Monday music: March 8th

I’m not for the ghettoization of female artists, but for today I’m going to say – screw it, this isn’t ghettoization. This is the highlighting of the women in my music library. There are too few, I’ve realized.

Trouble – Pink
Old Enough – Rickie Lee Jones
Ghost World – Aimee Mann
Sun Sun Sun – Lisa Mitchell
Roses Are Not Red – Simone White
Northern Lad – Tori Amos
I Don’t Like Your Band – Annie
Little Shadow – the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Alejandro – Lady Gaga
Don’t Leave – Ane Brun

I was actually at this concert. Bad acoustics, but Soncekliosh is a cool band:

Go on and take it off. You’ve got to shake it off baby, for me. Come on and break me off. ‘Cause I get what I want, and I like what I see.

For Kathryn Bigelow: Happy International Women’s Day

Bit of meta irony – but heaps of of praise as well. Seriously, I LOVE Kathryn Bigelow. She’s the only reason I even gave a crap about the Oscar this year. Well that, and, apparently, some homoerotic innuendo involving the ever-reliable Jeremy Renner. Mmmm.

But screw men for a second (in every which way, darlings). You know what I still like about International Women’s Day? The fact that over here in the former USSR, it’s women who congratulate each other very sincerely.

I’m also glad that tonight, instead of sitting in a cafe, I will be attempting my first short film shoot along with my wonderful, also female co-director. I like to think this is all very symbolic.

And now I am getting way, way too corny for words.

[insert dick joke]

Monday music: handfuls of goodbye

До свиданья, друг мой, без руки, без слова,
Не грусти и не печаль бровей, —
В этой жизни умирать не ново,
Но и жить, конечно, не новей.
– Сергей Есенин

Khaled, this is for you, for obvious reasons.

Also, real life has walloped me over the head since I got back from Moscow, but I appear to be standing, all major organs intact. Not so for a friend of mine. So Alan, (1984 – 2010), this is for you as well.

You Only Live Once – the Strokes
Animal (Fake Blood Remix) – Miike Snow
New Song – Beat Crusaders
Further and Further Away – Ghosts
Honestly – Zwan
The Lisbon Maru – Fuck Buttons
Do You Remember – the Horrors
Motion Picture Soundtrack – Radiohead
Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 1) – the Beatles
1-800-288-SLAM – Meanderthals