I dunno why, but I don’t feel a rant coming on. I feel sort of benevolent. So I’m going to continue to remind you of great music you probably already know of, but might have forgotten to check out.
One of them is Billy Howerdel’s project Ashes Divide. Now, for you who don’t immediately go “Oh, the bald guy who used to play guitar in A Perfect Circle!” I can say that Billy Howerdel is the bald guy who used to play guitar in A Perfect Circle. If now you go: “A Perfect Circle?” I don’t really think we have anything more to talk about. Go back to listening to In Flames or whatevs and just STFU. Returning to the rest of you, I’d like to underline that Billy did so much more in APC than just being bald. Just listen to The Stone over on MySpace and you can hear just how much of APC’s sound was really Billy.
The album was supposedly out on April 8th, but I view that as an academic question as I just assume it will be impossible to buy here unless you order it from Amazon and wait for two weeks.
Besides Billy, ex-APC drummer Josh Freese has supposedly contributed (but then, what record hasn’t Josh Freese played on? Does the man sleep? Does he eat? Could you in fact avoid global warming by running the US of A solely on Freese power?) to the album as has young master Devo, the 11-year-old-son of Maynard James Keenan (and if you ask who that is I’ll smack you – hard) on CELLO no less. That reminds me of a friend of mine who used to play cello. He said it was the crappiest instrument ever because after 5 years it still sounded like shit and he wished his parents had made him take up guitar instead as that would clearly have gotten him more girls.
Never mind that though – just remember to check out Ashes Divide. It might be your thing.
So, one of the fabest bands I know – the British-Bulgarian wonder-quartet Ladytron – is soon releasing a new album called Velocifero. I saw them a bunch of times last year when the opened for Nine Inch Nails, and then once at Debaser i Stockholm, which was a great show.
Unfortunately, they’ve decided to skip Scandinavia altogether on their upcoming tour (again, we live in the bum-end of the world, sulk, sulk), but just to cheer you up I thought that I’d let you know that you can download the new song Black Cat for free on their website. Do it and remember to buy the album when it’s released. It’ll most likely be awesome.
If I could tear myself from my exiting home-improvement project (and if i thought that I could get tickets at the last moment).. I surely would go out tomorrow to check this band out:
Black Lips
It´s hard to resist a boy-band with a pretty peculiar reputation of vomiting, running around naked, urinate and use their private parts as a plectrum…. and of course… they sound pretty cool to…
So… if you are in Stockholm tomorrow.. get your ass to Debaser Slussen and get in line!
I know I sometimes get annoyed with the emo-kids, but Jesus, I never wanted to beat them up (OK, maybe slap them around a bit, but that’s all, I swear). But in Mexico, people seem to really hate them. And not for a good reason, like their crap taste in music, but for being ‘homosexuals’ who give visitors a ‘bad image’ of Mexico. ‘Cause you know what would give visitors a much better image of Mexico? That’s right, some good ol’ rioting and lynching! That’s what makes you want to go back to a country. It’s almost as good as full blown civil war for making you feel right at home.
Humanity. We’re Nature’s worst mistake, no doubt about it.
Lacking the energy to write long blog posts, I am merely going to, briefly, relate to you the shock and subsequent mirth I experienced upon reading that two of my pet peeves – Chris Cornell, formerly of Audioslave, and Timbaland, master of peculiar facial expressions when “dancing” – have joined forces. Apparently Timbaland said: “This will be everybody’s favorite album of the year.”
You know what, Tim? I doubt that. I sincerely doubt that.
Unless of course you cut out Chris and get someone else to produce it. Then I might like it.
I always suspected that Sweden is located in the butt end of the world. We don’t see daylight for months at a time, it’s cold and we’re all expected to enjoy watching hockey.* Clearly, it’s not Paradise. But never before did I feel the whole “Bumfuck, Nowhere”-thing as keenly as when I saw the list over most downloaded music right now. It’s freaky. Like, Linda Bengtzing. Who would actually listen to that? I mean THIS shit:
Meanwhile, you cannot buy the Duke Spirit’s Neptune anywhere in Sweden, not even online. And forget iTunes because Swedish iTunes doesn’t have it either and since you’re cursed with living in this country you can’t buy it from iTunes anywhere else (or for that matter, form any of the international online music shops). Because, duh, if you have Linda Bengtzing, why would you wanna listen to THIS shit:
I’m telling you, we must all have committed horrible sins in past lives for God to put us in this land of shit** and snow.
/agneta
*Sports where people wear covering clothes quite obviously have no point
** Yes, that’s the third ’shit’ in a very short post. Freud might be able to explain it. I can’t.
This is not the news that will cause a minor heart-attack or sounds of joy by Agneta or Greta, but I am hoovering between ecstatic hope and anxiety… Is this really something that will please me to the extent that I cant resist to do the bunny in all secrecy? Or am I forced to fight against the rest of the VSM-crew to prove that my favourite band have a raison d’être?
For my part, I loved the two first albums; Too fast for love and Shout of the devil (even if I think that this title is a bit embarrassing now that I’m not 13 anymore). The sweet song Smokin in the boys room made me to leave Mötley in the closet for a while… Now that I returned as a fan-girl…. and my hopes are up! And if Nikki said that he´s fucking loving this, then I got to have faith…. although I’m still a bit cranky…
… and there is talk about a world tour? Ill sure hope that Sweden counts as a part of their world….
1) I promise I will think that it is okay for Tommy to sprinkle Jägermeister (that he so kindly had in his warm mouth) over the audience….
2) I promise not to whine over Vince´s voice and his love for Burritos that maybe have gone to far…. You can watch his burritos
MTV Cribs | Vince Neil“>here by the way..
maybe 2008 wont be such a shitty year at all….
But I have a question though…. what happened with the “fact” that Tommy was leaving the band because it wasn’t fun anymore? Maybe it was just a bad dream, maybe I was drunk?
BTW, in our beautiful, nice and free-spirited country… we had a great discussion in the media 2002 about a good name for the female genitalia. The word vagina was regarded as to clinical, and the Swedish word for pussy (that is like the same word for cunt I think, we do lack some words in our language) as to rough and crude. The Swedish people needed a word that was nice and cute, a word that the children could use when they wanted do discuss this important matter. Finally, we had a winner.
And we named the female genitalia SNIPPA.
Have to announce a warning though… it is not meant to be used by, for example, rock-stars on tour in Sweden who wants to talk about this item in our native tounge to impress…..
A few days ago, Inga asked why ‘pussy’ is often used in a degrading way when it’s such a popular item. That question reminded me of a story a male friend told me. When he was 13 he once hurled out another word for the female genitalia in front of his soccer coach (you know, the ‘c’-word?), who got really angry and shouted at him: “What did you just say?” When my friend shame-facedly admitted what he’d said, the coach went on: “Don’t you ever use a beautiful word like that like it’s something bad!”
But Inga’s question is actually very good. Why does it signify being weak, scared, cowardly etc? It might indeed be construed as being connected to “scaredy cat”(a sort of nice way of looking at it) but I haven’t found that explanation anywhere. According to Wikipedia it comes from an obsolete word, “pursy” that means being weak, but mostplaces seem to connect it with the word “pussy” meaning “female” and also “effeminate boy”. Because femininity is connected with weakness and passiveness – things you want to define yourself from. When guys launch gay jokes on each other, why is it much worse to imply someone being penetrated than the other way around? Because, duh, it’s been that way since the Greeks made the distinction between erastes and eromenes.* It’s OK as long as you don’t behave like a girl, you pussy.
Fuck that.
I know of a girl who tried to launch using “pussy” in a more positive way, akin to “having balls”. Alas, it never caught on and it most likely never will. Still, it does bug me that being a “tomboy” is OK, but what parent fondly refers to her son as a “tomgirl” (or would that be a “sissy”? See my point?)?
Pussy pride, girls. We need it.
/agneta
*I am aware that some people think it’s all Dover’s invention, but never mind. If so, we believe it because it fits into our world view so point proven just the same.
