Right, I was supposed to write some album reviews

[petronia]

Check out the radio stream in my music tag - Le Tigre live DJ set @ Piknic Electronik! ONLY STUCK INSIDE AT WORK FOR ANOTHER 1/2 HOUR. orz

HOW TO ACQUIRE TICKETS FOR AN AUGUST 31 RUFUS WAINWRIGHT SHOW IN MONTREAL

1) Visit the official fan forum.
2) Learn that there is still no pre-sale code, despite it being four days before tickets officially come on sale.
3) Get mildly wigged out by the intensity of fan forum discourse regarding the previous point.
4) Indeed, by the intensity of Rufus Wainwright fan forum discourse in general.
5) And I thought Johnny's Angels were scary.
6) If you belong to one or both of the preceding groups, please don't shiv me.
7) Note someone claiming that you have just as good a chance of getting decent tickets if you physically go to the box office on the day itself (June 21).
8) Note that you have a dentist appointment on the morning of June 21, and that Place des Arts' box office opens at noon.
9) Take the morning off work, arrive at box office at 12:00 exactly.
10) Wait in a line of about 30 people (not all there for Rufus Wainwright, I'm assuming - concerts at Salle Wilfred-Pelletier are mostly classical or jazz).
11) Get to the counter at 12:25.
12) Purchase the LAST pair of floor tickets available (row T centre).

I'm thinking sororial unit can afford to pay me back her half of the 100$ for this one. :D

Rufus Wainwright has historically been hit or miss with me: I like the obvious numbers like "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk", but other songs slide off without making an impression, and I don't think I've ever played one of his albums all the way through (maybe this is the problem). So I'm a little surprised by how much I like Release The Stars. It's even less in the mainstream of modern indie singer-songwriter-ness than what preceded it, but hopefully no one on my flist is going to fail a piece of pop music for being 1) too fruity or 2) sounding as if it were composed and orchestrated circa "Lady of Spain". XD;

The following are tracks 8 and 10-11 or something like that; operate under the assumption that the first half of the album is better. I also didn't upload the one that's supposedly about Brandon Flowers, but let me state for the record that I'm not surprised. At all.

Rufus Wainwright - Slideshow: so OTT it makes me smile. (To be honest, the character portrayed reminds me of Atobe Keigo. I said something to this effect to my sister and she was like, "I-I don't think that's a character.")

Rufus Wainwright - Leaving For Paris No.2: dreamy, understated ballad.

Rufus Wainwright - Sanssouci: quoted the lyrics at canis_m who is hard at work on a fic of the same name (coincidentally). Although my immediate association with the word "Sanssouci" is not the real place but Legend of Galactic Heroes, which makes for a fairly roffle-inducing mental music video.

I love this kind of throwback gramophone pop - Feist did it too, with the last four tracks on the Let It Die reissue.

Rufus Wainwright - Going To A Town (Youtube link, not download)

petronia: ...Doesn't he kind of remind you of Morrissey at times?
joliefolie: No?
joliefolie: In what way?
petronia:
petronia: OH I DON'T KNOW

Album review backlog, as of today: four. The book review backlog can barely be countenanced. XD;

Comments

[dipping_sauce]

The Harry Dresden book is very thumbs up. I will try to remember to bring it next time I see you.

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

I too must pimp out "Sanssouci" as I loff it, it should be a future standard. Girls and reedy-voiced boys with guitars on streetcorners should cover it. XD

Is your computer better? Pls to send rest of album soonest

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Computer was fine, unless you mean hard drive space which is an insoluble problems in its fundamentals. XD;;;

Will get to it! I now owe everyone albums ahaha.

[helvetius.livejournal.com]

No "Between My legs" on your speshual list? :o

The vid for "Rules & Regulations" is out too. Not too sure what to make out of it, but hey! Rufus in long johns!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It's a bit too obviously campy for me (though where to draw that line XD). There isn't a song on the album I dislike, though, which is saying a lot.

Must watch that! I could get behind "Rules & Regulations" as the second single.