Love Is A Place

This song by Metric is just so lovely and sad. The music video is pretty beautiful as well, if not groundbreakingly original. I'm just really obsessed with it right now. I listened to it maybe 6.5 times yesterday at work. The title "Love Is A Place" reminded me of something, but it wasn't 'til someone posted the poem Love Is A Place by e.e. cummings on Songmeanings.net that I figured it out. Zing! right on the money. So I'ma post the poem here as well...just because I love it. Has nothing to do with the song, really. Well, not that I'm aware, anyway.

love is a place - e.e. cummings

love is a place
& through this place of
love move
(with brightness of peace)
all places

yes is a world
& in this world of
yes live
(skillfully curled)
all worlds

Rinko Kikuchi

Reason #2 I dyed my hair blonde. Because I saw this dark haired Asian girl do it and look super fly. Obviously I am not asian, but whatever, close enough.

Rinko Kikuchi has one of the coolest names I have ever heard, birthname Yuriko. Damn Japs, gettin' all the cool names. Possibly that was racist? But it was a total compliment. I love Japanese girls. And boys...yum!

Anywho, the first movie I saw Rinko in was Babel, which aside from winning a shitload of oscar crap, was also a pretty decent movie. Her character in particular was my favorite bit. Despite the black hair.

The only other movie I've seen her in is The Brothers Bloom, a cult classic which I totally own. I watch the crap out of that movie. I tape people to chairs and use that eye-opening apparatus in A Clockwork Orange on them.

In The Brothers Bloom she plays Bang Bang, an explosives expert who always wears the most fetching hats. Rinko gave a brilliant performance and made a lovable character despite only speaking three words the entire movie.

From the moment I saw her in The Brothers Bloom, I wanted to look just like her. Also I wanted the hats.

Devon Aoki

*God damn those half-JapanESE girls! They do it to me everytime.* - Weezer

Okay, so, aside from being the daughter of Japanese founder of the Benihana restaurant chain and former wrestler Hiroaki "Rocky" Aoki, Devon is awesome in her own right as a model/actress. Because, ya know, she's hot. She's also reason #1 for me deciding to go blonde.

I first noticed her in a magazine. I kid you not, I have a literal "loved her before she was famous" moment there. That basically never happens to me. The movie I would say launched her career was 2 Fast 2 Furious. Then, of course she played Miho in Sin City. That was really the peak of her career for me. How could you not love that lovely, badass gal? And According to Wikipedia (which never lies) Sin City: A Dame To Kill For is coming out in 2013, which is pretty damn exciting. To me, at least. Hopefully it's not a flop like most sequels in that genre tend to be.

In any case, MORE MIHO!!!! WoooHooo!

El Scorcho - Weezer

Possibly one of the the only Weezer songs I don't actually own. But it really fits my mood/state of mind right now. Also, it's a Weezer song, and thus awesome. This particular song has a very Modest Mouse feel to it, in my opinion, but a rather classic Rivers Cuomo lyrical bent. Although, Brian Bell actually sings this one, I think.

"I'm a lot like you so please
Hello, I'm here, I'm waiting
I think I'd be good for you
And you'd be good for me."

Alles Neu - Peter Fox

The music video for this song is batshit crazy. I'm not exactly sure what's going on, but those monkeys sure can play those instruments pretty well. Also Peter Fox's voice is oddly entrancing. I haven't really listened to anything German since Sammi and I were big into Perfekte Welle. That was like 3 years ago. So this was nice.

Thank you Cracked for making me aware of this video through your article 4 Music Videos on YouTube That Will Make You A Better Person. I swear actual crack-cocaine could not be more addictive than the Cracked website. I've basically replaced books with their articles. Which is probably not a good thing...

WHATEVER!

Mad Girl's Love Song

by Sylvia Plath

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness wallows in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moonstruck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fire's fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should've loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)


For whatever reason, I am in love with this poem right now. Maybe because it's May and I'm always a little depressing in May. Sylvia Plath, notoriously depressed and suicidal, fits the month.

Billie Piper

Whether playing a Call Girl or a Doctor's companion, Billie Piper is my absolute favorite! She and her horsey teeth just make my day. Also, while checking out her Wiki, I found out she used to be a pop-star in the UK, which is just, oh-hilarious! Robin Sparkles much?

Some choice songs from Billie:
1. Because We Want To
2. Day & Night
3. Something Deep Inside

Hard To Concentrate - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

I am a little obsessed with this song right now. Apparently Anthony Kiedis wrote Hard To Concentrate for his best friend and bandmate, Flea.The song was for his wedding? Bro love! Idk, in any case, it's a beautiful song with one of the most interesting arrangements I've heard in a while. The lyrics are just so nice, "sweet precision and soft collision" is such a pretty way to euphamistically talk about sex. In my opinion.

Ben Browder

Hot Hot Hottie! I have loved Ben Browder since the first time I saw him on Farscape, in which he plays an astronaut who inadvertantly gets swallowed by a wormhole and spat into a different universe. You know how astronauts and wormholes get me going:P Apparently he's also in Stargate SG1, but I haven't seen that yet, so cannot attest to his awesomeness in that particular space adventure, but I'm sure he rocks. He sure rocks my world. Can't believe he's 50 in December.

Brandi Carlile

Beautiful voice. Incredible lyrics. Passionate deliverance. What more is there to say? Oh yeah, pretty much every song of hers makes me want to cry, they feel so much like my life.

My Faves:
1. Looking Out
2. The Story
3. Tragedy
4. What Can I Say
5. Dreams