Quote of the Day, via Ina Centaur's plurk

"Each person is as if a jewel on the great cloak of humanity... even if they do not connect with others, they will always shine, in their own brilliant light, to make that great evolving coat of sapiens that much more dazzling." - Douglas Adams. Thanks to a Ina Centaur for plurking this and turning me on to this amazing quote. Totes troof.

Breaking News!

So, all you The Love Language fans, I gots the scoop for yas. Well, maybe. Based on status updates on The Love Language's facebook, they've been hard at work recording their upcoming Merge Records debut. Soz, I also have Stuart McLamb individually on my facebook. His last status message simply says, "done." Most of the comments would make it seem that most people believe he is referring to the album. However, since he has not said anything else since, who can say for sure? Also, nothing new of interest on The Love Language's page. So... done for the day? done for now? Or, DONE?!"

UPDATE 2-22-10: He was "done" with the dishes. What a tease! *Rolls my eyes*

UPDATE 4:08 slt/pst, 2-22-10: from 3 hours ago, The Love Language's facebook wall:

"the album's done. it's all so bitter sweet."

Update, 2-23-10:

The official word from Stuart McLamb, re: status of The Love Language's Merge debut, Libraries, as well as the scoop on some changes in the band, from the official Love Language blog.

The Infamous "Shameless" Laundromat Set from Tues 2-9-10

"Does This Mean Your Moving On?" - The Airborne Toxic Event

"Left Of The Dial" - The Replacements

"All This And More" - Dead Boys

"Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe" - Okkervil River

"California" - Phantom Planet

"Providence" - The Love Language

"Kids In America" - The Muffs

"Serva Ad Manum" - Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies

"Higher Power" - Jens Lekman

"Convinced of the Hex" - The Flaming Lips

"Help I'm Alive (acoustic)" - Metric

"Cavaliers Car Hur" - Bombadil

"Alone Again Or" - Calexico

"Promise" - The Violent Femmes

"Do You Wanna Dance?" - The Ramones

"Baby I Love Your Way" - Irene

"Frank Mills" - The Lemonheads

"28 Butts" - Little Jackie

"Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon" - Urge Overkill

"Strange Vine" - Delta Spirit

"Gravity Rides Everything" - Modest Mouse

"Cigarette Burns Forever" - Adam Green

"Memories" - Slick Rick

"I Wanna Holler (But The Town's Too Small)" - The Detroit Cobras

"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley

"Magic Show" - Electric Owls

"Sideways" - Citizen Cope

"Let It Go" - Asteroid No. 4

"Walk You Home" - The Features

"Hole In My Head" - Box Elders

"Nightmare Hippy Girl" - Beck

"Chick Habit" - April March

"Go On Baby" - Baby Dayliner

"Some Weird Sin" - Iggy Pop

"Slow Dog" - Belly

"Lollipop (Squeak E. Clean and Desert Eagles Remix)" - The Chordettes

Soz a lil later I'll try to post my Laundromat set list from today but for now...

You'll have to be satisfied with these lovely posts from The Laundromat blog concerning the set, and The Violent Femmes, both posts featuring vids as well. Oh, and a semi-nude pic of moi!!!

Shameless

The Violent Femmes - Promise

And, because I'm UBER-nice, an uncensored pic from the set which will be sure to become infamous as the one where I got the title of first dj at The Laundromat to get fully nekkie! Yay me! Pic courtesy of SimonTemplar Bernard, with mucho thanks.

Sunday's Regular Crow Set, 2-7-10

"Just A Ride" - Jem

"Father Figure" - George Michael

"Swimming Pools" - Thao

"Memories" - Slick Rick

"We Used To Be Friends" - The Dandy Warhols

"That Should Stand For Something" - My Teenage Stride

"Tenth-Ave Freeze-Out" - Bruce Springsteen

"Kids In America" - The Muffs

"Runaway" - Del Shannon

"Somebody's Baby" - Jackson Browne

"Dancing Queen" - Abba

"Saturday Night" - Bay City Rollers

"The Way We Get By" - Spoon

"California" - Phantom Planet

"Lover I Don't Have To Love" - Bright Eyes

"Does This Mean You're Moving On?" - The Airborne Toxic Event

"Take Good Care Of My Baby" - Bobby Vee

"Candyland" - Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies

"Brand New Key" - Melanie

"Fox On The Run" - Sweet

"The Exploding Boy [Fitz/F2 Studios Demo 2/85]" - The Cure

"Jessie's Girl" - Rick Springfield

"Hooked On A Feeling" - B. J. Thomas

"I Wanna Holler (But The Town's Too Small)" - The Detroit Cobras

"Glass Onion" - The Beatles

"Living Thing" - Electric Light Orchestra

"You're Nobody 'Till Somebody Loves You" - Dean Martin

"Walk Like A Man" - Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons

"It Ain't Me Babe" - Bob Dylan

"28 Butts" - Little Jackie

"Radio" - Alkaline Trio

"You Only Live Once" - The Strokes

"Strange Vine" - Delta Spirit

"Not Fair" - Lily Allen

"Cigarette Burns Forever" - Adam Green

"Creep" - Radiohead

"Cum On Feel The Noize" - Slade

Regular set, The Crow's Foot, Sun. Jan. 17, '10

1. "Shake a Shot" - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

2. "Green Gloves" - The National

3. "This Time Tomorrow" - The Kinks

4. "Plus Ones" - Okkervil River

5. "Watching the Planets" - The Flaming Lips

6. "If You're Feeling Sinister" - Belle and Sebastian

7. "Young Hearts Spark Fire" - Japanadroids

8. "She's Bored With You" - Reigning Sound

9. "Always Wanting More" - Jay Reatard

10. "Serva Ad Manum" - Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies

11. "Drugs" - Black Kids

12. "I'm With You" - The Ponys

13. "Providence" - The Love Language

14. "Once and Never Again" - The Long Blondes

15. "When They Fight" - Generationals

16. "My Heart" - Smith Westerns

17. "Music is My Girlfriend" - Let's Wrestle

18. "TV" - The Darlings

19. "Hole In My Head" - Box Elders

20. "Get Rid Of That Girl" - The Donnas

21. "Girl In Black" - The Branded

22. "Always the Same" - The Legends

23. "seems to be on my mind" - Suburban Kids With Biblical Names

24. "MLKs" - Strange Boys

25. "Mais Maintenant Il Faut Danser" - Nous Non Plus

26. "Lover, Killer" - The Foxes

27. "Call Me" - Reigning Sound

28. "Go On Baby" - Baby Dayliner

29. "Maroon Bible" - Beulah

30. "The Land of 1000 Bars" - Goodnight Loving

31. "Girl About Town" - Helen Love

32. "Little Things (That Tear Us Apart)" - Irene

33. "Faking It" - Jay Reatard

34. "Sexy In Latin" - Little Man Tate

35. "Well Alright" - Nikki Corvette and the Stingrays

36. "Does This Mean You're Moving On?" - The Airborne Toxic Event

37. "The Golden Age Of Aviation" - The Lucksmiths

38. "Everything With You" - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

39. "That's The Way Boys Are" - Lesley Gore

40. "Letter To Memphis (Live At The BBC)" - The Pixies

My worship Grand Reopening set, 1-17-09

"It Ain't Gonna Save Me" - Jay Reatard

"Honey In The Sun" - Camera Obscura

"Lisztomania" - Phoenix

"Memories" - Slick Rick

"Hey Boy" - The Magic Kids

"Heaven's Stranger" - Eat Skull

"Beg, Steal, or Borrow" - Babyshambles

"Bad Kids" - Black Lips

"If This Is Love" - The Darlings

"Always Wanting More" - Jay Reatard

"Can You Dig It" - Violet Vector and the Lovely Lovelies

"Last Nite" - The Strokes

"What Became of the Likely Lads" - The Libertines

"Lalita (Daytrotter Sessions)" - The Love Language

"Maps" - Rogue Wave

"Where Eagles Dare" - David Pajo

"For Real" - Okkervil River

"Pocket and Wing" - The Fresh & Onlys

MY CLUB OFFICIALLY REOPENS TODAY! YAY!

So, I'm just going to post the flyer, because it pretty much speaks for itself. All the djs are doing one-hour sets, and it's starts at 7pm slt and will end, well, when the last person leaves, according to our closer, Katherine (Katy) Ivory. It should totes be a blast, folks, so if you don't bring your ass out here tonight, I'm seriously going to think you don't believe in fun and good musics. Oh, and by the by, I'll be wearing one of the sluttiest outfits in my inventory and drinking 40s of Miller High Life. If ya can't afford the good stuff, you might as well get shit that goes down like water so you can chug, at least that's my philosophy ;)

SLURL: worship - a music church

On the Tenth Anniversary of Mike's Murder -- Dasher Word Challenge (word = murder), 1-14-09

RIP Michael Crosby

9-20-1979 to 12-31-1999

1-14-10

On the 10th Anniversay of Mike's Murder

one instant

that's all it takes

then

like when a dam breaks

suddenly

everything changes

the water rushes in

and you grasp at the littlest things

just to keep air in your feeble lungs

oh god

i can smell the stench of

a waste sanitation plant

and see its barren terrain

i remember

standing on the exact spot

where you lay

bleeding

breathing

that one last garbled desperate breath

i know they say death is instant

when someone is murdered execution-style

but that "instant" can last forever

can haunt and wound and fester

years later

when we gasp for breath

as sudden tears spring to our eyes

when certain songs come on the radio

and we pull our cars to the side of the road

collapse on the steering wheel

grieving not for our own stupid pain

but for what you could have been

oh, mike

you were a fucking star

you lit me up

whether with joy or the giggles or fury

you never failed to make an impact

and now

ten years later

all i can do

is remember you with love and admiration

and hope that there's something more than this earthly existence

for you, my friend, my brother,

were the best of the best,

you belong in a heaven filled with blunts and busty babes

and beats that get the booty shakin'.

and i see you there,

your demons finally ceasing to exist.

your face lit with that smile no girl could resist.

you're a star, mike,

bright in the inky night sky,

showering us with your undeniable light,

and bullets will never extinquish you.

copyright 2010 Katherine Andrews

Dasher Challenge Poem - Word: Raindrops, 1-11-10

Okay, so here's the deal: one of the writing groups I'm in in Second Life (TM) has this thing called the daily dash. Everyday we get a group IM from the moderator telling us a word for the day and we are supposed to write on it for fifteen minutes. I've never done it until now, so here's my first attempt at "dashing" in SL (TM). Hope you enjoy! <3

1-11-10

Dasher Challenge Poem -- Raindrops

raindrops gently dancing on my skin

in hot fetid humid air

like little beads of reprieve

from this steamy heat

that overwhelms me

flooding my senses

with senstions

and deviations

with no good explanation

oh i love watching the heat rise from the pavement

in waves of wiggly transparencies

and the steam permeates everything

and the intermittent raindrops sing to me

sprinkling down their song upon my skin

causing "some wierd sin"

oh, what trouble will this get me in

i hear the words of b. j. thomas

"raindrops keep falling on my head

and just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed

nothing seems to fit

those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep fallin'"

ah, i don't fit and yet a single raindrop

transforms all that and i'm lifted out of myself

and petty concerns no longer have any consequence

as the "raindrops keep fallin'"

and "i'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin

b/c i'm free

nothing's worrying me"

oh god bless the raindrops

and the heat

and the steam

and days like this

oh, nothing beats this bliss

copyright 2010 Katherine Andrews