skip to my loo, my darlin.

Watching Meet Me in St. Louis... wtf is the Hoochie Coochie? Judy Garland looks like a baby!
So last Thurs I missed Samantha Who to go see Suckers at Glasslands. It was sponsored by Heeb Magazine, and we got free lil bags of goodies. Mine included a CD by Balkan Beat Box. I don't even know what to do with a CD. But Suckers was great! Nick reminded me that I had actually gone to one of their shows when I went to see Real Estate and they played with them and Oxford Collpase at the Studio at Webster Hall a month or two ago. The lead singer and drummer were totally wilin out. Before they played their big Pfork hit song "It Gets Your Body Movin," the lead singer turned to the guitarist and said "pump up the jams motherfucker!" Hottt.
Sat night Nick and I also went to a show at the Shank that was free if you stopped by TopMan on Friday to pick up a free ticket. We saw These Are Powers, Wavves and Crystal Stilts. Unfortunately for These Are Powers, the power (somewhat ironically) went out three times during their set, during their best song too, "Easy Answers." Wavves was rad! I can't wait to see him at Pitchfork. We totally shared a moment when I caught his eye on the way out... and realized he's like 14. Crystal Stilts was alright, sort of disappointing, because the lead singer seemed like he took a few too many ludes. Seriously out of it.
Josh called cos he left his keys and I have to run them down the six flights and take them to him. I guess it's okay though cos I have to take out the recycling.

NYC has skipped spring and gone right to summer. It was almost 90 degrees out today, and our office's AC isn't on yet. It's been pretty awful.

Getting in bed to watch the Office and sleep for once!

oh, it gets your body moving.

Going to see Suckers and Tanlines tonight at Glasslands. Free Colt45 from 8-9pm, huh?

Outside they are filming another episode of Ugly Betty. The main characters work for a magazine that is supposed to be in the Woolworth building next door, so they are often closing off the area and shooting scenes during the week. There is a shoe store directly adjacent to the entrance to our building, and I passed by before on my way back from my break and they had emptied the whole space and converted it into a cafe! The window said PATISSERIE where dozens of cheap shoes used to be! I thought I was lost...

Took an extra long break today to go buy a video cam tripod from Adorama. That place is crazy! They have this whole take-a-number electronic deli shop set-up and everything a media artist could possibly desire. Anyway. Dropped over two hundred easy on a tripod and mini-dv's. I feel like I can use the term "dropped" here in regards to spending a chunk of cash I don't reallllly have. But tomorrow evening I'm filming this wedding rehearsal dinner that David Archer hooked me up with through his coworkers at Knopf. It's at some fancy hotel restaurant in midtown. I can afford the tripod with my payment from that. Maybe these odd jobs are how I'll eventually be able to buy a camera.

Trekked out to Crown Heights last night with this little purse puppy my boss paid me to dogsit for a week while she's on vacay in the Dominican Republic. Picked up a Canon vid camera from Patrick and Mike's place. Weird area. I felt like I could have been in Baltimore. Or Philly. Not that I have ever been there. But it felt like another city other than Bklyn. Took about 3 hours round trip in traveling time alone, too.

On a sidenote, I didn't know Marc Bolan was dead. At my place on Saturday night, everyone had a good laugh that I didn't know.

"me: i can't believe i didn't know he was dead. i guess i never even thought about it either way.

nneidorf: haha, right

I guess there was no reason to be so stunned by your lack of knowledge on the subject

it was funny at the time, though"

Hah bloody hah. And Nick or Vadim (henceforth known as Vlad the Impaler) kept insisting on the fact that T.Rex was originally Tyrannosaurus Rex. It was supposed to mean something. But WHAT?

Been getting a new mix together. Watch out now.

depeche mode's "wrong" video

Dig it. New Patrick Daughters video for "Wrong" by Depeche Mode.


Sorta reminds me of the video he did for Liars' "Plaster Casts of Everything," maybe cos the creepy guy behind the wheel in this one is Liars drummer Julian Gross, whose image is projected along with the other members in the PCOE video.

Recently, he also did the kickass and slightly less creepy (though it haunts my dreams as well) video for Department of Eagles' smashiest hit yet, "No One Does It Like You" along with Marcel Dzama, and it premiered at MoMA. That video reminds me of everything about the Wizard of Oz that terrified me as a child.

Also, my friend and super talented writer Vadim Risov is in this Rotten Tomatoes video review of "Gigantic," a new Zooey Deschanel and Paul Dano movie. Go to 1:12. Lovin it.

Ok. Now I'm going to go watch all Daughters' Feist vids at work and cry quietly.

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have a fun.

Happy Birthday to Hannah.

dovers jam

dovers jam (live) - atlas sound

See that lunatic chick dancing down the NYC sidewalk with an enormous smile on her face and ear buds in her ears? That girl is totally me.

It's been a few weeks, and I still cannot stop listening to this. Oddly enough, the only lyrics I seem to remember are, "I want, to rip, your skin, from bone..."

But seriously, huge smile.

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i'll be anything you ask and more.

So, 1901 is totally on, totally with it. I've danced around to this song countless times already, and I only just got it this weekend at Hannah's house. They also just put out a new video, "Lisztomania."

Strangely though, all I can think of lately when I hear Thomas Mars' voice (the lead singer of Phoenix) voice is of Montreal's Kevin Barnes. Especially the song The Party's Crashing Us and the album The Sunlandic Twins. And sophomore year of college when that song played on repeat in my room. And the ever-talented Malcolm Perkins' old band Look Alike. (Of course his current band is Your Nature - formerly Frankpollis.) Objectively, I'm not sure how similar Phoenix and of Montreal sound in general, but for me the connection is supes strong. More recent of Montreal material doesn't really sound much like Phoenix at all.

I'm still coveting all the Skeletal Lamping shwag that I always meant to buy but never did. Even those wall decals, which would have made me seem like a total douche. I was digging the whole "alternative packaging" concept for a solution to selling a download. I guess.

Oh and remember this fucking of Montreal Outback Steak House commercial?? Ha! What the fuck was that. It originally comes from their song Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games. Speaking of commercials, when is Woods going to come out with a car commercial? I've got my television set tuned to TBS, and I'm waitin' it out. Any day now...

Coincidentally, I discovered that Thomas Mars is the partner of Sofia Coppola, who he met while she was making the Virgin Suicides. Because of Phoenix's ties to Air, who worked on the Suicides soundtrack, Mars did the vocals for Playground Love, my ultimate supremo fave track from that album. He even appears in the homecoming dance scene of the movie. Coppola and Mars have a baby Romy, named after Roman Coppola. That's pretty precious, if you ask me.

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i don't want for us to take pills anymore

Been listening to this great Panda Bear remix of the Notwist's song "Boneless." It is more of a cover, really. I made a playlist of 195 new songs I downloaded and I'm going through it at work right now. Lena asked me, doesn't it all just blend together? Well, yeah. But I like to look at it as flooding my senses, and then when something stands out, I run with it.

10:44am. I've barely been at work for two hours. It's so beautiful outside. Shockingly sunny and 59 degrees. I think I'll take every chance I can to take a break and walk around outside. They finally turned on the fountain in City Hall park, right next to my building. Happy day.

This weekend is Easter weekend. Tomorrow I'm babysitting for Laura after work and then Saturday Hannah is having a girly drug-filled slumber party at her parents' place in Jersey. Her parents are out of town for two weeks, so Lena, Flear and I are headed over there Sat pm. My fam asked me to come for dinner to Gloria's on Saturday, but in true Darcey form, they waited until today to ask. So I get to feel guilty about having to miss it. I wish I could go to Hannah's, Gloria's, and to Market Hotel to see Black Dice play all in the same night. Has anyone ever seen that movie Multiplicity?? Michael Keaton, where are you when I need you...

My roommate Josh got laid off last Friday. At first I felt bad for him. But get this - he gets paid the rest of the month, is going on vacation for a week with his family to Dominican Repub, and then gets to collect unemployment. And I don't know about him exactly, but that's about as much as I am making right now. I would fucking loooove to get laid off.

Lately I've realized the reason this job is making me so depressed is because I have no plans for my next step in life. Usually I can do this sort of mindless office work because I'm keeping it in mind that it is temporary, it is in order to accomplish a short term goal of saving some amount or paying some debt, until I get back to school. Or until I pay off my credit card. Or until I can afford a first payment on an apartment, etc. So I figger, all I need is to make a goal for my next step. I reapplied to Americorps NCCC for the winter term of this year, and I started in on the hugely daunting process of applying to grad school. I'm consider Antioch University's Masters in Psychology program, or Antioch in Santa Barabara, before getting my phD or psyD eventually. I feel at a disadvantage not having a BA in Psych. Tammy Fraser at Bennington's FWT/Career Devel office scheduled a phone meeting with me to give me some advice. Feel better already.

It also doesn't help that I haven't been making any creative video work lately. (And that there are no windows in my part of this office.) But my iMac G5 crashed, and I just recently got my father to come pick it up and have it fixed. It only cost $90 for a new power supply, but then they found that the optical drive was totally crapped out. This I knew, because it wouldn't burn CD's/DVD's for a few years now, and it barely plays any discs you put in. So they wanted $300 for that. Ha. Jimi found the part for $90 and he's gonna do it himself. Not that I have $180 to pay for any of it, anyway. So that turned into a thing with my parents, of course, mediating between the two. Blah blah blah.

After work today I'm going to Ivy's place in Crown Heights. It's huge and beautiful and the building is super nice, but it's a hike to get out there.

City Hall park 04/09/09. It's too nice to be in here right now.

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