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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Eurovision Reviewed in French, Translated in Google

Posted by Emily Nokes on Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:14 PM

A based on a French review of Wimps' new album Repeat, ran through Google Translate, the ultimate in accuracy. Amusez-vous bien!

"Seattle has given birth to a new runt, Wimps."

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Dancing / Hardcore / Death / City at Night / Sort of News / Mischief / Bieber Fever / Crap / Party! / Booze / Dust Bin / Guilty Pleasure / ??!! / TacocaT / #1 Fan / Eurovision / Win It! / Puppy Time for Another White Hot Friday Night Line Out Giveaway!!!

Posted by Anna Minard on Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 6:24 PM

Woohoo! We were not actually kidding last week when we sort of implied that this might be a regular thing, where we go through our purses/desks/shorts pockets on Friday night and find you cool treasures, then ask you a dumb question so you can WIN THE PRIZE!!! Dedicated to you Line Outers who work late at a desk on Friday nights, or who read the blog on the weekend. Go you!

Also, a bit of Housekeeping: Hey there, last week's winner, carnivorous chicken, wanna contact us to pick up your stuff? Just like Santa, we love giving you free stuff, if you sit on our laps and stay on your very best behavior! Those fries aren't gonna eat themselves!

This week's prize package only contains two items, but one of them is HOT HOT HOT enough to put behind a jump, because BOOBZ. You're welcome! The prize package contains:

ONE (1) pack of glue-on fake nails, French Manicure-style. Oooh, classy! Says music editor Emily Nokes, "Those nails have touched Gary Smith's torso." It's true!

and ONE (1) very special, Spanish-language, lesbian edition card game called, appropriately, "¡SEXO!"

Redeem your prize by leaving the answer to this question, which honors our spirit animal Alanis Morissette, in comments (we'll alert the winner here in comments on Monday, when we sober up again):

What fellow '90s icons played guitar and bass on Alanis Morissette's best-karaoke-song-ever hit "You Oughta Know"?

PRIZE PACKAGE PIC...

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Tip / Eurovision / Theater "Do You Like Music? Do You Like Performance? Are You Easily Influenced By Powerful, Gorgeous, Intelligent People?"

Posted by Bree McKenna on Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:46 PM

Attention, Implied Violence fans! Genius Award Winner and performance savant Mandie O'Connell (formerly one of the big cheeses behind the wildly successful Seattle-based experimental theater company Implied Violence) has just formed a new project out of Berlin called La Mission.

La Mission is a record label, a performance group, a cult, a community, a situationist art gang, and an awesome way to spend your time (and some of your money). In 2012 and 2013, La Mission will release five records by Beaner (cult leader/garbage mill/El Jefe). These releases will be celebrated with an experimental performance by Mandie O’Connell/Knuckle Cartel (co-cult leader/Headmistress/Naked Mennonite) and are accompanied by a satirical cult tract/hymn book edited by ethno-musicologist and PhD (the Techno Doctor) Luis Manuel-Garcia.

If you watch the "Sophisticated Booty Call" video above, you will find that they are currently crowd-sourcing for the physical releases and live performances that will accompany their initial debut. (For a mere $7, you get inducted in with a brand new cult membership card and La Mission's Digital Theme Song download. With a contribution of more than 5K, they fly to your location and throw you a private secret society/cult coming-of-age initiation fest with your closest friends, and provide a L.M. themed Quinceañera dress or yarmulke-n-tallit.)

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Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Eurovision Frizzelle Left M83 Singing Two Songs

Posted by Trent Moorman on Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM

Christopher Frizzelle emerged from the M83 show Sunday night at Neumos singing two songs. Out loud. Loudly.

What do you think they were?

[Guess before you look!]

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Eurovision Pomplamoose Haiku Contest Finalist RUNOFF.

Posted by Grant Brissey on Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:08 AM

Poll ends at 11:45 am.

Pomplamoose: about
As indie and handmade as
Etsy resellers.

Man in LoveLab box
Is staring at breasts in the
LustLab box. Pervert.

Winner gets tickets to some hot-shit show (some hot-shit shows excluded), and runner up gets a used yarmulke and a bottle of hand sanitizer!

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Monday, October 3, 2011

New Releases / Eurovision Les Bonnes Femmes

Posted by Kathy Fennessy on Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 8:53 AM

C'est Chic: French Girl Singers of the 1960s, Ace International

Ace International
Eurovision winner France Gall

Since my French music collection consists primarily of "male singers of the 1960s"—Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Dutronc, etc.—this 24-track yé-yé compilation helps to even things out. I've got a Jane Birkin record and an Anna Karina set, but I don't own any albums by France Gall or François Hardy (though a fellow Gallic enthusiast compiled cassettes of their material for me several years ago).

This finger-snapping compilation includes every lady mentioned above, except for Birkin, but then she's well represented on a rash of Gainsbourg releases, as well as plenty of solo efforts, one of which was recently reissued by Light in the Attic.

If you want to nitpick, Sylvie Vartan also counts as an oversight, except she shows up on another of my French comps, 2003's semi-legit Pop! Pop! Pigalle!, which covers the 1960s and '70s, but doesn't duplicate any of the same songs.

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Friday, June 24, 2011

Homo / Eurovision Gay Pride Weekend Reminds Me Of Forgettable Late 90s Euro-Dance Trax

Posted by Travis Ritter on Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:07 PM

You know you want it.

Maybe it's all the rainbow flags flying on Capitol Hill businesses, churches, and homes, or that one clothing shop on Broadway that pumps dance music out into the street, or the influx of fresh-faced, scantily clad gay men walking around that makes me think of the words "Eiffel 65" or "Toy Box"? I don't know what it is. BUT IT'S ALL I CAN THINK ABOUT RIGHT NOW! (And no, I didn't just do poppers.)

And that's just the beginning. More vidz after the jump.

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Eurovision While Other Crap Was Happening This Weekend...

Posted by Terry Miller on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 7:48 PM

The world's most important contest EVER (!!!!) was taking place. The winner of the Eurovision Song Contest final is ....

GERMANY!!! (with a Eurovision record of 246 points!)

...with a terrible song in which a girl (Lena) tries to sing in English, but comes off sounding retarded.

Our Eurovision Song Contest Griet Verlinde would have been running play by play this year, except for the fact SHE'S HAVING A BABY!!

Of Germany she quickly wrote:

Ooh, Germany is sending a Lily Allen album track, I’m not sure if it stands out enough to make an impact but I quite like it. Happy, strange accent (that’s not a German accent surely?) and a girl with clothes on! Extra points for putting on clothes, Lena!

Congratulations Griet! (...um... and Germany, I guess.)

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

Eurovision Eurovision 2009!

Posted by Terry Miller on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM

It's on bitches!!! And this year it's being held in RUSSIA!!!!

Even though we no longer have our European correspondent, Griet (bad economy and all that.....), working for us in Belgium, she is writing about the whole crazy car-wreck-like thing on her special Eurovision blog.

Find out which country has:

Stiltwalkers who play helicopter with each other, costumes designed by the colourblind, a lead singer in a knight’s costume with cape (yes, I’m absolutely serious here), a man dressed in just ribbons, a mullet brought to a new dimension and basically a riddle to find out how all these costumes and themes are connected. Add a falsetto to that, mega-wind machine action and the unprecedented lyrical quality of “gimme gimme your touch, showme showme your love” and by god, you have a winner.

And why this controversial commie-tastic song, with lyrics like "Red means love", is going to win the whole contest! (IMHO)