Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Introducting the ResurrectionSong House Band: Pormestarin tytär
ResurrectionSong is proud to introduce its new house band, Pormestarin tytär.
The name comes from the band’s obsession with an obscure, Finnish historical love story by Kaari Utrio. Why the band chose one of her least known and lesser--in all ways--works for their name remains a mystery and is likely explained by the band’s even bigger obsession with unearned literary snobbishness and the distinct possibility that none of the band members has actually read any of Kaari Utrio’s works.
The music of their latest album, Don’t Deserve That Either, is best described as banal with a distinct, James Taylor-esque sense of irritating self-importance. While the band members are not particularly accomplished and the production is inept, the strength of the album is in the slice-of-junkie-life vignettes and the ongoing, self-referential mythology typified in songs like “American Cowboys (Shooting Up on the Range).”
Truly brilliant.
What the hell am I talking about? Glad you asked; check out the extended entry to find out more.
If you’re reading the extended entry, consider yourself tagged. And what have you been tagged with? Here’s the scoop from the evil woman who tagged me.
How to Play:
- Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random - The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
- Click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 - The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
- Visit http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ - The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
- Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result. And then ask someone else to play.
If you do play, be sure to let me know and I"ll throw you a link.
Thank you for the fun, Mr. Lady.
Geeky Details
The band name comes from this Wikipedia page. The album title comes from a Jack Benny quote: “I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.”
The cover image comes from whtsoxfan on Flckr, and can be found here.
In Photoshop, I cropped the image down, duplicated the base layer, and ran it through Flaming Pear’s Mr. Contrast to get a harsher, more bleak look. I used an adjustment layer with a photo filter to get the blue monotone feel. The higher contrast layer was set at a transparency of 81% to let the original image to seep back in and soften the edges a bit.
The band name text was set in ITC Edwardian Script. The album title was set in Mutilated Plain Caps.
Comments & Trackbacks
I’m not cool enough to play this game.
Somehow, I think you would do just fine.
No, I can’t even submit an icanhazcheeseburger photoshop. I’m just not cool enough.
Holy Detailed, batman!
I got David Bowie, which is ironic.
That sort of takes the fun out of it. Start over. You have my permission.
You should have told me that I can cheat. That’s different. I’m cool enough to cheat.
Robin, dear, it’s DAVID and ME that you’re talking to. ALL we do is cheat.
Good Lord, that sounds naughty.
David, check your email. I just dropped the concept art for Alice Könitz’s new, “… but hard to swallow” album for your review input.
It’s sure to be a blockbuster in the 35-50 Canadian white female demographic, and we anticipate some significant crossover with the 16-25 goth crowd as well.
Well, I’m going to have to cheat because really, the Flickr I got was just too totally lame.
And I am too typing the word exactly as it appears.
And ... [drum roll] introducing ...
Robin Byrd—That is Never Satisfied.
You, too, shall be linked in the big Festival of Links coming up this evening.
I’m so proud of y’all.
I screwed up. I picked the last four words of the first quote, and the first picture on flikr. Does that disqualify me?
No way. Our memes are “Big Tent” memes. Although, if you want to play again, feel free.
Doug, see? I am never, ever making out with you now. 35-50? Pshaw. I am no where NEAR 35.
(32 isn’t anywhere near 35, is it?)
David, it was meant just as it sounded.
Jed, just *giggle*.
Ooops, I Did it Again. I think it’s minimalist grunge.
32 is closer to 35 than I am.
Its sounding naughtier in fact.
David, the Battle of the Bands is almost ready. (Ahem, Andy).
Nathan, Jed...anyone else playing?
DORKAFORK? Entry, please??
Doug? Email yours to me please: heymrlady at gmail dot com
The blame is partially mine: I’m posting Doug’s. Should’ve done it last night, but I got distracted by debates. I’ll be putting it up later today when I have some free time.
Dork, on the other hand, has no excuses.
How, exactly, is the battle portion going to work, anyway?
"Doug, see? I am never, ever making out with you now.”
You have no idea how much that pains me (and probably pleases my wife). 8-)
“35-50? Pshaw. I am no where NEAR 35.
“(32 isn’t anywhere near 35, is it?)”
I guess that means I am nowhere near 50. Which, when I put it like that, is almost as depressing as it sounds.
I know I’m late to the party, but I had to try this out ... and as it goes, I think mine’s pretty damn good!
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=x918tx7.14cflwzf&x=0&y=o86osn
The Oval is a stadium in England, and “Ask not what boils in another’s pot” is a quote by Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661).
Also, that picture, save for the text, is exactly as it was on flickr ... absolutely no modifications on my part
> How, exactly, is the battle portion going to work, anyway?
Everybody votes, and then Dave sends me an Amazon gift card.
My album is now available.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present Fan Palm and the breakthrough album “Fly to Catch a Trout”.
(Gill Sans for the band name, Trajan Pro for the title. I added my picture in the center to make it look like a proper cover.)
The battle portion will be handled exactly like this:
The one person in the group who bleeds every month and completely fails in every way to die, the one person here who has been both a restaurant and a hotel, that person will post all y’alls album covers and pick the one she likes best.
Or something like that.
What, don’t you boys have enough to vote about as it is?
Ok, ok, I’ll whip up a poll, too.
I see that Dorkafork, much like Mr. Lady, plays by Boggle rules when it comes to counting words.
Hmmm.
Conspiracy anyone?
Mulder?
Anyone?
"a” is not a word. It is a letter. Try and argue with that logic!
I’m pretty sure I’ve bled from somewhere at least once a month. To the best of my knowledge, I’m not dead.
Can we include my descendants?
Blogonomicon, and Fighting for Liberty?
(my other tagants have not responded—slackers)
I have cats. I have moved in the past week. Therefore, I am STILL bleeding.
So I qualify.
Meet Murphy’s Herd, the house band of Off Colfax. (Technically, that would be an awesome name for a band in and of itself.) The name from this Wikipedia article. The quote came from the ONLY quote by Stanly Walker in the entire database.
And, of course, I’m an idiot and closed the Flickr window before commenting.
Off Colfax: Surely you can retrieve the Flickr URL from your browser history? Not that it’s terribly important, unless it is.