Get these motherfucking snakes off this motherfucking plane

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For everyone who discovered Regina Spektor through the breath-taking brilliance of lim's SGA video This is How it Works, you might potentially be interested in Regina's latest video Fidelity, and I won't even hate (much) because I'd been pimping Regina for two years and nobody was listening. Please note: that even if you're not into the SGA fandom this video is *highly* recommended by me just for the artistry.

Also, Joshua Scott Jones that one artist that I told you all about that one time that was so new he only had one song recorded (Clang)? Yeah, well, see what bitching gets you? A whole eight-song podcast** courtesy of the Hardcore Troubadour ladies.

That, people, is progress.

Random gossip of the day: Supposedly X17 got Suri pictures, but all I see is people looking like Madame Tussauds' replicas, and damn, but it makes me think of The Liberation of Katie Holmes, which uh, yeah, now that's some crack right there. missdeviant, are you seeing this?


*Title from the song 'On the Radio' off the Begin to Hope LP, inspired by synecdochic's most brilliant story Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose

**He even has two Jeff covers*** which, shockingly, don't make my ears bleed. Prior to this momentus occasion, all Jeff covers were known to send me running from the room screaming for knives and arsenic.

***Of course one of these is a cover of a cover Jeff did of Leonard Cohen, but until they come up with a new phrase for a cover of a cover, I'll just call it a cover.


ETA: All YSI links have been replaced with SS as apparently YSI now requires you to log-in, which is just ludicrous

Comments

[whatdanidigs.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to the video!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You are very welcome!

[sandrine]

Thanks for the podcast link! I don't know anything about Joshua Scott Jones, but there can never be too many "Hallelujah" covers, and this one's beautiful.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Josh is very new, so one day you can brag tell everyone about the first recording he made in someone's living room :)

[missdeviant.livejournal.com]

missdeviant, are you seeing this?

I can barely tell that the 'woman' in the picture is Katie Holmes, and yet I'm supposed to believe that the baby a) was born of the loins of the TomKat, or (more to the point) b) is real and isn't just a doll specially designed by the Pleasant Company? Hmm. Yeah. NOT BUYING IT.

The video is being a bitch to load, but Fidelity is probably my second favorite track on the album after Samson. It's one of those songs that has already reached an embarassingly high playcount on iTunes.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I have so many different Regina songs from so many different EPs and LPs that I find myself alternating regularly. Right now 'On the Radio' has pride of place just because of the SGA video, but 'Us' is always huge with me as is 'Oedpius' and 'Chemo Limo'. As for the Suri thing, whomever that is at the window looks hella miserable. I mean prisoner much?

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I listened to you about Regina Spektor. I have learned it's better not to resist your music pimpage, because you're always right about music. (Although lord knows there are times when I'm tempted, because - seriously, podcast? Don't wanna. They always sound weird.) You have a gift or something.

You should tell people about this gift of yours upfront, so they don't waste a lot of time saying, "But - isn't that, like, hip-hop or something? Ew. Also, this woman is sadly obsessed with some guy named Jeff."

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Okay, I am dully mollified now. I was all 'Is nobody listening? Then who is downloading all this music? WTF! I am screaming in the void!' Ahem. I'll take my sedative now.

As for the podcast, it's one of those things. I only picked up this one because it's done by a friend, and the only podcast I ever listen to is KCRW, because I trust them. For most the sound is like they're in a bubble. Underwater.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

since when do you have to sign up to download from yousendit?!

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

That was the same question I asked my computer.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

What?! Since when?@ Okay, I'll move them somewhere else.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Okay, babies, everything is now SS. Have at it.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

That video is one of the best I've ever seen. Thanks for sending it my way. :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Which one?

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

"This is How It Works" :)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. It's just [waves hands vaguely in manner of one who has no adaquate words]. I watch it too much.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I really need to stop watching it, because it depresses me in the most terrific, self-flagellating way. And I mean that as a compliment to lim

[aklw.livejournal.com]

dude, i downloaded it my iPod after viewing it for the first time. now it's a masochistic obsession, worsened by the fact that, well, it's on my iPod and i can obsessively obsess about watch it anytime, anywhere, until the iPod's battery empties.

[aklw.livejournal.com]

um... the post's HTML is kinda screwed up. but i am totally agreeing on the Regina Spektor love.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I think I just fixed the HTML though how long it was bollixed, who knows...

[iseult-variante.livejournal.com]

Ok - I promise to listen to you from now on, because I found that song through that vid, and it is awesome. (The vid is also awesome.)

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I would never deliberatly lead you lot astray, unless you ask.

[parthenia14.livejournal.com]

I found the fanfic, and Regina Spector, and fanvids, all through that one video. It's great.

I've had a free Yousendit account for some time and it seems OK. They're all at it - sendspace doesn't work so well here. :(

So much stuff, and me on my holidays with nowhere to download...

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Did you want me to send you the YSI links, darlin? I have them somewhere I just took'em down b/c the log-in thing freaked me out -- This is How it Works (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=0FC2EB505BC7AF14&rcpt=ahackwriter@gmail.com) and Josh's Podcast (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=A8AB9B2F4E1FB262&rcpt=ahackwriter@gmail.com)

[visionofblue]

I'd been pimping Regina for two years and nobody was listening.

Hee. Hey, I got hooked on her through you! Which is...something, right? ;)

ETA: All YSI links have been replaced with SS as apparently YSI now requires you to log-in, which is just ludicrous

THANK-YOU! I've only recently started watching fanvids (Because I live under a rock. Um. It's warm here.) and an SGA vid set to a Regina Spektor song? All over that. Except YSI wouldn't let me be. I even logged in and it would still not give it up. ::baps YSI::

[fringelement.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link - I've been a Regina fan for a few years, though I haven't had a chance to get the new album yet. The bass lines on 11:11 are really fun to play. :D

Now if only someone would do a Simon Tam vid to 'Poor Little Rich Boy'!