Violent Femmes

From the Freak Magnet liner notes: "I Danced", lyrics from the poem "I Danced Before I Had Two Feet," by Max Dunn, music by Gordon Gano. And when I, Naomi, heard it - I got up on the sturdy peasant feet I grew for this lifetime, and I danced, too!

I might have gotten the album tag wrong on this one, but all my vfs are loaded in the car CD player, the cases are there and I didn't label my ITunes. And I'm too grumpy to bother anyway. Days like this I'm glad that I get to be in the car alone once in a while and can snarl along with the Violent Femmes:

_"Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."_ _"Whatever, Yode! I'm talking about girls!"_ _"Me, too, brother. Me, too."_

piggybacking on dacho's post on the stranglers. the v femmes doing up no more heroes

So Wednesday, my best friend/roommate and I went to see the Violent Femmes play at The House of Blues in Anaheim, CA - otherwise known as Disney Hell-Sprawl. For the most part, the evening was pretty fun. Even the traffic-consumed drive down from Pasadena wasn't too terrible (mostly because we got to see the Mesopotamian outlet mall, complete with faux-ancient Persian sphinxes). After nearly getting killed by about 15 different black Excursions - including 1 limo Excursion... MORE

I'm in a Moggy mood today! There are only 2 femmes songs I detest; I'm a mother first and foremost so if you know their music, you can probably guess it's Gimme The Car and Country Death Song that cross my boundaries. But the rest? Well, I pretty much love 'em all (sad about blister in the sun being sold out to peddle burgers, or whatever - I guess everybody has mortgages to pay). Here's one of the best:

thank you everyone for the chicken soup & get well wishes. thank you anna for the wishing & wanting to dance inspiration. my friend kerry sent this to me & it is making me feel better, as well. there is nothing quite as keen as dancing around your room with total & complete abandon. l *

Well, it is officially 2007 and it started of the same as every other year this morning. My father, who has no phone because he claims the phone company screwed up on his bill (just like every bill he has ever had, that‘s why he has not water at his house right now), called me from a number I didn’t recognize, waking me from a dead sleep at 7:30 this morning. He was at the hospital. In a normal family this might actually be cause for concern knowing a loved one was at the ... MORE

I finally gut to see a band I've wanted to see for many years now. And it was well worth the wait. I am speaking, of course, of The Violent Femmes. They started off with Out Of The Window and got the croud going right away. I have to hand it to Gordon and the gang, after 25 years together they still have it. I haven't had this much fun watching a live band in years. If they're coming your way you have to watch the show. Just watch out for weird drunk guys hitting on your... MORE

I´m missing MOG bigtime and just had to check in. One more day of vacation in Puerto Vallarta and we´¨re heading home. Every walk down the malecon is filled with musica. We keep hearing Sean Paul´s Temperature blasting from cars and the Nokia truck. Anna, there was a Greek DJ at my father´s birthday party last night. He´s from Athens and spends five months here in mexico. Cosmo was his name, how appropriate ;-) Hasta luego.

I´m missing MOG bigtime and just had to check in. One more day of vacation in Puerto Vallarta and we´¨re heading home. Every walk down the malecon is filled with musica. We keep hearing Sean Paul´s Temperature blasting from cars and the Nokia truck. Anna, there was a Greek DJ at my father´s birthday party last night. He´s from Athens and spends five months here in mexico. Cosmo was his name, how appropriate ;-) Hasta luego.

Saw the Violent Femmes in Tempe tonight. What an amazing, awesome, incredible show. And to think i almost missed it. I didn't even know they were playing, but happened to see an ad for the concert right before I left work. I was really looking forward to going home, eating some dinner and getting back to mastering Guitar Hero on the Playstation, but I convinced myself that I would never forgive myself if I never saw the Femmes live. Off I went, straight from work.What can ... MORE