This Week's Track 9: The Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise

This is The Smashing Pumpkins! Yep, they are a duo. What? I'm missing a couple of members? No way. The Pumpkins is basically a short skirt, knee-high boots and a bald head right? Right?! Shit.

The Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise (from Siamese Dreams)

Tokyo Police Club Live in Indonesia in November

There is absolutely nothing ridiculous about a band from Ontario, Canada naming themselves after a city in Japan. People do it all the time. What you say? Name themselves after town and cities that is. Imagine having a name like Mongolia Lee. Or Prague Chan. Or my very own - Bunghole. I was told it's a small town in France. I naturally believed the person. I mean when someone looks like that, there's no reason to doubt her right? Of course not.

Details:

Date: 14th November 2010 (Sunday)
Venue: Bengkel Night Park, Jakarta, Indonesia
Tickets: TBA

Tokyo Police Club - Tessellate (from Elephant Shell)

Let's get lyrical, lyrical: Dylan Mondegreen - Girl in Grass

When your girlfriend let you down
Made you the laughing-stock of town
A minor mistake caused major heartache

When your friend forgot to show
And you stood there all alone
A small detail was added to a trail

Of bad affairs
Of people who don't seem to care
But when your heart breaks you feel the sweetest ache

In a riot of colour you see blue
and you'd like the world to tremble for you
Still your eyes may twinkle just like stars
when Ginger's lying flat out on the grass

Put your favourite t-shirt on
and let summer come along
Rejoice in the photograph
of girl in grass

You may be charmed on Saturday
Feel smitten on Sunday
Now monday's here and you're caught by fear

So you hibernate indoors
Spend all day in bed because
Every petty fling seems like the greatest thing

Since bread came sliced
or at least since Bread sang Yours For Life
You want your heart to break to feel the sweetest ache

In a riot of colour you see blue
and you'd like the world to tremble for you
Still your eyes may twinkle just like stars
when Ginger's lying flat out on the grass

Put your favourite t-shirt on
and let summer come along
Rejoice in the photograph
of girl in grass

Now here's a man who understands value in a mustache. Because only a person who takes his 'tache' seriously would cite Bread in his/her song. Cause the way I see it, Bread's 40% songs, 60% mustache. I found myself growing one as I was listening to their songs.

Ha ha, got you, no I did not grow a mustache from listening to some AOR song. That would be ridiculous. I mean, jeez, seriously. Listening, then growing a mustache? That's positively insane.

I grew a new layer of armpit hair and my pubes curled.

That's the truth. Pfft ... mustache.

Dylan Mondegreen - Girl in Grass (from While I Walk You Home)

Word for the Week: Wedding

This weekend, our spunderefundous Pirate Genusfrog will be getting married. And because all good marriages need a good wedding, he is also having one. And because you're not 1/16th as cool as us, you're so obviously not going to be there. So we've decided to help you get in on the action by telling you precisely what you are not going to be a part of. We're inclusive like that.

Band Of Horses - Cigarettes, Wedding Bands (from Cease to Begin)
First, everyone will smoke. This is the second most important part of the wedding. Only the bit where the little boy grabs the little girl's ass is 0.63% more important.

Beach House - Wedding Bell (from Devotion)
Next, the wedding bell will sound. Genusfrog actually asked me to find a wedding bell for him. So I hunted all over Kazakhstan, and in the end I decided that since there is no wedding bell worthy of my sexy pecs, I have replaced it with a taco bell. I think he'll love it.

Cold War Kids - The Wedding (from The Mulberry Street EP)
Next, there will be the wedding.

Pale Young Gentlemen - Wedding Guest (from Black Forest (tra la la))
Finally, the wedding guests will arrive. What, you think wedding guests are supposed to arrive before the wedding? That's like saying the hotel guests are supposed to arrive before the hotel. That's so weird. What planet are you from man. Oh, Zofron? Awesome. You guys marry dolphins there, right? Niiice...

The Temper Trap Live in Indonesia

Having The Temper Trap play 3 shows in Indonesia and none in the rest of the region is like chancing upon three clones of Adriana Lima and keeping her all on my bed and not distributing them out to my friends. It's just not fa ...

... hmm ...

I love The Temper Trap.

Details:

Date: 10th November 2010 (Wednesday)
Venue: Hard Rock Cafe, Bali, Indonesia
Prices: Rp. 225,000 (presale 1, limited), Rp. 275,000 (presale 2, limited). Presale 3 & normal festival ticket prices TBA
Tickets: Available for purchase at SUSHIGROOVE, Pondok Indah Mal 2 & PIZZA E BIRRA, Plaza Indonesia
Hotline: +62-838 9888 5532

Date: 12th November 2010 (Friday)
Venue: Tennis Indoor Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia
Prices: Rp. 225,000 (presale 1, limited), Rp. 275,000 (presale 2, limited). Presale 3 & normal festival ticket prices TBA
Tickets: Available for purchase at SUSHIGROOVE, Pondok Indah Mal 2 & PIZZA E BIRRA, Plaza Indonesia
Hotline: +62-838 9888 5532

Date: 13th November 2010 (Saturday)
Venue: Sabuga Hall, Bandung, Indonesia
Prices: Rp. 225,000 (presale 1, limited), Rp. 275,000 (presale 2, limited). Presale 3 & normal festival ticket prices TBA
Tickets: Available for purchase at SUSHIGROOVE, Pondok Indah Mal 2 & PIZZA E BIRRA, Plaza Indonesia
Hotline: +62-838 9888 5532

Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition (from Conditions)

Gig-gles: Smashing Pumpkins, Singapore, 5 Aug 2010

After 15 years, I have finally figured out the baddest ass thing about Billy Corgan.

It's not the way he snarls through 'Zero', or the way he twinkles the opening lines of 'Today', or the way he always hires the hottest bassist in town who is not my pet puffin (Who is seriously hottest bassist in town. Like, have you seen her slap and pop? Hotdang sexy, man).

No, it's the way he wears his pants. And the way he tucks in a striped shirt into those pants. Seeing that just makes me want to set fire to Greek temples.

And so, in glorious tribute to my eternal prince of darkness, I have now pledged to wear all my pants just like Billy. So here we go,... tug tug... ummhmm, getting there... ripppp... ooo, that's trendy... whatachaaaa... oh sorry, my katana leg got in the way there. Okay, I'm set! Baddest sugar daddy in town, ready to kachinggg!

(Mum's voice): "Honey? I made some fluffy crumpets for you to take to work! And I just don't forget to call home before lunch okay? Love you, bunnybuns!"

"Okay mummy!"

Kachingggg!

Set list:

1. Astral Planes
2. Ava Adore
3. Today
4. A Song for a Son
5. Eye
6. As Rome Burns
7. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
8. United States
9. Disarm
10. 1979
11. Stand Inside Your Love
12. Tarantula
13. Love is the Sweetest Thing
14. Cherub Rock
15. Zero
16. That's the Way (My Love Is)
17. Tonight, Tonight

Smashing Pumpkins - That's the Way (My Love Is) (from Zeitgeist)