20 posts tagged “music”

John Edwards was just on Morning Joe.  *sigh*  We really missed out not having him as our president.  But, he's been working with organizations that do various things related to the issues of poverty since dropping out.  I admire him greatly.  He didn't say who he's endorsing but did say basically who he just voted for will be who he endorses and implied that he and Elizabeth voted for different candidates.  I'm betting he's endorsing Obama if he endorses at all.  He also pretty much said whoever wins better be tacking issues related to poverty and he doesn't care if he's in a political office or not he'll be fighting to be sure those issues are getting attention, and I believe him.

Hillary needs to shut the.... up...

 "Senator Obama's support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."

"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.

Yeah there's a pattern emerging that you're now sounding racist.

In non political news:

A creative commons music site: http://www.jamendo.com/

When I made a video for Misi (you can see it on  my site) I decided not to add audio this time.   The last artlog thing I made I used a foreign song clip and it wasn't very long so I figured no one would care.  I suppose I could speak on them.  I hate silence.  I'd prefer music to speaking if / when I do more.  There must be a site of I dunno unsigned artists maybe who let you take their mp3s and repost them online or use in videos like that so long as you don't alter and use a link to them?   Anyone know of a site like that ?  Thing is I would want a few kinds of music to choose from.  Rock, pop, etc.  Not just a site with a few bands that all sound the same.

My teeth & swollen face:
First they asked if my mouth hurt, I said no, they asked me to open wide so I did and they were satisfied as all they found as what we already knew -- I have a filling on that side we have scheduled (dental work is flipping expensive, can't do it all at once - a filling costs only 1/2 of what a cap does... wtf?  little drop of white stuff basically melted onto your tooth should cost a lot less than basically a full tooth cover), but then asked me what happened to my face.  I looked at them funny and said I had some sinus problems lately, but they're pretty normal for me.  They basically said ahh that would explain it then and explained they were worried as my cheek area looked swollen so they thought it could be tooth probs but they didn't see anything.  I hadn't even realized it had my cheek swollen, just knew I felt sinus pressure and headache.  There is about 50% less pressure feeling when I touch my cheek today vs yesterday so I think it's fading fast.

I got my perm cap, hopefully it really is perm (well you know, doesn't break or fall apart in some disaster real fast like the first temp anyway) Supposedly these caps are designed to hold up and can take a beating for awhile, we'll see. I did also get a mouth guard for when I sleep, I only have little thread snipping scissors, so need to get scissors tomorrow before I can fit it right.  I can't kill a perm cap with one night of teeth grinding without a guard, I hope.

Gas Prices:
$4 a gallon predicted eh?  It's here.  Well... sort of.  $3.99 9/10 a gallon in the heart of Santa Monica.  Keep in mind I'm certain it's not that high in our part of LA (even though I live so close to Santa Monica it's airport is two lights from my house).  But the heart of downtown Santa Monica is a different story.  It's lots of shopping.  It's tourists.  It's near the beach.  I hear sometimes it's celebs.  It's street performers.  It's traffic so bad you could run out of gas trying to get through town.  So they can get away with charging you $4 $3.99 9/10 before everyone else because there's not a lot of gas stations and probably lots of demand.  And really why the 9/10th of a cent.  Just as bad as everything costing something.99 and worse than that houses.  We drive by these new condos a lot.  The banner says $699,999 and $799,999... why?  Why not 700k and 800k?  Who do they think they're fooling?  Add the price of say a soda and it's a 700k or 800k house.  Do you think I'm dumb enough to be like ohh a condo in the 600k range because you dropped $1 off?

4 Minutes:
We've only got 4 minutes to save the world... That line, only that line from that Madonna song is stuck in my head.  Probably because it's on some commercial, dunno what for, never seen it just hear it on tv and never look up.   But it makes me ask dumb questions like how do you know you have 4 minutes to do it?  Even the heroes in comic books take a good 3-4 issues to save the world.   TV shows give the heroes a good half hour or hour.  Movies give them 2 hours!  Why do you only get 4 minutes?  Are you really going to get a 4 minute warning?  And if so why are you singing about it for around 4 minutes, guess you didn't care about saving the world then if you had 4 minutes and used that time to sing about it eh?  Ahh so many questions!

This is the latest I've been up in awhile, sleepy... Nervous after that first time I slept with temp cap on though, heh.  I know perm cap should work out better just... that first experience with temp cap made me nervous.

  I've been listening to the Sweeney Todd Soundtrack , because I have gotten some of it stuck in my head (namely "A Little Priest").  And I must say, Alan Rickman, while very very very cool as an actor is not quite as cool as a singer.  

I LOVE the lyrics for Modern World... You can hear it at Anouk on Myspace.

Not sure the lyrics are perfect, but they're as close as I can get from splicing together the few I can find online (I'm too lazy to type them myself).

Modern World By Anouk

Crazy way to get your kicks
Shoot the silicone in your lips
If your figure makes you sad
Suck the fat right off your back
Make up your mind about your tits, girls
You can puff them up so no bra will fit girls

There’s only one thing they can’t fix
No I won’t let you be misled
That’s the hole in your head
Can't do nothing ‘bout that

Hail hail modern world
Hail to all you boys and girls
Hail hail the colour green
Hail hail to what I’ve seen
Hail hail hail this modern world

Tell her that she’s beautiful
Put her on a Pedestal
But as you look at triple x
Imagination kicks in
The more you think about sex boys
With someone else the better it gets boys
You have a purpose in your life
Besides cheating on the wife
For fuck sakes show some sense

Hail hail modern world
Hail to all you boys and girls
Hail hail the colour green
Hail hail to what I’ve seen
Hail hail hail this modern world

Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

These days adoption is a hot thing
You can get a child for nearly nothing
You take ‘em home to a nanny
Buy off your guilt with toys and candy
But all the money that you work for girls
Can’t compare it to love boys

There’s only one thing they can't fix
No I won’t let you be misled
And that’s the hole in you head
Can't do nothing 'bout that

Hail hail modern world
Hail to all you boys and girls
Hail hail the color green
Hail hail to what I’ve seen
Hail hail hail this modern world

Movies:
I saw Evan Almighty tonight.  Good, not great.  Bruce was better.  I'm a Steve Carell fan and expect him to have a funny role.  His role, not so funny.  In fact I'd say Wanda Sykes was the actual star of the movie.

Then when we came home from the theater we watched Snakes on a Plane on PPV.  Erm.  I don't get it.  Why was it so hyped?  It's not so bad it's good.  Just... bad. 

Next for us = Transformers and Harry Potter.

Song:
About 6 months ago I heard a song in the car that I had to find.  Sadly by the time we had spent a full day out  I'd forgotten any lyrics well enough to do a google search.  Nothing I'd heard it could have even given me a clue to it's title.  And now I know why.  It came on again finally.   This time I wrote down a line and found the name of it!  88 lines about 44 women (the last line in the song, which I heard neither time).  Yeah, I'd not have guessed that.   Enjoy one of my new favoriet old songs!   How did I miss such an awesome 80s song until now? Bad me!

Bad = Sleepy and crampy, sleeping isn't gonna be fun when dead tired but having *ahem* girlie pains.

Good = Mijn Favoriet hooking me up with music for the first time in ages.

Neutral = Tried to draw a guy in the style of my typical mouse drawn girls and am... neutral.  I kind of like him but one eye and one eyebrow = too messed up.  Ohh well, first guy I tried to make myself (cheated on the Keegan and Mijn Favoriet ones).  Anyway... I named him Spike for obvious reasons.  Maybe tomorrow I will try to fix his eyes... or I'll just leave him very imperfect.  Undecided.

*EDIT* Changed him slightly since 1st posting, still not perfect but deleted the old version and replaced it with new one in this post.  Odds are if you saw him before you won't even notice he changed.