DeVotchKa: What you get when you mix Romani, Greek, Slavic, Bolero, Mariachi style music with a whole lotta drugs
Posted on July 7, 2008
DeVotchKa gets their name from some foreign word meaning “young girl”. Which, considering their European front, probably really means not technically legal, but does anyone really check that folder anyway?
Moving forward. Though their musical style makes them sound like a bunch of foreigners, you’ll notice they’re singing in english. That’s because these four fakers are really just from Denver, Colorado. Posing as traveling burlesque’ish gypsies from over seas, they actually might just be my ex-girlfriend in human form. I’m guessing their names are, Talks Real Loud Gypsy, Spirituality Gypsy, Total Alcoholic Gypsy, and I’m On Lotsa Drugs Gypsy. Gypsies, transforrrrm! Oh great, now they’re going to start chatting my ear off about vintage stores, yoga and dive bars.
Clockwise Witness, The, by DeVotchKa
Downward dog,
Edward H.
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80’s for the 00’s, The Mary Onettes
Posted on July 5, 2008
So a group of foreigners decided to get together in 2000 and form a band that sounds like the British accented, murmuring, keyboard-board playing, facts of life singing, 80’s bands of yesteryear (all going on while they were just barely old enough to watch the actual Facts of Life). Now what you’ve got is a Swedish throwback to the glory days of women with too much hairspray, plastic hoop earrings, red lipstick, cocaine residue on their noses, and sex in back rooms surrounded by neon lights. Actually, this all sounds suspiciously familiar — maybe I’m not thinking about the 80’s at all, but instead: That Hooker From This Afternoon. Well anyhow, perhaps they’re just more like New Order, Joy Division, Echo & The Bunnymen. Good thing I don’t write for any publication that actually cares what you say or how you sound when trying to be in-the-know on any given subject. Go boobies!
I don’t know anything about the 80’s either, I was too busy learning to pee,
Edward H.
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America Day, aka 4th of July, aka July 4th, aka not a holiday in Canada
Posted on July 3, 2008
Tomorrow is America Day. For their celebration, I will be rolling down to Yankee soil to… soil… on the USA’s version of Vancouver, “Seattle”. Anyhow, aside from drinking double your weight in light beer, and celebrating your Yankdom with some freedom fries, you could watch this video by Jack English American.
Go Seahawks!
Edward H.
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