#royalbaby From Hellblazer 143, “Telling Tales”. You can read the whole thing here
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Month: July 2013
Things I wish I had thought of and a sale
mustached octopus with a monocle shirt by kerrinsellstshirts
Look at this shirt! It has both an octopus and a mustache. There you go. Don’t say I never did anything for you.
(Are mustaches on things still cool? Oh god I don’t know)
In other news, you can get half off shirts today on Zazzle by clicking this link or using the code HALFOFFSHIRT. Me, I got another Hawkeye shirt, only this time on a wicking sports shirt so I can wear it hiking and not die in the heat. When I was marathoning, they told us to go out and definitely get a wicking shirt and never wear cotton so I did. I had never actually tried to do anything super stressful in Virginia heat in a cotton t-shirt until recently and omg. Yeah, don’t do that. GIVE ME ALL OF THE ADVANCED FIBER TECHNOLOGY.
I’m also hoping that the sleeves are longer than the North Face wicking shirt I have because the arms don’t cover enough of my armpit underneath my hiking pack and that’s annoying.
Thursday Pics
Two from the garden this week. The first is a butterfly that couldn’t make it out of a pitcher plant in my bog garden.
The second is one of the breadseed poppies I grew this year. They came in an amazing array of colors and shapes. The seeds were as varied, which I suppose shouldn’t have been surprising. They made fabulous lemon poppyseed muffins.
List of favorite female/female identified bands or fronted bands
So by request of maehemsez over on twitter, here’s my list of favorite female/female identified bands or fronted bands. I’m using favorite rather broadly here. Basically I went through my Google music list of artists and picked out all of them that I knew had multiple songs I liked. So there’s probably a lot that I’m missing because I only have one or two tracks or they’re all listed under soundtracks. One of these days I need to spend like a snowstorm ripping all of my old CDs.
Some of these, I’m sure, really date me. Some of them are probably relatively obscure. Like, I am half certain I was the only person who ever bought Pet’s album. (bought purely because it was produced by Tori Amos back in the 90’s and I had a horrible case of fangirl, but I still know all of the songs!) I also didn’t put down some of the mainstream stuff from that time period. Probably because I’m attempting to pretend that I have taste. And there’s a couple I didn’t list because I’m pretty sure that they can’t be found for sale any more like some obscure Canadian artists I picked up off MP3.com in ’99 or stuff by a friend of mine who I recently had to upload a copy of her album for because she didn’t even have a copy of it any more.
Neko Case, late 90’s Tori Amos, Vienna Teng, Regina Spektor, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, The Be Good Tanyas, The Nields, Florence and the Machine, Lianne La Havas, Madeleine Peyroux, Adele, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rasputina, Ani DiFranco, Bat for Lashes, The Bird and the Bee, Bjork, Darling Violetta, Pet, Drain STH, The Dukhs, Erin McKeown, Erykah Badu, Escala (string covers of a lot of famous stuff), Estelle, Gypsy Soul, Hilary Hahn, Imogen Heap, Indigo Girls, Janelle Monae, k.d. lang, Lhasa, Melody Gardot, PJ Harvey, Nina Simone, Norah Jones, Paloma Faith, Paris Combo, Poe, Portishead, Sarah Harmer, Sarah Jaffe, Shana Tucker, Zoe Keating, Patsy Cline
I am also debating including Band of Skulls. The songs trades vocals back and forth between a male lead and a female lead. Dead Can Dance, same thing.
Alright, your turn. Give me recs!