Glitter on the Highway

Haven't written anything in a while, yeah, but it's summer for the love of Shiloh-Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, and I've been disgustingly busy being obsessed with the following:

1. The Long Blondes - Weekend Without Makeup - Gorgeous stuff for blasting anywhere you can. It's got these sugary fast dance-y hooks about wants and needs and all those other official sounding things. With all the shuffle-tastic drums and punkish diva vocals, It's like the love child of Sleater-Kinney (who just broke up. fucking strange.) and Bloc Party. Listen : http://misterblog.free.fr/mp3/The%20Long%20Blondes%20--%20Weekend%20Without%20Make%20Up.mp3

2. The Sopranos - This show runs circles around any other TV show. Then it beats them into oblivion using a baseball bat, afterwhich it duct tapes them all snug into a rolled up carpet, finally shooting their sorry ass somewhere in the pine barrens. The music, the Jersey-ness, the pyschological undercurrent, the whacking, whatever, I don't know what it is, but I like it. Man, am I five years too late or what?
3. Be Your Own Pet - Usually, I'm not drawn to any new bands who are usually described as punk. I don't know, I think that game's kinda over. For further proof you can visit your local Hot Topic store, or um, cruise myspace for a few seconds. But this crop of highschool drop outs (I think the bass player is like, 17, or something ridiculous like that) don't give a fuck and rock out like it's 1999. Listen to Bunk Trunk Skunk http://centralvillage.blogs.com/cv/files/02_bunk_trunk_skunk.mp3. There's lots of screeching about being an independant motherfucker and stealing virginity courtesy of Karen-O-licious frontwoman Jemina Pearl. Plus I think Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore thinks they're groovy or something.

4. http://norwayislove.blogspot.com My favorite Norweigan, Kelsey, posts lots of supercool stuff about the Trunchbull, the lakehouse, and snakes on a plane.

5. http://elbo.ws - Since the legal system put an official end to my Limewire pirating days (long story, point is, they sent me a scary letter after I downloaded Thom Yorke's album, so I got rid of Limewire) I've found a new way to quench my thirst for useless shit I must listen to, like the new Peaches album (not a fan... see! good thing I didn't buy it!). Go to this website, type in the song or band you're trying to hunt down and it will give you a list of blogs that are hosting the mp3s you want. Probably not that useful if you're really into George Michael B-sides or whatever, but it's legal. I think.

6. The Lakehouse - Not the movie, dickweeds! ...far far away in the magical land of Pensylvania, there is a place where anyone can buy fireworks from stoned panama-jack types, where the egg drop soup is impossibly shitty, and where the scary yellow house next door occaisionaly is home to 20+ Vietnamese children and the gay minister who adopted them all. (Seriously, could I make that up?) ONLY at THE lakehouse can you watch fireworks in the hot tub and live solely off of twizzlers. For a full account of the lakehouse chronicles, see #4.

7. Snakes on a Plane





http://www.snakesonaplane.com

Snakes on a motherfuckin' plane.