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Dress and a Song Episode 14: The Satisfactions – Daddy, You’ve Just Gotta Let Him In

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Ok, I swear to god I am still blogging for realz.  This quarter is just eating my brain alive – my exams are coming up, which is, you know, stressful and stuff.  So I apologize for the lack of dress blogging as of late.
But anyhow!
The Satisfactions have proven a bit tough to track down.  By [...]

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Dress and a song super special happy new year Lady Gaga edition

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Happy New Year to all of my multitudes of fans, friends, and lovers!  Yes, all seven of you!  I am here, back in sunny Los Angeles, thank god, because winter is so overrated that it’s not even funny.
Anyhow, I took a bit of a holiday break from this blog, mostly because not much goes on [...]

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Dress/Song, Episode 12: The Gossip, Four Letter Word

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Many moons ago (almost a month, I think), I saw the Gossip in concert at the Henry Fonda.  I’d seen them a few years ago in Toronto, when they were touring with my homegirls Debbie Harry and Cyndi Lauper on the True Colors tour, and I am still convinced that they are one of the [...]

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Dress/Song 11: P.P. Arnold, The First Cut is the Deepest

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

I wasn’t intending to write about this song, but since I’ve listened to it approximately 17 times today I thought maybe I’d better:
The First Cut is the Deepest – P.P. Arnold
So, this is P.P. Arnold, who released the first recording of The First Cut is the Deepest (written, of course by Mr. Cat Stevens) and [...]

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Dress/Song Episode 10: Crying in the Rain

Sunday, October 25, 2009

It was raining in Los Angeles!  Um, almost two weeks ago now.  But it was so exciting to have two days of rain in which I could wear raincoats and cardigans and boots that I am still reliving it in my heart.  And to help me relive it in my heart, I have been listening [...]

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A dress and a song, episode 9: Back to the Future, Leslie and the Lys

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Ladies and gentlemen, I am so totally having a major Leslie Hall moment right now.  Leslie Hall is kind of magic.  I really appreciate her wholehearted embrace of all things opulently vulgar, and at the same time, sometimes I find her mysterious and incomprehensible, but in a very delightful way.  She’s doing something really interesting [...]

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Dress/Song Episode 8: The Raincoats, Only Loved at Night

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

In honor of OH MY GOD YOU GUYS I GOT TO SEE THE RAINCOATS PLAY LAST NIGHT today’s song is OBVIOUSLY going to be a Raincoats song.  The Raincoats are the kind of band who make me feel less alone in the world.  They are occasionally a little bit earnest in that “oh, the Second [...]

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A dress and a song, episode 7: In California, Lisa Marr and/or Neko Case

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Oh my, but I am behind on my bloggy goings-on this week.  I am blaming last Monday.  It was the worst.  It completely threw off my equlibrium for the rest of the week.  The best to understand what Monday was like would be to imagine you were in a production of the Vagina Monologues, only [...]

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A dress and a song, Episode 6: Vera Lynn, We’ll Meet Again

Friday, October 2, 2009

This just in:  college freshmen do not get Dr. Strangelove.
It was going to be beautiful.  The exciting and intellectually stimulating discussion I had planned on the red scare was going so well, and my students seemed honestly excited and engaged, and this was all leading up to what I had pegged as a grand finale:  [...]

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A Dress and a Song, episode 5: I’m Blue (The Gong Gong Song)*

Monday, September 28, 2009

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Ikettes!!!
Oh, the Ikettes.  Your name is only slightly less stupid than Ray Charles’ Raelettes, and you have inspired me to recruit my own team of backup singers named after myself:  The Xandrettes.  (Auditions are tentatively scheduled for next month, please forward C.V.s and audition tapes to lady.xandra at barbarellapsychadella dot com.  [...]

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