A Man That Smells Like Cocoa Butter and Cash

12 August 2010

Music, videos | Comments (2)

This song came on during my run this morning and single-handedly gave me my second wind. Then, lo and behold, I click on Facebook and find out it’s the second single from one of my favorite albums of 2010 so far and the video is out today! Huzzah!

I love the Sisters. I’ve loved them since the first time I heard the first notes of "Take Your Mama" in the summer of 2004. I want to be best friends with Ana Matronic. Back before I met Brian I dreamed of having a torrid affair with Babydaddy. These guys do glam rock right; this is what Lady Gaga thinks she’s doing.* They’re the true successors to David Bowie, Queen, et al.

*Okay, that’s going to get me in trouble. I have nothing against Gaga. I love her image and the artistry of her work, and I own both her albums. I listen to them while running. And while I *like* her music, I don’t *love* it. To me there’s a disconnect between the throwaway pop sound of her songs and her out-there image. The Scissors have no such disconnect. Their music, while fun, dancy and poppy, is also pretty dark-humored and risque; even in this age when nothing surprises us I often find myself blushing or chuckling out loud at one of their lyrics, or getting chills at a particularly good riff. The tracks "Whole New Way" and "Skin Tight" off their amazing new album, Night Work (iTunes link), are good examples.

Wherein I’m On The Side of America’s Small Business Owners

11 August 2010

Oklahoma, Writer | Comments (0)

Oklahoma Gazette readers are once again subjected to my words this week, as I offer my take on the whole Iguana-Taco John’s debacle:

This is the kind of thing that local businesses are up against. It’s also why they are almost always better. The restaurants; the stores; the little, out-of-the-way places owned by your neighbors; the people in your neighborhood; the people you go to church with — they have to be a hundred times more creative, a hundred times more resilient and persistent and straight-up good, because they don’t have zillions of dollars for next-to-the-highway real estate and ad time during “The Bachelorette.”

The whole article is over at their website or, if you’re lucky enough to live in the OKC, in print.

Seriously, people. I know the Olive Garden has unlimited salad and breadsticks. Of this I am aware. But maybe the last thing America needs is "unlimited" anything – go to Flip’s. Falcone’s. Zorba’s. Nomad. Sophabella’s. Deep Fork Grill. Trattoria il Centro. The list of awesome locally-owned establishments in Oklahoma City is literally endless; keep the money local, people.

One great way to do so? Try as many of aforementioned Gazette‘s "Best of OKC" picks. They’re listed right here.

Same As It Ever Was

9 August 2010

America, Homo | Comments (2)

A wonderful edition of This Modern World from 2004; still very, very relevant today:

This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow

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