I love this song by Darren Hayes and just wanted to send some beauty out into the world... Hope it brightens someone's day!
So Beautiful by Darren Hayes
Labels: beautiful, Beauty, Darren Hayes, Love, Music, music video, pop music, So Beautiful, song
If you like U2, you will love U23D! It is truly a beautiful film... If you ever wanted to be close enough to reach out and touch Bono, you will be in U23D. I was captivated by U23D and left the theatre loving the U2 even more than when I walked in.
The Dalloways get a little dirty on their new EP release Dirty Money and Filthy Love. With talk of secret skins, filthy love, Godlessness, tramps, ice queens and ‘using it before you lose it’ all woven into catchier more danceable tracts than those of their debut album Penalty Crusade, the Dalloways have reinvented themselves into a moodier, grittier brand of Brit-pop music with a hint of romance.
Dirty suits the Dalloways.
Although they sing about filthy love, the Dalloways music is by no means filthy. Rather its moody, lush, textured and a melodically driven machine that has you singing along, tapping your feet and even clapping your hands in Me and Thomas Hardy. These are the kinds of songs that keep playing in your head long after the CD has stopped spinning.
Lyrically the Dalloways don’t disappoint with their creative story-telling, literary references to Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles in Me and Thomas Hardy, mature themes, moodiness, romantic undertones and sound bites from that classic 1960’s gothic soap Dark Shadows in Didn’t Have the Time.
I love lyrics that make me contemplate their meaning as Cerro Coso Community College creative writing professor and Dalloways front man Gerhard Enns’ lyrics always do. But I have to tell you he had me stumped for a while with the Dark Shadows sound clips. I recognized the actor’s voices and even the scene, but I couldn’t remember their names or the name of the show. It plagued me so I had to search it out on the Internet! A classic soap opera as a metaphor for life, clever.
Dalloways keyboardist Cortnie Cleary co-wrote I Love You Regardless and Didn’t Have the Time and is more present on this EP with her moody vocals proving she’s more than just the Dalloways hot babe.
I’ve been listening to Dirty Money and Filthy Love non-stop since I received my copy of the Dalloways new EP its one of those pieces of music that you just can’t let go of.
Get your copy of Dirty Money and Filthy Love at CD Baby today!
EP Track list:
1. Dirty Money and Filthy Love
2. Me and Thomas Hardy
3. Let’s Climb the Staircase
4. I Love You Regardless
5. Didn’t Have the Time
The Dalloways hope to release their full-length album Distant Fairs later this summer, which is sure to be a musical masterpiece if Dirty Money and Filthy Love is a sample of what’s yet to come. No matter what the Dalloways turn out next, I’ll love them regardless.
Read the ABC23 article and watch the video about the Dalloways, Lost Ocean and other bands creative methods of marketing their music.
Watch Cortnie Cleary’s youtube after school special.
Catch up with the Dalloways on myspace.
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Join the Dalloways at their BIG CD RELEASE PARTY Saturday, February 9, 2008 at Sandrini’s in downtown Bakersfield, 9:30 PM, Cost: $5.00. Featuring an incredible line up of: The Sleepover Disaster, The Filthies, a Hectic Films screening of the new Dalloways video and the Dalloways backed by Matt Munoz of Mento Buru on sax, Melissa of Near Miss Mallet and Mystic Red on backing vocals.
Don’t miss out on the fun, it’s going to be a great night of music!!
Labels: ABC 23, Brit Pop, Cortnie Cleary, Dirty Money and Filthy Love, Dream Pop, Gerhard Enns, Hectic Films, Mento Buru, Music, Mystic Red, Near Miss Mallet, pop, The Dalloways, The Filthies
Last night I went to see Hannah Montana in 3D with chingpea and two special little girls who are HUGE Hannah Montana fans. We lined up an hour before the movie started with tons of excited little girls and their parents. It was quite the turn out. In fact we had to go to the 9:40pm show because the earlier shows were sold out! And there was an 11:50pm showing after our show. Can you imagine keeping your kids up that late to see Hannah Montana?
Apparently our theatre wasn’t the only theatre sold out. Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana had the biggest box office Super bowl weekend debut ever! In fact Disney is extending the run of the film that was originally scheduled to run for a short time. Little girls everywhere will be soooo happy!
I have to admit that I actually like Hannah Montana. I’ve seen the show a lot thanks to one of those special little girls. It’s a cute show and Billy Ray Cyrus (Miley Cyrus’ real dad) plays her dad on the show and just in case you were wondering, he’s still HOT! Actually he’s hotter now because of his family image and the relationship he has with his daughter Miley.
The Disney sensation Hannah Montana TV show aside, Miley Cyrus can really sing! And she has a good clean family image, which makes her a good role model for all these little girls who want to be Hannah Montana. You don’t hear bad press about Miley Cyrus and I don’t think you will either. She seems to be a great teenage girl with an amazing talent and the biggest opportunity ever. From what I read about her, and from the back stage scenes in the movie, she seems to be handling her fame well.
The 3D element of the film is great! It allows you to feel like you have really close up seats at the actual concert. 3D works well for concert films. I can’t wait to see the U23D film now!
And it looks like 3D is the new fad. There were previews for three other 3D films, all look really good.
If you have a Hannah Montana loving little girl… take her to the 3D Hannah Montana concert film, it’s worth it and the music is good too. Besides the oldest Jonas Brother is 21, legal and HOT! Something for all you moms to look at!
Labels: 3D, Billy Ray Cyrus, Disney, Disney.com, Hanna Montana TV show, Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus, Music, role model, the Jonas Brothers, U23D
"I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, and the rest is a fraud."
~Cher, enduring entertainer.
Labels: Cher, counterfeit, enduring, entertainer, fraud, Music, reproduction, Sonny and Cher, wild women, wild words, Wild words from wild women
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
~Dame Edith Sitwell, prickly English poet.
Labels: Dame Edith Sitwell, English poet, hobbies, Music, poet, Poetry, Reading, silence, wild women, wild words, Wild words from wild women, Writing
Recently, chingpea and I traveled to Hollywood for a girl’s night out with Darren Hayes at the famous Roxy nightclub.
I don’t know what it is about Hollywood, perhaps it’s the gritty underbelly night life, or the magical feeling that celebrities frequent those clubs, those restaurants, or the realization that “this is where the movies are made,” the giant building size movie billboards, or maybe it’s the stars on the sidewalks, but I love exploring Hollywood. And I haven’t done a lot of Hollywood exploring in my life. My first real Hollywood experience was the night I blew my knee out after seeing the play Trainspotting. Since then I’ve only ventured to Hollywood a few times. I saw World Wide Spies at the Viper Room, I’ve eaten at Astro Burger and Mel’s Drive Thru and I’ve walked around Sunset and Hollywood Blvd. So, I was very excited to see my favorite pop star and the Roxy all on the same night.
Apparently everyone else in the world had the same idea of going out in Hollywood that night. The Los Angeles Film Festival was in full fanfare at the Hollywood Bowl, Ratatouille was premiering at the Kodak Theatre with some red carpet action, Darren Hayes was at the Roxy, Prince was at the Roosevelt Hotel for his seven gig stay, and there were many other events going on as well. What did all of these Hollywood events have to do with two Smalltown girls on a mission to see Darren Hayes?
Traffic. Detours. And Parking.
We navigated through constipated traffic and Hollywood detours in a giant truck we weren’t used to driving as we tried to get to the Roxy on Sunset. Let me just say chingpea is the master of LA traffic! I would have had a nervous breakdown driving that truck in that traffic. With all the detours, we couldn’t figure out how to get back to Sunset. So we asked a man on one of the side streets and he said, “go up to the corner, 'Roger-it' and that street will take you to Sunset, the Roxy will just be a little ways down from there,” turned out he was a regular at the Roxy. I was glad that chingpea was driving, because I had no idea what 'Roger-it' meant!
Once we found the Roxy, we had to find parking. The first public parking lot we tried charged thirty dollars to park! We kept driving until we found one under ten dollars and luckily it was within walking distance of the Roxy. Outside the Roxy, we waited in a line that was at least three blocks long and grew the longer we waited.
So did my excitement…
Unlike John Mayer’s concert where I fell under his gravitational spell, I’ve been in LOVE with Darren Hayes and his music for the past eight years. I’ll admit that I’ve been in love to the point of musical pop star obsession. His music has affected me that much. Not only was I about to see a rare Darren Hayes U.S. performance, (he hasn’t toured in the U.S. since 2000) but it was also chingpea’s Darren Hayes initiation. I wondered if she would love him as much as I did?
Soon the line started moving and we were finally inside the famous Roxy nightclub. It was really dark inside the Roxy! We crowded in as close as we could to the stage and waited with hundreds of fans all in love with Darren Hayes for what was to be an amazing show.
There were two opening acts: Julien and Tempo Shark. Both were a perfect combination of music to compliment Darren Hayes. Julien was an acoustic duo with a beautiful tenor voice whose music I really enjoyed.
And Tempo Shark was an electro-pop band whose lead singer was flirty, and their music made you want to dance.
The excitement in the crowd began to spark after Tempo Shark left the stage. The vibe was infectious and soon the crowd began to chant Darren’s name. When Darren Hayes took the stage, it was like he had never been gone. Darren wrote about the show on his blog:
“At first, the chanting of my name and the screaming I honestly thought must have been for something else. I did not expect such a vibe and it fueled a show that the band and crew were calling the best on the tour.”
I was so glad to be there with chingpea, among those people and Darren Hayes, at the Roxy, in that magical moment. It was surreal.
Darren performed an electric energized set that included old Savage Garden favorites: I Want You, Carry on Dancing and an acoustic version of I Don’t Know You Anymore. The crowd sang along to I Don’t Know You Anymore drowning Darren out until he stopped singing and listened to the sea of voices for a few lines. It was an incredible moment. So personal. So intimate.
Carry on Dancing - (Lighting is dark, but sound quality is good)
He did not perform the expected Savage Garden number one hits, focusing instead on the new music from his upcoming album This Delicate Thing We’ve Made including: On the Verge of Something Wonderful, Who Would Have Thought, Step into the Light and How to Build a Time Machine. How to Build a Time Machine is an amazing song! Wouldn't we all like to build a time machine and go back in time and bring back only the joy in our lives. I know I would.
He seemed to be more focused on the future than the past both musically and personally. His new music, like his new life, and even the way he performed/reworked his old music, had an infectious sincere happy vibe that made you believe all was right with the world. 
How to Build a Time Machine - Darren tells a story at beginning of video.(Lighting is dark, but sound quality is good)
He may not have performed some of my old favorite Savage Garden hits, but Darren did perform some of my favorite songs from his Tension and the Spark album, which I listen to constantly, including: Unlovable and I Like the Way. Unlovable was amazing live!
Surprisingly he also performed a dead-on cover of Prince’s Baby I’m a Star, which was out of this world. He ended it with his own Pop!ular and joked about “Bringing Sexy Back.”
Darren came back on stage at the end of the night to perform Void and Insatiable as a double encore, both were incredible live, and he left us all wanting more… especially this Smalltown girl.
He also joked about the reasons he hadn’t performed in the U.S. in seven years stating:
“I got Kelly Clarksoned. I put out two albums that I really believed in which got buried by a big, bad record label. I spent some time finding myself, and I got married to my boyfriend. You can do that in England!”
The crowd screamed and cheered louder and was Truly Madly Crazy for him. His long absence was forgiven.
Darren Hayes ROCKED the Roxy!
At the end of the show, as chingpea and I ventured out onto Sunset again, I realized that the intimate, up close and personal setting of the Roxy was the only way to see Darren Hayes perform. He had shared something special with us, part of himself, that wouldn’t have happened in a much larger venue. And I was even more in love with him and his music than before.
After such a great night of music... we rode Darren's vibe out into the night to conquer L.A. traffic again in the giant truck. As we drove down Sunset past the Ivy we saw about twenty Paparrazi photographing someone in a SUV parked outside. The camera flashes sparkled in the night like fireworks but we couldn't see which celebrity they were stalking. It was my first Paparrazi sighting. It was Hollywood.
Photos/videos by: chingpea
Labels: Bakersfield, Darren Hayes, Hollywood, LA Film Festival, Music, paparrazi, pop, Prince, Ratatouille, Smalltown Girls, The Roxy
John Mayer is in Fresno tonight and chingpea and I will head north to the big 'NO' to find out the secrets of gravity...
I wonder if he'll catch us if we fall...
Labels: Fresno, gravity, John Mayer, Music
Some annoying cats have talent. Like Nora, the piano playing annoying cat and Internet star, her youtube video has had 2.5 million views.
Watch the musical stylings of annoying cat Nora:
My little old cat lady neighbor’s annoying cats are not in the same league as Nora. No, their talents are: lazily lounging in my yard, eerily staring me down, pacing back and forth on the window ledges, creepy close encounters, waking me up at night with their cat-wailing and moaning and sex-screaming – cat sex rendezvous’ outside my bedroom window, using my yard as their personal toilet and killing birds and leaving their remains for me to find.
I do have a piano, but there is no way in hell I’m letting any of those annoying cats into my house to play it. I don’t think I’d do it even for 2.5 million unique visitors to my blog.
No, I think things are better left the way they are between the annoying cats and myself. Them being the bane of my existence and me plotting their demise by air pistol or any other of the various fun suggestions readers and friends have made. They’re lucky I still brake for annoying cats on my street!
Labels: annoying cats, Bakersfield, Blogging, Music, piano
Lately I’ve been applying the whore attitude to my life. NO I’m not talking about being an actual WHORE! God Forbid! Let me clarify that right now.
I’m talking about my new favorite band t-shirt from those Bakersfield lady rockers of Three Chord Whore and their “What the fuck are you looking at” attitude.
Something happens to me every time I wear my ‘Whore’ t-shirt. I’m filled with confidence. I become the ‘come back’ queen. I don’t take crap from anyone. And I feel liberated and like I could conquer the world. My Three Chord Whore t-shirt is this Bakersfield woman’s equivalent of Wonder Woman’s superhero suit. The only thing missing is the hooker heels.
Sure my friends smile and giggle at me when they see the bright pink ‘Whore’ written across my chest. They’re not used to me advertising myself as a whore.
“You want a piece of me?” I apply the whore attitude.
More giggles.
“I’m a ‘Whore’ after all.”
Maybe Shantell, Heather and Darcie would let me be an honorary Whore… I love their Gingerbread Girls song.
Labels: Attitude, Bakersfield, Hooker heels, local bands, Music, Superhero Suit, Three Chord Whore, Wonder Woman
Last week Police tickets at Dodger Stadium went on sale at 10:00am on a weekday and I had the dilemma of figuring out how to buy Police tickets from work. My desk sits in an open area with no cubicle walls and my computer screen is visible to all who pass by. I also sit directly across from my boss’s office.
That morning I logged into ticketmaster.com found the Police dates and waited. I kept the Internet page minimized while working, checking it occasionally to see if the tickets were on sale yet.
Ten minutes to 10:00am I got my debit card out of my wallet, minimized the Internet page and continued working.
Five minutes to 10:00am I refreshed the Internet page. Tickets still not on sale. I minimized the Internet page and continued working.
Two minutes to 10:00am I refreshed the Internet page. Tickets still not on sale. I minimized the Internet page and continued working.
One minute to 10:00am I refreshed the Internet page. Tickets still not on sale. I minimized the Internet page and continued working.
10:00am! I refreshed the Internet page. Tickets now on sale! Woo hoo! I put in the number of tickets I wanted, chose a price range and clicked on “look for tickets”.
A box popped up on the screen that said: “Your wait time is approximately 7 minutes. If you refresh or hit back you’ll lose your place in line.”
“Your wait time is approximately 5 minutes.”
“Your wait time is approximately 3 minutes.”
“Your wait time is approximately 7 minutes.”
What? It’s going back up!
Just then my boss got up from his desk and walked past my desk towards another co-worker’s office.
Shit!
I quickly minimized the Internet page and pretended to be working. After he passed, I maximized the Internet page again.
“Your wait time is approximately 5 minutes.”
“Your wait time is approximately 3 minutes.”
“Your wait time is approximately 1 minute.”
One minute left!
Just then my boss walked back around the corner passing by my desk.
Shit!
I quickly minimized the Internet page again and pretended to be working. Once he was back at his desk, I maximized the Internet page again.
“Your tickets have been located. Enter your credit card information in the next minute if you want to purchase.”
I quickly entered my credit card information.
Processing…
“Thank you for purchasing Police tickets. Your confirmation # is…”
Oh my God! I got Police tickets! I wanted to scream.
I couldn’t call my friends that I’d just bought Police tickets for because my boss would hear me telling them that I’d just bought Police tickets while at work!
I had to tell them I got Police tickets!
“I got Police tickets!” I sent in a text message.
“Oh my God! Police tickets!”
“Yeah. We’re going to see the Police.”
Labels: Bakersfield, Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, Music, The Police, tickets
About Me
- Name: Matildakay
- Location: Bakersfield, California, United States
An inspirational, eclectic and often humorous peek into the life of single womanhood in Bakersfield, California and beyond...
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