Attack of the Nerds...

I'm in my little room (the spare "bedroom" that we have, which really can't even fit a small twin size bed), and I'm just here looking at different videos on Youtube. I can be doing other things, but it's a lazy Sunday evening, and my boyfriend is in the living room playing Call of Duty 4 on his new XBOX. I counted all of his war games, and he has about 20 of them. I'm wondering if this is really normal or if it's just because his dad was a Vietnam veteran... Either way, my boyfriend has off next week since it's his spring vacation (he's a 3rd and 4th grade teacher in the Bronx), so I'll probably be stuck in here after class everyday trying to do my homework while he sits on his ass playing that game. Oh yeah, and he also has a headset with it so he can harass people while trying to kill them at the same time. He is also happy because he gets to destroy one of my ex- boyfriend's places of birth (Azerbaijan) in the game. Is it weird that the entire game is set in the Middle-East, or is it just me? And they say that our society isn't violent...yeah right...

So, I feel like adding some music videos of some of my favorite bands, and I'm pretty sure that no one in the class has heard of them (for example, it doesn't seem like anyone knows of Sopor Aeternus, the transsexual German Neoclassical Darkwave artist and her band?)

1. Unto Ashes- Palästinalied

A "paganfolk" band that I chose to do the CD project on for our Visual Computing class. Many groups have covered this song, and it was originally written by a German poet during the first crusades. Most modern musicians who cover this leave out the last portion of the song since it states that Christians eventually take over "the Holy Land" since they are the "chosen ones". Pretty song anyhow.

2. Dead Can Dance-Frontier

Absolutely my favorite band. They broke up a few years ago since the male singer decided to move to Ireland after buying an old church, and she stayed behind in Australia. They both still make their own music, but she is definitely the better singer. Some of their songs are in English, while others are either in made up languages or languages that the song was inspired by. I'm not really sure what this version of the song is in, but the original is in English.

3. Gjallarhorn- Suvetar (Goddess of Spring)

Finnish band that sings in Swedish. A very beautiful song and video, I actually saw this video first on a World Music show on LinkTV.

4. Sopor Aeternus- Hades (Pluton)

Obviously, not the actual video, but my favorite song by her. Apparently, she is so depressed that she never performs live, yet she has been playing music since the 80's. So....yeah...

Here you can see the actual singer. I showed this to Brittany once during our computing class, and it kinda freaked her out. There's nothing wrong with a transsexual trying to be a sprite in the woods...

5. And last but not least, a group that some people know of: Cocorosie- Live performance of Black Poppies/Black Rainbow

Two very strange sisters, one lives in Paris while the other one, I think, still lives in Brooklyn. Their music keeps on getting better and better, also weirder...

There are many other bands and musicians I listen to, but this is just what I'm in the mood for today. And I listen to happier music, I swear. I also just realized that all of these videos feature female (or female- identified) singers...oops.