If You Wanna Kiss the Sky

You guys, is this the best song ever? I feel so confused.

You Guys

thing I learned today

I am kinda the Pina Bausch of pouting.




um...thats a good thing, right?

You Guys

It is so boring to be sick!!!!!!!!

Anyway, one thing you can do if you are sick and got nothing else to do is drink more cough medicine than you probably are supposed to.

Just thought you should know that THIS PARTY NEVER STOPS.

"C-C-C-C-COOOOOVER ME" b/w "U.S.-U.S.-U.-U.-S.A."

Eagles and I had an email conversation that mostly consisted of us quoting a certain titular lyric back and forth, and although she has not yet responded to my final question ("should i post this to the blog???") I decided that sometimes you just have to act, especially when the motivating material is THIS GOOD and SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSING. The motivating material in question is at the bottom of this post: Bruce Springsteen's "Cover Me (Undercover Mix)" by Arthur Baker. The story goes that in the '80s the Boss felt that his bossiness wasn't quite reaching as large an audience as he would like; so he commissioned Arthur Baker, a DJ perhaps best known ('round these parts anyway) for his work with New Order, to remix a couple songs from said Boss' new album Born in the U.S.A. with the goal of circulating them in dance clubs. And ooooh man are they good. And I suppose that 2007 is the ideal time for these pseudo-lost remixes to be rediscovered (or reappraised, whichever) since everyone digs Springsteen these days anyway, even the Arcade Fire who toured with LCD Soundsystem, so what I'm trying to say is, yeah, sure, give me Bruce's voice overdubbed straight to hell and looping back to earth; give me that organ, but punch it up with some latin house piano, would ya; and also give me a really intense female backing chorus if you have one. And, oh, do you mind replacing the sax solo with a squiggly synthesizer? That would be great. And it is great, cos that is exactly what Arthur Baker does.

While double-tasking the writing and researching of this post, I found THREE MORE remixes by Arthur Baker, all of the glorious title song, "Born in the U.S.A.": a radio mix; a FREEDOM MIX (WTF); and a DUB MIX (HOLY FUCKING SHIT). You can also find the dub mix below, which really ups the ante in terms of SHEER AWESOMENESS mixed with a profound sense of SHAME.





I don't have much to say on the second one, except I'm convinced that there is a total psychic dissonance caused by the fact that the intro sounds almost just like New Order's "Blue Monday," except that when you know you are listening to a remix of Bruce Springsteen (I really can't stress how strange a phenomenon this is, people) there is something that appears very wrong and very right in the exact same capacity. Like, I sat in my bedroom blasting it, thinking, "YEEEEESSSSSS," (most of my thoughts boil down to this honestly), and then I remembered that my roommate went to college in Jersey, so I suddenly felt kinda bad, like I was making him re-live something he didn't want to in dub form. Let us know yr experience!

re:butt hash/palate cleanser

this is like the sorbet course.
whatever.
they found a its a cow dinosaur.
mesozoic cow

Everything You See is Butt Hash

You guys. I'm sorry, but I have to tell you about "butt hash", which is the street name for this new drug. Is it a hoax? I do not know. I am merely the messenger. Bringing you tidings of BUTT HASH.

Cream Puffs Are the Shit

I have no problem blogging about this. Cream puffs are the shit. Absolutely. Once every couple weeks several half-eaten boxes of them appear in the front of the office. Vanilla, chocolate, and sometimes a special flavor like pumpkin. I just got to eat a chocolate one... I think vanilla is actually a better flavor for a cream puff but I will not be picky.

kulture korner: records that i will buy tomorrow

It is worth noting that roughly 1 minute and 20 seconds into "The Electrician" off of the new Sightings record (OMFG), they start to sound like Brian Eno ca. Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), except from the bottom of a shark tank, and except that Robert Fripp is trying to frippertronic away from a giant shark, but he is covered in fresh meat and he knows that all he can do is carry on with his Frippery self. YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!1!!!1!

help

Last night I had another dream where Slash and I are hanging out and maybe falling a little bit in love with each other. I don't really know what to do with this trend in sleeping.

Special Foxes

I'm not really sure what sort of band is called "Special Foxes" but I am thinking about it a lot.

Genius Rock God

So, what I want to know is who wrote this in the women's bathroom at Sake Bar Decibel? WHO? Not that we of the Human Blog disagree in any way, but it's pretty rare to see Robert Pollard graffiti in the ladies room (right?).

I feel so inspired.