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Elliot Smith - "Needle in the Hay" |
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The events of today (or the non-events of today) does not have any kind of relation to the title. at all.
i feel anything but dead sexxxy.
I feel like i'm going to cough up a fucking lung, as well as about 126 of my other bodily organs.
but hey, who's complaining?
I'll just sit here watching my tape of Rufus Wainwright on Zach Galifianakis' show.
Speaking of which, when the fuck did good ol' Zach Galifianakis get a show?
I saw promos for it on VH1, sure, but i hardly recognized him for some reason because i just didn't think he'd have a show.
He's too smart for it. It's amazing that he is in the same kind of occupation as Carson fucking Daly.
Plus, the man does NOT get enough piano time. That's his whole deal. That's what makes him so beautifully different. He has this gorgeous backround music he's playing, yet he's sarcastically stating the awful truths about the world today.
This show cannot be a good idea. They're all going to rape who he is and what he's about and make him this corporate puppet with a $25 Casio keyboard from Radioshack. Sooner or later, he won't be happy, he'll try to get out, and they'll break him.
Or maybe I'm wrong.
I can't say that i wasn't happy to see him have a show so randomly because, seriously, I have been really into him since i saw him on Conan for the first time a few years ago. Ever since then, Zach has been on my Top 3 favorite Conan Guests list. The rest of the list goes as follows:
1) Sarah Vowell - This women is the epitome of the smart, funny women.
She is so wonderfully sarcastic and gorgeous, i love her. Her book, Take the Cannoli, is probably one of my favorite books EVER. I strongly recommend it. very very much so.
In one of the passages in her book, she talks about growing up with a gunsmith as her father:
"I am a gunsmith's daughter. I like to call my parents' house, located on a quiet residential street in Bozeman, Montana, the United States of Firearms. Guns were everywhere: the so-called pretty ones like the circa 1850 walnut muzzleloader hanging on the wall, Dad's clients' fixer-uppers leaning into corners, an entire rack right next to the TV. I had to move revolvers out of my way to make room for a bowl of Rice Krispies on the kitchen table."
Come on. It's fucking gold. Then, in another passage, she talks about getting goth and how she was having trouble thinking of a "goth" name:
"When I was pondering a good goth name for myself, I paged through my reference books on death and dying looking for something gruesome. Nothing felt right. Maybe it's because I came of age in the '80's and I've seen Blue Velvet too many times, but to me, the really frightening stuff has nothing to do with ravens and rats. The truly sordid has a sunny Waspy glow. Therefore, I tell them, the most perverse name I can think of is Becky. It turns out that by saying the magic word "Becky" I have suddenly moved up to the head of the class, gothwise. As Monique puts it: "You are understanding the pink of goth. You've skipped a couple of levels and went straight to pink."
It's genius. Go get the book now. Or i will Kill You.
2) Sarah Silverman - She's another one of the beautifully smart, cynical, but still sexy, smart women out there.
If you remember, she got into that whole controversy about using the word "chink" in a joke while she was on the Conan show. If people actually LISTENED to the whole joke instead of tuning in for the one, little word, they would have seen that it was a smart, funny joke that makes you think. It's too bad that there is so many closed-minded people in the world, Sarah should be much more beloved. She actually also wrote and was featured on Saturday Night Live, briefly, some years ago.
She's just so funny. Look:
"My grandmother died recently. She was 97, so obviously I suspected foul play. I am paying for a full autopsy and full rape exam. My parents think I’m crazy. I’m not crazy. Oh please, God, I hope they find semen in my dead grandmother’s vagina!"
It's hilarious. all good things.
3) Zach Galifianakis - I explained my love for him above.
I see Le Tigre in less than a month. wonderful.
I'll now go back to drowning myself in Rufus Wainwright and Elliot Smith..
comment if you must.
-meg
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