Hijacking High Fidelity's Hijinks!

Okay, so I was just reading in a Squidoo lens (an ongoing list of over 180 things to blog about) that one thing you can always blog is a list. According to this lens, people just luuuurve lists. And yanno what? They're right. Why do you think High Fidelity (both the book - find it on amazon - and the movie, also on amazon) is so popular? Yes, it's the love story and the general humor and the fantastic soundtrack (or, in the case of the novel, the fantastic musical references and allusions) and of course, it's John motherfucking Cusack. However, perhaps above and beyond all that, it's the guys' ever-present top-five lists that draw you in and blow your mind. Top five side ones, track ones? Are you fucking kidding me? Do you know how many times I've tried to come up with my own version of that list that's half as good? Shiiiit. Anyway, following in the tradition of Rob, Dick, and Barry, I'm gonna hook ya up with with a few of MY top-five lists including, yup, you guessed it, my own top five side ones, track ones. *grins*

Kake's Top Five Side Ones, Track Ones

1. "Come Together," Abbey Road, The Beatles

2. "Fight Test," Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips

3. "Thunder Road," Born To Run, Bruce Springsteen

4. "Blitzkrieg Bop," Ramones, Ramones

5. "Gimme Shelter," Let It Bleed, The Rolling Stones


Kake's Top Five Summer Songs

1. "Summer in the City," Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful, The Lovin' Spoonful

2. "Summer Dust," The Love Language, The Love Language

3. "Swim," Astro Coast, Surfer Blood

4. "Deadbeat Summer," Psychic Chasms, Neon Indian

5. "Surf Wax America," Weezer ("The Blue Album"), Weezer


Kake's Top Five Songs That Get Ya Hot And Bothered

1. "Lover I Don't Have To Love," Lifted, or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground, Bright Eyes

2. "All This And More," Young, Loud, and Snotty, Dead Boys

3. "Let's Get It On," Let's Get It On, Marvin Gaye

4. "You Know I'm No Good," Back to Black, Amy Winehouse

5. "Lay Lady Lay," Nashville Skyline, Bob Dylan


Kake's Top Five Erotic Mainstream Movies

1. Secretary (Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader)

2. Love And Other Drugs (Jake Gyllenhaal and Ann Hathaway)

3. Killing Me Softly  (Joseph Fiennes and Heather Graham)

4. In The Cut (Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo)

5. Henry and June (Fred Ward and Maria de Madeiros)


Kake's Top Five Literary Erotic Poems

1. "i like my body when it is with your," e.e. cummings

2. "Us," Anne Sexton

3. "Carnal Apple, Woman Filled, Burning Moon," Pablo Neruda

5. *TIE* "Beast, Book, Body," Erica Jong and "Raw With Love," Charles Bukowski

I Love Music: TMI Tuesday Questions and Answers

TMI Tuesday: I Love Music Edition

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

1. What's the most annoying song in the world?

pretty much anything by Sting. crap-rap with nonsensical overly repetitive hooks. bubblegum pop that makes women out to be morons. etc.

2. What's the saddest song in the world?

I really don't know how I'm supposed to pick just one answer to any of these. Top 5 saddest songs: "Tomorrow Wendy," Concrete Blonde; "First of the Gang to Die," Morrissey; "These Days," Nico; "Hallelujah," Jeff Buckley; "Not Forgotten," Henrock. 

3. What's the sexiest song in the world?

Again, how to choose? Top 5 sexiest songs: "Something," The Beatles; "All This And More," The Dead Boys; "Lay Lady Lay," Bob Dylan; "Let's Get It On," Marvin Gaye; "Romeo And Juliet," Dire Straits

4. Name a new, to you, band or music artist that you can't get enough of? Post a link to one of their songs.

Kevin Coyne - "Marlene" 

5. Have you met any famous musicians?

yup. more than my fair share, I'd guess, but I live in an area rich with musical talent and am just a lucky cunt, I reckon. 

6. What song best describes your life? 

Oh, lord. I don't even fucking know but here's one that isn't entirely off-the-mark: "28 Butts," Little Jackie

7. How important is your partner’s taste in music to you?

Very. Like absurdly important. 

8. Do you sing in the shower?

Doesn't everyone? 

9. What was the last live music show you attended? Did you buy a t-shirt?

I think it was The Love Language, Veelee, and some other people at King's in Raleigh last Dec. but I can't say for sure - I may have been to something more recent and am just blanking on it. 

10. What's the sweetest song in the world?

"What A Wonderful World" - Louis Armstrong

11. Can you play a musical instrument? Which one?

Nope. Not a damn thing. 

12. Are you in a band or are you a performing solo music artist? If yes, what kind of music do you play?

Hell, no. My brother got all the musical talent in the family. 

13. Have you ever dated a musician?

More than I can count. 

14. Are you a groupie?

Nope.

- If yes, for what artist/band?

- If no, do you wish you were and for what music performing artist or band?

Hell, no.

Bonus: Describe your worst, best, strangest, funniest or saddest concert moment.

All of the above. The second time I saw Dylan (yes, that Dylan), about a year ago. Oh. Em. Gee. It was so pathetic. I understand the man loves to perform, but the only place he should be performing these days is in HIS shower. His voice is shot and rearranging all his classics with blues arrangements only heightens the sense of "wtf" rather than diminishing it. Seriously, and I love Dylan with a passion, he's taken his incomprehensibility (is that even a word? if not, fuck it) to new heights. He made my ears hurt. At one point, my mother, father, brother and I all looked at each and just burst out laughing our asses off at the sheer absurdity and patheticness of the whole spectacle. I said, "I don't know whether I should be laughing or crying." My mom: "I KNOW!" That. Fucking. Bad. Best part of the whole show was, on my way back to the baseball stadium's bleachers from the lawn area created in the diamond, right after smoking a lil something-something with my brother and friends, watching a couple swing dance. It kind of summed up the ridiculousness of the night. 

Bonus, Bonus: If you listen to the radio, what station and type of music are you tuned to the most?

The local college radio station pretty much exclusively (or on rare occasions, NPR): WKNC 88.1 in Raleigh, from NCSU. Sometimes, if I'm feeling nostalgic, I'll listen to WQFS from Guilford College in Greensboring, NC online.