Hey kids

I am the proud owner of Chris Dane Owens' Blue Stone. I'll be reviewing that for your reading pleasure soon enough. I'm also going to be having a chat with him which I'll post in a couple days. I like talking to and about him because he's so genuinely kind. Also, I was pleasantly surprised by the track "Superhuman". It's kind of cheesy nineties-sounding techno, but I like it. This could get me some flack, but it reminds me of Moby/Recoil. Honestly, Moby and Recoil/Alan Wilder do cheesy things, too, so chill.

Add this to your bookmarks: http://www.justhearit.com/ Search the web for any song and find it immediately. It's pretty remarkable. It helps that it picks up Youtube links as well.

Also I'm getting tweets from the Leto brothers saying that the new 30 Seconds to Mars album is almost completed. I'm not sure if they mean recording or post production or what and I don't really want to go deeper into that because, come on, it's 30 Seconds to Mars.

Let's finish things up by posting a video to Adam Ant's "Puss'n Boots" off of Strip (1983). Strip era Adam is so damn attractive, it's criminal. Also this video features the shortest leather mini I've ever seen combined with the longest thigh-high boots. Sassy!

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SotD - Mr. Mister "Broken Wings"

I was at work, listening to the radio, like you do, and this song came on. I'm a big fan of really earnest, melodramatic singing, so of course I love this song. I'm also a big fan of the video, which features singing while driving, singing while looking out windows, and singing while wearing a duster with the sleeves rolled up. Can you argue with that? No, I think not.



Link to video

OMG, this blog is a year old!

Let's take a step down memory lane, shall we.

~*The Chocchiphopera Highlight Reel*~

(1) I rediscovered Square One Television and learned the Angle Dance.

(2) I interviewed Chris Dane Owens at the height of his internet notoriety and made a friend. (Aww.)

(3) I helped spread the news of Warner Music's failure to utilize the publicity tool that is YouTube.

(4) I took inspiration from the film Kissing Jessica Stein and created a sexy-ugly picspam to ring in the new year.

(5) I discovered the magic that is Vitas' unearthly voice.


Macro courtesy of zestylime

What's new? My appreciation for Vitas!

I basically owe my awareness of Vitas to an LJ acquaintance. I still don't know a whole lot about him, but I do know that he was born in Latvia, raised in Ukraine, and resides in Russia. He speaks and sings in Russian. He's also super popular in China, and he performed at the pre-Olympics concert. According to his English language website, he has performed in the US and I'm crossing my fingers that he will again someday.

I've been watching this video a lot in the past few days:



I wish I were a sexy violinist. The best I can come up with is a fairly passable flutist/flautist.

Related links:
Vitas' official site in English
Vitas on Wikipedia