HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

THANKSGIVING DINNER MUSIC

I'm celebrating Thanksgiving at my boyfriend's this year and was asked to play DJ for this dinner event which will consist of a 10-course meal prepared by him and his two buddies. The three of them are 20 year restaurant veterans.

I'm very excited.

My other job is preparing an Amaretto Charlotte or Charlotte Amaretto or something along those lines that I've never had in my life, i don't think. I will probably fuck this up so I'd like to make sure that I can at least deliver on the dinner music.

So I've been asked to make two mixes: One for the pre-dinner and the other for the actual dinner. I'm thinking string renditions of Radiohead songs and some jazz (my bf likes jazz a lot and so he's made his suggestions). I'm thinking my favorite mellow songs of my favorite albums, and hoping that those aren't totally slit-your-wrist depressing.

My friend Xiomara sent me this nice mashup which pissed off the newly resurrected KarenPlusOne. She said that mashups should be for mosh pits (or mash pits?) and not elevators. I disagree. I am quite happy to have this to play on Thursday night:

Lionel Richie's "Easy Like Sunday Morning" x The Cure's "Lovesong"

Enjoy.

Lastly, when Brandon left me I went kinda super utterly sad for a few weeks or a month and then went to see a "spiritual adviser" or "psychic" ... anyone interested in hearing about it? Should i blog about it or is that kinda too personal?

PINK IS WEIRD.

BURN DOWN THE HOT TOPIC

DAY AND AGE

The Killers new album is SO FUCKING GOOD.

I can't take it. I want to cry it's so good. I want to go to a gun store and purchase a gun and shoot myself in the head because it's so good.

I don't know how they do it. I don't know how they take a year off to write an album and come up with this fucking piece of work. it's like the best of 80s bowie and talk talk and all those new romantics that did tons of blow but somehow made really great albums.

it's like brandon shaved off that beard his, looked in the mirror and was like "oh, hai thar handsome. you should make music that sounds as clean as you look." and then yelled over to tana "honey! can i borrow your cute blazer with the big shoulder pads? i've got a record to write." and then he called the rest of the dudes and was like "yo, dust off your eyeliner and grab your parliament filters, it's time to go back to our roots. put on your red shoes and dance the blues."



it's not brandon flowers. it's 1986 david bowie from the movie Labyrinth.






Best Christmas song ever:


"Let's Dance"

YOU SHOULDA PUT A RING ON IT

Joanna has me practicing this dance day and night to prepare for our winter recital:



but seriously... thing that happens :50 mark of this video makes me feel weird in the pants:

BRITNEY SPEARS COUNTDOWN - 13 DAYS

We're thirteen days away from Britney Spears' album release for Circus and I can't stop listening to it. I posed this question to my twitter friends and I'll post it to you guys:
in "womanizer", do you think it's "i got your crazy" or "i got you're crazy"? the two of them are very different. VERY.

Anyway, here is a video for "Gimme More," which was shot in the heyday of her bi-polar psychopathic breakdown. It's pretty fucking genius and I think she may have directed it herself:


And here's one of the best pop songs ever written: "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division:


I would like to coordinate a covers album for Britney. As in songs she should cover. It would include all the songs I've been posting in this countdown. Holy shit... couldnt you image that? It'd be fucking genius? Britney would be EPIC. Her covering Joy Division? Her covering the Pumpkins and Hole?? WILL BRITNEY'S A&R PERSON PLEASE CONTACT ME TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. I NEED TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. PLEASE.

FELL IN LOVE WITH A BLACK GIRL

The Cataracs ode to Michelle Obama. hahahaha:

THE KILLERS' DAY & AGE

OK Ladies and Gentlemen...

The Killers. They are fucking here. Day & Age is the best 80s Bowie record that he never wrote.

I almost can't believe that this album was created. It's really fucking crazy. So so so good. Took them only a year to write it, which is fucking fast considering how strange and fantastic it is.

It's a weird album. I mean that in the best way. It's not even weird in a growing way, it's weird in a right-off-the-bat-this-is-fantastic way.

Oh, and look. Photos of Brandon:
JESUS. WHAT ARE YOU DOING LOOKING SO CUTE?








and a photo from back when we were young and ate all the pies:

BRITNEY SPEARS COUNTDOWN - 14 DAYS

I'm counting down to the days until Britney Spears' new album Circus comes out because I want her to fucking WIN! Britney Spears FTW, if you will.

I got the album last night. It's fucking great. I thought Blackout was totally fucking sublime. Like, surprise, this album is fucking great because she was totally strung out and crazy when she recorded it so you can hear her fucking pain. She's fucking Courtney Love.

Here's "I'm A Slave 4 U"... I think people probably m'bated to this video:

Britney Spears |MTV Music

Here's the video for Hole's "Miss World." When I was 14 or 15 I wanted to be Courtney Love. She was my fucking idol. I LIVED LIVED LIVED LIVED for the album Live Through This. I had to listen to it every day because Courtney was the only person who sung the words I felt before I even knew I felt them. I'm gonna name drop for a second because I am so stoked: About a month ago Courtney emailed me on MySpace!!!! I wrote her back saying "OMG I have been waiting 13 years for this email!" And then we talked on the phone for an hour. Dude, I NEED TO INVENT A TIME MACHINE SO I CAN GO BACK TO 1995 AND BE LIKE "OMG SARAH YOU'RE GONNA FUCKING FLIP YOUR SHIT WHEN I TELL YOU WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN IN 13 YEARS!" I told Courtney about my break up with Brandon in full detail that I would reserve for a therapist. Maybe she'll write the Brandon and Sarah breakup record so he doesn't have to. No hard feelings btw me and him, but breakups are hard. We're still bff. Yay. Anyway... "Miss World":

Hole |MTV Music

Bonus:
I'm adding this Hole video for their cover of "Gold Dust Woman" just because the song is totally rad and I totally forgot about it until i was looking up the video for "Miss World":

Hole |MTV Music

MY FUCKING BAND

I wanna win shit from Guitar Hero because they've stolen too much of my free time with their awesome game.

GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE THE KILLERS?

You can see how much I love them :36 seconds into this clip. Hahaha. Oh man. Tragic outfit = me.

TRL - MTV Shows

BRITNEY SPEARS COUNTDOWN - 15 DAYS

Britney Spears is like a modern day Jesus Christ: She was born in December and basically died after being crucified on a steak (or in this case -- tied down to a gurney) and managed to resurrect herself. Britney's album comes out on her 27th birthday and if things keep going the way they're going, she very well could survive the 27 Club/Curse of 27 -- the age that took away Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison. Something nobody would've guessed when this photo of her surfaced:



Everyone is celebrating Britney. She's come full circle. It used to be totally uncool to like her and now it's uncool to not like her. It's uncool to not cheer for her. It's uncool to not hope she fucking comes out on top.

Every day I'm going to post a Britney video until her new album comes out and a classic video from a favorite band of mine.

Here is "Piece of Me" because it's so fucking sick:

Britney Spears |MTV Music

Here is Smashing Pumpkins' video for "Zero" which I watched this morning 3 times in a row cheering each time it started over again because they all look so fucking cool. I wanted to email James Iha and be like "Dude, you were so fucking cool in this video!!!!!!!!! Can I have your autograph???":

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE MEETS SIOUXIE

I love Justin Timberlake. I love Siouxie Sioux.

Lawrence sent me this mashup/remix via Stef.

TOKYO POLICE CLUB ARE TOO CUTE

Here they are on Desperate Housewives. So so so so cute:

I LOVE HOUSTON PRESS

HoustonPress reviewed Pitchfork's new book The Pitchfork 500: “Our Guide to the Greatest Songs from Punk to the Present", and included this as the kicker:

If you’re looking for a singles-based guide of much better musical quality and usefulness, pick up a copy of Sarah “Ultragrrl” Lewitinn’s playlist-based The Pocket DJ instead.

TOKYO POLICE CLUB GET SOME COUGARS

My favorite group of little dudes, Tokyo Police Club, will be appearing on this Sunday's episode of Desperate Housewives. They're appearing as the fictional band called Cold Splash.

Expect them to LOOK ADORABLE and to perform their song "In A Cave".

I have no idea what the context of this appearance is, but you better fucking believe I will be posting the clip once it airs!

I also have been meaning to post a video of David Monks performing TPC songs in my living room a little over a year ago.

PUT ME IN THE RING WITH CORGAN

FTW!

THAT'S IT! ITS OFFICIAL. I FOUND EVERYTHING ON THE INTERNET.

I WOKE UP IN 2004!!!!

I think i have the Norovirus. I thought it was food poisoning because I had late-night Mexican food... but I went to bed at 1am on Sunday night and was unable to leave my bed until 1pm today.

This is OK! YOU WANNA KNOW WHY???

Because apparently I woke up in 2004. I had no idea that that was possible, but it happened.

I know it happened because not only was gothamist writing stories about me that brought along "omg ultragrrrl sucks" comments (ah, the good old days), but THE KILLERS AND FRANZ FERDINAND HAVE SONGS THAT ARE MAKING FUCKING STOKED.

The Killers - A Crippling Blow (thanks Pretty Much Amazing)
Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (thanks JP's Blog)

NOT ONLY THAT...

But I have a new R&B song that I love to rival maybe... maybe... my love of Gwen's song from that year... AND she's on tour with Kanye West right now in the UK:

Melanie Finoa - Give It To Me Right

TURN ON YOUR TV!

PUT ON FUSE! I'm going to be on "Fuse On Tour" at 6:30pm!!!!

yay!

ROB PATTINSON AND PRINCE

LOL!!!!

"HEAD OVER HEELS" VIDEO LITERALLY DONE

I love Tears for Fears. Seriously. When I lived with my parents in Tenafly, I used to eat Chinese food from Mr. Chow's, play Gamecube on mute, and have Tears For Fears' Songs From The Big Chair playing on a record player.

Anyway, here's a very literal version of Tears For Fears' "Head Over Heels" that Gurj sent over:

CHRISTINA DOES "GENIE" RIGHT

I love this version of "Genie in a Bottle" that Xtina did. It makes me think that she's been listening to a LOT of Goldfrapp, which can only be a good thing. She performed a bit of it at the 2008 MTV VMAs this year... and I think it's better than her new single and I bet this song will do really well.

RANDY FROM THE MYRIAD HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER

A little under a year ago I participated in an MTV2 contest called the Dew Circuit Breakout, which was a sort of battle-of-the-bands that would give small bands a music video and guaranteed exposure on MTV2. I was on the panel of judges, which included Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy and Gabe Seporta from Cobra Starship. I picked the winning band The Myriad. Hollur! That's why my fucking ears are paid the big bucks! (that's a joke. i'm poor a sin).

I just found out today via Maura@Idolator that Randy from The Myriad recently got diagnosed with Cancer and his not-so-helpful insurance plan will most likely put his family into financial crisis. It kills me -- Randy was such a sweetheart when I met him. To find out that he's got a wife and two kids is just too heartbreaking. The band is asking fans to help Randy Miller and his family out!

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT HOW TO HELP

A few people I know have been diagnosed with cancer and are either in remission or currently fighting their battle. As we moan and groan about our own personal financial crises, please remember those who are even less fortunate to deal with health issues like cancer. Whether it's how you vote, how you donate money, or just giving your friends the love and support they need -- everything helps.

My love goes to Randy Miller and his family, and my other friends who are suffering from Cancer. You know who you are... obviously.

PS - One thing that one of my friends does is employ the "Cancer Card". When it comes to picking a song, a place to eat, or a movie, she uses her "Cancer Card" to have the final say. I guess there's at least one perk, right?

THE KILLERS AT ROYAL ALBERT HALL

Check out a stream of the entire Killers set at Royal Albert Hall right here

Thanks Gurj for the link!

LIVING THINGS ROCK THE VOTE

For those of you reading this blog, you know i'm kind of a freak about Living Things. Can you blame me? Their song "Let it Rain" is kind of the best song I've heard all year.

Besides appearing in Roberto Cavalli ads along side the illustrious Kate Moss, the band is also incredibly politically minded and active.

First off, check out this video directed by Floria Sigismondi on SPIN.com, in which the band discuss the album's creation and unveil song snippets. Plus stream the song, "Let It Rain."

PLAY THAT SHIT LOUD.

And check out this little nod to Bob Dylan that the band did on ObeyGiant.com:

Click here for more videos from Vote For Change

TWILIGHT CRAZY

OK, OK, OK... I'm kind of Twilight crazy just like every other bitch with ovaries in this world.

Here is Paramore's video for "Decode" for the Twilight Soundtrack. I think that out of all those shitty bands coming from the scene, I like Paramore the most because Haley is a fucking star:


Also, Rob Pattinson and the director of Twilight, Catherine Hardwicke, will be at the Apple Soho Store tonight. Click here for more info.

And lastly, I recommend you follow @MrEdwardCullen on twitter. He's kind of hilarious.