here's a cute little vid of one of my favourite girl crushes, zooey deschanel, dancing with the elfish joseph gordon levitt, to her track with m ward (why do you let me stay here). i quite like the vid, she's super cute.
radiohead's been quite prolific lately, too. aside from that overrated harry patch song that came out last week, i'm quite attached to thom's performance of his new song, the present tense. reminds me of other rh acoustic stuff that came out after ok computer. good acoustic stuff that may have been a little sullied by overproduction. i know, i know, blasphemy. but this song is pure and great. take a listen.
hopefully i'll be updating more here, with news on dissertation-y type stuff.
when i was in high school, i had two favourite bands: radiohead and weezer. one of my favourite songs is say it ain't so... they're just a great band. they came out with some duds after pinkerton (which was incredibly undervalued for what it was when it came out) but they're still a very important band.
they're still clever and i was pleased to see this cover of kids/pokerface from the band. take a look at let me know what you think.
i know what you're all thinking, two posts in a day AND country music ?? score! and you're right, it's a stellar day. my overactive mind is trying to digest all these crazy thoughts uni has stuck in my head. so many news things to contend with! so, to wind down, i've obviously been listening to fem-rock! woo.
miranda lambert is a country singer, which means that i should not know who she is. but i found this song on a paste music sampler last year and it's FRESH, dude. soo soo good. in the tradition of goodbye, earl by the dixie chicks but really truly good musically. check it. respect it. i love her! it's called gunpowder and lead. i can't embed the video, so check it out here.
surely i had to include the song to which i referred above... i prefer the me first and the gimme gimmes version, though.
and since we're doing fem-rock country songs, i would like to give carrie underwood a mention. i love this song.....
admittedly i've gone slightly batty because i've been working like fucking crazy trying to write 12,000 words of brilliance. so far, i've written 4000 words and the only ones of those that are brilliant are ones that i've quoted from scholars gilroy, adorno and kanye west. i am currently learning that kanye west is so much more deep than anyone could ever know. and despite his loveability, snoop dogg is a terrible, awful man.
so i didn't do as much work as i should have, but only because there isn't enough time!
in other news, i've included some fun pics of friends on the side there. first is krystin with her italian roomies, roberto and lorenzo. so cute! cutesters. i spent christmas with krystin and roberto and krystin's neighbours, who are mexican. it was a really nice time. i was so glad to spend it with them. for serious.
the second pic is my friend daphne, who is a classicly awesome person. like the kind of person that restores your faith in humanity. like the kind of person where you're like, i don't think humankind can be innately evil because of my association with this one person. sometimes we go to a pub to play connect four.
the bottom pic features two of my roomies at our christmas dinner, which was a few weeks ago. they are meher and andrea, two lovely awesome people. missing is maria, who cooked our entire meal... i didn't get any pics of her! dammit! anyway, it's been a great month full of holiday cheer.
the last week has been spent in cafes with maria reading and reading and reading for our essays. the toad's mouth, which is the closest cafe to us, is the best! they love us there! i think. it's like our whatever the cafe on friends was called.it's great. thank god, cause i still live in this awful residence. boo to that!
work is going well, just trying to keep it all together. the economy is scary. let's not talk about it!
i can't believe i've already survived a semester here! it's crazy. only 9 months left and it makes me kind of sad. i LOVE school. it's such a nice haven from the unpleasant real world. anywho. more pics can be seen on my facebook page.
happy new year! and congrats to ben gibbard for landing zooey deschanel. she's way hotter. but i think he may be more talented.
i'm writing this essay on black hip hop (like, not eminem, ha) and basically arguing that it's failing at the moment at staying true to its political roots. queen latifah is such a prime example. i wasn't even aware of the drivel that she was releasing lately until right now. oh GOD! it's awful. she used to write such empowering, important music and rap just swallowed her up. well, society swallowed rap up and it forced all the hip hoppers/rappers to submit and conform.
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