Gallycat’s Karaoke Palace

Oh, what the hell. This is me singing John Prine’s “Angel of Montgomery,” which you may know as a Bonnie Raitt tune.

sticking my neck out

Wah. I am starting to sound like a one-note flute sometimes, I guess, when I defend the fringes. But there is one place I’m hard and fast on when it comes to tradition, and that’s church music.
I love hymns and anthems, and I really should be in the choir, but EfM takes precedence right now [...]

Where the music takes me

There’s a song by a Scandinavian band called Covenant called “Like Tears in Rain.” It’s named after a line in Blade Runner. But the song itself, with lyrics that read like a post-apocalyptic Good Friday, always makes me want to write stories where passion beats down vicissitude, where determination conquers despair, where a flower blooms [...]

Found

I am brainstorming a faith-related comic with my DFH. Trying to think of a catchy title, I pondered cribbing the title of a famous Depeche Mode song, Blasphemous Rumors. Poking around the internet to see if anyone else has cribbed it, I found this:
http://www.bab.thedrivel.com/?p=43
Click the file for “Gregorian.” This is a haunting song about [...]

Earworms

This is only loosely related to this week’s Friday Five, but everytime my dishwasher runs, I get “They Will Know We Are Christians By Our Love” stuck in my head. I’ve realized it’s because you can sing the song along with the rhythm of the dern contraption.
I don’t watch TV, so I didn’t get to [...]

Radio Helbrain

Arcade Fire's Rebellion (Lies) reminds me of OMD's Locomotion, but with jingly guitars instead of goofy synths.
ETA: There's more goth in indie rock than there is in current goth scene. I'm really wanting to spin again, for no other reason than all the cool shit I've heard on itunes radio stations today.

strange and random

[I posted this via email last night, but it didn't go through.]
I just had this weird notion. See, I'm a DJ. Or I have been, at least. It's been a while, but I really enjoy it. I also like sneaking Christian rave music into a thumpthump set. Yes, there is such a thing, and I've [...]

HAPPY

I just discovered that Cox does in fact have an alternative 80s cable radio station.
and all the wunnerful things that I've been grooving to just segued into i die you die by gary numan.
i am one hella happy helcat right now.

Dj Mewcat

Cody is standing on the CD player, and every time she tries to tackle pounce the speaker, she hits forward on the CD==it's led to an interesting mix of folk music.
She must have found the song she liked, because it's going now and she is sitting very protectively on the buttons.
Scratch that. (Not literally.) It's [...]

getting on the bandwagon

Something ms. clayton posted got me to thinking. I have gone through a lot of “favorite band” phases. For no reason whatsoever, I'd like to document them here.
1982-1986: Duran Duran
1986-1988: The Damned
1987-1990: U2 (with some overlap with Depeche Mode)
1990-1993: Peter Murphy and Peter Gabriel
1994-2001: NIN with a short flirtation with Apoptygma Berzerk
2001-2003: VNV Nation and [...]

Wow. Torsion.

I have been working on a review of the new Torsion album, Faded, for the
city paper, and alligottasay right now is that this is finally worthy of
their live act. I was always a little sheepish about not reviewing HSM, but
this is why I waited.
It's only weakness, to my ear, as a hard dark rock album, [...]

In other funnies (lots today!)

I just ran across a prayer song that listed its key and bpm.
It's a little slow for stompy stomp, though.

Sister salvation

The more aware you are of religious imagery in secular music, the more it reverberates around your head. Conversation with a friend earlier got me thinking about salvation. And KMFDM's “Juke Joint Jezebel” started pinging around my brain like a heavenly host of ping pong balls.
BE MINE SISTER SALVATION
JUKE JOINT JEZEBEL IS COMING FOR MY [...]

I smell like bleach and rampage

Bathroom cleaned. Check.
Bedroom cleaned. Check.
K's room cleaned. Check.
Now for the living room and kitchen.
I am so tres boring. But we did make it out to DC9 last night to check out crossbonesdj's set. I love watching indie kids dance. It reminds me of Peanuts. Thumbs up, girlfriend.

Free to good home

I have a bunch of CDs from my music reviewing days that I will more than likely never listen to again. They reach back to 1999, and are pretty heavily metropolis and ADD, although there's a wide range of stuff. I'm working on the list now, but it's free stuff. Here's the condition, though. I [...]