My fave music site www.LaLa.com will be shut down as of May 31, 2010. They were bought by Apple and therefore will no longer be providing us with free listens and the ability to listen to your music library from any computer. I was an early tester of Lala and have been singing it’s praises ever since. I am so sad to see it go. It often felt like the only non-corporate music entity out there. It gave me the much needed release that listening to a single song all the way through for free when it’s been stuck in my head for two days requires. Now? I don’t know, y’all. I just don’t know.
The good-ish news is that if you have monies in your LaLa wallet it will be automatically converted into iTunes monies and nothing will be lost. Woot! But…I’m sill sad!
So with this in mind I give you a unique video for Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” (it always makes me a little sad):
Ah Mother’s Day! Another card & flowers made-up holiday. Another chunk of time where jewelry companies spend a lot on marketing the concept that your love for your mother should be apparent to anyone inspecting her new piece of expensive (but probably cheaply made) jewelry. Yep! That’s just how we do things here in the USA. (BARF!)
Look, I’m all for showing the ones I love how I feel, but this whole thing about Mother’s Day is pretty silly to me. It leaves out so many of us who don’t have a mother in our lives. Be it from loss, abandonment, estrangement or another circumstance, not everyone fits into the classic family model. And thank the stars for THAT! Whew! Ha-ha!
I’m not so bitter, though. Every year I make sure my husband sends his mama something fabulously special (and hopefully on-time). I used to get my dad something on M’s Day, but it’s been a long time. And even Father’s day gifts have waned on my behalf (long story). I guess my point in all of this is that it shouldn’t just be Mother’s Day. I mean, I don’t have a child, but I sure as hell take care of people and “babies” (in my world all animals are babies). Yet there’s no Pet Parent Day!
What’s a motherless person to do? Repeat after me: “FUCK IT!” Who cares?! There is no moral obligation to do anything. Oh sure, societal pressure. “FUCK IT!” There is no law that says I/we must celebrate any holiday, let alone one that simply doesn’t apply to us. I don’t celebrate religious holidays because I’m not religious. I don’t need to buy anything for anyone if I don’t want to. I think it’s awesome that there are mothers, period.
I used to know a gal that was childless by choice, but every Mother’s Day she’d send cards out to all her friends that were. Sweet gesture, but unnecessary. Why not just celebrate International Women’s Day? Never heard of it? Hmm…then you missed it because it was March 8th! Somehow it’s so important to celebrate mothers with feverish retail abandon, but not all women? Huh.Okay, fine. “FUCK IT!”
From EW.com:
Johnny Depp directed a music video for British rockers Babybird’s “Unloveable.†The video’s plot is taken from Ambrose Bierce’s 1890 short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,†a trippy classic set during the Civil War that was later adapted into a Twilight Zone episode.
I had never heard of Babybird, but I randomly came across this bit of video & info and LOVE IT! The video is what music videos should be, cinematic! And seriously, Johnny Depp must direct again! He’s fantastic!
(article found here: http://www.stylelist.com/2010/04/21/lane-bryant-says-abc-fox-censored-plus-size-lingerie-ad/?icid=main|main|dl3|link5|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stylelist.com%2F2010%2F04%2F21%2Flane-bryant-says-abc-fox-censored-plus-size-lingerie-ad%2F)
It’s true! A double standard like no other it seems.
“ABC and Fox have made the decision to define beauty for you by denying our new, groundbreaking Cacique commercial from airing freely on their networks,” Lane Bryant says.
“Yes, these are the same networks that have scantily clad housewives so desperate they seduce every man on the block — and don’t forget Bart Simpson, who has shown us the moon more often than NASA, all in what they call ‘family hour.’
Well, see for yourself what these networks thought you shouldn’t see: