I'm in a play that is opening tonight. No Business, a production of Our Own Voice Theatre Troop out of Memphis, TN, is a witty satire putting playful, creative, local theater and glitzy, superficial Hollywood into a bag and letting them get themselves out. I know almost no one on last.fm is actually from Memphis (I assume from the fact that my roommate and I are the only fans for some extremely popular local bands), but I made a soundtrack and wanted to post it for posterity.

The No Business Soundtrack

Show Business - Van Morrison (the theme which…

I'm a very politically active person, and just to keep myself sane I try to put my politics on my political journal (http://www.xanga.com/elokin_of_the_swift_feet) and my music commentary here, but lately the two have been merging on the issue of Net Neutrality.

First, a little on Net Neutrality:

It's frustrating that soon my own personal noise might be muted because big telecommunications providers don't like what I have to say (or that I'm not willing to pay to say it). I wrote about this before (http://www.xanga.com/elokin_of_the_swift_feet/483717762/listen-up-peeps.html), but I feel the need AT&T and Verizon are lobbying to get Network Neutrality taken…

In my time away I've been honing my pirate exchange skills. My roommate's (ladysinja) massive music collection has yeilded some particularly shiny jewels:

feist: Oh so cute. I am especially digging the light melodies but pertinent lyrics of secret heart.

alix olson: How much do I love her? Amazing lyrics, politics just like mine, and beats like no other. I recommend armpit hair, america's on sale, and eve's mouth.

And a rediscovery: Cindi Lauper. She's amde another album, The body acoustic, and her sound has really matured. My old favorite of hers,…

Am I the only one who both loves The Decemberists, but also notices that they are emo in the morbidly extreme (emo in the pop sense of the world, meaning overly emotional and dramatic)? I mean, let's review a list of their songs:

The Bachelor and the Bride: The Bachelor remains a bachelor because instead of waiting until the honeymoon and then getting consent, he rapes the bride.

Leslie Anne Levine: Leslie is a girl who was prematurely born in a ravine (I guess because it rhymed?).

Odalisque: A woman wants to kill herself after being…

Random challenge of my own design, for my benefit only:

List as many songs as you can with "Rubicon" in them (not as the title, but in the lyrics). I encourage you to use any meanas at your disposal to find songs (i.e. google is not cheating). I'll start you crazy kids off:

Better Version of Me
High on Sunday 51

{hopes these songs will be fruitful and multiply}

I am really getting into Tori Amos. The songs I like the msot are things like Happy Phantom and Zebra. Can anyone point me more towards songs like that?

Okay, so I'm going to have to keep the last.fm elokin profile if I want all those old tags and charts. Ho hum.