Stray Hawkeye

Starts a little slow, but really good, lovely really:

Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.

Even more impressive if you notice that it was made almost all by one person.

Via Swiss Miss.

I love this song by the Magnetics Fields.  It has been covered by everyone, their brother, and eight of their cousins, but none of the others are as good without the rich mellow bass-y voice and echo-y guitar.  I like the first two verses best, somehow ending with buying things (even if it is for marriage) doesn’t seem to fit for me.

In general the Magnetic Fields are great because they’re one of the few bands I can sing along with in my own octave and not sound terrible. Their song You Must Be Out Of Your Mind is also great for that, and I love the line “You can’t just go round sayin’ stuff because it’s pretty / And I no longer drink enough to think you’re witty”.

I really like origin stories, and particularly like this one.  It’s from the musical / movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch, though I think I originally saw it when they performed it live on some talk show long, long ago when it was a stage show.  NSFW.