Mickey Avalon - S/T - $1.99Spoon - Telephono and Soft Effects EP - $14.99Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix - $7.99Ben Kweller - S/T - $8.99Barenaked Ladies - Are Me - $7.99Nellie McKay - Pretty Little Head - $13.99The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed (promo copy) - $1.99
dang dang dang. i have had nellie mckay's debut cd for awhile now, but for some reason it wasn't till today that i could say, wow this is brilliant. in fact i woke up with one of the songs in my head. anyway, here is a live performance of a fave song. sigh...
It's almost a year later, but thankfully we can finally hear Nellie McKay's Pretty Little Head. I made a little trip to the record shop on Sunday (also picking up Beck's The Information - so we could play with the stickers - and Hole's Live Through This) with McKay high on the priorities list. Seeing her live last month - performing several songs both from Head and her debut, got us ridiculou...
I am a sucker for almost any song that extols the joys (and eventual sorrows) of sharing life with a dog. This is one example – from the debut album by Nellie McKay, possibly my favorite of all of her songs. Nellie is an unreconstructed animal lover, very talented and, unfortunately, resistant to anyone trying to edit her output which, IMHO, she sorely needs. She left Columbia because they want.
Coming clean here, Nellie McKay and I used to have a professional association that ended rather badly. Nonetheless, I always thought she was wildly talented. There really isn't much she can't do: she's an endlessly inventive songwriter, a singer of much charm and sensitivity, a gifted musician and arranger. She very well may never want to speak to me, but that doesn't stop me from being a fan.H...
It’s time. I’ve been putting this off far too long. Deep breath. OK, go: I am in love with Nellie McKay. And I’m not sure how I feel about this. First of all, I’m straight. Second, I feel guilty about my crush. Not because I have already given my heart to another, but because she’s really not my type. Yet, I’ve still fallen for her, and hard, and that scares me. This feels too foreign.
I actually do listen to music! Really, I do. Funny how Mog-O-Matic makes one self-conscious. Just wanted y'all to know my computer is acting funny so I currently cannot listen to music from it. Whenever my iTunes is open, it likes to "think" for extended periods of time while I stare at it blankly with a gaping jaw. So I dug out the old portable CD player from 1997, featuring G-protection! How ...
Yep. Just scouring my blog for things that belong in a Mog. I won't overdo it tonight, but I wanted to share a video. I don't feel like I need to say much about this performance, except that if you're not at least impressed, well, maybe you're an asshole. (c:Behold:Did I mention my love affair with the pianoforte?