Friday Mixtape: April 16, 2010

Friday Mixtape! You're in for a real treat! Here we go!!! The first track is "Chrome Sitar" by Marc Bolan "and" T. Rex...?... isn't Marc Bolan like the main dude in T. Rex?? Why did he have to go all Nicole Scherzinger...or maybe I'm misunderstanding the situation...and yes, I know he's dead, I'm sorry, RIP...sorry for desecrating your name with a Pussycat Dolls comparison. Anyway, suchhhh a great song. We all know T. Rex is da shiz.

Ok, numba two is "Human Nature,"by Madonna is an old favorite I've been listening to for the past couple weeks. Love. One of my fave Madonna jams of all time.

"Gotta Get Mine," by MC Breed featuring 2Pac is the third track and also the third song that was a former flame that I just got reacquainted with this week. Really, really good song. Just very solid.

Track 4, here's a real fucking gem: "A Date with Jack," (with a really random interview at the end) by Castration Squad, of which our BFF Phranc was a member:

Track 5 is"It's Only Rock'n'Roll," covered by Tina Turner and Mick Jagger (Epic Collabroation! Only in leauge with those two with David Bowie -seperately- and Queen/Bowie)...Wait would it still be a cover...because it's originally by the Stones? ...Eh. We'll leave these things to the brain surgeons and rocket scientists.

Track 6: Pixies' "Dig for Fire". Yeah.

Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack". Ah, so good. I love dem '60s girl groups. I was reading this book on feminism and women's history, etc, and it had this whole huge section on female musicans and tons of praise for the Shangri-Las, especially ("They wore leather pants and sang about sneaking out and dating boys who rode motorcycles"), and other '60s female artists and it reminded me of my love for them.

Track 8: Lenny Kravitz: "It Ain't Over Till It's Over". If you're like me, you've heard this song a million times but it still warms your heart and you don't have the willpower to turn it off.

Track 9 is "When Worlds Collide," by Powerman 5000. I'm sorry. Truly sorry. I don't know why I did it (isn't one of the dudes like Rob Zombie's brother?).

And your fun final track is..."Celebrity Skin," by Hole! Yay. Epic Fun! I know most of the songs this week were ones that everyone already knows but meh. That's just how it turned out. Enjoy it.

"Losing Weight To Glorify God" ?

This is something that has been on my mind for a while- I saw one of my relatives was in the facebook group, Losing Weight To Glorify God. This relative really not that big. Plus, she was pregnant recently. So naturally, I was like..."?".

I was always praised by people like her, on that side of my family, who were a little bit heavier than me, for being "so thin!", "You look so good!", "You're so pretty!".

These relatives are not "fat" . They are just built a little bigger than the average starlet. They don't eat that much at all. When we are eating together, Raj and I are always the ones stuffing our faces and getting 5 desserts.

This reminds me of the whole Howard Stern/Gabby Sidibe bullshit. So now Howard Stern is a philanthropist and doctor, not a shock-jock. Now it's acceptable to make people feel less than human because of "concern for their health". People who are unhealthy- eating foods with high sugar and fat, not exercising- may or may not become "fat," often it depends on thier genes. Besides, you don't know shit about anyone if you're not their doctor. And some doctors even have biases to believe that bigger people are inherently unhealthy. But by the way the media shows it- if you are big, you show a disgusting neglect for health. I literally had an argument with a friend over whether we should acknowledge and treat "morbidly obese" people like human beings. When this subject came up this friend, she got so angry, she was just filled with hatred and vitriol taught by the media against people who were fat -especially women, and minorities. This is the way the media teaches people to feel about fat people. At best, pity. At worst, hate and disgust.

I remember seeing "Super Size Me" a few years back, I liked the parts that tackled the actual issue- the corporations that promote this unhealthy eating and how obesity is a class issue: cheap foods are the most unhealthy, no time or money to excersize, etc.- but I could have done without the montages of people who were not supermodels, the jokes and all around insentitivity about fat people, and that guy who said something like... "people harass smokers all the time- it's wrong!- when will it be OK to harass fat people?" (if you have a name or corrected quote for me, it would be appreciated). It's like, dumbass, it's been happening for years. Plus, that movie used Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls" and made it into a negative. Those Bitches. Freddie said that being a fatty is good. So basically, who are you to challenge that? But obviously, everyone should be comfortable and happy with the body they have. Because we've seen that in different cultures and times, women desperately tried and were forced to be bigger to please their husbands. But Freddie liked these fat bottomed girls because they were different from the norm, the accepted idea of beauty.

That side of the family are also conservative Christians. I wondered if there were more of these groups that were for Christian women to lose weight, the first one I found was Live Well! A Biblical Approach to Losing Weight & Feeling Great, a group dedicated to Christian women losing weight and "finding their worth in the eyes of our Father". It also included a link to a site, a page on Christian Woman Online, all about, again, losing weight, looking good and measuring/posing with apples and pears (?).

Also, This:

.....? Ooh, you're sooo much healthier now. And closer to God! WTF! That's the worst before and after picture ever.

Again, the focus is on how one looks and not their actual health. I'll admit, I am really, really unhealthy, all I eat is junk food. And I don't exercise. I'm serious. But because, for some reason, I still (mostly) fit into the weight range women are supposed to be, so no one confronts me about it or treats differently me. OK, my mother does from time to time because she's afraid I will be fat. (Whatever- family joke.)

This is something I've seen in the Christian community as a feminist, we obviously know a lot about the radical Christian right, that calls feminists "feminazis," but I have never seen true Chrisitianity as against feminism. But one of my problems with Christianity, as with most other belief systems, even the supposedly forward-thinking atheist movement, that obviously it can be sexist (or racist, homophobic, etc.), but I think even just that it doesn't help people deal with these modern issues and they don't explicitly help us not fall into the traps of our modern society. Obviously, religion is good and mostly encourages positive behavior. My personal struggle with religion is that if I am to consider myself religious, I am supposed to basically accept that belief system as the only thing that guides my life. I had to struggle with this, because I felt weird about certain things in our culture, but religion didn't really have anything to say about it. Or nothing specific. I just want people to realize that even if you do associate with a certain belief system, you still need a mechanism to understand modern culture...Feminism! You go, Feminism!

Plus, feminism is not anti-religion, there are plenty of Islamic feminists out there (I like supporting my fellow bloggers),there are Christian feminists out there- Christian Feminist for one and feminists of all different belief systems. Feminism is just against religions/belief systems when they lie down to the patriarchy and societal norms and injustices. So, I just do not like this sexist body-hate that goes on in the name of Christianity.

This reminds me of this Bitch Alert song, "God Doesn't Like Me"

(Ew. Feet. That say "war". Still. Ew...I have an anti-foot fetish.)

Here are the lyrics:

God doesn't like me cuz i look bad
Doesn't like me cuz i look bad
Doesn't like me cuz i'm bad

God doesn't like me cuz i look bad
Doesn't like me cuz i look bad
Cuz i'm ugly cuz i'm bad

No she doesn't like me cuz i spit
Doesn't like me cuz i don't pray
Doesn't like me cuz i'm a gay

No she doesn't like me cuz i swear
Doesn't like me cuz i don't care
Doesn't like me cuz i'm a whore!

God doesn't like me cuz i'm bad
Nobody wants the bad
God only likes the good girls

God doesn't like me cuz i'm bad
Doesn't like me cuz i'm mad
God only likes the good girls, good girls

Wow. I really did not mean for this to be an anti-religion diatribe. My bad.

My Heart and Soul Song

I've known this for a while...but I felt the need to share: "The Warrior" is my heart and soul song. IZ MINE BITCH! none for you.

My name, Ajax, is- yes, the name of a cleaning solution (whatever you were thinking-it ain't funny)- the name of one of the best warriors in the Trojan War, so I feel like I have an eternal connection to this song. Foreva. And eva.

This video is also ridiculously phat; and may I direct your attention to Patty Smyth's funky-fresh hair, makeup and outfit above.

Marvelous! Plus, the semi-shittyness but still epic-ness reminds me of one of My Darling's videos...

Don't you think? Both are beautiful and phenomenal.

Friday Mixtape: March 19, 2010

Ah! I'm obsessed with this week's playlist! It's really good! OK, so first, and i think probably most important (but I love all my songs equally...) is "All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You": I've given into the Heart spell. I tried to stay away, but pandora radio insisted that resistance is futile to Heart. Soo- ALL I WANT TO IS MAKE LOVE TO YOU! SAY YOU WILL! YOU WANT ME TOO! Ahhh... Best. Song. Ever. Is you seen the video? It's so epic! I guess I didn't want to hear Heart because, I don't know, I thought they were like folk. But I like folk. So I don't know why I was so against it, and anyway, they turned out to be like stadium rock. EXCELLENT!

So, the Runaways is coming out...today? This weekend? Idk, soon. When/if I see it, I'll probably post something, see what I come up wit. I really want to see it! At first I was like, "eh," but then i was like HELLZ YEAH! I think K-Stew can actually rock it. Anyway, so Joan Jett (everyone's hero), was on my mind.

Rocío will be happy about track 3, we enjoy rocking out to this song together.

Skip track 4, "Into the Fray" by Earth Crisis, if you don't like hardcore, or if you ain't the mood for it (it's ok, a lot of times im not either). But you might like it. It's catchy! Earth Crisis is the straight edge, pro-animal, pro-environment group that you love.

Track 5, "Take Me On" by Aha, because... I really don't know why. It's catchy?

Another guilty pleasure: "Electric Hellfire" by Black Label Society. Sorry.

Then I realized we needed more pop so track 8 is Jeannie Ortega's "Crowded". This was the first song I actually had on my iPod, when I first bought an older one off my friend, it was the free download of the week! Ahem...Score! I already knew that song and loved it! Plus, one of my friends was in a situation similar to Jeannie's, so I reffered her to Jeannie. I just love medicore (or just unsucessful?) female pop stars...don't get me started on Paula DeAnda!

Track 9...'Til Tuesday's "Voices Carry". Why? See track 5. Plus, go Amiee Mann!

I realized there was no hip hop so I was like, "I must fix this!". J.J. Fad (LOVE!) are like the opposite of Menajatwa they have really soft voices, it's weird, but they still sound really awesome.

Yeahhhhh...that's it.

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Songs Stuck in My Head This Week

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STORY: "Shoplifting" was in my head all week, because
I had a The Slits relapse- you know the kind. "G-Shit"
because I love the Lady of Rage and she's always on
my mind. And "Feed My Frankenstein" because Alice
is my husband, so I'm always thinking about him....
it's love. Anyway, we were at a diner and we wanted
to play "Oops!...I Did It Again" because it had been
in all of our heads all week, but the jukebox was like
"*no*. Cher first." Even the laws of reality cannot hold
back Cher. So then our jukebox was blasting "Believe".
Really loudly. You don't stifle Cher.

Lighten Up Ladies!

Oldie but goodie! We were discussing our lust for ukuleles and this came to mind.

Uber Fly Girl Group Alert!

I love the '80s. Klymaxx Forever!

Don't slap me.

Pussycat!!

File Under: Phat Beats

This is the jam thats been stuck in my head all day. Excuse my hyperbolism but....BEST SONG EVER!

Jack off Jill is-wait was, sadly- such a great band and in possession of one of my favorite band names of all time (Jack off Jill! So genius! Why didn't I think of that?) and this is a really excellent video...but this fan-made one gives it a run for it's money....

Mary-Kate and Ashley! Also: can you believe that spell check does not recognize "phat"?!? WTF!

Eazy-E-Ettes

Attention my gangsta-lovers: if you like N.W.A. or Eazy-E, or any gangsta for that matter, and you are not showin' love for Menajahtwa, then you are missing some serious shit! They are not exactly new, but I still feel that they deserve recognition. Menajahtwa (or, to cut to the chase, Ménage à trois) went down about the same time as Eazy, they were signed to his Ruthless Records in the '90s. Menajahtwa is composed of two female MCs, Spice and Royal T, have true skillz and are ridiculously hard. Check them out or I'll cut you. Sorry to be threatening, but they kick ass and I insist you recognize. 

Ajax