Music Monday: Marina & The Diamonds

DISCLAIMER: Okay, I had to translate the blog post I got this information from, so hopefully it's all correct. Marina & The Diamonds, an English export by the likes of Kate Nash or Florence + The Machine, is releasing her second album Family Jewels sometime this year. She... and... whatever. Translate it with Google. Here's a single, "Girls."


Marina & The Diamonds - Girls by the ruée

Music Monday: The Return of Uffie

20th century blog queen turned electropop artist Uffie is back with a new track that Hipster Runoff calls "a crossover." You see, Uffie is straying from her hipster It Girl roots by featuring mainstream artist Pharrell Williams. Mainstream or not, "ADD SUV (featuring Pharrell)" is a fun song sure to be a hit inthe electro/club scene. As music blog DISCODUST wrote, "fingers crossed for Uffie kicking some Ke$ha ass."


uffie featuring pharrell - add suv (full track)byDISCODUST

Music Match-Up: Ke$ha VS Leighton Meester

Do you know how hard it is to find a good picture of Ke$ha? VERY Hard. Photos via last.fm

AHH! It's time for our first ever music match-up! It all started when I was just minding my own business, listening to the radio in my car, when what do I hear? Leighton Meester (of Gossip Girl and Cobra Starship fame) singing her new single, "Your Love's A Drug." That's funny, because I could have sworn that Ke$ha (of general promiscuity and alcohol abuse fame) had a single out called, "Your Love is My Drug." Hmmm, two songs connecting love and substance abuse? Normally, I would trust Ke$ha on a subject like this, but you have to listen to them both to pick the true winner >>

Op-Ed: Why I Haven't Fallen For Chat Roulette... Yet.

Last night, I finally tried out Chat Roulette. And I'll admit, I was a little disappointed. Not by the number of male genetalia (no, there were plenty of them!), but by how BORING everyone was. Is that how the world perceives me? As a boring Chat Roulette user? Anyway, I'm not about to be plunged into a self-esteem crisis.

The internet is afire with stories and screenshots of hilarious and awkward encounters via Chat Roulette (see left). Unfortunately, I encountered none of those. Many of the people I met said nothing but "Hi," a simple, albeit plebeian, phrase. The most interesting people my friends and I met were these two guys who commented that my friends picture was far too high up on the wall to be a satisfying interior design.    Other than that, it was mostly penises, lonely girls, and creepy old men. There was one guy that saw my Hawaiian flower earrings as I bent over to text and complimented them. I hurriedly replied, "Thanks ;)" and hit enter before I could see the horror of the winking/flirting emoticon I sent some random middle aged man with a terrible haircut. I didn't get a "BOOBS OR GTFO" partner, which I hear is all too common, although a guy from Spain told me to kiss my (female) friend, in both English and Spanish (how kind of him).

And it was all so ordinary. There was an excess of awkward staring and lame replies. I don't think I'll be venturing on CR anytime soon. I prefer Omegle, on which you can optionally use a webcam (I don't) and is basically an anonymous chat room. Last night I pretended to be a pretentious Yale student and, on a seperate occasion, fooled some 17 year old girl into thinking I was Mexican, Spanish and all.

MORE CHATROULETTE FUN: This professional troller trolls Chat Roulette, saying things both meanly and cleverly.

Link of the Day: "Catholicism 2.0"

I haven't posted in so long that I had to look up the html to space this post correctly. Down to business:

With accusations ranging from corruption to criminal conspiracy, the Catholic Church's holy week isn't looking so, you know, holy. Maureen Dowd, an excellent columnist at the New York Times had a scathing retort to the Church's failure to publicly admit the extent of its wrongs. She makes excellent points against the church's rampant homophobia, medieval stance on birth control, and gender inequality. If you are really fired up head over to the comments thread!

My favorite comment (by someone named Malcolm in NYC):

Catholicism 2.0 is full of bugs and keeps crashing. It is time for Catholicism 2.1. Installation instructions:

Step 1. Select 2.0 version. Remove Hierarchy, including Pope and Cardinals.

Step 2. Delete the following files: Gays are Bad; Priests should be Celibate; Don't Use Birth Control; Conceal Pedophiles; Blame the Victims; and No Women Priests. You may delete further files that you find offensive at this point.

Step 3. Thoroughly disinfect remaining files.

Step 4. Install 'Gospels' . (This was missing from the 2.0 version, and may be the main reason it kept malfunctioning).

Step 5. Install new operating system.

This system should operate much better than the old one.