Ironic Twist
seeking irony, because sarcasm clashes with my outfit
Friday, April 29, 2005 :::
So you like The Bravery but they're a bit too over-exposed for you? Then get thee to Life Of A Spuckle and download "Talking In Your Sleep" by Clear Static. If you like The Bravery, Bloc Party and Cloud Room, I can pretty much guarantee you'll like this song.
How cute are these paparazzi shots of Gwyneth Paltrow and Apple? Apple looks so much like her dad.
What's orange, blonde and skinny all over? Is it just me, or does Lindsay Lohan look like a dried-out 80-year-old socialite in that picture? I think it's rehab time.
I don't like to use this blog as a venue for complaining about personal stuff, but I had a crappy day yesterday. Work blows, my friends are all leaving town one by one, the bluestate group is fighting over flyer designs, and to add injury to insult, while I was walking home yesterday, my heel got caught in a crack in the street and I fell and scraped my elbow and knee, so I look like an eight-year-old who's been climbing trees. Despite my bad mood and injuries, I decided to drag myself to the gym last night, to get in an hour of cardio while watching The O.C. I plug in my headphones, change the channel to Fox and see... the president. Not only is this man going to lead to my eventual demise in a nu-ku-lar holocaust, but now I don't know what happened when the Cohens went to visit Nana in Florida! It's a travesty, I tell you. Since I was already at the gym, I changed the channel to MTV and watched John Heder and Ashlee Simpson get Punk'd. I don't like Punk'd, but it was that or the press conference.
Anyway, it's Friday, and I'm feeling less angry at the world today. Thanks for putting up with my weird moods all week. I'm going to listen to Pet Sounds now.
Thursday, April 28, 2005 :::
I recommended Calla to my brother, and he liked it. I knew he would -- he likes bands that brood. When I recommend a band to someone and he or she likes it, i feel like I've done a tiny bit of good in this crazy world of ours.
Snowden, an Atlanta band I like, is playing with Cartel at the Black Cat for their first D.C. show on May 24. Exciting indeed, and should be a good show, but I probably won't get to catch them since I'll be DJing at Saint-Ex that night. We should just make the Saint-Ex gig the unofficial Cartel and Snowden after-party...
Via IMDb: Tom Cruise is dating Katie Holmes. Weird. Also, Julia Roberts topped People's 50 Most Beautiful list this year. Yeah, right.
Team America has blocked Yahoo! Mail here at work, so if you've e-mailed me in the last few days, I haven't gotten your message. I'm getting the Internets hooked up at home this weekend, and will get back to you then.
I'm still existential today. Maybe tonight's episode of The O.C. will cheer me up. It better, damn it.
Monday, April 25, 2005 :::
One of my least-favorite aspects of Jewish culture is the obsession with who is and who isn't. I just find it uninteresting and pointless, even if those Adam Sandler songs are sort of funny. But, as I was reminded on Saturday, sometimes it's fun to get caught up in it nonetheless.
Before heading out to DC9, I stopped by DCSOB's apartment, where most of the DCFUDies had already gathered for what we were calling a "multicultural seder tribute" …or something. The whole thing came about when zaf decided she wanted to make matzah ball soup, an idea that particularly excited our non-Jewish friends, who eat matzah products even more rarely than the members of the tribe. When I walked into to join the party, I was surprised to find something uncharacteristic coming out of DCSOB’s speakers: some sort of yuppie jazz-like music. "What's this?" I asked, after declining an offer of Manischewitz. "Why aren't we listening to Klezmer music as we wait for the soup?" If you're going to participate in a cultural activity of some kind, I decided, the music should go with the activity. When DCSOB explained that he didn't have any Klezmer music, we decided that any recording by a Jewish musician would do. So, DCSOB kneeled down by his CD rack and we went to work finding something to play, something besides Beastie Boys or Bob Dylan, because we just weren’t in the mood. Note – to make this more challenging, we discounted bands with Jewish producers, bands on Jewish-owned record labels, or bands with Jewish managers. Heard during the search:
Belle and Sebastian – "No, I think they’re Muslim." Von Bondies – "Nah." The Mooney Suzuki – "Isn't that Sammy guy Jewish?" "No, I think he’s Italian." Funkmaster Flex The Mix Tape, Vol 2: 60 Minutes of Funk – "No." Talking Heads – "They’re sure paranoid enough to be." Ted Leo – "Please say he’s Jewish!"
After discovering that DCSOB doesn't have many Jewish musicians in his record collection, at least not that we knew of, it was time to make full use of the Internets. So, we put on The Ramones, always a crowd pleaser, DCSOB pulled up Jewhoo! and we went to town in the rock 'n' roll category. Many surprises followed, The Clash's Mick Jones, for one. Sean Paul of "Gimme the Light" fame. And… drum roll… Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat. Well, that explains the hair. Steve also shows up on the List of Canadian Jews site – who knew such a site existed?
So, while my first-night-of-Passover activity (like most of my Passover and year-round activities) would not be sanctioned by the Talmud, it was on of my favorite Passovers ever. Next year in Jerusalem, motherf*ckas! (NSFW)
* For the record, I don't think Jewhoo! is a reliable source of information. Also, most of these things depend on your definition of "Jewish."
I spent Sunday in The B.C., which included catching up on the most recent episode of The O.C. my mom had taped for me. Last season, I got my mom hooked on The O.C. when she started watching it just so that she could make fun of me for being obsessed such a stupid show. Of course, a few episodes later, she was hooked too. Since she had already watched last week's episode, she was in the kitchen while I was watching it in the living room. During the scene in which Death Cab For Cutie are performing "The Sound of Settling" at the Bait Shop, my mom pipes up from the kitchen, "I like this song." My mom is so emo. I love it.
01/05: Taint and Bliss present INFAMY, 9:30 Club
01/10: Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton, 9:30 Club
01/19: Benjy Ferree, Meredith Bragg and the Terminals, Greenland, Black Cat 01/24: Hej Hej, Cafe Saint-Ex
