Once again I have a song for nearly half the month, and mid February… well I’ll get there. I should pop champagne and bathe in French Fries when I actually complete a full month long playlist from beginning to end. Not just a collection of songs discovered/ rediscovered during the month and haphazardly shared and posted on Twitter. I love #SOTD (song of the day) ! Especially when it gets love from the bands who’s songs I selected to declare #SOTD worthy.
Follow me on Twitter @BasicallyBekka for the currently occasional, potentially daily update of my favorite Songs of The Day / #SOTD!
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I enjoy posting “Song of the Day” or listening to a song and thinking this needs to be shared as SOTD, but my consistency with song(s) of the day is shameless. You would think for me a day lasted eight hundred and forty hours, give or take. Also I have this amazing ability to paste the same “amazing” song more than once over the course of a year. My solution to this debilitating SOTD problem (see a doctor if it begins to burn or itch); an excel doc! Wow I really am growing up; a part of me is so proud. I am going to be logging the songs I want to post, along with marking the day once its posted. The songs are going to be posted on Facebook and Twitter. But at the end of the month the entire list of songs I shared I will post here, for someone’s playlist making enjoyment.
This blog is my child, neglected in the past, but let’s say I went to blogger rehab, and I am determined to be a better mother; making amends. Earning its following and respect back through lots of small steps to rebuilding the trust we once had. And Blogger Social Services, will once again see me as a valued member of the blogging community.
Q1. What was your favorite cartoon when you were a kid?
A1. Ren & Stimpy
Q2. What’s your vice?
A2.Watching shows about conspiracy theories
Q3. When are you most creative morning, mid day, or evening?
A3. Late at night.
Q4. You were slipped a radioactive roofie by an evil scientist and now have mutated, what’s your superpower?
A4.Shape Shifting
Q5. Most exciting moment of your life thus far?
A5. Finishing the new ROBOTANISTS album of course!
Q6. What do you wish was invented?
A6.The Holodeck
Q7. Childhood ambition?
A7.To be driven around in a pink limo all of the time.
Q8. If you owned a parrot, what would you teach it to say?
A8. “Sa Da Tay”
Q9. How old were you the first time you got drunk? How was the experience?
A9. My first time was in college in New Orleans (I’m lame). It involved a bottle of Jagermeister on my Birthday and copy of “Mingus at Antibes” on repeat. The rest of the details are hazy.
Q10. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A10. Conspiracy theorists.
GUITARIST: Name: Daniel DeBlanke Nickname: D-dubs, DEBLANKE! Sign: Cancer
Favorite: Cookie. black and white Colorblue . Season Fall
Q1. What was your favorite cartoon when you were a kid?
A1.Futurama
Q2. What’s your vice?
A2. Wine
Q3. When are you most creative morning, mid day, or evening?
A3.Early morning
Q4. You were slipped a radioactive roofie by an evil scientist and now have mutated, what’s your superpower?
A4. Mind control
Q5. Most exciting moment of your life thus far?
A5. Its a tie between the season 1 and season 2 finales of RuPaul’s Drag Race
Q6. What do you wish was invented?
A6. Those machines from star trek that simply create any food dish out of thin air.
Q7. Childhood ambition?
A7. creepy guy who hangs out with wolves all the time.
Q8. If you owned a parrot, what would you teach it to say?
A8.something from the big lebowski. “Fuck it, let’s go bowling” or “that rug really tied the room together”
Q9. How old were you the first time you got drunk? 14 How was the experience?
Q9. pretty horrible. warm beer, puking, menthol cigarettes.
Q10. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A10. fake eye glasses
BASSIST: Name: Keith Boyarsky Nickname: ugh, not goin there…. Sign: peace
Favorite: Cookie. Tagalongs Color. eh Season. all year in LA
Q1. What was your favorite cartoon when you were a kid?
A1. TMNT
Q2. What’s your vice?
A2. Rush
Q3. When are you most creative morning, mid day, or evening?
A3. Midnight-8am.
Q4. You were slipped a radioactive roofie by an evil scientist and now have mutated, what’s your superpower?
A4. ability to dunk a basketball from the 3pt line.
Q5. Most exciting moment of your life thus far?
A5. living through West Texas with Preston Scott Phillips.
Q6. What do you wish was invented?
A6.Robot knees.
Q7. Childhood ambition?
A7. Rocket scientist
Q8. If you owned a parrot, what would you teach it to say?
A8. “Fuck me? Fuck you!”
Q9. How old were you the first time you got drunk? How was the experience?
A9. Probably 13 or 14, playing boardgames and drinking cherry schnapps. Quite forgettable.
Q10. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A10. standard definition programming.
DRUMMER: Name: Preston Scott Phillips Nickname: PSP; p dog; p diddy; p funk; porkchop. Sign: Taurus
Favorite Cookie: Raspberry Macaron. Color: Green. Season: any time it’s just cold enough for hobo gloves.
Q1. What was your favorite cartoon when you were a kid?
A1. Bananaman
Q2. What’s your vice?
A2. Miami
Q3. When are you most creative morning, mid day, or evening?
A3. Morning.
Q4. You were slipped a radioactive roofie by an evil scientist and now have mutated, what’s your superpower?
A4. The power to not get raped by that evil scientist. He’s trying to rape me, right? I mean, he just slipped me a roofie.
Q5. Most exciting moment of your life thus far?
A5. The moment I realized some dude really did use the drunk, debilitated girl in his arms as a human battering ram in order to knock me to the ground after I did something to piss him off.
Q6. What do you wish was invented?
A6. Bacon already exists. What kind of silly question is this?
Q7. Childhood ambition?
A7.Grow up to be the Incredible Hulk.
Q8. If you owned a parrot, what would you teach it to say?
A8. “I’m pining for the fjords.”
Q9. How old were you the first time you got drunk? How was the experience?
A9. Every time is like the first time: I cry, get arrested, and my pants look like they’ve been attacked by a mongoose. Oh, wait, first time I got drunk, right. I can’t remember.
Q10. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A10. Their our know pet peeves I have, so your just out of luck.
The toe starts to tap and the hips to start to sway, the melodic dance indie rock sound of Robotanist literally move you (or me). The lyrics are catchy ready to be lipsung along with Sarah, while she emotes her heart into the words she sings. The second I played the Robotanists I couldn’t get enough, playing their Myspace page and Bandcamp on repeat. Sarah’s beautiful voice dances through the music and the band creating the landscape with well conducted transitions and Easter eggs of chord progressions. I can listen to a song over and over again and find little nuances I didn’t catch before. Plans in Progress (latest album minus Radiohead cover) is a album filled with longing and discovery, and maybe I can’t get enough because that’s the place I am in my life right now. The Robotanists have an electric future ahead of them, just the right people need to hear them. Comparable to The Sounds, but ten folds better…(trying to hold back this summary as I have a review of their show last night to write as well)
Please listen to more of the Robotanists on their bandcamp
Name: Jacob Duzsik Nickname: Handsome Jake Sign: Cancer
Favorite Food: Burritos Book: The Plague: Albert Camus. Season: Summer
Q1. What is the best show (music) you have ever been too?
A1. Pearl Jam in 1991. I don’t even like them but it was one of the first shows I ever went to. My dad took me.
Q2. If you could live in any time period or be anyone dead or alive?
A2. who would you be or where would you go? The Idea of being someone else is pretty terrifying philosophically speaking.
Q3. What is something you hate doing, but must do anyways?
A3. Getting gas. Fucking hate it.
Q4. If you had to give up one of your 5 senses, which one would you abandon?
A4. Taste.
Q5. Most rewarding moment of your life thus far?
A5. The birth of my first daughter…hypothetically
Q6. If you owned a parrot, what would you teach it to say?
A6. I would not own a parrot.
Q7. How old were you the first time you got drunk? How was the experience?
A7. !2 years old, new years eve. I puked all over the ground outside my house and tried to clean it with the hose, but it just froze into pools, like giant puke ice cubes. My mom found them in the morning and was furious. It was awesome
Q8. Biggest Pet Peeve?
A8. I have too many to pick a favorite but for right now I’ll go with people who walk around whistling. Can’t fucking stand it.
Q9. What was your childhood ambition?
A9.To be a movie cop. Not to be a real peace officer or an actor, but just a fictional badass.
Q10. Is there any toy you really wanted as a kid but was never given? Did you ever buy it for yourself when you got older?
A10. Remember those footballs or soccer balls that had monster faces on them? Well I really wanted one, and for some reason my mom flatly refused. Never did figure out why.
Those nights out that feel like a dream, where the people are beautiful and life seems surreal. Everything was intangibly exciting. In the moment you wonder if your awake or asleep, closing your eyes to open them up and see that this place, this wonderland, is real. When I listen to HEALTH this is the feeling I am filled with. Their music would be the soundtrack to that night’s movie. It’s haunting, and yet so present. I’ve yet to have the delight of seeing HEALTH live but I could only imagine how hypnotizing the performance would become.
please listen to more HEALTH. They are currently touring with Crystal Castles in the UK and other various parts of Europe! Jealous.
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