NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - MYRIAD HARBOUR

I took a plane, I took a train.
Ah! Who cares? You always end up in the city.
I said to Carl: “look up for once,
See just how the sun sets in the sky.”
I said to John: “do you think the girls here
Ever wonder how they got so pretty?”
- Well, I do. -

Look out upon the Myriad Harbour
Look out upon the Myriad Harbour
Look out upon the Myriad Harbour

All the boys with their homemade microphones
Have very interesting sounds.
All the girls fall into ruin
Droppin’ out of school, breakin’ Daddies’ hearts
Just to hang around.

I walked into the local record store
And asked for an American music anthology
It sounds fun.
They tore at my skirt and stuck it on the walls at PS1.

I took a plane, I took a train.
Ah! Who cares? You always end up in the city.
Stranded at Bleecker and Broadway
And looking for something to do.
Someone somewhere asked me: “is there anything in
particular I can help you with?”
All I ever wanted help with was you.

Look out upon the Myriad Harbour
Look out upon the Myriad Harbour
Look out upon the Myriad Harbour
Look out upon the Myriad Harbour

NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - THE LAWS HAVE CHANGED

It was crime at the time
but the laws, we changed ‘em
Though the hero for hire’s
forever the same one

Introducing for the first time
Pharaoh on the microphone
sing all hail
what’ll be revealed today
when we peer into the great unknown
from the line to the throne?

Awakened to cheers after years on the fault line
we are shocked to be here
in the face of the meantime
Pharaoh, all your methods have taught me
is to separate my blood from bone

It will all fail
feeling what I feel today
when we peer into the great unknown
from the line to the throne

Form a line through here
Form a line to the throne

Alone in the chain
it remains to be seen how
How well you can play
when the pawn takes a queen now

It was crime at the time
but the laws have changed
Yeah

… I need to take a page from Big Jonny’s book over at DrunkCyclist.com, and start posting porn on my blog. Either that or celebrity sex stuff.

Already the posts which gets the most traffic are a post from this past November indicating that curvier women are smarter (and my attraction to same) which features a vintage photo of a woman’s naked behind, and my celebrity sex list, with a nice photo of a fully clothed Cate Blanchett.

Then, earlier this week, I posted a video from the New Pornographers, and boom … another traffic spike. I still haven’t figured out what search words people are using to find these pages either, because even entering very specific search terms like “Cate Blanchett celebrity sex list” puts me well down the second page of results. I mean, my site is hardly search engine optimized for celebrity porn.

But such is life. It brings me some traffic, and perhaps some of the people who hit the site like it enough to keep coming back and my readership slowly grows. And that can’t be a bad thing.

NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - CHALLENGERS

Yes I know it was late
We were greeting the sun
Before long

And you live with someone
I live with somebody too
Leave it there

For safe keeping
One of the west village in plains
That was the custom
Come dawn

On the walls of the day
In the shade of the sun
We wrote down

Another vision of us
We were the challengers of
The unknown

“Be safe” you say
Whatever the mess you are, you’re mine, okay
If that is the custom
I’m down

Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na
Na-na na-na na-na na-na na-na…

Until I see you around
Until we clear the accounts
Leave it there

Leave it to us
We are the challengers of
The unknown

Oh-la, oh-la, oh-la, oh-la
Oh-la, oh-la, oh-la, oh-la

Here’s what’s currently in heavy rotation in iTunes for me. Give me some suggestions of what else I might enjoy:

• Alkaline Trio
• Augie March
• Be Good Tanyas
• Belly
• Billy Bragg
• The Clash
• Descendents
• Eddie Spaghetti
• Flogging Molly
• Gillian Welch
• Hank Williams III
• Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
• John Lurie
• Jolie Holland
• Kelly Hogan
• Kristen Hersh
• The Lawrence Arms
• Lisa Marr Experiment
• Lori McKenna
• Mike Ness
• Neko Case
• New Pornographers
• NOFX
• Pennywise
• Rancid
• Regina Spektor
• Supersuckers
• Tanya Donelly
• Throwing Muses
• Tom Waits
• The Weakerthans

More, more, more … give me more. Especially if it’s available on eMusic.com.