past over to YouTube . So far I have some Eisley, Rachael Yamagata & Beth Orton up there. Rachael is embedded below.
A follow up to The one where Nellie does what Fiona did not. It seems "split with the label after a long dispute" wasn't quite right. That previous article had made it seem like she had left them.
blogging.la: "Nellie prefaced the show to say that Sony has given her the full CD. I
heard there were label people at the Troubadour and her outburst might
have done the trick. But she was still pissed and a little worked up
over the fact that she even had to "take it to the streets" as she
said. "I got my 65 minute CD I should be happy" but she continued to
rag on Sony, urging everyone to steal anything and everything they can
from major corporations and said if she was computer savvy she would be
stealing music online. ..."
Out December 27th. Random Fact: Fiona and Nellie are on the same label.
+ Costello News - Nellie McKay (whose link to Broadway is forthcoming in Roundabout's
"Threepenny Opera" revival in the spring) recalled the messy
outspokenness of vintage Costello appearances in her rambling political
comments -- lamenting how the exit of Harriet Miers has made way for a
far more dangerous force and then lurching into an anti-fur spiel. And
the young singer channeled a jaded Peggy Lee indifference that worked
well in her airy, eccentric take at the piano on "Party Girl." + Nellie was on Piano Jazz
I went to see BRMC last night. They started off slow with a completely acoustic sequence of songs then BOOOM! "Ain't No Easy Way" live just shames the recorded version. I came for "Love Burns" and it did not disappoint.
/ Tristan Prettyman was pretty terrific. There's no avoiding the Jewel comparison ( has it really been 10 years since Pieces of You ? ) "The geekiest boy I know", she said, Jason Mraz came onstage to perform "Shy That Way" with her to the acclaim of all around.
/ What can I saw about Eisley? you know I love them ( this makes it the 6th or 7th time I've seen them). Non-album songs they performed: "Lady of the Woods", "Mr. Pine", "They All Surrounded Me", "the Escaping Song", the recently re-recorded "Head Against The Sky" and a new one that I think was called "Many Funerals".
/ Rachael Yamagata started of strong then ran into some technical problems in the middle of her set which made it all loose a little momentum so she pulled the ol crowd sings along to "Wore Me Down" to pick things up a bit. Someone around me yelled out "Play Criminal !".
/ The Arcade Fire have some nerve coming out in those suits when its over 100 degrees. "The temperature was now 104 with a heat index of “You’re fucked”." Two year's running now, the ACL has been on the hottest weekend of the year. Why the hell is the hottest weekend happening in September? I don't know, ask uncle global warming.
/ Franz Ferdinand pulled the one two punch of "Take Me Out" and "Do You Want To" back to back.
/ Coldplay inserted a bit of FF's "Do You Want To" into one of their songs.
Tracy Bonham stepped in for Tegan and Sara. She even did a little bit of "Walking With A Ghost" which she said she had learned from itunes this morning. On another song she inserted "Holla Back Girl" at the end ( older folks around me wondered just what the hell she was saying) and attempted Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" (old folks around me rejoiced).
Aqualung was well received. They had extra time so they covered Queen's "Somebody To Love" ( little video ).
The Frames did the two songs I wanted to hear ( "Lay Me Down" and "Fake" with a little bit of Johnny Cash's "Ring of fire" at the end. ) and then I moved on. The lead singer was Very Annoying and spewed the most instances of "fucking" out of any performer I've ever seen at ACL.
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