I made the following video – the Sex in the City trailer with an awesomely weird Japanese band as soundtrack – as a joke for my girlfriend, whose friend broke into her Facebook profile and filled it with Sex in the City references. (She detested the movie.) It syncs up surprisingly well, especially after 0:45 and 2:10, so I am posting it here for general consumption.
The track is “Refusal fossil” by Ruins.
Ddoom-tchak!
So when I was in Chicago last week I made the de rigueur blues club visit, at Lee’s Unleaded Blues.
Ironically it was a soul night, but a good time was had nonetheless.
I was mostly trying to listen, and talk to an interesting musicology student doing her thesis on Lee’s and another club called Rosa’s Lounge, but I did manage to take a few blurry photos, and a lousy “video” clip of the excellent house band, which nonetheless has a certain charm –
(Clearly I need to get some better recording equipment. For audio I’m leaning towards the Zoom H2 or a Roland, don’t know about video.)
Since it was an open mic, the aforementioned student later played some viola with the band(!), and in good time I got up to sing 2/3 of the lyrics to some Marvin Gaye. I wanted to sing Sam Cooke’s “Lost and Looking”, since I actually, you know, know the lyrics to that one, but the band didn’t know it :(
At the end I ask the MC how he tied his crazy tie, which had more knots than one would reasonably expect. He goes, “Oh, it’s a clip-on,” and reaching behind his head, “Do you want it?”
I haven’t posted for awhile, because I’ve been working on a few longer pieces of writing, one of which I’ll post in an hour or so tomorrow eventually. Plus some life-plans developments, which I’ll post later.
For now, my favorite song this past week: Akon’s remix of Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” — a song I was never crazy about in the original — from the recently released 25th anniversary edition of Thriller. Full song here, but this version from a French TV station deserves posting because of the video:
Apparently he’s working on MJ’s upcoming studio album as well…
…is the title of a mix CD I recently made for some friends. It’s not autobiographical — I just had a bunch of heart CDs that I needed to use up, and it was timely. Tracklist:
I’m a firm believer in the rule (which I made up, actually) that mix CDs should be 10 songs or less, but the narrative wouldn’t quite fit in 10 songs. And 14 is appropriate of course.
'If you're a believer ... the most dubious thing becomes possible. Your faith and your aggression should be limitless.' (Josh Axelrad)
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