June 30, 2010
Gay: “Robyn Is Amazing!”; Countergay: “No, Bears Are Amazing!”

UPDATED because Countergay was being a little bitch.  Apparently, I “censored” him, because I thought the conversation worked better cutting off after the M.A.S.H. line, and because I took it off in a whole new direction by calling him a “pedophile” for expressing an interest in an actual bear, like from the wilderness, singing Queen songs, apropos of nothing.  But nooooo, he did not like that, replying, “You censored the SHIT out of me and made it look like you proved a point.  You didn’t even post my comment about real bears.  Fuck you.  This blog is over.”  So now it’s all here.  Happy?

Evan: Damn, this song…

Adam:  Damn is right.  I just ate a stack of pancakes THIS thick.  (If you could see me, you’d see that I’m holding my thumb and index finger like three inches apart.)

Evan:  What’s incredible about the new Robyn stuff is that it’s simultaneously really high quality music AND ALSO gay men will dance to it gleefully, and those two things very, very rarely coexist!

Adam:  That’s why I like mustachioed leather daddy gays the best.  You bumpin’ some Queen, count me in, nah mean?

Evan:  It’s good that you have a favorite kind of gay.

Adam:  Doesn’t everybody?  I also think bears are fun.  Regular gays ain’t got shit on bears and leather daddies…well, actually I’m not going to include all leather daddies.  Just the Freddie Mercurys.  Bears and Freddie Mercurys.

Evan:  Okay, well, you work on that, and then when you find the perfect bear, we’ll play M.A.S.H. and we’ll find out if it’s true love, ‘kay?

Adam: If there was just a fat Freddie Mercury out there, I think that’d be the best gay ever. (See? ‘Cause it’s like a bear singing “Another One Bites the Dust.”) But see, now I have a mental image of an ACTUAL bear singing “Another One Bites the Dust” and I like that EVEN better.

Evan: Pedophile.

Adam: It’s not pedophilia if the kid’s already dead.

Evan: I can’t post that. The rest of this, I’m posting.

Adam: Why can’t you post that? It’s like those funny rules: “It’s not cheating if you’re in a different area code.” I’m serious - it wouldn’t be pedophilia. It’d be necrophilia.

Evan: Fair point.

April 29, 2010
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Evan:  Here is some more music, until Adam and I have a conversation about something pressing like boy bands again.  And really, there is nothing like Joni Mitchell.

thingsiatethatilove:

Joni Mitchell, For The Roses

“Oh the power and the glory
Just when you’re getting a taste for worship
They start bringing out the hammers
And the boards
And the nails”

Listening to this song it occurs to me that it used to take a lot longer for artists to get to the point in their careers when “what does it mean to be a famous artist?” would stop being the subtext and start being the central theme of their work.  (The subsequent phase is “jazz, and let’s all worry about global warming and strange diseases” if we’re going on the Joni model).  Nowadays, of course, self-reflexive musings on metafame start cropping up around the time of someone’s second Gawker post.

It also occurs to me that Joni is a hilarious and brilliant lyricist, playing with that tension of “I’m comparing myself to the crucified Jesus, or, come on, that’s ridiculously pompous, I’m making a joke about comparing myself to Jesus (but at the same time I’m actually still doing it.)” It’s about a million light years away from “the way things are going, they’re going to crucify me,” although, well.  Also: “I know I seem ungrateful with my teeth sunk in the hand/that brings me things I really can’t give up just yet.” 

John Kelly does a wonderful version of this song.

April 27, 2010
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Evan:  Please go listen to this right now.  And I’m not a “remix” kind of person, but that’s what you’re getting, because I cannot stop listening to it today.  If you’d like to hear the original, go here.

A piece:

“This is not the sound of a new man or a crispy realization

It’s the sound of the unlocking and the lift away.”

insomnolencies:

Bon Iver - Re: Stacks (Tomas Barfod Remix)

(via petervidani)

More funny later.

April 25, 2010
Short & Sweet, #2 [Amanda fucking Palmer edition]

Evan:  I haven’t listened to this song in far too long.

Adam:  That and “Backstabber” are my two favorite Dresden Dolls songs.

Evan:  I honestly love everything she touches.

Adam:  So…Neil Gaiman’s penis?

Evan:  I said “everything,” right?

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