Guns and Horsies should be a country song

I had an interesting weekend, I cooked for my church camp and all went well and my desserts were a big hit, but it was cooking for a rental group of around 200 people and so now I am exhausted. Etc.

Came home and slept today because I had nausea type migraine where I couldn't bring myself to do anything. Overtired, I guess. Catching up on some web stuff just now, I found  a former coworker of mine had posted a remix of this song as being his favorite song, given that it has stayed on his playlist for over 3 years (that mix can be found here, and I think I like it better than the one below). Based on that kind of recommendation, I figured I should look for the original song and YT'ed it, and found this. I like her voice pretty well, but this video kind of leaves me cold - the zombie soldier dancers, her little stuttering dancesteps, the hand motions... I don't know. It feels like it should be more interesting than it ends up.



"Guns and Horses"  - Ellie Goulding




Anyone found anything (good/bad/ugly) from a friend's posts/pages lately? Do share.

When things go wrong, I sing along

No real vids today.

For some reason, these songs kinda remind me of each other. No one beats the Magnetic Fields for the music of  the broken, breaking, heart; nor for pure joyful love longs. But the Fields song has some of the same feel to it, to me, of the importance of the song... the earnestness, magic and mystery... (even though they say you don't need this song)... I don't know. I am not always a coherent speaker. I just like these songs. I think they are both lovely meditations.

"No One Will Ever Love You Honestly" - The Magnetic Fields

"You Don't Need This Song (To Fix Your Broken Heart)" - Fields



And I don't usually plug things, but the new Stephin Merritt (of TMF and various other lovely bands) album "Obscurities" is out! I am listening to it right now in delight. Just an FYI.  For instance,"I Don't Believe You" is one of my TMF favs - Obscurities has this version, rather than the one on "i" (LOLZ anime fan vid set to "i" version).

Got a ghost mouth, with a ghost frown

Roadside attractions

Back from a brief work-trip induced posting hiatus. It was fun but extremely exhausting, got to drive all over the other side of the state and see lots of little towns, etc. Swam in the Columbia, climbed on dinosaurs, drank my weight in Sonic's Cherry Limeade, you know, the usual biz trip.

That has absolutely nothing to do with the following song. I just like it and found I had drafted a post about it a while ago and today seems as good a day as any for it.  Girls was a lovely discovery from Pandora. The video below is just a performance, not an official music video. It's a tad pretentious that he claps on a plastic hat (batting helmet?) at the beginning, and I think my mom had that sweater first.

But for some reason I really like the song (and a lot of their other stuff), and find it worms its way into my head a lot recently. Make of that what you will.


"Ghost Mouth" - Girls

Lots of people don't have volume knobs

Via BoingBoing (@BoingBoing):

"A girl with speakers in her skin, and no volume knob"... turns out to be unexpectedly quite moving, without coming off as after-school special / too cloying. I think it's a simple and sweet video, and excellent all-around.

"...Of Our Discontent" - Seasons 

...wondering about you...

I think they know that, I'm looking at them
I think they think I must be out of touch

This song (Left of Center) randomly came up in conversation today. I happen to like it.
(Note -I think all of these are prefaced by ads, I'm sorry.)


"Left of Center" - Suzanne Vega - A classic, as well as an excellent use of eyeshadow.




I believe she might be most famous for "Luka" - which has a fairly somber video, given the subject (abused child).




More recently she had - "Caramel" - which is retro themed. Not a lot of action, but you get some from the movies and it conveys the appropriate wistfulness. Also, it has a cat, of which I always approve. More videos with cats! Love the clothes in this, as well as her hair.




"No Cheap Thrill" - also retro, also not a lot of action. But it looks pretty (although maybe a smidge low budget).

Stuff from tweets

Found by tweet of Amanda Palmer (@amandapalmer):

Love how minimalist this video is, and yet it's chock full of energy/tension (and good music).

"Trust" - Bitter Ruin





What have you come across in tweets lately that you like?

Best Side Story? Grease 2011?

The song is lovely to begin with, and I like Best Coast in general. And while I had heard this video mentioned in passing (since it was directed by Drew Barrymore) I had not seen it. But then Miss Michael sent me a little email mentioning it, so I looked it up. I like the video - a classic theme, I love the hair, the outfits and the vibe (seriously wish my hair looked that big every day at work). Love that it's cinematic - I think more videos should go full on mini-movie. But I do think it's wildly predictable (can happen when you go with the tale-as-old-as-time thing). And the end 'twist' is mildly implausible (and I think, telegraphed from a mile away, it's not very twisty). But - watching Maeby and Troy and other mildly famous young people dress fun and look hot and brawl (more fighting in vids plz) is a win, overall.

From Michael:

Well, I found it on the hairpin.com which called the plot "reblob if u creyed" ... 

The plot is totally melodramatic and cliched, but the visuals are nice and I like the song itself. 

I think that sums it up.

"Our Deal" - Best Coast

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Also can we agree that 'Day Trotters' is just a ridiculous (but charming) name?

And I would rant about the ridiculousness of the star-crossed lovers who die of stupid stupid stupid missed communications thing, and how people, just up and go don't make it this big thing (exile is not death, Romeo), but then we wouldn't have a huge chunk of movies and soap opera plots and etc... so I will spare you.


Guest curated posts make for a better mix, so keep your eyes peeled for good (or awful) videos and send them in.