Butterfly Cauldron
Sunday, September 13, 2009
I haz a new crush.
Labels: music
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Because it's not always about America
Is it possible for me to love this band more? I don't think so. This is a very powerful video. (And Calli, all their songs do not sound the same. Don't believe me? I'll make you a cd. You'll see :) I'm trying to find a version that isn't bleeped, that will play well. If I find it, I'll update.
Labels: music
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Story of my life?
Set your music playlist on random, list the songs that come up. Music for your life:
Opening Credits: God/Tori Amos
Birth: Fix Me Now/Garbage
First day at school: Saturday/Go Betty Go
Falling in Love: Happy Right this Second/Trinket
Fight Song: End of the Line/Concrete Blonde
Breaking Up: Everything in It's Own Time/Indigo Girls
Prom: Midnight Train to Georgia/Indigo Girls
Life: Precious Things/Tori Amos
Mental Breakdown: Late Again/MXPX
Driving: I'm Thinking/Autopilot Off
Flashback: In My Time of Need/Ryan Adams
Wedding: Dizzy/Luna
Birth Of Child: Push It/Garbage (Okay, now I'm laughing.)
Final Battle: Shimmer/Shawn Mullins
Death Scene: Ahab/MC Lars
Funeral: Out of Sight/Uncut
Ending Credits: Come on Home/Indigo Girls
--What? No Green Day? Is that allowed?
Opening Credits: God/Tori Amos
Birth: Fix Me Now/Garbage
First day at school: Saturday/Go Betty Go
Falling in Love: Happy Right this Second/Trinket
Fight Song: End of the Line/Concrete Blonde
Breaking Up: Everything in It's Own Time/Indigo Girls
Prom: Midnight Train to Georgia/Indigo Girls
Life: Precious Things/Tori Amos
Mental Breakdown: Late Again/MXPX
Driving: I'm Thinking/Autopilot Off
Flashback: In My Time of Need/Ryan Adams
Wedding: Dizzy/Luna
Birth Of Child: Push It/Garbage (Okay, now I'm laughing.)
Final Battle: Shimmer/Shawn Mullins
Death Scene: Ahab/MC Lars
Funeral: Out of Sight/Uncut
Ending Credits: Come on Home/Indigo Girls
--What? No Green Day? Is that allowed?
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Laugh. It's good for you.
Only Alanis could redeem what is possibly the worst piece of "musical" dreck ever recorded.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Die Pachelbel, die!!
Funniest damn thing I've seen in ages. Seriously. I laughed so hard, I was crying.
Dude, he spoofs Green Day. (Punk rock's a joke, it's really just baroque . . .).
Dude, he spoofs Green Day. (Punk rock's a joke, it's really just baroque . . .).
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Hello, my name is Zan and I'm an eMusic addict
So, a few months ago I canceled my subscription to eMusic.com. I did this because I was getting ready to move and I'm poor, so even $10 a month for mucho music seemed like an extravagance I can't afford. I have been soldiering on, not getting my 3 to 4 cds a month fix as best I could.
Then, this week, I've been getting emails from then. Tempting emails. Promising me 50 free downloads if I come back. Telling me how they're changing their download structure and if I come back now, I'll be able to still get 40 downloads a month for $10 instead of the 30 everyone else will get if they sign up after the 21st. (Which is today, right?) But no, no. I resisted. Mostly because I didn't have 10 bucks in my account to pay for the first month, but hey, I resisted, right?
Then yesterday, they sent me an email -- 50 free downloads AND the 40 a month AND the first month free. Well. I was damned. My last excuse, I just didn't have the cash for that first month, was gone. And so, I caved. I rejoined. And I've downloaded three new cds since yesterday. And I've still got enough downloads for probably three more. *sigh*
My name is Zan. I am an eMusic download junkie. Also, if you all sign up for an account, I get 50 free downloads for each of you. So, if you like Indie music and wanna screw the major recording companies, let me know. Send me your email, I'll send you an invite, and then get free music!
I really like eMusic because first, they're incredibly cheap. Even at 30 songs a month, that's almost three cds for $10. Where ya gonna get that? It's independant music, which means it's stuff that you can't find most other places and it's generally awesome. (I mean, you're not gonna find the latest Pussycat Dolls here, but really why would you want to?) The songs come free of that damned copyright protection software you find at fricking iTunes -- so you can put it in any MP3 player, burn it to as many cds as you like, email it to friends, whatever. Once you buy it, it's all yours, just like a regular cd is (or should be. I'm looking at you Sony. Fuckwads. I'm just glad I've got a Mac, so I don't have to worry about the crap PC users can run into with this stupid copyright software.)
Plus, they've got a huge selection of free music. Seriously, I get more cds for free there. Usually, I download about 7 cds a month. Three I pay for and another four from the free section. It's awesome. I get to find all sorts of new music that way, stuff I'd never think of paying 15 bucks for in a store because you know, I hadn't heard it before. You can sample the songs before you download them and it's just freaking awesome. It's made my Music Coolness Quotiant go waaay up. They've got sections for just about any kind of music you can imagine. Myself, I'm a punk/alternative/folk girl. But they've got gospel, rap, country, whatever. Also, they've got a huge catalog of older music -- stuff you can't find anymore. So, seriously, if you like music, I cannot recommend this place enough.
(And yes, the timestamp is right. It's 4 a.m. I can't sleep again. Bah.)
Then, this week, I've been getting emails from then. Tempting emails. Promising me 50 free downloads if I come back. Telling me how they're changing their download structure and if I come back now, I'll be able to still get 40 downloads a month for $10 instead of the 30 everyone else will get if they sign up after the 21st. (Which is today, right?) But no, no. I resisted. Mostly because I didn't have 10 bucks in my account to pay for the first month, but hey, I resisted, right?
Then yesterday, they sent me an email -- 50 free downloads AND the 40 a month AND the first month free. Well. I was damned. My last excuse, I just didn't have the cash for that first month, was gone. And so, I caved. I rejoined. And I've downloaded three new cds since yesterday. And I've still got enough downloads for probably three more. *sigh*
My name is Zan. I am an eMusic download junkie. Also, if you all sign up for an account, I get 50 free downloads for each of you. So, if you like Indie music and wanna screw the major recording companies, let me know. Send me your email, I'll send you an invite, and then get free music!
I really like eMusic because first, they're incredibly cheap. Even at 30 songs a month, that's almost three cds for $10. Where ya gonna get that? It's independant music, which means it's stuff that you can't find most other places and it's generally awesome. (I mean, you're not gonna find the latest Pussycat Dolls here, but really why would you want to?) The songs come free of that damned copyright protection software you find at fricking iTunes -- so you can put it in any MP3 player, burn it to as many cds as you like, email it to friends, whatever. Once you buy it, it's all yours, just like a regular cd is (or should be. I'm looking at you Sony. Fuckwads. I'm just glad I've got a Mac, so I don't have to worry about the crap PC users can run into with this stupid copyright software.)
Plus, they've got a huge selection of free music. Seriously, I get more cds for free there. Usually, I download about 7 cds a month. Three I pay for and another four from the free section. It's awesome. I get to find all sorts of new music that way, stuff I'd never think of paying 15 bucks for in a store because you know, I hadn't heard it before. You can sample the songs before you download them and it's just freaking awesome. It's made my Music Coolness Quotiant go waaay up. They've got sections for just about any kind of music you can imagine. Myself, I'm a punk/alternative/folk girl. But they've got gospel, rap, country, whatever. Also, they've got a huge catalog of older music -- stuff you can't find anymore. So, seriously, if you like music, I cannot recommend this place enough.
(And yes, the timestamp is right. It's 4 a.m. I can't sleep again. Bah.)
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Really? The music made you do it?
I'm skeptical of this report. I need to track down the center that did the study, to evaulate any potential bias they may have. But frankly, I just don't buy it. Music with sexually explicit/degrading lyrics leads to early teen sex? You know, I just don't believe it. I was a teenage metal head (which would be a great name for a book) and, listening to the stuff now, the lyrics were pretty misogynistic and I didn't have sex until I was 19.
The more often teens listen to sexually degrading songs — marked by obscenities and stereotypes of women as sex objects and men as sexual predators — the likelier they are to have sex at an early age, according to a new study.
A sex drive is, of course, a natural thing for adolescents, but the Rand Corp. study released Monday points out that engaging in intercourse too early can lead to unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs, making the matter a public health concern.
“People have been concerned about the sexual content of music lyrics for decades. The concern is not new,” said the study’s leader, Steven Martino, a psychologist. “What’s new here is that we conducted a study that as closely as possible establishes a connection between the type of music kids listen to and their sexual behavior.
Now, I'm not going to argue that kids -- or anybody, really -- should be indulging in a musical diet of sexual degradation. I'm all for keeping track of what your kids are listening too and, if it gets too rough, putting the kabash on it. (Much to my shame. I rebelled against my parents for doing just that.) I'm an adult. Some of the stuff I listen to, I'm not letting my young niece or cousins hear. Or at least not without me being right there with them, to talk to them about what's being said and how it would really play out in RL, ya know?
That said -- music isn't making kids have sex at a younger age. No way. If it had that power, I'd have been making like a bunny by age 12.
Not to say teens won't blame some of their choices on music. (Or tv or the book they read or whatever.) I remember, my senior year in high school, riding on a bus with some classmates. We were, of course, listening to the radio. One song came on, some romantic thing that I couldn't stand, and the girl sitting next to me makes this coy remark about the song "making" her do things. And even at that age, I was smart enough to know that was bullshit.
And, being cheeky, I told her as much. She insisted she'd only done what she'd done (though she wouldn't tell me what it was exactly) because of the song on the radio.
Riiiiight. Because hormones have nothing to do with it. Because social station, the imagination, sheer curiosity, a sense of rebellion, of sheer teenage invulnerability had nothing to do with it. Uh-huh.
“The lyrics we categorized as degrading are especially degrading in their treatment of women, but nevertheless girls were affected in the same way boys were. The more they listened to music with degrading sexual content, the sooner they initiated sexual activity,” Dr. Martino said.
The study, which first appeared in this month’s edition of the scientific journal Pediatrics, was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and performed by researchers from Rand Health, a health policy research group. The scientists were based in Pittsburgh, Santa Monica, Calif., and Los Angeles.
Do you think maybe those girls were lacking other things in their lives? Maybe it's not the music, stupid, but the society. Maybe it's the fact that girls get told, from the time they're old enough to listen, that their role is to be secondary. That they're here to perform for men. That their self-worth is directly tied to how many men they can get affection from. That they're nurturers and mothers and really, let the men do all the thinking, won't you just stand there and look pretty? Girls are given very narrow parameters for their lives. They have to be thin and pretty and not too smart and not too ambitious. They have to be supportive girlfriends or wives. They're supposed to differ to the man's judgement.
Bullshit.
It's not the music, as bad as it may be. A girl who doesn't know who she is, whose never been allowed to develop a true self, isn't going to be able to stand up for herself. She isn't going to know she's allowed to say no. And maybe, she's a little too ashamed of that fact to acknowledge it. So it's easier for her, and society, to blame the music she hears than to admit that we've failed our sisters and daughters and nieces horribly.
The more often teens listen to sexually degrading songs — marked by obscenities and stereotypes of women as sex objects and men as sexual predators — the likelier they are to have sex at an early age, according to a new study.
A sex drive is, of course, a natural thing for adolescents, but the Rand Corp. study released Monday points out that engaging in intercourse too early can lead to unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs, making the matter a public health concern.
“People have been concerned about the sexual content of music lyrics for decades. The concern is not new,” said the study’s leader, Steven Martino, a psychologist. “What’s new here is that we conducted a study that as closely as possible establishes a connection between the type of music kids listen to and their sexual behavior.
Now, I'm not going to argue that kids -- or anybody, really -- should be indulging in a musical diet of sexual degradation. I'm all for keeping track of what your kids are listening too and, if it gets too rough, putting the kabash on it. (Much to my shame. I rebelled against my parents for doing just that.) I'm an adult. Some of the stuff I listen to, I'm not letting my young niece or cousins hear. Or at least not without me being right there with them, to talk to them about what's being said and how it would really play out in RL, ya know?
That said -- music isn't making kids have sex at a younger age. No way. If it had that power, I'd have been making like a bunny by age 12.
Not to say teens won't blame some of their choices on music. (Or tv or the book they read or whatever.) I remember, my senior year in high school, riding on a bus with some classmates. We were, of course, listening to the radio. One song came on, some romantic thing that I couldn't stand, and the girl sitting next to me makes this coy remark about the song "making" her do things. And even at that age, I was smart enough to know that was bullshit.
And, being cheeky, I told her as much. She insisted she'd only done what she'd done (though she wouldn't tell me what it was exactly) because of the song on the radio.
Riiiiight. Because hormones have nothing to do with it. Because social station, the imagination, sheer curiosity, a sense of rebellion, of sheer teenage invulnerability had nothing to do with it. Uh-huh.
“The lyrics we categorized as degrading are especially degrading in their treatment of women, but nevertheless girls were affected in the same way boys were. The more they listened to music with degrading sexual content, the sooner they initiated sexual activity,” Dr. Martino said.
The study, which first appeared in this month’s edition of the scientific journal Pediatrics, was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and performed by researchers from Rand Health, a health policy research group. The scientists were based in Pittsburgh, Santa Monica, Calif., and Los Angeles.
Do you think maybe those girls were lacking other things in their lives? Maybe it's not the music, stupid, but the society. Maybe it's the fact that girls get told, from the time they're old enough to listen, that their role is to be secondary. That they're here to perform for men. That their self-worth is directly tied to how many men they can get affection from. That they're nurturers and mothers and really, let the men do all the thinking, won't you just stand there and look pretty? Girls are given very narrow parameters for their lives. They have to be thin and pretty and not too smart and not too ambitious. They have to be supportive girlfriends or wives. They're supposed to differ to the man's judgement.
Bullshit.
It's not the music, as bad as it may be. A girl who doesn't know who she is, whose never been allowed to develop a true self, isn't going to be able to stand up for herself. She isn't going to know she's allowed to say no. And maybe, she's a little too ashamed of that fact to acknowledge it. So it's easier for her, and society, to blame the music she hears than to admit that we've failed our sisters and daughters and nieces horribly.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Friday Random 10
Make of this what you will....
1. You Were Meant for Me -- Jewel
2. Terrible Thought -- Poe
3. Jordan -- Tara MacLean
4. Overture/Hannibal -- PoTO Soundtrack
5. Come On Lady -- Josh Rouse
6. Lucky -- Melissa Etheridge
7. Close to Home -- Concrete Blonde
8. Hitchin' A Ride -- Green Day
9. I Am Fred Astaire -- Taking Back Sunday
10. Dirty Little Secret -- All American Rejects
1. You Were Meant for Me -- Jewel
2. Terrible Thought -- Poe
3. Jordan -- Tara MacLean
4. Overture/Hannibal -- PoTO Soundtrack
5. Come On Lady -- Josh Rouse
6. Lucky -- Melissa Etheridge
7. Close to Home -- Concrete Blonde
8. Hitchin' A Ride -- Green Day
9. I Am Fred Astaire -- Taking Back Sunday
10. Dirty Little Secret -- All American Rejects
Labels: music
Friday, January 06, 2006
Friday Random Ten -- Because I Cannot Resist a Music Meme
My musical tastes are odd. Oh well.
Jesus of Suburbia -- Green Day
Unlove Me -- Julie Roberts
Pot of Gold -- Julie Roberts
Cold Cold Heart -- Norah Jones
Crawling -- Linkin Park
Journey to the Cemetery -- PoTO Soundtrack
I'm No Angel -- Dido
Going Through the Motions -- BtVS Soundtrack
Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner -- Fall Out Boy
My Morphine -- Gillian Welch
Jupiter -- Jewel
I'm sure these songs say something about me. I'm not sure what, exactly. Add in the fact that I'm currently listening to Garbage and there's a bigger picture here. Hrm. Funny two songs by Julie Roberts showed up. Two diametrically opposed songs at that. And yes, I rather adore all of these songs. In my secret heart of hearts, I'd like to be a Music Snob, but frankly I just like too much stuff to be a good one. If you like it and it make you happy or mad or whatever, then it's good music. Anyway, more serious posting later today.
Jesus of Suburbia -- Green Day
Unlove Me -- Julie Roberts
Pot of Gold -- Julie Roberts
Cold Cold Heart -- Norah Jones
Crawling -- Linkin Park
Journey to the Cemetery -- PoTO Soundtrack
I'm No Angel -- Dido
Going Through the Motions -- BtVS Soundtrack
Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner -- Fall Out Boy
My Morphine -- Gillian Welch
Jupiter -- Jewel
I'm sure these songs say something about me. I'm not sure what, exactly. Add in the fact that I'm currently listening to Garbage and there's a bigger picture here. Hrm. Funny two songs by Julie Roberts showed up. Two diametrically opposed songs at that. And yes, I rather adore all of these songs. In my secret heart of hearts, I'd like to be a Music Snob, but frankly I just like too much stuff to be a good one. If you like it and it make you happy or mad or whatever, then it's good music. Anyway, more serious posting later today.
Labels: music
