Ethan’s old CD player broke so we went out and got him a new one along with a new CD. Since then he’s been playing this song on repeat, and switching between whistling the melody and singing along with an appropriately wistful, rock-ballad-esque vibrato:
Next: black fingernail polish, bangin’ moustache, and glittery leotard.
…that Barack Obama showed up last week at Great Skates in stripey knee socks, skating backwards to Bobby Conn.*
Remember to vote in the Indiana primary tomorrow.
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* Incidentally, this might make a great campaign song.
UPDATE: David Schraub thinks he may have a better campaign anthem.
Racialicious has a great post on the inanity of the new VH1 show Miss Rap Supreme, specifically on the pseudo-feminist goals of the show that fall short of actually making a feminist statement. On the episode featured in the post, the female rappers go up with a sixteen against Too Short, to whom I […]
1) Songs Ohia - Blue Chicago Moon
2) Pharcyde - Passin’ Me By
3) Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?
4) Money Mark - Radiate Nothing
5) PJ Harvey - 50 Foot Queenie
6) Lori Collins - Rock Boppin’ Baby
7) Roots Manuva - Evil Rabbit
8) Public Image Ltd - Imagine
9) The […]
Chef happened across this new album by Baby Dee, who is “an American performance artist and singer/songwriter. She is a musician and transgender street legend from Cleveland who has worked with Antony and the Johnsons and many other artists on the New York scene.”
While I’m not a fan of the Antony and the Johnsons type […]
If you are to know me, you must know that as a child I was obsessed with Zamfir. Obsessed with Zamfir. I made my mother buy all his cassette tapes off of the CNN infomercials so I could listen to his MASTERFUL PAN FLUTE.
BECAUSE IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL.
Speaking of which, did […]
Some past and current favorites:
A monologue by Erykah Badu:
The boy is growing up.
His parent-teacher conference, melded with a student-sharing meeting at the school, went really well yesterday. He’s using his daily journal entries for class to expound on personal issues, and more often, daily updates for the teacher on Pablo, Merle, and Doug.
Tomorrow he tests for his yellow belt in Tae Kwon […]
D suggests that we ought to keep the penny around thanks to being able to enjoy this fine tune:
I think it even better that we eradicate the penny — in twenty years the cool college kids can talk about this totally obscure band who wrote this one song, like, a long time ago, and did […]
A belated V-day video for your enjoyment (I haven’t thought of this song in at least a decade):
1) Jens Lekman - REC
2) Cowboy Junkies - Come Calling (His Song)
3) 999 - Homicide
4) 7 Year Bitch - 2nd Hand
5) Danielson - Bloodback on the Half Shell
6) Elliott Smith - How […]
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