Because of traveling obligations, I was unable to participate in Skye Friday!, but here is a strangely juxtaposed picture tag line on the Skye Sweetnam.com message board.
Also, the new video for "Just the Way I Am" which premiered on the Disney Channel a week or two ago. Too much whatever bug thing tie-in footage! Not enough Skye! Not her best by a long shot, but Marshall Mathers WISHES he could have written this song instead of that piece of screamo crap that's long since defenestrated from public consciousness. Remember, you can't spell EMONEM without EMO.
Skye Sweetnam - Just the Way I Am Quicktime video
Preemptive apology to my reading audience for the following...
Now that Emily is gone gone gone (gone), I'm listening to XTC to make myself feel better, and it's working. In fact, it put me in SUCH a great mood that I realized that everyone in the world would be better off right now if they were also listening to XTC. So I am going to post three favorite tracks from English Settlement, and then we can theoretically listen to XTC together! In fact, to better aid your pleasurable listening experience by making your life seem more like my life, which is great, I will even describe my surroundings.
-I'm in my room in my parents' house.
-There is a CD stack next to me with David Banner's Mississippi on top. There's also a promo of the Giant Drag album, which I finally listened to after seeing them in a club. I wasn't feelin' it (I was having an off night, so it makes sense that Giant Drag was, too...did you know that no one has worn an undershirt since like 1997?) but the album is OK.
-I just took a sip of two-day stale Deer Park bottled water at the start of the first chorus of "Senses Working Overtime." It was great!
-I am looking at three vials of Humalog brand insulin. In fact, I think I'd like some insulin right now. Four units. Yes, that hit the spot. Hey, does anyone want to start a diabetic posse and call it D-Unit?
-I am now perusing Sean Frasier's masterful poetry collection "Dingleberry and Other Poems" from 2003. An excerpt:
Dingleberry
Face to face
with a soccer mother
speaking French,
feeling like everything
is a weight on a
hair.
"What's the score?"
She replies with a
smack to my mouth
and a tongue-kiss
that tastes of Capri-Sun
and Scope.
Color me brown
soccer mother
and dingle dangle from me.
Other information that will be helpful in your XTC listening experience:
1) My favorite ABBA album of the moment is The Visitors.
2) I laughed reading this essay on Dan Auerbach's website.
3) In the Realms of the Unreal is the best movie I've seen this year. I'm aware that technically it came out last year.
4) I've been to Prague and here is my proof!
Apologies to Deerhoof's #1 Fan, David O. Russell
I'm also sorry that I did not post those promised Deerhoof live tracks the other day. I will attach them randomly to a future post on this page, which I can guarantee will have nothing to do with Deerhoof. Also, I decided yesterday that The Runners Four is awesome. Now that's what I call critical analysis!
XTC - Senses Working Overtime
XTC - Melt the Guns
XTC - It's Nearly Africa
XTC - Fly on the Wall (Note: Travis Morrison once cited this as one of his favorite songs.)
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