Bell X1 "Bad Skin Day" (Acoustic)

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I heart 30 Rock!

And so does Mariah Carey apparently, as she had Jack McBrayer (the guy who plays Kenneth "the Page" Purcell) to co-star in her video for Touch My Body as a Compunerd who visits her home to fix her 'puter. (The tune is from her new album E=MC2.)

This video is adorable and the lyrics to the song are kinda cute, too:

I think its official ... society has accepted the universal truth ... nerds are SEXY. And Mariah? I forgive you for Glitter.

Mariah Carey - Touch My Body

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Computer Camp Love

I ran into her at computer camp
(Was that in 84?)
Not sure
I had my commodore 64
Had to score
(Not with that dirty tramp)
She’s not a tramp
Her name is Judy
(That’s a nice name)
Yeah she’s a nice girl
(Big deal. Did you get in her pants?)
She’s not that kind of a girl, booger
(Why, does she have a penis?)
Seen as supremus
You better know she’s a genius and a Venus
(Tell me more; was it love at first sight?)
That’s right this was god-given grace with a face you could praise
(Tell me more; did you put up a fight?)
I don’t think so, but before we tour the chorus stall let’s all explore a more a
(Computer cabin war)
That's right
I said before we explore the amore on my story do a dora
(Computer cabin war)
Seen as supremus
You better know she’s a genius and a Venus
(Tell me more; was it love at first sight?)
That’s right this was god-given grace with a face you could praise
(Tell me more; did you put up a fight?)
I ran into her on computer camp
(Computer cabin war)
Hard core
It started like a boar ending up on the floor
(Come on now tell me more)
Seen as supremus
You better know she’s a genius and a Venus
(Tell me more; was it love at first sight?)
That’s right this was god-given grace with a face you could praise
(Tell me more; did you put up a fight?)

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Great Lake Swimmers - Moving Pictures, Silent Films

Oh wake me please when this is over
Oh when the ice is melted away
And the hunger returns
I will be the same, but older
And maybe twice the bear
That I thought I was

Where have you been,
And what have you done?
I've been under the ground
Eating prayers from this old book I found
Under the ground
Saving it up, and spending it all
On moving pictures
Silent films
Moving pictures
Silent films

Or is this the dream I've been saving?
Oh where the heart beats slower and slower
To almost nothing
Almost nothing
Almost nothing

I took it for love
Or at least something beautiful
Out there in the spotlight
But I turned around suddenly,
Turned around squinting
And saw
That it was headlights
And then the truth, the truth was unbearable
Oh, and imminent
Bearing down on these two shadow animals

Caught painting a dotted line
Caught painting a dotted line
Caught painting a dotted line

Where have you been?
And what have you done?
I've been under the ground
Eating in prayers from this old book I found
Under the ground
Saving it up
And spending it all
On moving pictures
Silent films
Moving pictures
Silent films

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Swedish band The Knife is mediaChick's band of the hour. They play the best electro-pop I've heard in a while, a curious combination of industrial discord, club dance beats, moody vocals, electronic synth beats, and lots of what sounds like a marimba. It works. The first song I heard from this band was "Girls' Night Out" which caught my attention as I was plugging away at work. It's got that combination of the comfortable familiar and "dang, I didn't expect that!" that gets my blood pumping.

Listen to it (click the play button below the big ol' box below) and read this stuff I lifted from Last.FM about The Knife (I cut out the boring parts):

The Knife "Girls' Night Out"

The Knife

The Knife is an amazingly prolific electronic indie duo from Sweden formed in 1999. The band consists of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, who also run their own record company, Rabid Records.

One of the group's distinguishing characteristics is their unwillingness to cooperate with the media or the mainstream music scene. The group rarely makes public appearances, most of their promotional photos feature the members wearing masks, and until recently, they outright refused to perform live concerts. (mediaChick's Note: Here's an interesting tidbit: In their video for "Pass It On" The Knife is portrayed as a blonde drag queen seducing a 20-something doe-eyed boy. When they played "live" recently, the used the same actors to perform that song...the videos are below.) They use venetian masks similar to those that can be seen in the movie Eyes Wide Shut - which had its premiere the same year that The Knife was formed. Recently the group has showed themselves in public wearing masks formed as bird's beaks, similar to those used by medieval doctors. (mediaChick's note: check out the photo below...they also paint themselves up as monkeys, too. Just sticking it to the man, I guess.)

The Knife

The Knife won a Swedish Grammy award as best pop group of the year 2003, but they boycotted the ceremony by sending two representatives of another artist group dressed as gorillas with the number 50 written on their costumes, apparently as a protest against male dominance within the music industry.

The group became prominent in late 2005 when José González covered "Heartbeats" on his 2003 album, Veneer. The song was used by Sony in a commercial for Bravia television sets, and released as a single in early 2006. The group commented on this in a Dagens Nyheter article, claiming that Sony paid a large sum of money to use the song. In view of the group's left-wing views and non-commercial philosophy, they excused this transaction on the basis that the money was needed to establish their record company.

The Knife's song "We Share Our Mothers' Health" from their album Silent Shout was featured by the iTunes store as a free song of the week in late 2006. This song was also featured in the ABC series Ugly Betty, as well as an episode of CSI: NY.(mediaChick's Note: I have thoughtfully included this LIVE performance video below.)

At the Swedish Grammies awards in January 2007, The Knife won in all six categories they were nominated in: Composer of the Year, Music DVD of the Year, Producer of the Year, Pop Group of the Year, Album of the Year and Artist of the Year. Again, they did not attend the award ceremony. (Instead they released 6 bizzare pre-recorded acceptance speech videos.)

Official "Pass It On" video

The Knife "Pass This On"

The "live" performance at Sen Kvall med Luuk in 2003

Pass This On - The Knife (Live 2003 Sen Kväll med Luuk)

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"A British band with German influences, a Japanese name, with an album named after a story by a Russian novelist."

Fujiya & Miyagi "Ankle Injuries"

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