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constantly reading / overzealous editor / chronic paparazzo / My Little Pony-in-training / lesbian / feminist / atheist
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DON'T GIVE NONE FUCKS.
The live version of Not With You on Get Along is just… I haven’t adequate words.
significant music of the last four years:
- Kitty Pryde (because internet and that Yeastie Girlz shirt)
- Call Me Maybe (because internet & hilarious music video)
- Kreayshawn (because internet and swagged ovaries)
- Halo (because Alex drunk at 5am)
- Yeasayer (because beautiful Detroit nights)
- Bloody Beetroots (because bones intoxication times)
- Kids (because dancing, because intoxication)
- Jar of Hearts (because that time Rachel & I dropped our homework at 5am, mesmerized by the gorgeous video)
- Sleigh Bells (because beautiful Detroit nights)
- Tightrope (because dancing)
- Menya’s version of White Houses (because dancing, because friendship)
- Put Your Hands Up For Detroit (because dancing, because intoxication)
- Because The Night (because freshman year)
- Heads Will Roll (because… just because.)
- Gaga (because Gaga)
KDrew - Danger Zone Ft. Mr. Nickelz (Official Music Video) (by KDrewTV)
Really intense video… abandoned Packard Plant setting for the storyline, spliced with what appears to be footage of the Detroit (and possibly other) riots.
LP covers Beyonce’s “Halo”
Have you ever dreamed of a song that fulfills both your sexual and emotional needs? HELLO AND WELCOME TO LP’S COVER OF HALO.
Click the link for not just listening but FREE downloading. Because lord knows I’m making a playlist that’s just this song 800 times.
Take a Hint // Tori & Jade
(from TeenNick’s Victorious)
THIS SONG IS CRAZY AMAZING
It’s all about consent and it’s so girl power and I miss the Spice Girls but this makes it almost okay.
(Melanie, this is so girls’ studies and I wish you were home right now to talk about it with me!)
why am I always hit on by the boys I never like?
I can always see them coming from the left and from the right
I don’t wanna be a priss, I’m just trying to be polite
but it always seems to bite me in the —
ask me for my number, yeah, you put me on the spot
you think that we should hook up but I think that we should not
you had me at hello, then you opened up your mouth
and that is when it started going south
get your hands off my hips or I’ll punch you in the lips
stop your staring at my —
take a hint, take a hint
no you can’t buy me a drink, let me tell you what I think
I think you could use a mint
take a hint, take a hint…
I guess you still don’t get it, so let’s take it from the top
you asked me what my sign, is I told you it was STOP
and if I had a dime for every name you just dropped
you’d be here and I’d be on a yacht
[chorus: get your hands off my hips, etc]
what about “NO” don’t you get?
so go and tell your friends I’m not really interested
it’s about time that you’re leaving, I’m gonna count to three
open my eyes and you’ll be gone
(ONE) get your hands off my—
(TWO) or I’ll punch you in the—
(THREE) stop your staring at my—
(HEY!) take a hint, take a hint
I am not your missing link, let me tell you what I think
I think you could use a mint
take a hint, take a hint…
[chorus]
!!NEW!! MORGAN PAGE // VIDEO FEATURING TEGAN AND SARA
HELLO
In love with this. Instant.
fill these spaces up with days
in my room
you can go, you can stay
I can’t sleep
I can’t speak to you
me: listening to Bach while reading
me: still listening to Bach
spotify: HEY you should listen to ONE DIRECTION for the next 45 seconds YEAH let’s do that, they’re cool
me: please dear god bring the cellos back
spotify: here, have more cellos
spotify: oh and here’s an ad for “drinking songs” for St Patrick’s Day because that’s not ridiculous at all
cellos: don’t worry, we’re still here, we love you
spotify: you can keep your cellos for the next like… 15 minutes, but then we have something to say to you
spotify: HEY YOU KNOW THAT JOURNEY SONG THAT THINKS “SOUTH DETROIT” EXISTS IN A WAY THAT ISN’T CANADA?
cellos: let the strings fix it, make you feel all better
So there’s this song. I am positive it exists. The internet insists it doesn’t. The lyrics go something like,
I’ve got the Grable grace
I’ve got the Grable face
though I’ve had it much longer than she
gee if I only had her personality
and if anyone can find this song for me, I’ll love you forever. I believe it’s from the 40s, but it could be later.
Help?
There was actually about a week long period about a year ago when I watched this everyday.
Why this video is brilliant: Dev repeats through the entire song, “bet you wanna see this booty bounce.” But for the entire video, you never see that booty bounce. You never see her dance. The most you see her move is popping a champagne bottle. Bet you want to see it? Well, that’s her decision, and she decided that no, you won’t see that booty bounce today.
Wildlife Control - Analog or Digital (by wlctrl)
Simultaneous stop motion and time lapse. That is dedication and patience I don’t have.
Cigarettes // Russian Red
now tell me what it is,
it isn’t fair cos
I’m wasting time
cos it isn’t my heart
it isn’t my fault
and every situation understands, well
the anecdote
of chasing the location to your door
cos I’m wasting time
now I’m wasting money again
and all the cigarettes
that I have never smoked
and all the letters
that I have never sent
Here Comes The Sun; the lost solo guitar (by lucasbandeira01)
This is fantastic.
email from my father…
When you were a child, I went over to the Z’s to pick you up and heard someone playing the piano. When Janet answered the door, she told me that it was you and wasn’t it marvelous. You weren’t playing any song, just improvising and it sounded good. Until Janet came to the door, I thought it was her and when I saw her coming (and the music hadn’t stopped), I thought it must be Mark.
…untapped skills? (Probably not.)
But he then linked to this article about an NYU psych professor with a focus on developmental cognitive neuroscience, who taught himself to play guitar because, well, he wanted to:
Compared to his Guitar Hero controller his Yamaha felt heavy and awkward. The musical scale isn’t perfectly linear. (Quick: what’s another name for C flat?) And the guitar has the same notes at different frets along different strings. “That’s something the brain doesn’t want to deal with,” he said. “There’s no one-to-one relationship on where the notes are. You have all these memory traces that interfere with one another.”
I definitely recommend checking out the whole article, it’s a very interesting (if brief) look into how the human brain works with music.
