I’ve been stuck in the house with a bad cold so its been nothing but reading, movie watching and listening to one cd/mp3 after another. The other day I contemplated listening to all my cds in alphabetical order just for shits and giggles. I didn’t do it. Though, I did watch episodes of Buffy, Family Guy, and Bones. I also watched a mediocre horror movie called “White Noise.” I got it from the local library which never seems to have a good selection of dvds. They always have movies that are at least three years old, which should be a good selection for someone who seems to miss movies when they actually come out but… its not. Its been awhile since I watched a quality horror flick, the last one was this Korean film called “the host.” It wasn’t scary but it was suspenseful, unpredictable, and well done, which is something I can not say about “White Noise.”
Since I’ve been sitting (or laying) on my ass, I decided to sit my ass in front of the computer for a long amount of time. I finally got around to checking out Kristin Hersh’s website, I haven’t visited in awhile I’m abashed to admit. Its all newly designed by Lakuna which is the design studio of Misi and Dave Narcizo (Throwing Muses drummer). Dave is the sort of dude I’d shake hands with, if I weren’t completely intimidated by the fact that he’s the drummer the Throwing Muses.
Kristin Hersh put up new songs on her Cashmusic site. For once, I actually paid for my mp3′s. In her song, “Sand” I swore she was saying “Rape!” at the beginning of the song. I was half expecting a “don’t do it, because its not nice..” in there. I don’t believe she has any rape or really political songs, but I figured maybe she was going in a new direction with this one. I tried to look up the song lyrics because sometimes I just hear weird things in songs, like that Throwing Muses song where I swore she was proclaiming: “I need a fuck..” turns out it was “fork.” Or that Pixies song “Levitate Me” where it sounds like Frank Black says, “kick a baby.” Before I get hate mail, I don’t condone kicking babies, but that part of the song strikes me funny because he seems to say it with such gusto.. and its funny because its wrong.
So anyhow, Kristin Hersh is not saying, “Rape!” at the beginning of “Sand.” I couldn’t find the lyrics on her site, but there was an explanation of the song, which had nothing to do with rape, so there goes that theory. Maybe if she’s reading this… she has my permission to write “Rape! don’t do it because its not nice.” though it sounds more like subject for an Amanda Palmer song.
I feel I should explain “Rape! don’t do it because its not nice” was a comment one of my fellow cocktail club members proclaimed in our podcast about me blogging to help get donations for RAINN (the rape abuse incest national network). We were trying desperately to not be assholes about the subject, so of coures of us spewed that out. I think that was the same podcast in which I spewed out a quote from Victorian Erotica which was something along the lines of “fuck me with a prick of hate, not love!”
