HI! I couldn’t write an intro sentence I liked! I don’t think I need an intro paragraph every post? Minding my business at home all week and all hoppy weekend, til I C U @ Vegas for the first run of alexalone’s residency, every Sunday in April. Tonight is your last chance before summer to let your hair down with Porcelain before Ryan Fitzgibbon joins on a US tour leg with Los Bitchos! Lots of good news to cheer about this week! My right eye has been twitching since I woke up at 6A, 🙂 F.U.N.!
*This is NOT a pic of me from my catholic years in college, but it’s pretty darn close; long dark indie cut probably with my friend’s razor, wearing the same black sweatpants everyday, Classic corded headphones, always on-the-go, coming and going from missions of my own divinity
For starters, I found the PERFECT dress for lounging around the studio to binge nostalgia cartoons, or to feel softly fancy if I caught a social wave by sheer luck.
I meant to announce this at the beginning of Lent, but my intentions were to have fun and be silly!
My spring is focused on refining my basic human needs, and basically if I was god I would forgive me. (Notes about self forgiveness, which I think are important to ruminate on as often, a little extra on long weekends, especially Religion and Tradition based. And, hoping you forgive me for linking accounts twice as needed, but sry not sry, the info is good! And it will happen again.)
MASS ANNOUNCEMENT: My green links are like hidden eggs! The more eggs consumed, the more enlightened by my word choice!
My ritual on this holiday has become making a special edition egg toast centered breakfast midafternoon, thawing and adding sausage, if I have it.
Me when I say I’m praying for you
Me “making it” by Praying too hard for you to gift me ANY of the pieces dropped from the Death Grips collection, like give girls the money store!!
In silent prayer, I’m lightly considering what I could wear to see one of my favorite female electronic artists who could be visiting me later this year…in Austin…tktktktk
In reality, there is only one Lorde I trust on my timeline, so let’s BUMP IT BBY!
LOCAL LIVE (ICYMI, I missed it)
Carcass at Mohawk on Monday made me laugh because when I hear the band name, I’m reminded of how I learned about them and their music from Phoebe in the one when Monica is trying on wedding dresses, “with a C or with a K?! OMG, it doesn't matter they’re both great!”
Not @ Mohawk on Monday night, I read and recorded a quick poem hello for my paying subscribers, and I intend on keeping up with this lil (audio) poetry reading series every Monday in April. If you’d like to receive this series to your inbox and help support my work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber (and/or skim my plans for more reader benefits).
Friday night fomo hit HARD to miss Blank Hellscape’s tour kick off at Elysium for the Xiu Xiu show. Saturday my attention split between being invited out to Built to Spill, or if I had the Club E energy, to listen to Spike Hellis at ungodly hours with fresh ears, based on good recommendations from good listeners. I have been keeping more american vampire-like hours lately, but it rly is more like me in bed for set times.
ONE MILLION DOLLARS
Basically, when you look at ^this screenshot, imagine me dead inside. I cringe every single time this transition hits because it takes until almost the end of the “Walkin On the Sun” sample for the goof sample starting with Benny Bensai into the Gorillaz, which sounds more like Dylan and/or Laura tricking on the listener with each HA HA HA HA HA HA. Two incredibly good important songs trashed (no gec disrespect) in a transition making my shoulders squeeze up my ears, like I’m in a body disbelief, as if I haven’t listened to the entire 100 gecs boiler room set at least once to three times through every day for over a week (Now, my body is with its rhythm.) When you hear me sample basement jaxx, pls note my inner 9 year old will be happy and healed. And it will come with editor’s notes on the disc that came with my portable PS1.
I LOL’d when I found out the Gecs are coming back to Austin and playing at Stubb’s (now sold out); I plan to blend in and find u in the dirt pit for machine girl.
My top played tracks from the new album, 10,000 gecs are “One Million Dollars,” “mememe,” and “Dumbest Girl Alive.”
George Clanton opening for Caroline Polachek in April at ACL Moody. That’s a headline I wrote in December, and now that the event is weeks away, it’s a tough call on which show scheduled that week will feel more personally and emotionally fraught: George Clanton and Caroline Polachek together in the room with me and everyone I have loved/love/and/or could love in the future…
OR, SKIPPING the show! And, also being in a room full of ppl I love, freaking losing my mind for Yaeji on Friday night, like it’s night 200+ of my 2020 isolation! I played Yaeji in Place (from Boiler Room) a lot and obsessed over WHAT WE DREW. Last month when I started practicing and learning how to DJ, I was shocked to find it at Breakaway Records and walked it directly to the cash register. For now, it is the only vinyl record I own, in a tiny collection, that I purchased with my own money.
⭐️ NOW PLAYING With A Hammer by Yaeji ON REPEAT ⭐️
Getting new ideas for my studio watching her HQ tour, visualizing myself as a happy pink puff in this merch, and feeling v seen by her journaling justification on keeping 4 notebooks in the Perfectly Imperfect newsletter.
CC: The Rise of Comic Sans, and an example in the baggu
George Clanton’s recommendation for flossing stuck with me, too. This week he debuted a new single and music video, “I Been Young,” to start the release of his next solo album, highly anticipated this summer.
Without a break in my voice, I still love both artists and would be happy to be there. And it’s important to know it is possible to change and grow my internal relationships with music and artists, like Caroline, who carry me for so long, in order to keep them close to me for life.
…So Hot I'm Shopping at Whole Foods, can’t deal (Caroline on the How Long Gone pod and linking my two faves talking on Best Song Ever, love every track mentioned on this ep!)
I’ll take myself to the show solo if the “fuck it we ball” mood strikes!
Looking forward to listening to bands I haven't heard yet @ Psych fest at the end of the month, and aiming for Acid Dad on Saturday night minimum.
Finally listened to the boygenius record on Monday morning after screenshoting this second in the Over/Under interview when I’m actually all three of them!!! Peak laughing and identifying when Lucy Dacus rates Google Drive as Underrated explaining, “I have a folder of all pictures of my own shadow, why? There is no reason for that, but I have it.” 100/10 (includes their rates on sleeping nude, tweeting and deleting, forgiveness, too)
NTS celebrated 12 years of listening this week! To celebrate, I streamed @marg.mp3’s first residency show named Dust Bunnies, and then did a little discovery digging in the app and found a set so $HINEy, I’m keeping it to myself.
This Week I Saved Woe (I See It From Your Side) - Björk remix, The Window Is The Dream by Jana Horn, and many tracks from the new Two Shell EP, lil spirits
Tweeted and Deleted: “🥲 got about halfway through the new Lana and reverted right back to my old drugs on Born to Die…nothing will compare to smoking cigarettes wearing red sunglasses absolutely in the Bible Belt driving windows down at ungodly hrs on I35 to and from to this album for me” (sry mom)
🩸 CULTURE QUICKIES
I haven’t started the new season of Succession yet, but I can highly recommend Hunter Harris’s Succession Power Rankings!
Rina on Respect for stunt people after shooting John Wick 4, Keanu ♥️ Alvvays, and if you’re looking for a good gift idea, the Keanu Reeves ICON book
I Refuse to watch the Barbie trailer(s) at all costs, because I would prefer to wait to see the movie when it’s released… Good luck to me! This Barbie is keeping her iphone on Do Not Disturb until summer. Currently accepting VIDEO ONLY auditions for a kicky Ken doll.
‘10 Things I Hate About You’ was released 24 years ago this week, causing it to jump up in my queue to rewatch soon, and feel reborn again hearing a line that lives rent free in me, “sadly no, but it’s only 4:30”
If I was picking the movie today, I’d pick Steal Magnolias.
🌷HAPPY SPRING and FU (follow up)
“Is it hard? It looks hard” - “Parris it is hard!” in the comments! More Rude Boy choreo SLAYED!
Plus, one more cut from the 2000s I forgot to LINK, Le Disko featured in the Motorola Razr subway platform commercial
BELLA HADID, AGAIN on non appearance based compliments (save for reviewing)
On Monday, I was served an Instagram Ad for these little red shorts, so I searched for this same good Brand label, color, and design to search for similar styles like these dream hot pants on ThredUp for $15 less, idk about shipping and etc though.
The rest of this week’s style section had to catch the F train, F as in FASHION!
Amelia Wolf, a biology professor at @UTAustinTX, said “bluebonnets are here early. And that’s OK.” OK?! OK!!
Set Siri to remind you to buy yourself flowers this week, happy tulip season! and tips on how to take care to keep them upright and bright!
Related: Methods for keeping strawberries to last longer 🥺🍓 Pls reply with your best idea.
I’m happy EATER updated the Austin for Vegans list!
For fun, Vote for your local faves in the Best of Austin 2023 opening round by tomorrow, Monday, April 10!
🙃 PERSONAL NOTES
“GEL X ALMOND SHORT” I need this energy so bad the pep talk made me tear up.
“Not super sad…I’m a little tired from the mad.”
“The biggest slay, the thing I’m most thankful for …They’re emotionally unavailable, and are just tied to their work, and I’m emotionally unavailable because I’m too busy being insane. They love the insanity; I love the work ethic.”
THIS ENTIRE SPEECH ON MY FYP ON DE-CENTERING MEN “Find purpose and community instead.”
Mathilde Caillard, a French activist new bop, TAXER LES RICHEEES
Personal commentary and op-ed on local news and Politics on hiatus by choice.
Though, my inner mass comm major is sitting broken on the floor mid-edits gigglingggggggggg hehehehehe
Now, THAT’S what I call one (1) HAPPY MEAL!!!!
🧚 Sry for not getting back to you 🧚 I’ve been working on stuff,
Colore