Family Guy and Barry Manilow

I saw this last weekend and cracked up! -K

Download- Crying on the Inside

My aunt in England called to tell me that the Download festival was happening just down the street from her. Sigh. I love Huntsville, but the lack of live shows I want to see is killing me. I've been reading great reviews of HIM's performance which is wonderful for this fan. Poor substitute, but I found this NME interview on You Tube from Download. About 1:50 is fantastic. -K

"High as F#%k" Music Video

This is the best thing that happened to me today. -K

Switches

Tonight I was typing away on my laptop when a song came on a show called October Road that was on in the background. I didn't know who sang it or what the song was called, so I took one line of the song and googled it. It turns out the song is called Killer Karma by an English band called Switches. Of course,this lead to a full-on You Tube search for other songs and a discovery that this band is not too shabby. Unfortunately, U.S. iTunes doesn't have much beyond their EPs for Drama Queen and Lay Down the Law, so I'll have to play the waiting game for their new album Heart Tuned to D.E.A.D. when it's released here in the States next year. It was supposed to drop in October, but was inexplicably delayed. Ah well. This happens.

Switches reminds me of Franz Ferdinand and Jet, who remind me of the Stones, Bowie and a little bit of Sweet. While I wouldn't necessarily say that they will save rock n roll or that they're doing something terribly original, I think their music is perfect party fare. Check them out. -K

Lay Down the Law


Message from Yuz


Lyrics to Killer Karma

Its funny how as time goes, its funny how the pain grows
It's funny how the guilt snows, on your mind
Its funny how as time goes, its funny how your world slows
It's funny how god knows, I will take my time

Well we'd all like to know what our lives have yet to show
But there's one place we can go, and that's our minds
And we'd all like to be, with who our eyes have yet to see
But there's no-one foolin me, cus that's a lie

It's funny when your plane leaves, its funny how your soul grieves
It's funny how the light weaves through the blinds
It's funny how your heart rules, the feelings that your head cools
It's funny how the hate pools, creepin up the side

Well we'd all like to know what our lives have yet to show
But there's one place we can go, and that's our minds
And we'd all like to be, with who our eyes have yet to see
But there's no-one foolin me, cus that's a lie

Cus I got Killer Karma now, I got Killer Karma now, I got Killer Karma now (x2)

Yea we'd all like to know what our lives have yet to know
But there's one place we can go, and that's our minds
And we'd all like to see, with who our lives have yet to be
But there's no-one foolin me, cus that's a lie

Arcade Fire cont.

It's such odd timing that J just posted something about Neon Bible. My friend T, who is a fan of this band as I am, told me last night that there was a video on youtube that included three of his favorite things: Bono, Arcade Fire, and the song Love Will Tear Us Apart; that despite the combination it didn't quite work for him. After watching it today I have to agree. Regardless, I still get chills when I hear the opening of Intervention and the key changes in Rebellion (Lies). Watch and judge for yourself. -K

"I got a fever, and the only prescription..."

If I flip on the tv or the radio and it’s financial news, I immediately turn it off. Recently though some financial news got my attention and goddamnit, it is already lowering my quality of life. Google bought YouTube. What does this mean to you and me? Well, nothing if you regularly go to the site to watch videos of someone’s crazy cat. But if you are like me, and rely on this site to watch clips of your favorite musical acts, life is changing. You want to see [insert band name here] perform on [insert television show name here]? Just go to YouTube. But because of copyright infringement, content will change on YouTube and it’s already happening. For example, I was going to send K this video of Kings of Leon on a Japanese television show where they smoked and drank through the entire interview looking completely disinterested in the idea of doing press. It was pretty amusing. Gone! It is as if it never happened! Then just today, as I was formulating the idea for this post, I was going to find the link to one of the all-time best SNL skits and recommend you watch it now because it probably will not be there soon and… it’s already GONE! No longer can you, at a moment’s notice, watch the parody of VH1’s Behind the Music where Blue Oyster Cult was recording the song Don’t Fear the Reaper and Christopher Walken demanded “more cowbell”. Now you have to go buy the Best of Christopher Walken or Will Ferrell on SNL DVD to see it. An era that lasted only a mere eight months is now over. R.I.P. the true YouTube. --J