Bad Romance? November 11, 2009

I usually try to avoid pop culture — especially pop music as much as possible. I LOVE knowing when new movies are coming out and I’ve spent countless Friday nights just watching all the available trailers on Apple.com, but that’s about it. Tonight, someone on my favorite LJ community posted the new Lady Gaga music video. I’ve missed out on most of the Gaga giddiness but for some reason I can’t stop watching this video (most of those 55,000+ views must be mine!).

A few observations:

1. They must have done something to her eyes when she’s in her peach-colored hair incarnation; they’re freakishly huge and it is tripping me out.

2. The white-vinyl-cloaked dancers crawling out of the coffins (spacecraft? rice cookers?) remind me of the bowling alley scenes in Suicide Club. Eeeehhhh.

3. WAS THAT SEAN BEAN?

4. Bondage shoes with gold sequins.

5. I kind of love Lady Gaga now, because I get the distinct feeling that she does not give a sweet shit and is just having fun.

May 13, 2009

I don’t know what is it about this song/video, but I’m dropping tears into tissues as I write.

Music In 2008. January 14, 2009

My Top Ten Albums of 2008
(in no particular order)

1. M83 // Saturday = Youth
2. Cloud Cult // Feel Good Ghosts
3. Beach House // Devotion
4. Santogold // S/T
5. Grouper // Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
6. Crystal Stilts // Alight Of Night
7. Marnie Stern // This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
8. These Arms Are Snakes // Tail Swallower And Dove
9. Xiu Xiu // Women As Lovers
10. Foals // Antidotes

Honorable Mentions:
Fleet Foxes // S/T
Of Montreal // Skeletal Lamping
The Black Keys // Attack & Release
Deerhunter // Microcastles
Okkervil River // The Stand-Ins

I think 2008 was a great year for music! I discovered some new artists (Crystal Stilts, Marnie Stern), and some of my old favorites released impressive new albums (These Arms Are Snakes, Cloud Cult).

I started listening to a great deal more noise, thanks to my boyfriend, who’s not only obsessed with the genre, but is a performer himself. I have to thank him for introducing me to Merzbow, Masonna, Yellow Swans, and for everything else that’s made my vision blur as I listened to it

Apparently Britney Spears made a comeback, but I think I was taking a nap.

Here’s a non-knitting goal for this year: see more shows! I hope that These Arms Are Snakes, Rogue Wave, and Land of Talk have tour stops here in Western Mass, but I’ll be happy just to go. I used to see tons of shows in the early days of my undergrad career, but that’s tapered off in the past few years. Hopefully, I’ll be able to change that soon.

Sherwood out!