good weekend. :)

[derien]

Saturday we had Indian food and ice cream with Littleredhead and Groundctrl - which seems to have become our yearly tradition around the Curtis Library Book Sale in Brunswick. Always awesome; my only regret of the day was having to part from them.

But part we did, so that we could go on to accomplish Many Things, which mostly involved buying stuff for the new place... starting with a few CDs at Bull Moose Music. :) So now we have second hand Led Zepplin (Physical Graffiti, which both Eor and I used to have copies of and lost) and Shonen Knife (Genki Shock - a completely random pick of mine because they had a song on their called "S*P*A*M" and I want to know if that's a cover of "Spam" by Save Ferris). (At the book sale we got some Weird Al Yankovic and Soul Music as read by Tony Robinson, along with... well, a LOT of books. I can't list them off, but I know I went through the Sci-Fi section like a tornado.)

My unruly memory has also made a blur of what we bought and what we've been getting done, but I know it's a lot. I know we didn't get home until 7pm on Saturday, with armloads of stuff, and we stayed in mostly on Sunday, getting things put away and sorted out, erecting more shelves, etc. Slowly this place grows more like a home.

Today is my final day for getting the old place cleaned, so I have to be motivated and organized. A lot to ask, seeing as I did 'motivated' all day yesterday, and doing it two days in a row is usually completely out of the question for me.

The 'music' listed below is actually a lie, at this point - it's what I was listening to Saturday night when I started this post. Then I realized it was 10pm and I was falling asleep.

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[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

I love Shonen Knife. They have a brilliant album called Brand New Knife that hase a lovely and cute song about nice fresh fruits and vegetables.

I had a good weekend too. Got my yellow belt in karate and saw AC/DC! How... 80s. I feel like I should have a mullet or at least a head band.

[derien.livejournal.com]

I think we might have "Brand New Knife," I'm not sure. We do have one called (I think) "Secret Number," and "Every Band Has A Shonen Knife Who Loves Them," which is other bands covering Shonen Knife songs. I think it was L7 who covered "Baggs" and somehow it was not until I heard their version (maybe because I could understand more of the words) that I started thinking "hm, Shonen Knife must have come out with that right around the time Japanese high school girls were prostituting themselves to afford Louis Vuiton bags." I have no idea if their song was a criticism or just a statement, but the line 'garbage bags filled with Luis Vuiton' made me think criticism. Shonen Knife is one of those oddball delights - they range from the sublime to the ridiculous so very quickly, and I'm not always sure which is which. :D

And yellow belt! Go you!

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

One of the things I find hilarious is that they have a song about wanting to be Barbie, whereas practically every other girl punk(ish) band in the world would be writing the opposite! Oh Japan...

[derien.livejournal.com]

And yet, the lyrics to that song! Are they serious or facetious? I really can't tell. "She's braless, she's welcome by boys" - ? And the delivery has a demanding petulence to it, like a spoiled rich girl demanding a new car from her father. Or is that my imagination?