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Spring Fever

nobody@vox.com(Amanda) — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:56:34 -0400

It's spring time, so that means it's the beginning of indie-rock concert season. Here's what I've got so far. Who's with me for what?

~~April 1 - Les Savy Fav at Bowery Ballroom~~
April 11 - Cloud Cult at Black Cat
April 12 - Cloud Cult at Ottobar
April 14 - Of Montreal / Indie Rock Karaoke at Studio B
April 15 - Roky Erickson at Bowery Ballroom
April 19 - Humanwine at Crash Mansion (NYC)
April 28 - Dismemberment Plan at Black Cat
May 4 - Sunset Rubdown at Bowery Ballroom
May 5 - Bjork at Radio City Music Hall
May 7-9 - Arcade Fire in NYC (Location TBA)
May 10 - Sloan at Maxwell's
May 11 - Sloan at Southpaw
May 15 - Spank Rock at Highland Ballroom (NYC)
May 17 - Andrew Bird at Webster Hall
June 1 - CSS and Yo Majesty at Irving Plaza
June 23 - Panda Bear at Bowery Ballroom
June 30 - Morrissey at Madison Square Garden
July 16 - Decemberists and Grizzly Bear at Central Park Summerstage
July 18 - Ani diFranco at Prospect Park Bandshell
July 20 - Neko Case at Central Park Summerstage

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More of the same. (I totally heart this band.)

nobody@vox.com(Amanda) — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:38:01 -0500

01 - This Sentence Will RuinSave Your Life

I need to know who I am

and what I'm going to do while I'm on earth

I need to understand

everything and everybody's lives

I need to get up tomorrow

I have to mail that letter and pay that bill

deadlines, deadlines, deadlines

write that essay, and pray on the windowsill

lines, lines jump from line to line

just one, do one at a time

this one's all about mine mine mine

solve one try then keep on trying

i'm sculpting my philosophy

in patterns going 1,2,3

I'm trying your monogamy

in increments of 1 through 3

I need to eat I'm hungry

I'll grab a bight of a BLT

That’s all I want right now…

With some juice, no… coffee.

I need a girlfriend, I’m lonely

Someone to love me and fuck me

I need to get laid immediately

But also someone to fulfill my needs

I need success to be wealthy

I’m hanging on to my simplicity

I need a nice car and nice clothes

Fatter lips and a smaller nose

I need to learn I need to grow

I want to know. No no no no no no no no

I need nice hair… no women

Nice hair, then women. Until then…

lines, lines jump from line to line

just one, do one at a time

this one's all about mine mine mine

solve one try then keep on trying

I'm sculpting my philosophy

in patterns going 1,2,3

I'm trying post modernity

in increments of 1 through 3

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Music for the first spring-like day of the year

nobody@vox.com(Amanda) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:58:03 -0500

02 - Hedonistic Me

Born Ruffians

When I sail back home to you

I know exactly just what to do

And when I take these winds to home

I know I won't be alone

When I hang my trousers dry

I know it won't just be you and I

Cuz there'll be ma & pa and grandmama and all the children I have fathered

You know I have, I have a knack

For anything that uses my back

and I will work, will work these fields

Cuz it's the only thing that's real

And when I raise, raise my hands up high

I know it won't just be you and I

Cuz there'll be sun and snow and a horse Jethro and all the children I have fathered

And I will learn to cook for you

It's one thing that I plan to learn to do

and I will make sweet dandelion wine

and there'll be no search for time

spend all our lives just having lives

and there'll be no time for any lies

there's just mares-eat-oats and no more lows and all the children I have fathered

There'll be ma and pa and grandmama and all the children I have fathered.

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This song has been on repeat for the past thirty minutes and I can't stop singing along. Join me.

nobody@vox.com(Amanda) — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 21:07:02 -0500

02 Our Way to Fall

I remember a summer's day
I remember walking up to you 
I remember my face turned red
I remember staring at my feet
I remember before we met
I remember sitting next to you 
I remember pretending I wasn't looking
So try and try even if it lasts an hour
with all our might try and make it ours
cause we're on our way we're on our way
I remember your old guitar
I remember I can't explain 
I remember the way it looked around your neck
and I remember the day it broke
I remember the song you sang
I remember the way you look tonight
I remember the way you made me feel 
we'll try and try even if it lasts an hour 
with all our might we'll try and make it ours
cause we're on our way we're on our way 
to fall in love. 
You'll try and try even if it lasts an hour 
With all our might try and make it ours
cause we're on our way to fall in love. 
yeah we're on our way to fall in love. 
we're on our way to fall in love. 
we're on our way to fall in love.

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Such A Lovely Thing

nobody@vox.com(Amanda) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:50:11 -0500

09 Such A Lovely Thing

It’s an elusive thing    
This love of which we sing 
What
are we doing, 
What are we doing? 

And I will give
you anything, 
Just please don’t stop singing, 
The
world would stop spinning… 
arooooouunnd 

You’re
such a lovely thing 
But there is ice forming 
Upon your
pretty wings 
What are you protecting? 

And I will
give you everything, 
And you can wear this ring, 
But
you only love me, 
you only love me when I’m leaving,

you only love me ‘cause I’m leaving, 
you only love me
when I’m leaving, 
you only love me ‘cause I’m leaving
tonight 

you’ve such a lovely thing, 
but there is
ice for me, 
upon your pretty wings, 
why are you lying?


And I will give you everything 
Just please don’t
stop singing, 
The world would stop spinning

aroooouuund 

It’s an elusive thing, 
This love
of which we sing, 
What are we doing? 
What are we doing
here? 

And I will give you anything, 
And you can
wear my ring, 
But you only love me, 
You only love me
when I’m leaving, 
You only love me ‘cause I’m leaving,

You only love me ‘cause I’m leaving, 
You only love me
when I’m leaving.

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More Savage Love/Perfect Pop Music

nobody@vox.com(Amanda) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:15:15 -0500

06 - Ben Lee - Ache For You

Hoax

Even though you see it's a hoax
We continue as though it isn't

Even though we're duped
We agree to continue

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Listen to the song/read the words

nobody@vox.com(Amanda) — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:09:22 -0500

dress up in you

Beggar

Could you give me a small part of yourself
I'm only asking for the tiniest part
Just enough to get me from here to there

Could you give me something
Anything at all
I'll accept whatever it is

Could you just put your hand on my head
Could you brush against my arm
Could you just come near enough
So I could feel as though you might be able to hold me

Could you touch me with your voice
Blow your breath in my direction

Is it all right if I look straight into your face

Could I just walk behind you for a little while
Would you let me follow you at a distance

If I had anything of value I'd gladly give it to you
If there's anything of me you want just take it

But don't think I'm this way with everybody
I almost never come to this
In fact usually it's the other way around

There's lots of people
Who would love to even have a conversation with me
Who even ask me if they can walk behind me

So don't get any ideas that I'm completely alone
Because I'm not

In fact you're the one who looks like you could use a little company

Where do you get off thinking you have anything to give me anyway

I have everything I need
And what I don't have I know where to get it
Any time I want

In the middle of the night
In the middle of the afternoon
Five o'clock in the morning

In fact I'm wasting my time right now
Just talking to you

Hums
A capella, melody line only
no words

"I'm in the mood for love"

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Thanksgiving Song 2006

nobody@vox.com(Amanda) — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:01:37 -0500

02 Sleep The Clock Around

And the moment will come when composure returns
Put a face on the world, turn your back to the wall
And you walk twenty yards with your head in the air
Down the Liberty Hill, where the fashion brigade
Look with curious eyes on your raggedy way
And for once in your life you've got nothing to say
And could this be the time when somebody will come
To say, "Look at yourself, you're not much used to anyone"

Take a walk in the park, take a valium pill
Read the letter you got from the memory girl
But it takes more than this to make sense of the day
Yeah it takes more than milk to get rid of the taste
And you trusted to this, and you trusted to that
And when you saw it all come, it was waving the flag
Of the United States of Calamity, hey!
After all that you've done, boy, I know you're going to pay

In the morning you come to the ladies' salon
To get all fitted out for The Paperback Throne
But the people are living far away from the place
Where you wanted to help, your a bit of a waste
And the puzzle will last till somebody will say
"There's a lot to be done while your head is still young"
If you put down your pen, leave your worries behind
Then the moment will come, and the memory will shine

Now the trouble is over, everybody got paid
Everybody is happy, they are glad that they came
Then you go to the place where you've finally found
You can look at yourself sleep the clock around

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QotD: I'll Have Two Boxes, Please

nobody@vox.com(Amanda) — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 01:41:18 -0500

What's your favorite kind of Girl Scout cookie?
Submitted by My Lovely One.

THIN MINTS. Anyone who can hook me up with a few boxes will totally win my heart.

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QotD: Pickup Artist

nobody@vox.com(Amanda) — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:29:28 -0500

What's the worst pickup line you've ever heard?
Submitted by ShellEy.

I don't usually get pickup lines, but instead get assaulted on the dancefloor which is infinitely more annoying. Note to the guy dancers out there: if I choose you for a little hot sweaty stranger dancing, I'll let you know. No need to grab my ass to let me know you're interested.

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