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When life is shit, revert to music. (Copyrighted by me.) Or at least that's what I'm doing for the moment, holding a "party in my head" with sex boots crying over the majesty of Florence and the Machine's latest video. <3 <3
Can we also have a moment of silence because today my beloved soap opera of ten years, One Life to Live, has taken its final bow in daytime TV and will stop airing in January, a true trail-blazing daytime show for all civil rights before prime time ever touched these issues of GLBT issues, race, sexism, gang-violence, bullying, prostitution, AIDS among other hard-hitting topics. If it wasn't for OLTL, prime time would have never followed suit.
Lissy Trullie - Stop My Beating Heart - Is Back!
After two years of falling into what's otherwise obscurity that only an artist can do when their greatest hit is a cover (Hot Chips's "Ready for the Floor"), the ex-Moses de la Renta model is back making sweat tunes and to be truthful, it sounds her best vs. 2009's release of "Self Taught Learner" where she showed off her gifts of fashion-inspired candy colored rock. With 2012's John Hill (Santigold, M.I.A.) and Dave Stiek produced self entitled album, Lissy still keeps that candy color but uses shades of icy blue, or at least that's what I took from Nylon's free download of Trullie's "Madeline." Have I mentioned she's hot?
Prepare Ye the Way for... Godspell!!!!
It has been forty years since John-Michael Tebelak premiered his master's thesis as a Broadway show at Cafe la Mama, freshly polished by help of Stephen Schwartz with lyrics with a myriad of liberal arts students as their real names, acting out Jesus's parables. Who knew something so simple could even attract non-Christians? Forty years later, a movie, and a small handful of revivals, Godspell is back; headed by Hunter Parrish of Weeds fame playing the otherwise curly afroed Jesus. Other cast members include Wallace Smith and a well-grouped ensemble of devoted disciples. I am a little unsure about the director Daniel Goldstein's words about the accompaniment though. The show started November 7th at the Circle in the Square for an open run. Let's hope it's here to stay.
September in November
You know that point when you're sitting on the bus or walking around your downtown with your earphones on and thinking you're totally awesome and there's club dancing going on in your head. Yeah well that's my constant state in life. But that's beside the point, because the Swedish Songstress September feels our pain. Hailed as Sweden's best song of 2011, "Party in My Head" has been a fixture on the iTunes chart for about six months now! "Party in My Head" will may or may not be the first single off of September's album ("Me and My Microphone") coming out December 4th on UK iTunes. Sucks to be an American.
The Return of Reitman and Cody in "Young Adult"
The dynamic duo that made Juno legend -- or maybe it was just Brooke Busey-Maurio aka. Diablo Cody in my world 'cos she is my world -- is back to make another storyline legend full of quips and all-around horrible you shouldn't like but you do. Cody achieves this once more through Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron) as she comes back to her hometown in Minnesota with one goal in mind: to get her high school boyfriend (Patrick Wilson) back, although he's already married with two kids. There is always a triangle in this movie and Theron often acts with Cody's entourage actor Patton Oswalt (United States of Tara) as Matt Freehauf -- as predictable as this storyline sounds, I know how director Jason Reitman and Cody work and the result can be epic for some and downright stupid for others. I love a woman that is acquired taste.
Boooooooots
They don't have a brand or a name, but these thigh high boots have my everlasting adoration. Why? Because it's a shoe; with my genetic feet problem just finding something as simple as slippers deems difficult. And to find thigh highs that must only be worn with jeans (calf fat, let's not lie here) especially with my body type. This body type has to find boots with design on the sides that extend, like the zippers that are on these.
After careful deliberation with Molly, the lady at Ragstock where I bought these lovely sexy boots (FOUR DOLLARS BITCHES!) we agreed that these boots aren't meant for all outfits. Case in point worn with this super cute dress I bought at Ragstock two days ago, with jeans. And that outfit was just worn partying with a friend and her cat, aptly nicknamed Meeeeester Puuuuuuuss (I do not make these things up).
Madison: Singular Named Woman with a Singular Minded Vision
“I love something really raw and dirty, something that you can get after listening just once, and that doesn’t mean that it’s not intelligent…” DIY future pop-star Madison tells The Ground Mag late last month, in essence she was describing her own music. From "Hot Hot Love" being on both TV show bumpers (Rookie Blues, Ugly Betty) and commercials, Madison is showing the planet that pop is universal, you don't need a studio paying 20 dollars every hour to consider yourself a pop star. “That’s a model that’s shifting in the entire music industry…You’re not selling records, you don’t really want to give away your rights, the humungous record deals are few and far between, so you’ve got to do it yourself, you’ve got to be a business person and an artist.” Thus far, Madison has been rather successful, self-produced "The Remixes Some People Made" having been out for two months making head wave on music blogs everywhere. Woman is taking over the world -- now everyone just has to suffer along with me waiting for an album and a music video so we can get a face to the very vague name.
Florence Continues to Have my Adoration
Luckily no one saw me this morning watching the latest video from Florence + the Machine (which the couterpart band almost seems redundant at this point...) for in between tears of getting the symbolic video of the NYC chapel, the boy's choir and falling into grace... my face was sincerely blown. And now I pass the effect onto you.
More Impending Christmas Music Downloads
This *is* the season for alt-rock/pop Christmas music to start budding, considering these bands are too cool to put out their music directly two days before or after American Thanksgiving like Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra or Nat King Cole. Besides, in the age where the classics are still wonderful classics but we are still yearning for some creativity, She and Him is still bringing the hipster Christmas fire with already released "A Very She and Him Christmas" which stereogum has already leaked downloadable "A Christmas Waltz" and just this past week "Christmas Day" in all its twee glory.
Now here's the real happy that caused me extreme happy dances around my living room - remember when Emmy the Great dueted with Lightspeed Champion for the Christmas song "Christmas in Prison?" Well... maybe not, but for me upon learning through Emma Moss's twitter that she is collaborating with ex-band member of the Irish group, Vietnam and Ash, Tim Wheeler all things Christmas (complete with an article from The Guardian), my brain was shot, blown off, then put back into my head to only explode in fireworks of joy. Wheeler and Moss's "This is Christmas" will be released November 21st. This is an album worth buying and not downloading! But here is a peep into how the album will sound with their original "Home for the Holidays" This is everlasting joy in excelsis deo, dammit!
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