Comic Books, Drag Race, & Life in New Zealand
by krisis
wow… i turn on friends for the first time in a year or two to find Chandler and Monica engaged, Joey being an idiot, and Rachel and Ross making out. The important things never change… especially Pheobe being a ditz and playing guitar. Don’t you love ditzes who play guitar? I think you probably should…
by krisis
From Furia: “Her songs sound like they were composed in half-decorated bedrooms and at old pianos with sandwiches sitting forgotten by, adaptable to acoustic radio-station appearances with little modification, songs that you could make sheet music for and give to kids or college a cappella groups. Simple, elegant, calm and unassuming, this is music that finds a middle ground between showtune intricacy and folk-song storytelling, between power-pop drive and retro-jazz reserve, between indie roughness and big-production gloss, between three-chord humility and technical detail work. When you say “pop”, this is as pure an explication as you could ask for of one of the things you might mean.”
by krisis
(Almost) All masochism aside, I should be whipped and flogged for every day that i went by not buying Aimee Mann albums. I know now to put blind faith in everything Furia tells me. May Aimee deliver us all from boring and illiterate music. The great thing about most of her songs is that they’re so incredibly simple; not one of them has been a challenge for me to learn to play on guitar or bass. Their simplicity is so very complete that they become marvellous capsules of perfect genius, with no over-important production or performance to discredit. My four-tiered pyramid of musical preference is getting a bit rearranged tonight. More, later.
by krisis
Babe, don’t tell me these things. Maybe i should just stop looking back at highschool saying that i wasted it and start picking up the things i missed, but there’s only so much time after you subtract school and theatre and music and work and webpage. Getting older is hard, no matter what age you’re moving on from. At least you seem to have a story for every month that passed.
by krisis
If i don’t get my Madonna cd back from lending soon, i think I’m With Stupid might totally erase it from my memory. So, yay for more good music! I’ve got to decide what to review for next week’s newspaper; probably Juliana Hatfield’s Beautiful Creature as well as Music.