May 10th, 2005
Enough updates today to make your head spin. But first, my email is molly.knight@gmail.com for those who were asking.

I tried to make a joke earlier that didn't work! So I took it down.

I've been (pathetically) looking to replace my copy of Tori Amos' From The Choirgirl Hotel for the last three years. I know, I know. It's one of my favorites, but, unfortch., I am LAZY. So anyway, I told Greg over at Academy Records on 18th Street (where I go every day on my lunch break* to geek out) to be on the lookout for a used copy. When I went over there a few minutes ago, he proudly pulled one out from behind the register. The cd on top of the stack right below it caught my eye: THE DEVLINS, in all caps. For the unobvs. the Devlins opened for Amos on the tour supporting Choirgirl. Someone is so TOTALLY messing with my nostalgia noodle.

*denotes zero to seven minutes in length

Renee Zellweger: Almost Famous

You had me at...

...O...

...no!

The good news is, ABC responds with the most culturally insensitve headline since, well, probably since the weekend:

Zellweger-Chesney Tsunami Shocks Hollywood

I have to listen to probably 30 or 40 albums a month and 90% of them are about as memorable as a Bic pen. So when I hear something I actually want to bring home and put on my shelf, it's truly an amazing event. Yesterday I listened to the debut album from a little band out of Tennessee called de novo dahl and I am absolutely infatuated. If you're into great indie pop, check them out. The record is called Cats & Kittens and it's obvs. to me it will be a hit if marketed appropriately (read: on The O.C., Scrubs, or any MTV program.) I'm wearing my shirt inside-out today, but I'm not wrong about this.

My friend Tammy has been swearing by Blonde Redhead forever, and she finally sent me a bunch of their stuff that she likes. So far, my favorite song is "Falling Man." I wonder why I didn't hear it on the radio. Oh wait, it's because I haven't listened to the radio in six years (no lie). Overall, BR sound sort of like Bjork meets the Arcade Fire. Odd, but really really good.

The new Missy Elliot single, 'Lose Control," is catchy as a cold sore. It's got kind of an early Mariah Carey beat, and some super-busy chimes that sound like those chasing Christmas lights look. Lyrical highlight: "Take somebody by the waist and mmmmm/Then throw it in their face like mmmmmmm." I just wish the dude in the song didn't take his cues from that infamous, nasally constipated Re-Re screaming "Here we GO now, here we GO now" throughout the 90's hip-hop hit you loved to hate, "Let Me Clear My Throat." Without him, this track would be off the hat rack.

I am pretty sure I like the new Longwave record, but I'll have to get back to you on that one.

Lots more to listen to today. I'll let you know.

I just saw Tori Amos played "Nothern Lad" tonight in Australia. So apparently all "I can't sing that one, it's too high" bets are off. I'm listening to The Who's "Getting In Tune" thinking how bloody amazing it would be if she covered it in the U.K.

Reasons She SHOULD do it:
*I THINK it's in C --or G suspended-- so it would be very easy to learn! And, people like songs in the key of C.
*Every Who song rocks. Period. So even a request for this one that inspired, say, 'Baba O'Riley' would be a success!
*Lyric: "I've got it all here in my head/there's nothing more needs to be said/Just banging on my old piano/"...and... I sing this note 'cause it fits in well with the way I'm feeling.
*The intro sounds JUST like John Lennon's "Imagine,"--maybe THAT'S the one in G suspended? It's been a loooong time since my 6th grade clarinet lessons--but it was written in '71 (two years before 'Imagine").

This would absolutely take the biscuit!!

The Who-Getting in Tune