OMG! My Robot Friend

So this video and song are both dated. Like.... so 2007. But they're both really good. I don't watch many videos-- any videos, really. I just don't get the point. But then I see something like this, and it rocks my world, blows my mind, etc etc. I also think it fits in nicely with my new motif here.



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This was originally gonna be another OMG! / WTF? post about my fave cutie Vanessa Carlton, as I just heard a cover of the Stones' "Paint it Black". But I don't like it. Go listen [mp3] for yourself if you like to blatantly disregard my high musical expertise/authority and perfect taste. It's just a little too twangy for me. And sucky. A little too sucky.

And speaking of cuties, though.. howabout the new Death Cab? Haven't heard it yet? Well, the leaked/promoted/whatever'd track that's making the rounds is "I Will Possess Your Heart" and is a barnburner. Almost nine minutes of DC4C wonder, since half of that is building intro, it reminds of "Transatlanticism". Go find it on someone else's blog via the Hype Machine.

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WTF? Vanessa Carlton, that's WTF, B!

Yes. Seriously. This girl has always been a guilty pleasure of mine, but.. why should I feel guilty? Screw that, I'm embracing it. First it was "A Thousand Miles" which I heard a brasilian times on the radio but was always too embarrassed to ask about. Then when I was hit again with "White Houses", I recognized the voice and piano, and just had to know. That song remains to be the the best thing to come about a girl losing her virginity since this beautiful romantic masterpiece.


Anyway, Vanessa has a new album, Heroes & Thieves. I'm not going to tell you the whole album's amazing, because the sad truth of the matter is that it probably isn't. But she does once again deliver one quite awesome tune, the opener and first single "Nolita Fairytale". It's the whole point of this post, really. "This Time" ain't bad, either. Disappointing is the track which Stevie Nicks appears on. You decide for yourself. Parts of it remind me of "American Pie". Don McLean's, not the stupid movie.

Download [click song title], Buy [click album title]

"Nolita Fairytale", from Heroes & Thieves
"This Time", from Heroes & Thieves
"The One" feat Stevie Nicks, from Heroes & Thieves
"A Thousand Miles", from Be Not Nobody
"White Houses", from Harmonium

And look, she's hella cute, too.

In every single one of these pictures, she's looking right at me.

Except this one. I probably just said something stupid and she was trying to look mad.

In the one she's looking at my picture on the floor.

I think I'll make "WTF?" a recurring theme, where I tell you all of the wonderful things I listen to when no one else is around.

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