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| 11:23am 22/11/2007 |
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Tori in West Palm Beach singing Gold Dust (my request)=Perfection. Absolute Perfection. Having Laurie there was really great because she really knows what that song is to me. |
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| 05:14pm 21/10/2007 |
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I've been to 6 shows (4 on this tour), met her 4 times (3 on this tour), and I'm still not jaded. I hope this keeps going. And watching her screaming "FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCK" (Or something to that effect) during "Teenage Hustling" in Boston absolutely made my life. That and the fact that I have it in perfect quality on the official bootleg. Here's to D.C.
My Music History I teacher (who, up until now, I thought was a complete bitch) just posted this as an assignment for this week.
Optional:
If you don't know any Radiohead, go listen to OK Computer!
Sometimes good taste is redeeming. This might be one of those times. Or it could be one of those unfortunate times when a person is still an ass, but happens to have good taste. Let's hope it's the former and not the latter. |
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| 10:27pm 17/09/2007 |
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I saw Across the Universe. You should do the same when it comes out in general release.
Can I do a song from that for class now that it's technically a musical? |
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| 10:46pm 15/08/2007 |
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I now have two pianos (one on my right and one on my left) and a guitar in my room...and I have to leave Saturday for NY again.
Almost makes me wanna stay here, 'cause these two keyboards are awesome. They make me happy. |
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| 03:23am 24/07/2007 |
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It upsets me that classes and midterms got in the way...otherwise I probably would've finished it on Sunday morning.
Yes...Finished...and shocked, I must say. |
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| 12:32am 16/06/2007 |
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Happy Birthday OK Computer! Ten years since the release in the UK, and still one of the strongest albums to be released in recent history, IMHO. |
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| 03:15pm 05/06/2007 |
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There's dust rising from the East.
Pulling forward.
A line divides the sky and the Earth so distinctly.
The West Bank is hidden from view here, but she is there.
Hiding.
40 years ago the war that could've changed the world started.
It only lasted six days, but the aftermath could have changed the way the homeland is shared.
"Give them their own. Everyone needs a place."
They didn't listen.
40 years later, we voice a resounding
"Told ya so!"
They still don't listen.
Now there are enemies, fighting for land that will turn out to be the death of everyone.
The "holy" city is dark.
The word holy is the unholiest of words.
Fitting that today, of all days, the Earth would know what to do.
Truely fitting... |
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| 11:39pm 04/06/2007 |
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I stood there today at her edge.
I stood at the place where the marriage was, between the brown and the white, if colors can depict men.
I saw the grey that divided them. The Wall. Our Berlin Wall.
I saw the houses which breed the other side of the story, and I saw, for the first time, with my very eyes, where the destruction takes place.
On one side stood the strictly European. Tall buildings piercing through the horizon.
On the other side I saw the houses working in tandem with the horizon, working with the shape of the hills and making sure not to disrupt the harmony that was created by the image of nature.
We are no different from each other.
When in Rome... |
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| 12:37am 04/06/2007 |
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Laurie:
Pip...Tori, whatever she's calling herself, did Flying Dutchman tonight in Amsterdam.
I laughed a little bit. |
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| 07:05pm 03/06/2007 |
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Cavs are in the NBA finals from the East...not surprised.
Spurs are in the finals from the West...surprised...but not at all dissapointed.
I'm completely lost over here since I get the news at wierd hours. And in all honesty, I'd rather see the Cavs win than the Spurs.
This probably didn't intrest any of you, but no matter. |
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| 01:23pm 02/06/2007 |
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It's hot and dry here. Ok, that's nice considering the weather I endured this past year. On Saturday, they take Shabbat a little too literally and everything is closed. I mean, Israel is dead. No one in the streets, no cars, no restaurants, nothing. I'm surrounded by old people...seriously, all the fucking time.
My grandmother's 80th party is on Thursday...bunches of oldies that I'm supposed to remember from when I was 4. Luckily, there's an open bar, and I'm legal. Things might look up.
I'm really more looking forward to going to Italy. Israel is really a place I need to be in with cohorts, and not with people 4 times my age. If I listen to my one more story about my grandmother's cousin's bitchy wife (whose name, Aliza, btw, means Lesbian in hebrew, I learned) I swear I might have to smack someone with a bottle of Jack...
Oh wait, I can't. THERE'S NO FUCKING WHISKY HERE!
Heh, Aliza...lesbians. :)
Speaking of Lesbians: Tori may have in fact provided the best set lists in a while. Only problem is that she's singing the same songs practically every night. I'm kind of glad she's coming to the US last. This way she'll have added to her rep by then and I won't have to year General Joy, or worse, Hoochie Woman.
I'm still not exactly sure what time zone I'm living in. I think I've ended up biologically in a time zone somewhere around Ghana...what time is it there? How does one spell Ghana? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Oh, but the Marina we went to tonight in Ra'nanna...WOW. It was like I walked back into ritzy shits Florida...only more smoking and ruder people. I was looking out at the sea and it was kind of wierd for me to think of the Ocean as towards the West, and not towards the east. Forgive me West Coast lovers, but the Sun never sets on the ocean for me, it only rises there, as Laurie and I know very well.
Sienfeld is on TV at least 3 times a day...Friends is only on once, and I usually miss it.
Here's to the iPod that will save me. Cheers. |
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| 09:38am 01/06/2007 |
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LAURIE!!!
Tori...in Milan...as Pip...WEARING RUBBER LEGGINGS!
HAWT!
"I'm in Judo, I'm in Judo, I'm in Judo oh oawh." |
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| 09:23am 01/06/2007 |
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I'm in Israel...and I'm tired.
I realized about five minutes after we landed that this is 2 more weeks with my family doing basically nothing. That and my cousins don't get out of school until July 2 (wtf?). And school here is from Sunday-Friday.
Dude. I need to come here with friends so that we can party it up and take advantage of the good cheap alcohol...I mean, spiritual crap.
Birthright anyone?
AIM express isn't working...I'll make it happen.
I'm gonna make the best of this.
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| 02:03am 29/05/2007 |
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I'm angry.
I leave Thursday.
Just a reminder to you. |
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| 02:42pm 22/05/2007 |
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Alexi Murdoch is amazing. He's one of those artists who I wish I would've bought the physical CD instead of buying it off of iTunes, because I'd like to post a song, but I can't, since it's protected.
So, if anyone would like to point me in the direction of getting some of his songs that are not protected, I'd greatly appriciate that. And if you don't feel like doing that, then just look him up, because he's worth it.
I just learned that his music was featured on the OC...or One Tree Hill...I don't know, one of those shows. Anyway, I have to admit that even though I never liked those shows at all, they do feature good music. |
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| 05:19pm 20/05/2007 |
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This post will probably only interest Laurie, but I don't care.
Somebody forgot to remind me that "Father Lucifer" is incredible. I've been skipping that song on everything it's on for the past year, and suddenly it turned up on my CD player, and after hearing those gloriously bouncy chords for the first time in ages, I've come to the realization that I should hit myself repeatedly for ever ever skipping it.
In other lesbian news, I had the song "Both Sides Now" on repeat in its 2000 "Joni MItchell-tribute to myself" version last night. If I wasn't sure of it before, I know it now: this song will most certainly end up on the set list of my senior recital, and Dianna Heldmann (the woman who clears your setlist and recital shit at school) can suck a va-jay-jay if she tells me I'm not allowed to do it because it's not Gershwin, or Porter, or Richard Rogers.
Which leads me to this: I don't think I like Richard Rogers very much. I respect that art form and he wrote great songs, but I don't think I enjoy them as much as my peers do, or as much as I enjoy the work of Gershwin (which I LOVE), for instance. Even Irving Berlin makes me happier. I fear that this circumstance may have come from hearing "Mr. Snow" 948596749094059769474892018576 times this past year during program meetings. That unfortunate, but, sorry Mr. Rogers, that's the way your stale cookie crumbles.
Somebody teach me how to spell stale...if that way is, in fact, incorrect.
"Cornflake Girl" just came on...I think I forgot how great this song is too. I need to stop listening to those fucking Bee Sides. |
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| 12:04pm 15/05/2007 |
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Tori's coming to Israel...a month after I'm there.
I'm going to see her anyway, so it doesn't really matter, but wouldn't it be so cool to see her in ISRAEL? |
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| 11:20pm 10/05/2007 |
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I was just watching CBN news (the Christian news) and they had Pastor Franklin Graham on the show speaking about Jesus and shit....
The way he talks about religion....the ONLY difference between him and a Muslim extremist is the bomb strapped to the body. |
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| 09:30am 06/05/2007 |
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8.
And time rolls by beside us in a mini van, carrying in the back all of our worldy mistakes and triumphs. Unbalance. That's the word.
Leaving to go to familiar swamps...back to the tropics.
It was the world I imagined, and the world that embraced me.
Months.
The return is not long from now, but the prospect that behind me is childhood, and in front of me is adulthood...it frightens and confuses me.
I just arrived.
Settling in took too long.
Past complaints are over now.
It's a celebration of survival.
I can Never leaves these Events behind me.
The World will continue to be my playground and oyster.
We are shaped by Yesterday; I am shaped to become what I am now Overall.
Let's Rock out in our craziest mohawks and our toughest leather.
Let's embrace both past and present and future to create a Kollected new world.
Happy keep life going wonderfully day!
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| 12:04am 05/05/2007 |
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I've never made a list of favorite albums...so I think I'll do that now. I am entitled to change my mind as I grow and evolve...and that means as soon as tomorrow. If you're interested, keep reading. If not, then carry on. I invite you to post your fave albums, since I'd like to open my musical horizens. I'm never done learning. Ever.
10, O-Damien Rice: Probably one of the best new artists I've heard in a long time. Simple folk songs that harken back to an easier time a la Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell
9. ZoSo (IV)-Led Zeppelin: Obviously....
8. Pink Moon-Nick Drake: I just downloaded this one today, and I haven't been this moved by an album since I heard Blue for the first time about two years ago. It (very quickly) clawed it's acoustic guitar yeilding sonic orgasm into my top ten.
7. Abbey Road-The Beatles: The simplicity of it is what ranks it above The White Album for me. Since I wanted to keep it to one album per artist on this list, Abbey Road won out.
6. Vespertine-Bjork: Most Bjork fans say Homogenic is her magnum opus, but I respectfully disagree. Here is Bjork making the most complex and, at the same time, orchestral music she has ever written.
5. ()-Sigur Ros: A hard album to understand, but, much like Vespertine, it never ceases to amaze and baffle me. Sometimes I find myself asking "is this even music???" Of course it is; it is music in it's "highest" form.
4. From The Choirgirl Hotel-Tori Amos: The resident Tori Amos record on the list. Tori had two miscarriages before making this record...and then it ended up being her best record. I guess pain, as unfortunate as it is, really does have the power to create. I'd never wish that pain upon Tori again, or anyone for that matter, but she has arguably never made a better record. Even though I love me some American Doll Posse and Boys For Pele.
3. Blue-Joni Mitchell: I'd explain...but you probably already know. And if you don't, go listen for yourself.
2. Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd: "Pink Floyd not at number 1???" you ask. While I love the body of work, and this album certainly would be number 1 on certain days, I've found that, as with most of their work, I have to be in the right state of mind to really listen to a full album without stopping and really, really get it sonically. However, once this record gets started, I feel bad if I ever need to stop it in the middle.
1. Hail To The Theif-Radiohead: Musical Genius and the closest thing our generation has to PInk Floyd...even rivaling Pink Floyd many times, as examplified here since they beat out Wish You Were Here for the number one spot on my list...the borderline PInk Floyd freak. |
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