Music Memoirs: Top 5 on Friday

Week 230

Top 5 songs that get you through the Valentine's holiday.

 

Vday is one of my least favourite holidays ever.  It's such a sham.  Buy candy for and be nice to someone that the rest of the year you pretty much treat like shit?  What a crock.  

 

So, in light of, here are my top five Vday songs:

1. I Hate Myself for Loving You - Joan Jett
2. I Hate Everything About You - Ugly Kid Joe
3. Violet - Hole
4. I Hope You Die - Bloodhound Gang
5. Kiss My Ass - Jackie Beat 

Love, love, love...

Such an amazing song (and movie).

Lyrics | Glen Hansard - Falling Slowly lyrics from one of my all time favourite movies, Once. Seek if out if you don't know it.  It is absolutely tremendous.

Music Memoirs: Tuesday Tunes

Via Music Memoirs : Tuesday Tunes - Week 120

From one frozen meme mistress to you...let's do something fun.

You fill in songs that start with the first letter of this phrase.

Say it to Me - Glen Hansard
November Spawned a Monster - Morrissey
O Fortuna - Carl Orff
When I Needed You - Erasure

Sweet Emmylou - Joey & Rory
Ugly - Juliana Hatfield
Crazy - Patsy Cline
Kiss, The - The Cure
She Walks on Me - Hole

I have a theme song.

Thank you Superbowl 44!   This is the Poxy Boggards as featured in the Docker's commercial.  In light of the week I had, I thought it fitting (or not so?), all things considered and such.

Relatedly, maybe someone should buy me some of these to avoid the no pants situation - and just because I am cute and have no shame in begging!  Check out all the cool styles.  Who knew???

"Girl, I just shit my pants!"

[Language (obviously) NSFW]

I don't know what it is about us NYC Queens and our obsession with bodily functions...  It's fuckin' funny though.  And HUGE props for the nod to Leigh Bowery in the video.  Love me some Sherry Vine!

Something it would behoove us all to remember more often than we do...

Jay Brannan, "Man in the Mirror"

"And now for something completely different..."

You have a certain Brit of Bewildermint and his post on Snickers to thank for this one!

My gosh - talk about a blast from the past.

This one REALLY takes me back.

Do I Offend?

I've got Followers stumbling away like Courtney Love lookin' for a fix...

Come back!  I'll even dance for ya!

May I admire you again today?

Have you...

...danced today?  You should.

Stop what you are doing.  

Put that down!!!

Chill out.  And listen...

Hear it?  That's your music callin'!

Now get up...

And shake it!  Shake it!

 Shake that fluffy butt!

Your chair says Thank You!

A little pure unadulterated Solstice joy for your Monday!

This is from the ever adorable (and sadly, now defunct) Bearforce One.  Even those of you that are not real hip on diggin' the Christmas music scene will have to smile over this one.  It's just too cute.


And if that didn't get your groove on, try shakin' that thing to this one.  I just love, love, love the fun of it all!!!  How can you not?  (And watch for the whoops at 1:10 - too funny!!!)

Happy Solstice Everyone!!!

I'm gettin' nuthin' for Christmas 'cause I aint been nuthin' but dead.

In keeping with the fucked up rabbity general theme of the last video, I thought I would share with you the David Lynchian version of "The 12 Days of Christmas."  I was/am a die hard Twin Peaks fan.  I never missed an episode.  So to find this just really gave me the moist and squishy.  This is not a retro spoof. Recorded for KROQ, it features the famous characters from  Lynch's Twin Peaks series and movie. Cooper, Lucy, Bob, Bobby, Johnny, and Pete Martell. The song was only commercially available in LA, and popped up on radio stations across the country in 1990 (although I never heard it back then). It was only a song then , but the video (below) has it set to memorable scenes from the land of coffee and donuts.

Lyrics and MP3 download available HERE.





You better hope that is, in fact, Santa coming down your chimney in the middle of the night and not Bob!

How better to celebrate the HO-lidays than with singing hookers?

I know it's a crap song from a crap movie - but it's Dolly - and I love it.

Ho!

Hate Me...

If you're sleeping, are you dreaming?
If your dreaming are you dreaming of me?
I can't believe you actually picked me.

I have to block out thoughts of you so I don’t lose my head
They crawl in like a cockroach leaving babies in my bed
Dropping little reels of tape to remind me that I’m alone
Playing movies in my head that make a porno feel like home
There's a burning in my pride; a nervous bleeding in my brain
An ounce of peace is all I want for you. Will you never call again?
And will you never say that you love me just to put it in my face?
And will you never try to reach me?
It is I that wanted space

Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you

Hate me in ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you

I’m sober now for three whole months it’s one accomplishment that you helped me with
The one thing that always tore us apart is the one thing I won’t touch again
In a sick way I want to thank you for holding my head up late at night
While I was busy waging wars on myself, you were trying to stop the fight
You never doubted my warped opinions on things like suicide and hate
You made me compliment myself when it was way too hard to take
So I’ll drive so fucking far away that I never cross your mind
And do whatever it takes in your heart to leave me behind

Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn’t do for you

Hate me in ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you

And with a sad heart I say bye to you and wave
Kicking shadows on the street for every mistake that I had made
And like a baby boy I never was a man
Until I saw your blue eyes cry and I held your face in my hand
And then I fell down yelling “Make it go away!”
Just make a smile come back and shine just like it used to be
And then she whispered:

“How can you do this to me?”

Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn’t do for you

Hate me in ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what’s good for you

If you're sleeping, are you dreaming?
If you're dreaming are you dreaming of me.
I can't believe you actually picked me.

Creepy Ass Country Songs

[x-posted from Dazed & Contused]

Good ol' Jack Daniels seems to be better than acid.

Don Williams' "You're My Best Friend"

"You're my bread when I'm hungry..."

WTF?!?!? Is this Hannibal Lecter's mother fuckin' theme song???



And one of my favourites: Dolly's "Me & Little Andy."

Just fuckin' bizarro. Dead children... Dead dogs... And that creepy ass voice! Love this one. I used to do it in my drag shows. Use your imagination. It was even weirder than the song itself...



Daze performing "Me & Little Andy."

Michael Stipe

Has his career really come to this???

"Openly gay R.E.M frontman Michael Stipe had some revealing photos uploaded to guyswithiphones.com (a Web site that features shirtless and nude men in photos taken with iPhones) on the 4th of July. In the series of iPhone-shot snaps, he, along with boyfriend actor Thomas Dozol (who looks like he’s the “mystery” guy who snapped the crack of his ass) and some random guy are all seen shirtless in the same bathroom. Stipe is in impressive shape for a 49-year-old. I hope I look that good at that age and get to bang skinny, young hipsters too."

You Don't Know

Do you wake up in the morning and need help to lift your head?
Do you read obituaries and feel jealous of the dead?
It's like living on a cliff side not knowing when you'll dive.
Do you know, do you know what it's like to die alive?

When the world that once had color fades to white and gray and black.
When tomorrow terrifies you, but you'll die if you look back.
You don't know.
I know you don't know.
You say that you're hurting, it sure doesn't show.
You don't know.
You tell me let go.
And you may say so, but I say you don't know.

The sensation that you're screaming, but you never make a sound.
Or the feeling that you're falling, but you never hit the ground.
It just keeps on rushing at you day by day by day by day.
You don't know, you don't know what it's like to live that way.
Like a refugee, a fugitive, forever on the run.
If it gets me it will kill me, but I don't know what I've done.

(from the Tony Award winning musical, Next to Normal)

It's time...

"I've dealt with my ghosts and I've faced all my demons
Finally content with a past I regret
I've found you find strength in your moments of weakness
For once I'm at peace with myself
I've been burdened with blame, trapped in the past for too long
I'm movin' on

I've lived in this place and I know all the faces
Each one is different but they're always the same
They mean me no harm but it's time that I face it
They'll never allow me to change
But I never dreamed home would end up where I don't belong
I'm movin' on

I'm movin' on
At last I can see life has been patiently waiting for me
And I know there's no guarantees, but I'm not alone
There comes a time in everyone's life
When all you can see are the years passing by
And I have made up my mind that those days are gone

I sold what I could and packed what I couldn't
Stopped to fill up on my way out of town
I've loved like I should but lived like I shouldn't
I had to lose everything to find out
Maybe forgiveness will find me somewhere down this road
I'm movin' on"

- Rascal Flatts, I'm Movin' On

Maybe it's time...

"all the world is
all i am
the black of the blackest ocean...

maybe i ain't used to maybes
smashing in a cold room
cutting my hands up...

maybe maybe it's time
to wave goodbye now
time to wave goodbye now

caught a ride with the moon
i know i know you well
well better than i used to
HAZE all clouded up my mind
in the DAZE of the why
it could've never been
so you say and i say
you know you're full of wish
and your "baby baby baby babies"
i tell you they're pieces of me
you've never seen
maybe she's just pieces of me
you've never seen well"

- Tori Amos, Tear in Your Hand

I Am Changing

Look at me, Look at me
I am changing
Trying every way I can
I am changing
I'll be better than I am
I'm trying to find a way to understand
But I need you, I need you
I need a hand
I am changing
Seeing everything so clear
I am changing
I'm gonna start right now, right here
I'm hoping to work it out
And I know that I can
But I need you, I need a hand

All of my life I've been a fool
Who said I can do it all alone?
How many good friends have I already lost?
How many dark nights have I known?
Walking down that wrong road
There was nothing I could find
All those years of darkness
Could make a person blind
But now I can see

I am changing
Trying every way I can
I am changing
I'll be better than I am
But I need a friend
To help me start all over again,Oh
That would be just fine
I know it's gonna work out this time
'Cause this time I am
This time I am
I am changing
I'll get my life together now
I am changing
Yes I know how
I'm gonna start again
I'm gonna leave my past behind
I'll change my life
I'll make a vow and nothings gonna stop me now



'Nuff said...

It's Britney, Bitch!

The song is absolutely horrendous in its glorious, tacky, Britneyness - and that's what I love about it. Only Brit can be this bad and this good at the same time... Or is its being so bad what makes it good? I dunno. Total pop trash. I am just glad to see her back and somewhat sane... Poor kid.

On with the attrocity!