Videos to Whet Your Appetite(s)

We're playing with Field Music on Saturday. I looked for a video to convince you all to come, and I found this one for "A House is Not a Home," and now I would like to start a service where confused British people have their home invaded by a pop band when their piano is out of tune.



Other random video tidbits:

I imagine that if Owen Pallett and I were boyfriends this is what it would be like, except I would be a better conversationalist.

I can't stop listening to Simian Mobile Disco's "Audacity of Huge". I'm going on the record now: this summer there will be a female-fronted dance mix littering the PAs of gay bars, just like this crime-against-nature cover of "Sweaty" that I heard at Big Chicks last summer. It's gonna happen.

You Come Here for YouTube

So why hold out any longer? I saw this one on a Chicago Reader blog. I wouldn't post it except that I like Jenny Owens Young, and I'm curious to see if this is what puts her on more people's radar. She has a song in Season 2 of Weeds, which gave her some wider exposure, but as is the fate with most singer-songwriters, doesn't have a hype machine working for her yet. YouTube is a mighty popular hype machine, though, so I'm curious to see what this one does for her:

What I'm Doing Besides Blogging...

...is watching this YouTube video of Alanis Morisette covering "My Humps". Over. And over. And over.



Serious blogging to resume as soon as possible until Fiona Apple covers "Hollaback Girl".