Its amazing what can happen within the time span of one month... my social/love life seems to have taken over in a good way. Of course I'm neglecting things like balancing my check book regularly, checking out music online or updating my facebook page - I honestly can't keep up with the damn thing to begin with.

A certain someone sent me the link to watch Dr. Horrible's Music Sing A-long Blog (I think I may have butchered the title). It was created by Joss Whedon aka the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the tv show not the movie). I can almost relate to Dr. Horrible's plight except for the evil part.. he seems to have the same crap luck with love and dating (I mean except for now).

Also, I am addicted to this cover by Frida Hyvönen. She is on this cover album called "Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill." I honestly have no idea who the hell Judee Sill is, but I love love love the song "Jesus was a Crossmaker" as covered by Frida Hyvönen... you will find yourself spewing lyrics from this song at odd moments. So if you hear me attempting to hit the notes on this one, just smile and nod.

I may need to go unwind at this show on Thursday... since right now I'm listening to L7's "shit list" and I feel their pain... "for all the ones that put me out... for all the ones that filled my head with doubt..."

Speaking of music..."New Tales to Tell - a Tribute to Love and Rockets" just came out, I'm not sure of the exact date that it came out. It looks like the only good artist on there is Black Francis, so I promptly downloaded his cover of "All in my Mind" from itunes today ... it kicks ass!

I got this fun little thing from a friend on facebook... allegedly I was to list 50 artists or bands (or as many as I could remember) that I've seen in concert. Oh, and list the first concert I've ever been to.. let the shame and pride commence...

1. First concert: bon jovi
2. skid row
3. poison
4. warrant
5. Robert Plant
6. Nalle
7. The Street Dogs (at the green room! no less)
4. Throwing Muses
5. Kristin Hersh 2x (minus and with some of the Muses)
6. Justin Timberlake
7. Pink
8. Damien Rice
9. Fiona (crap)Apple
10. Jewel
11. Heather Rose (played at my art exhibit)
12. Heather Rose and the Drama
13. Katura at the Greenwich Hotel! (I think I mispelled her name)
14. Serious Fierce (which is really just Heather Rose and Katura)
15. the Douchbags
16. Bjork
17. David Bowie
18. Macy Grey (opened for Bowie)
19. Tori Amos
20. Van Halen
21. Reason to Fight (a bazillion times)
22. the Amaaaaazing (royal) Crowns! 3x
23. Weetus (the band that sung "teenage dirtbag opened for the AC)
24. The Dandywarhols (sucked before AC)
25. The Agents (opened for AC)
26. Vic Chestnut (w/Kristin Hersh)
27. Toby Lightman (opened for Jewel)
28. PJ Harvey
29. Chris Rosequest 3 or 4x(played at my art exhibit)
30. Beck Chase 3 or 4x
31. Stained (before anyone gave a crap who they were)
32. Kilgore Smudge 2x (who changed their name to Smudge or Kilgore or something then broke up.)
33. Yeah Yeah Yeahs (opened for bjork)
34. Alannah Myles (opened for Robert Plant)
35. Sinead O'Connor
36. LLove
37. Case Closed (a bazillion times before they broke up and changed band members and renamed themselves)
38. For What its Worth (a bazillion times)

...then, I got out my concert tickets stubs to remember who I had seen...

39. Heart 2x (at the Mohegan Sun because they rock!)
40. Sick Sense (a bazillion times)
41. Kiss w/make-up!
42. Def Leppard
43. Whitesnake
44. Aerosmith
45. the dancing dogs
46. 25 to Life
47. Candace Brooks Band

and I honestly can't recall anyone else's name, I've seen more than this, such as, the punk band with the French drummer who was old enough to be my day and flirting with me... or the punk band where the drummer hugged Sharon and I and thanked us for coming. Allegedly drummers like me.

Bands I'd like to see (as I just seen one on MFR that made me sad I don't live closer and lack a time machine): Sonic Youth, The Breeders, The B52's, The Gay Blades (because their daytrotter session was so impressive) Tanya Donelly, 50FootWave and The Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer

Today is supposed to reach or at least feel like a 100 degrees here in RI and I'm sweating with the AC on... could be that I just got one hell of an email which inspired the following poem:

untitled

a crush of... a rush of air 2am. breathing the chill air. ribs and fingertips. gin. gin. gin. music that's music playing over the din of my rush thoughts... nerves vibrating. popping bubbles of bursted hopes and lust. ginger tongue. gin-grr tongue. dirty streets. passers-by, busy for 2am. the world, where it was seconds before we kissed and then the aftermath of bliss driving into the darkness. what was on the radio? what was that thought bubble? your words make it all over again repeating stuck on the record skipping like my breath.

*****

other things that make my heart go skip skip is new music by Kristin Hersh... its not ginger milk tea, and its not a hell of a 2am kiss, but you know, its still good none the less.

I'm also loving Memory Cassettes who allegedly go by several other names as well. I think one is Memory Tapes, I'm too lazy to look up the others. They're so mellow, sweet and make me wish to curl up with the sound and drink ginger milk tea and dance in the sunshine - maybe it was the kiss the other night that is making everything seem oh-so-sweet? but whatever, they're awesome.

The quote: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History comes to mind.. and I believe I found the concept of the show I want to put on... I've been rolling the idea around in my head for the past few days. I'd like to curate another show, I can't decide if I want to just include people I know and present it that way to a gallery or if I want to open it up to other artists, which will require just as much work anyhow. It would make a good show for Women's History Month. Its a broad (no pun intended) enough topic that it could include fictional characters, as well as historical ones. I've been working on a bunch of bitches lately from the queen of hearts self-portrait to a Medusa - the drawing is kind of crazy and creepy. I was thinking the show could be called "bitches" except no gallery would agree to having such a show entitled that!

Speaking of ladies, I may have met the cutest person ever, I mean after Kim Deal - its really hard to live up that brand of cuteness. The lady in question is going with me to the burlesque show/big band/marching band craziness at Firehouse 13, which should be a good time, then we're going to be having some cocktails after. She told me she plans on kissing me again and not asking first this time. I just want to bottle her up and keep her for a rainy, crappy day when I need a whole crap-load of cute to unleash.

you will believe • 2009 • mixed media


There is not one big cosmic meaning for all,
there is only the meaning we each give to our life,
an individual meaning, an individual plot,
like an individual novel, a book for each person. - Anais Nin

*********

Maybe I just had a bad case of the Mondays... maybe I was feeling frustrated over the fact that my cellphone is kicking the bucket right along with my bank account, love life and perhaps art career... Maybe I was upset because some asshole hit and subsequently killed, the stray kitten I was feeding (okay that does technically make the kitten mine).. whatever it was that had me feeling like crap, I made some art and a playlist. I call the collage, you will believe made from a picture from a magazine of "Edie" Beale, handmade paper (that I made with my bare hands) and a psychic business card I found on my windshield one day. And, my playlist is called, My Maudlin Monday now available for previewing on lastfm!

its on shuffle so there's really no rhyme or reason to the numbering system:

1. Fate to Fatal - The Breeders

2. Baggage - L7

3. Black Rainbow - St. Vincent

4. Bruises - Chairlift

5. Headache - Frank Black

6. Dammit - The Kelley Deal 6000

7. Don't Call Home - The Breeders

8. Doubtful Comforts - Blue Roses

9. Freak Out - My Brightest Diamond

10. Hate - The Dresden Dolls

11. I just Wanna Get Along - The Breeders

12. I Quit - The Jealous Girlfriends

13. I've Been Tired - The Pixies

14. Leeds United (Lounge Version) - Amanda Palmer

15. Life Being What it Is - Kaki King

16. Middle Cyclone - Neko Case

17. Crooked - Kristin Hersh

18. My Maudlin Career - Camera Obscura

19. No Time. No Hope - Times New Viking

20. Nothing Ever Happened - Deerhunter

21. Panic - The Smiths

22. People Got a Lotta Nerve - Neko Case

23. Poor Wayfaring Stranger - Kristin Hersh

24. Save Me From What I Want - St. Vincent

25. Trash - New York Dolls

26. Two Times Blue - Debbie Harry

27. Your Downtime is Up - Birds of Avalon

on LezGetReal:music for the money challenged
ps. I didn't do the clip art that goes along with my blog on lezgetreal- just want to put that out there.

I did this one, I worked on it really hard on it, I dumped a bunch of cassettes out and took a picture (that's art!):

It annoys the piss out of me when I read an interview with a favorite female musician, artist, writer ect and right off the bat the interviewer: 1) makes a huge deal about them having a vagina and 2) mentions how they look, specifically in suggestion that they are some sort of eye-candy. I feel like it negates their talent - its like half a dozen design interviews I've been on where its clear they are thinking: "oh how cute, she thinks she's an artist!" because they either barely glance at my portfolio and some never looked at it at all... but if your an artist how they hell are they to judge your skills if they are ignoring your portfolio?

Why does it matter if they are attractive at all - attraction and beauty is subjective. And not to mention there's inevitably a photo of the person they are interviewing for the reader to clearly see what the person looks like! But of course if you own a vag we need to be validated as attractive in order to be talented... even, apparently if the interviewer is a woman.

In the interview entitled, Sonic Youth Ages Gracefully, (oh don't even get me started on the title) Kim Gordon is talking about packing to go on tour and the jackass interviewing her seriously, seriously, says to Kim Gordon,"Yeah all those shoes!" what?! what the hell?! Because every woman owns so many shoes how on earth would a successful, talented woman possibly live without seven thousand pairs of shoes?! Is this 2009? You know you'd never get this sort of thing with an interview with a male anything.. most times not even in a women's magazine would they resort to such utter stupidity. I just heard a podcast with Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo they didn't ask them about packing shoes, or mention how attractive the interviewer may think they are.

The only other interview that pissed me off more than this one was one with Tanya Donelly with the Providence Phoenix and the person interviewing her described, in detail, exactly what she was wearing. I remember pausing in the midst of reading this thinking, "What does her clothes have to do with her musical talent?!" Much in the same way as, What does Kim Gordon's shoes have to do with fucking anything?!I think Kim Gordon handled this interview with far more grace than I probably could of.

I was supposed to go to this meeting in Providence with Mayor David N. Cicilline who was going to unveil the Creative Providence Cultural Plan. It was open to the pubic. Of course my work schedule is cuckoo, and I decided to wait to RSVP my seat. Well, I said I was going on facebook but from going to the site I realized I was supposed to contact the contact person - oops! This just means, I should do something creative or take a walk since the sun is finally shinning!

Last night, I had on after-hours jazz on WBRU, somewhere around 2 or 3am the radio station lost it signal so I switched to HJY, when I awoke this morning the dumb and dumber aka: Paul and Al were already making fun of Michael Jackson, who just died last night! Okay, I know this is their thing, to make fun of everything, but holy god, the guy just died! I stopped listening to the moron - I mean morning show on HJY a long time ago, when I got sick of listening to them make fun of gays. I feel like Paul and Al are stuck in another time period, one where its perfectly acceptable to sit in their little hetero bubble and make fun of someone who doesn't happen to sleep with the opposite sex. They still make the same jokes that they did in the 80's when they started out on this radio station! Their radio show is for white, stupid rednecks, there must still be some hanging around RI and that's why they are still on the radio.

Needless to say, I changed the station before they could finish making fun of Michael Jackson. He was one of my favorites when I was a kid. I used to have a pin of him that my mom had bought me some store in the mall, that is until some girl at school stole it off of my jacket - we couldn't prove she did, but she did still my smurf gloves which she waved in my face saying her parent had bought her the same ones. Oddly enough that was the exact moment when I couldn't find mine. I believe her first name was, Jen, and she was the type of kid you just wanted to bitch slap, if you yourself were not a kid half her body weight.

A few weeks back, I made a cd of the current songs that are in constant rotation on my itunes. The cd in question just happened to be playing in my car to and from PRIDE.. so my friend, Pop, mentioned how much he enjoyed it. I promised to make him a copy, which I did... but I thought I'd share with the world wide web...

I decided its called "Pop's Pop" you can hear some samples on my lastfm playlist:

1. Empty Glasses (4-track version)- The Amps
2. Flower - Sonic Youth
3. Hi, Remember Me - My Brightest Diamond
4. French Navy - Camera Obscura
5. No Garage - Sonic Youth
6. Tight Black Rubber - Black Francis
7. Bruises - Chairlift
8. The Lovecats - Dylan in the Movies & Tanya Donelly
9. O, Shot - The Gay Blades
10. Fate To Fatal - The Breeders
11. Tell The World - The Vivian Girls
12. Dancing Choose - TV on the Radio
13. People Got A Lot of Nerve - Neko Case
14. Le Flying Saucer Hat - Chairlift
15. Pay No Mind - Sonic Youth
16. God Damn the Sun - Dresden Dolls
17. Friendboats - Mariee Sioux
18. Don't Stop Believin' - Marnie Stern

writing about sex - big surprise... so that'll be coming soon to a computer screen near you!

Entered yet another art exhibit that is opening very very soon, but since the opportunity did present itself I figured, what the hell! Hopefully they'll put my work in. Though my first thought was "shit! do I have anything left to show?!" I stopped looked up at the painting hanging over my computer desk and thought, "this isn't promised to any gallery yet!" I also recalled the several others I have here and there.. like this one for instance:



Yesterday afternoon, I went to the show at Mom and Pop tattoo... Sonic Nova has some cool stuff displayed there, so go check it out. There were other artists as well who had some sweet stuff, and there were bands, bands which I didn't get to see because I didn't realize they weren't playing until much later. I kind of wanted to see The Viennagram, but I had podcasting to do. And I'm not sure I would've lasted much longer in that heat anyhow, I seem to wilt in it. Sonic Nova, of course, was wearing part of his flaming carrot costume much to my and everyone elses' disbelief and amusement, he was posing (in full costume) for pictures!

Speaking of music, I was asked about the first show I ever went to.. which was Bon Jovi with Skid Row opening at the Providence Civic Center - oh the shame! Then I was asked about my top favorite concerts. Of course I can't even pick ONE favorite band, never mind a favorite of all time show! I think some would be: Kristin Hersh with Vic Chestnut at Lupos, PJ Harvey at Lupos, Ann & Nancy Wilson at Mohegan Sun, Throwing Muses at the Met Cafe, Bjork with Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs at the Fleet Center, The Amazing Crowns at India Point Park (and it was free!), David Bowie with Macy Gray at Mohegan Sun, Heather Rose and Chris Rosenquest playing the closing reception of my solo show at WestSide Arts... actually that one was a relief that I didn't have to be the center of attention but they did! the punk show that Reason to Fight played at CBGB's (like a million years ago) was also pretty monumental even if I did have to hide behind a dude who is referred to as "Pete Pills" to avoid the flying people and furniture. Who knew people could launch themselves across a room like that?

I've been stuck in the house with a bad cold so its been nothing but reading, movie watching and listening to one cd/mp3 after another. The other day I contemplated listening to all my cds in alphabetical order just for shits and giggles. I didn't do it. Though, I did watch episodes of Buffy, Family Guy, and Bones. I also watched a mediocre horror movie called "White Noise." I got it from the local library which never seems to have a good selection of dvds. They always have movies that are at least three years old, which should be a good selection for someone who seems to miss movies when they actually come out but... its not. Its been awhile since I watched a quality horror flick, the last one was this Korean film called "the host." It wasn't scary but it was suspenseful, unpredictable, and well done, which is something I can not say about "White Noise."

Since I've been sitting (or laying) on my ass, I decided to sit my ass in front of the computer for a long amount of time. I finally got around to checking out Kristin Hersh's website, I haven't visited in awhile I'm abashed to admit. Its all newly designed by Lakuna which is the design studio of Misi and Dave Narcizo (Throwing Muses drummer). Dave is the sort of dude I'd shake hands with, if I weren't completely intimidated by the fact that he's the drummer the Throwing Muses.

Kristin Hersh put up new songs on her Cashmusic site. For once, I actually paid for my mp3's. In her song, "Sand" I swore she was saying "Rape!" at the beginning of the song. I was half expecting a "don't do it, because its not nice.." in there. I don't believe she has any rape or really political songs, but I figured maybe she was going in a new direction with this one. I tried to look up the song lyrics because sometimes I just hear weird things in songs, like that Throwing Muses song where I swore she was proclaiming: "I need a fuck.." turns out it was "fork." Or that Pixies song "Levitate Me" where it sounds like Frank Black says, "kick a baby." Before I get hate mail, I don't condone kicking babies, but that part of the song strikes me funny because he seems to say it with such gusto.. and its funny because its wrong.

So anyhow, Kristin Hersh is not saying, "Rape!" at the beginning of "Sand." I couldn't find the lyrics on her site, but there was an explanation of the song, which had nothing to do with rape, so there goes that theory. Maybe if she's reading this... she has my permission to write "Rape! don't do it because its not nice." though it sounds more like subject for an Amanda Palmer song.

I feel I should explain "Rape! don't do it because its not nice" was a comment one of my fellow cocktail club members proclaimed in our podcast about me blogging to help get donations for RAINN (the rape abuse incest national network). We were trying desperately to not be assholes about the subject, so of coures of us spewed that out. I think that was the same podcast in which I spewed out a quote from Victorian Erotica which was something along the lines of "fuck me with a prick of hate, not love!"

Lately I feel like my life has been much like the song where the chorus line says, "work. school. work. death." I forget who sings it. Maybe I need more yoga and mediation... or a vacation...maybe I need to get laid?

...I started to think about someone I used to date, while I was daydreaming earlier. I have plenty of time to daydream when I go out to dinner with my parents because they are not always that talkative. Its not like I was thinking about sex right there with the folks at the dinner table in the middle of AppleBees. I'm not a total pervert. I was just thinking "just a what if..." As in what if XXX walked through the door and we just picked up where we left off? I know what would happen, my best friends would have me committed.

Maybe its the season. Spring is kind of a sexy time of year. Things are in bloom, animals and humans are feeling a little more spring in their step, what with not freezing ones' ass off or having to treck through several feet of snow. However, Rhode Island doesn't seem to be getting so much spring-like weather this year. The other week it was 80 degrees outside! I don't mind so much not having spring weather, as I enjoy being able to wear my favorite outfit of big sunglasses, wife beater, skirt and flip flops or my little cloth mary janes from Spectrum on Thayer St. The only "accessory" I seem to lack is a nice girl to hold hands with. Of course I never go for the said "nice" girls (or guys for that matter). I keep saying I want to meet one, and end up with the ones that are usually bad for me.. bad, but oh so good, in other ways.

Maybe my lack of dating has been the fuel for my creativity lately, though I could just be a crafty bitch. Some tend to think I'm a rather crafty bitch. Thank every god in the universe for creativity ability... I don't know what I'd do with all my excess energies, I'd probably practice yoga and mediation 7 hours a day if it were not for drawing, painting, sewing and writing. And thank every god in the universe for music to keep me well entertained.. so I can create crazy playlists on my itunes, centered around my various moods.

I made one today that I decided should be "sexy" music to go along with my lack of a love life rather than mope about it. Some of the songs made the cut just for the titles alone.. like the one titled "Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh." It was a stereogum email mp3 of the week thing... It has Pop's favorite: hand claps, in it!:

1. stars - au revior simone
2. tight black leather - black francis
3. i'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance - black kids
4. le flying saucer hat - chairlift
5. he's got the honey - donita sparks
6. the lovecats - dylan in the movie & tanya donelly
7. hurricane - emily rogers
8. o, shot - the gay blades (best band name ever!)
9. fun with ropes - the go-go's
10. o stella - pj harvey
11. dammit - the kelley deal 6000 (the next best band name ever)
12. shirley - L7
13. awake - letters to cleo
14. knocked up - Lykke Li
15. hi, remember me - my brightest diamond
16. bad girl - new york dolls
17. down to the well - pixies
18. pretty in pink - the psychedelic furs
19. lust - the raveonettes
20. you drive me wild - the runaways
21. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh - say hi
22. anything but love - squirrel nut zippers
23. so fine (chairlift remix) - telepathe
24. teenager lust - times new viking
25. sweet jane - the velvet underground
26. bang - the yeah yeah yeahs
27. somebody to love - 50 foot wave

did someone say new breeders?! Yes,stereogum.com did..
http://stereogum.com/archives/mp3/new-breeders-video-fate-to-fatal_064331.html
its coming out next Tuesday, next Tuesday is going to be my favorite day of the week ever!Its going to be $3.96 at Amazon - sweet, even I can afford that!

you can download a John Cage song for free!
this link takes you to stereogum that has the link to the itunes page, I'm super psyched: http://stereogum.com/archives/the-first-movement-of-john-cages-4-33-is-todays-it_061831.html

also you should check St. Vincent I officially love them

http://stereogum.com/archives/mp3/new-st-vincent-actor-out-of-work_061612.html

Celebrated St. Patty's at As220... drank that Guiness I had been dreaming about with my some friends served up by an attractive bartender... mingled... people watched... listened to part of a set of some noise/punk type band. They seemed to be going for a New Times Viking or Sonic Youth sound, with some practice they could be pretty good. Later, I looked at some art, they have a good show going on in the main gallery of all these urban landscape type paintings of some interesting buildings that are scattered throughout Providence. I liked the colors/texture. Unfortunately, I forget the artist's name. The cafe area has a Jenine Bressner piece hanging in the window, its pretty interesting... there were people sitting at the table underneath it so it seemed weird to sit there and look at the art over their heads. I have one of Jenine Bressner's necklaces that I purchased years ago at a RISD alumni sale...

Last night I headed out to go to Gallery Night only to realize I had seen most of the exhibits already... though I hadn't seen the one at Gallery Z. So Gallery Z it was! There's an abstract art show going on. I was more impressed with this one than the erotic art show they had last month. The erotic show was good, but I believe this one is stronger. There are some exceptional pieces/artists in this one. I fell in love, love, love, with Michael Bryce's three pieces made from dvd covers and what I presume was eight hundred tubes of paint to get that much texture... in rainbow colors! I went back to drool over them a few times before I left. Also, one of my local fav's, Astrid, had some lovely little drawings in the show. Astrid never fails to amazement with such simple, yet powerful, beautiful works.

I left happy with all my visual stimuli to think of while walking several blocks to my car because there is never any parking on Federal Hill. It was good walking weather, not too hot, not too cold.

Driving on 195 listening to cassettes, as my car is broken down and my Dad's car, which I'm borrowing, doesn't have a cd player but a cassette player. It sucks and at the same time is slightly amusing to have to listen to cassettes again. I can't really listen to anything recent. The most recent non-mixed tape that I have is Throwing Muses "Limbo" from 1996 - one of these days I'm going to get it on cd...

Last night, I had my own personal 70's acid trip like teenage flashback with Heart's "Magazine" as my soundtrack. When "Magazine" came out in 1978 - well, I wasn't buying albums. My parents used to have "Magazine" on 8-track - at least Dad's car doesn't have an 8-track player in his car...now. I used to be able to lay on my belly, in front of the stereo in the living room, with Dad's big dj-like headphones listening to 8-tracks staring at this gigantic pile of records and 8-tracks that my parents had. I wasn't allowed to touch them without permission, so of course I wanted to and would, in the morning when they slept late and I got up early. When I was about 14, I purchased my own copy of "Magazine" on cassette. Oh how I used to swoon over the title track... I always had this Alice in Wonderland type mental impression of the title track when it played. I didn't realize at the time that some of the less Heart-eque songs were covers such as "I Got the Music in Me" or "Mother Earth Blues" they are kind of cheesy and out-dated but, oh so good. Oh, and "Devil Delight" with those notes that only Ann Wilson could hit, made me wish to curl up and die with sensory overloaded happiness. My best friend tells me that Ann Wilson sings like a man - I still have no idea what this means. Maybe its like that local artist, whose name I forget, who told me I paint like a man. I guess Ann and I have something in common.

According to Ann and Nancy Wilson, "Magazine" is one of their worst albums, as they were under contract and needed to produce this album in order to get out of it... so they slapped something together! This probably wasn't the idyllic story I wanted to hear about one of my favorite albums, but such is the music industry, when you have boobs and a vagina.

http://50footwave.cashmusic.org/freemusic/

your welcome!

ps you should leave them a tip.

This is the highlight of my day, an itunes playlist, I've entitled it "love sucks"...


1. headache - frank black
2. 0 shot - the gay blades
3. half blast - kristin hersh
4. mean muses - the gay blades (I just thought KH and this song were funny next to each other)
5. I want the one I can't have - the smiths
6. lust to love - the go-go's
7. freak out - my brightest diamond
8. down in a well - the pixies
9. don't stop believn' - marnie stern
10. inside a boy - my brightest diamond
11. aly, walk with me - the raveonettes
12. here is the news - au revoir simone
13. i'm not going to teach your boyfriend how to dance - black kids
14. so sad about us - the breeders
15. dammit - the kelley deal 6000 (I think her band name sounds like a sci-fi movie, like maybe there are kelley deal robots taking over earth)
16. here & now - letters to cleo
17. rape me - nirvana

so there's this thing going around facebook: Top 10 albums to hear from start to finish.
I decided to add to it just because & my music collection is completely out of control:
1. Heart - little Queen
2. Throwing Muses - in a doghouse (both disks!)
3. The Breeders - Title TK
4. Sonic Youth - goo
5. Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold
6. REM - new adventures in hi-fi
7. Sinead O'Connor - the lion and the cobra
8. PJ Harvey - Is this Desire?
9. Bjork Gudmundsdóttir & trio Gudmundar Ingólfssonar - Gling Glo
10.Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
11.Bob Marley - Natty Dread
12.The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
13.Lakuna - Castle of Crime
14.Macy Gray - the id
15.The Dresdon Dolls - Yes Virgina
16.Tanya Donelly -This Hungry Life
17.Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
18.Portishead - dummy
19.Nalle - the siren's wave
20.Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes


oh and if you somehow can't get enough of me here's my facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=516449363&ref=name#/profile.php?id=516449363&ref=profile