Kimya Dawson is loving life after the soundtrack to Juno shot her musical career up from oblivion. The Moldy Peaches co-founder will now release Alphabutt, a 27-minute album of children's songs. Tracks include "Bobby-O,""Happy Home (Keep On Writing)," "Little Panda Bear" and "Smoothie," which were written by Dawson and some of her musical friends and their children. "Twinkle-Twinkle Little Star...
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Just saw the film "Juno" and it's sad, funny and well worth your time. Here's a track by Kimya Dawson from the soundtrack, which features a number of tracks by Dawson as well as one by her former band, Moldy Peaches.
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Working on a mixtape for a SuperBowl pregame party. I searched my itunes for terms like "Giants, Football, Beer, Chips" and came up pretty dry (other than tune posted here - The Beer Not quite the theme I was going for with lyrics such as "He came home on acid I was holding his shotgun I was dressed like Tina Turner in beyond thunder dome He said don't shoot, I said I won't I love you you're my...
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This, a gentle song about living in a climate of fear, is one of the oddest songs on the Body of War cd. I hadn't planned to post it, but I thought the song I wanted to post Immortal Technique's "The 4th Branch" might be too hard-edged and might offend everyone and get me booted off the MOG or worse. Score one for (self) censorship.
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1. George Lopez, "Si Se Puede." You'd think by the time we get to 2006, it wouldn't be hard to find videos for the tracks, but shuffle play seems to have come up with the less-popular selections. So the video for this is from a different George Lopez skit. My son and his wife have been trying to convince me for years that George Lopez is funny. I've come to agree with them.2. T.I., "What You Kn...
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today I had the last of my uni exams for this semester. I love that relief afterwards when you can just relax and do all the things that you wanted to do while you were studying. (until I go to work tonight, that is. grr.)so I thought I'd post this song just because it cheered me up and the lyrics are great.
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i love this song... it's my current "anthem".i stayed with Kimya in Olympia last November, she and her man Angelo have the cutest lil' baby, Panda...Kimya is one of my biggest inspirations.whenever i get all bummed about stupid stuff i think of Kimya and her strength and her honesty, and her songs... they are the kind of real that makes you want to forget about all things fake.here's a shot fro...
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Emscee put down the challenge: at least 40 songs, under 80 minutes. Here are 45 in 77:Tom Jones, "It's Not Unusual"Jerry Lee Lewis, "Great Balls of Fire"Marianne Faithfull, "I Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No More"The Byrds, "Renaissance Fair"Kimya Dawson, "Better Weather"The Dave Clark Five, "Bits and Pieces"Sleater-Kinney, "The Professional"Janis Joplin, "Mercedes Benz"Ramblin' Jack Elliott, "...
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DAWSON, KIMYA-REMEMBER THAT I LOVE YOUTrack Listing:Tire swingMy momLoose lipsCaving inBetter weatherUndergroundLike giantsThe competitionFranceMiss you12/26My rollercoasterFollowing up her critically acclaimed album, Hidden Vagenda, with an album that continues her mission to reach out to those with their ears to the ground looking for answers, Kimya Dawson released Remember That I Love You, o...
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Carrying on with the musical theme for these last days of summer, here's a Kimya Dawson song with strong opinions voiced in her sweet simple style. Unique and special, that's Kimya.
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After hearing "Loose Lips" on KDHX this morning, I decided I need more Kimya Dawson in my life. I have a few Moldy Peaches CDs somewhere in my house. I forgot how much I enjoy Kimya's voice and words.That's all. No actually, I found a video:
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--- - |- Inspired by today's post by Boing Boing about Kimya Dawson's new children's album Alphabutt, I made a list of children's albums for a friend today and thought I should share for all you parents. These are albums you will like as much as your kids. Elizabeth Mitchell - You are My Flower Taking a step away from [...] ~~- Kimya Dawson
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I love that my husband loves this song, introduced me to it, and owns an album called Hidden Vagenda. What more could a girl ask for?
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