Oh, hai! It seems the past 2 years, musical personalities in the queer community have split. Or at least in my world. Looking through my iTunes or whatever it is people use these days, one can divide my taste into 2 categories: faggy dance pop or faggy orchestral pop. And by orchestral pop, I mean Sufjan Stevens, not Yanni. As much as I love Yanni...
2009 and now 2010 are gearing up to be the most divisive yet. Do I invest in listening to the new Owen Pallett LP? Or do I give in and smush to Jeppe? The decision is too hard. Though lately, the tastes have run more in the lying in bed and listening to Chris Garneau. As you may recall, I mentioned him in an earlier post which you can find yourself, I'm too lazy. Anywho, dude released a second record which managed to sneak under my lazy ass radar. Whatever. I finally found it. And it's good. You know home girl likes to mood out and ignore phone calls every other day. Now I finally have a soundtrack for it. Let's thank Absolutely Kosher for putting this out cause seriously, I'm getting bored the fuck out by music lately. 
Chris Garneau - No More Pirates
I can't like, not be mesmerized by those eyes. And that hat. I'm more jealous of the hat. Mostly cause I can't pull of the lazy nondescript baseball cap. Oh god this is coming out totally wrong.
Owen Pallett - Midnight Directives
Owen Pallett aka Final Fantasy has a new record out as well entitled "Heartland". I feel like we already had a record named "Heartland"***, but whatever. I may just be dreaming of "Harvest". Anyways, it's totally not what I thought it was going to be. Owen definitely went a little spacey on me but I'm not complaining. And I know I'm real late on the Pallett train, so whatever.
Also, watching that scene in "Thelma And Louise" where they blow up the 18-wheeler while listening to the new Dirty Projectors song was a moderately bad decision.
Dirty Projectors - Ascending Melody
***UPDATE: AHA, we DO already have a record named "Heartland". OK, like, 7, but whatever. This one:
THIS ONE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. NO ARGUMENTS.
Wacky Pop: Orchestral Edition
Wacky Pop: Orchestral Edition
Oh, hai! It seems the past 2 years, musical personalities in the queer community have split. Or at least in my world. Looking through my iTunes or whatever it is people use these days, one can divide my taste into 2 categories: faggy dance pop or faggy orchestral pop. And by orchestral pop, I mean Sufjan Stevens, not Yanni. As much as I love Yanni...
2009 and now 2010 are gearing up to be the most divisive yet. Do I invest in listening to the new Owen Pallett LP? Or do I give in and smush to Jeppe? The decision is too hard. Though lately, the tastes have run more in the lying in bed and listening to Chris Garneau. As you may recall, I mentioned him in an earlier post which you can find yourself, I'm too lazy. Anywho, dude released a second record which managed to sneak under my lazy ass radar. Whatever. I finally found it. And it's good. You know home girl likes to mood out and ignore phone calls every other day. Now I finally have a soundtrack for it. Let's thank Absolutely Kosher for putting this out cause seriously, I'm getting bored the fuck out by music lately.
Chris Garneau - No More Pirates
I can't like, not be mesmerized by those eyes. And that hat. I'm more jealous of the hat. Mostly cause I can't pull of the lazy nondescript baseball cap. Oh god this is coming out totally wrong.
Owen Pallett - Midnight Directives
Owen Pallett aka Final Fantasy has a new record out as well entitled "Heartland". I feel like we already had a record named "Heartland"***, but whatever. I may just be dreaming of "Harvest". Anyways, it's totally not what I thought it was going to be. Owen definitely went a little spacey on me but I'm not complaining. And I know I'm real late on the Pallett train, so whatever.
Also, watching that scene in "Thelma And Louise" where they blow up the 18-wheeler while listening to the new Dirty Projectors song was a moderately bad decision.
Dirty Projectors - Ascending Melody
***UPDATE: AHA, we DO already have a record named "Heartland". OK, like, 7, but whatever. This one:
THIS ONE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. NO ARGUMENTS.
Wacky Pop: Orchestral Edition
Oh, hai! It seems the past 2 years, musical personalities in the queer community have split. Or at least in my world. Looking through my iTunes or whatever it is people use these days, one can divide my taste into 2 categories: faggy dance pop or faggy orchestral pop. And by orchestral pop, I mean Sufjan Stevens, not Yanni. As much as I love Yanni...
2009 and now 2010 are gearing up to be the most divisive yet. Do I invest in listening to the new Owen Pallett LP? Or do I give in and smush to Jeppe? The decision is too hard. Though lately, the tastes have run more in the lying in bed and listening to Chris Garneau. As you may recall, I mentioned him in an earlier post which you can find yourself, I'm too lazy. Anywho, dude released a second record which managed to sneak under my lazy ass radar. Whatever. I finally found it. And it's good. You know home girl likes to mood out and ignore phone calls every other day. Now I finally have a soundtrack for it. Let's thank Absolutely Kosher for putting this out cause seriously, I'm getting bored the fuck out by music lately.
Chris Garneau - No More Pirates
I can't like, not be mesmerized by those eyes. And that hat. I'm more jealous of the hat. Mostly cause I can't pull of the lazy nondescript baseball cap. Oh god this is coming out totally wrong.
Owen Pallett - Midnight Directives
Owen Pallett aka Final Fantasy has a new record out as well entitled "Heartland". I feel like we already had a record named "Heartland"***, but whatever. I may just be dreaming of "Harvest". Anyways, it's totally not what I thought it was going to be. Owen definitely went a little spacey on me but I'm not complaining. And I know I'm real late on the Pallett train, so whatever.
Also, watching that scene in "Thelma And Louise" where they blow up the 18-wheeler while listening to the new Dirty Projectors song was a moderately bad decision.
Dirty Projectors - Ascending Melody
***UPDATE: AHA, we DO already have a record named "Heartland". OK, like, 7, but whatever. This one:
THIS ONE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. NO ARGUMENTS.
I can't believe I sat through that
The world wide web is being weird today so I had to sit around for 5 minutes trying to remember what we did before Blogger made all the picture HTMLs for us. Oh yeah, I forgot about Photobucket. Anyways...
Sometimes, once in a blue moon, I like to test the limits of my mind by attempting to listen to really long songs. I was really convinced spring of '07 that I had ADD so since then it's always test test test the mind, cause you know, a long song for me is anything past the 2 minute and 30 second mark. I'm trying to resmart myself. And secretly, and I'm telling people cause NOBODY told me if you break down the song in your head into like, 3 counts of 3 minutes, it's totally just listening to 3 songs. In 1. You can do it. BUT NOT WITH TOMMIE SUNSHINE BROOKLYN FIRE DUBS. That's a story I'll tell later.
It helps NOT to listen to narrative story songs about something smart or whatever. I love Nick Cave, but I cannot listen to "O'Malley's Bar" straight through. EVER. Bitch needs a smoke break halfway through. Remixes can be easier to swallow, if it's an interesting remix and if it upstages the original somehow. Those stupid ass like, faux 12" extended mix things never fail to grind my gears. Cause half the time, it's just like, 4 bars repeated for 18 minutes. Homegirl wants more than that, so you gotta find something GOODZ: 70's gay disco anthems, DFA mixes, stealing hip songs back from the hipsters (Haus Of Jealous Lovers), and then if you just want to break all those rules, Of Montreal. Doesn't matter what, cause their albums are all 1 song with 32948242 different parts mashed together and that 1 song has like, a gabillion other parts too.
Also here is my stupid person tip: For whatever cosmic reason there is, all these longs songs seem to get real cute around the 3 minute mark.
My faves:
Goldfrapp - Slide In (DFA Remix)
The Juan MacLean - Happy House
Studio - Out There
Pink Skull - Marangatang
You can download this as well as other songs on their official website
Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Sleater-Kinney - Let's Call It Love
I can't believe I sat through that
The world wide web is being weird today so I had to sit around for 5 minutes trying to remember what we did before Blogger made all the picture HTMLs for us. Oh yeah, I forgot about Photobucket. Anyways...
Sometimes, once in a blue moon, I like to test the limits of my mind by attempting to listen to really long songs. I was really convinced spring of '07 that I had ADD so since then it's always test test test the mind, cause you know, a long song for me is anything past the 2 minute and 30 second mark. I'm trying to resmart myself. And secretly, and I'm telling people cause NOBODY told me if you break down the song in your head into like, 3 counts of 3 minutes, it's totally just listening to 3 songs. In 1. You can do it. BUT NOT WITH TOMMIE SUNSHINE BROOKLYN FIRE DUBS. That's a story I'll tell later.
It helps NOT to listen to narrative story songs about something smart or whatever. I love Nick Cave, but I cannot listen to "O'Malley's Bar" straight through. EVER. Bitch needs a smoke break halfway through. Remixes can be easier to swallow, if it's an interesting remix and if it upstages the original somehow. Those stupid ass like, faux 12" extended mix things never fail to grind my gears. Cause half the time, it's just like, 4 bars repeated for 18 minutes. Homegirl wants more than that, so you gotta find something GOODZ: 70's gay disco anthems, DFA mixes, stealing hip songs back from the hipsters (Haus Of Jealous Lovers), and then if you just want to break all those rules, Of Montreal. Doesn't matter what, cause their albums are all 1 song with 32948242 different parts mashed together and that 1 song has like, a gabillion other parts too.
Also here is my stupid person tip: For whatever cosmic reason there is, all these longs songs seem to get real cute around the 3 minute mark.
My faves:
Goldfrapp - Slide In (DFA Remix)
The Juan MacLean - Happy House
Studio - Out There
Pink Skull - Marangatang
You can download this as well as other songs on their official website
Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Sleater-Kinney - Let's Call It Love
I can't believe I sat through that
The world wide web is being weird today so I had to sit around for 5 minutes trying to remember what we did before Blogger made all the picture HTMLs for us. Oh yeah, I forgot about Photobucket. Anyways...
Sometimes, once in a blue moon, I like to test the limits of my mind by attempting to listen to really long songs. I was really convinced spring of '07 that I had ADD so since then it's always test test test the mind, cause you know, a long song for me is anything past the 2 minute and 30 second mark. I'm trying to resmart myself. And secretly, and I'm telling people cause NOBODY told me if you break down the song in your head into like, 3 counts of 3 minutes, it's totally just listening to 3 songs. In 1. You can do it. BUT NOT WITH TOMMIE SUNSHINE BROOKLYN FIRE DUBS. That's a story I'll tell later.
It helps NOT to listen to narrative story songs about something smart or whatever. I love Nick Cave, but I cannot listen to "O'Malley's Bar" straight through. EVER. Bitch needs a smoke break halfway through. Remixes can be easier to swallow, if it's an interesting remix and if it upstages the original somehow. Those stupid ass like, faux 12" extended mix things never fail to grind my gears. Cause half the time, it's just like, 4 bars repeated for 18 minutes. Homegirl wants more than that, so you gotta find something GOODZ: 70's gay disco anthems, DFA mixes, stealing hip songs back from the hipsters (Haus Of Jealous Lovers), and then if you just want to break all those rules, Of Montreal. Doesn't matter what, cause their albums are all 1 song with 32948242 different parts mashed together and that 1 song has like, a gabillion other parts too.
Also here is my stupid person tip: For whatever cosmic reason there is, all these longs songs seem to get real cute around the 3 minute mark.
My faves:
Goldfrapp - Slide In (DFA Remix)
The Juan MacLean - Happy House
Studio - Out There
Pink Skull - Marangatang
You can download this as well as other songs on their official website
Sylvester - You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Sleater-Kinney - Let's Call It Love