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[side_show]

Why is it that music sounds just that much better in the summer?  It just does.  I seem to have taken a bit of a departure from my folk music ways, and my lastest listens are of a decidedly more rock-based turn.

Music I have been throughly enjoying includes:

The Cliks - sexy f-to-m trans lead singer, all lesbian girl back band, pared down rock.  Also, they sing a cover of Justin Timerlakes Cry Me A River that actually makes me like the song!

Mika - okay, this guy is the sound of summer.  I'm sure lots of you have heard him already, but... hell yeah.  I've already heard his music floating on the air on the hottest dog days.  He is also sexy, post-gay and heavily influenced by Freddy Mercury... awesome.  Also, specifically re: this song - it is almost impossible not to dance around!

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - okay, so their album came out last summer, but, just... fuck yes.

Also the White Stripes latest is on replay quite often.  When they were out here last week they just set up and started busking on a bridge for a while.  How cool is that?  I missed it though, which sucks.

Saving the best for last, I predict this song will be everywhere this summer!

[Nabubrush]

I saw the Yeah Yeah Yeahs support the Stripes about 4 years ago in Seattle. Liked the album, did not like them live.

As I said somewhere else, we're going to see the Stripes in Chicago in October. I'm leaning heavily toward seeing them in NM as well - I can stay with my brother. The new album is tasty - we got free pins and stickers!

I will be checking out the Cliks and Mika, for sure. Thanks for that.

[linnea]

Man, fuck you guys and your Rick Roll! Jesus.

Anyway... God, smells, I love you for turning me on to the Cliks. Are you sure the lead singer is trans? Is he in the process of transitioning or is he just butch? I bet that if he's taking testosterone his voice will change a lot. If he is a trans guy, he needs some sexy facial hair. I love his sleeves and his sexy emo boi hair. His voice rocks the casbah but it's still feminine, which is why I kinda doubt he's on T.

Anyway, they are fuckin' awesome and I will be buying their music posthaste.

I also kinda did not like Mika, the girls in his video were decidedly normal and not "big girls".

[smick]

Seriously, why are the Stripes not coming to Portland?  Why?

[littlefallsmets]

The Museum of Natural History discovered that Meg escaped from a block of...

Nah, still too easy.

[Nabubrush]

The Museum of Natural History discovered that Meg escaped from a block of...

Nah, still too easy.

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She's adorable.

[pmcd9]

I love this RickRoll dude.  He is awesome.

[Nabubrush]

Seriously, why are the Stripes not coming to Portland?  Why?

I think they must be planning something special. It's hard to believe that one of the folks responsible for this wouldn't show up at all.

[side_show]

Anyway... God, smells, I love you for turning me on to the Cliks. Are you sure the lead singer is trans? Is he in the process of transitioning or is he just butch? I bet that if he's taking testosterone his voice will change a lot. If he is a trans guy, he needs some sexy facial hair. I love his sleeves and his sexy emo boi hair. His voice rocks the casbah but it's still feminine, which is why I kinda doubt he's on T.

Anyway, they are fuckin' awesome and I will be buying their music posthaste.

Yay!  I'm glad you like The Cliks, I listened to them all day today.  Also, yes the lead singer, Lucas, is transgendered - though for their first independant album he identified as a female lesbian he has since transitioned.  I saw him discussing it very saucily in an interview on MuchMusic a while back, and also here's and article about his transition - sounds like he has some awesome parents.  He is super cute and I too enjoy his Beethovan hair.  The name of the band comes from the combination of clits + dicks, and their new album is called Snakehouse and can be bought in the iTunes store, as well as elsewhere.  I got it from zunior.com, but it doesn't seem to be there anymore.

Nabu, I don't care what Linnea says, Mika rawks, so check him out too.

As for the Rick Roll... I enjoy the Rick Roll.  Before I posted the video I watched it all the way through.  Rock.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Dept. of music stuff that kinda sucks:  Last year when the car stereo in the Jetta broke, I got a new one, a cheapie (only $100), but it fit the bill.  It's able to read MP3s from CD, and also included the "iPlug," an auxiliary jack to plug in your iPod or other MP3 player.  I enjoyed this, as I got in the habit of downloading podcasts, especially KEXP's Music That Matters, and other free MP3s found here and there, and playing them in the car.  And for the first time since college or soon thereafter, I felt like I kind of knew what was going on in the world of music.

Then we traded in the Jetta and got the minivan.  I did have the MP3-laden stereo taken out of the Jetta before it was carted off, but I'd have to pay to have it put in the Alero that I now drive on a day-to-day basis.  The Alero's factory stereo plays regular CDs just fine, so it's not like I'm devoid of music.  But converting podcasts to WAV and burning them to CD is teh suck.  So I haven't listened to anything new in like two months.  I miss me car-based MP3 player.

[side_show]

I got one of those FM transmitters for $10 - the kind that runs on two AAA batteries and transmits your iPod onto any FM radio.  It's works great and has the added benefit that I can play my iPod not just through car radios, but basically any radio I want.  Seriously dude, there is no reason to not be rocking out right now.  When is the time to rock out?  Now is the time to rock out.

[Carlos del Vaca]

But see, I've heard those things aren't so good in a radio-station-heavy like DC.  It gets stepped on by every crappy low-wattage station in the same area of the dial.  That's fine up in the wilds of Canadia where there's like one radio station per province and there are more moose than people.

[wombat]

I got one of those and tried it in the DC area and indeed, it doesn't work worth a shit.

I now have a thing that is a cassette that I put in the cassette player and it has a wire coming out to plug into the mp3 player.  But it seems like such a bother that I haven't used it yet.  So it's still the old Bruce Springsteen tapes or NPR for me.

[side_show]

Those cassette things don't work on all car stereos though - infact they won't work on mine, which is why I got the transmitter.  All the stuff I've read seems to indicate a 50/50 split on the debate as to whether the transmitters work in station heavy areas or not.  One of the Chonchitas on the iTunes board said that my Phillips brand transmitter worked great for her in LA proper, so I took her advice and bought mine, but I don't really have an idea as to whether DC is comperable to L.A. or not in regard to the number of stations.  The one I have works on the 88._ frequency, and we do have a couple of 89._ stations locally, including the super powerful CBC radio, but it comes in very clear most of the time.  I did read up on them a lot, as I was originally going to buy a fancy, expensive one... each brand seems to be really touch and go, where one works for someone, another - not so much.

[Nabubrush]

I use one in Portland and it is basically pretty shitty. Its internal voume is low, so when it is playing at normal volume and you unplug it or switch to a CD or the radio, it's like three times as loud. Also, it is on an arm plugged into the cigarette lighter, and it sort of bounces up and down, and sometimes it makes a crackling sound. Basically it sucks. I also get a bit of bleed-through.

It is going to be a serious consideration for the next car purchase that it have a purpose-built jack for an mp3 player. I am done fuck*ng around with this.