Rococo Cocoa

• Aaliyah "Aaliyah"
• Arianne Moffatt "Aquanaute"
• Bat for Lashes "Fur and Gold"
• The Bird and the Bee "The Bird and the Bee"
• Bjork "Vespertine"
• Blonde Redhead "Misery is a Valentine" & "23"
  
• Charlotte Church "Tissues and Issues" (shut up)
• Delgados "Hate"
• Feist "The Reminder"
• Final Fantasy "He Poos Clouds"

• Frou Frou "Details"
• Imogen Heap "Speak for Yourself"
• Jason Mraz "Waiting for My Rocket to Come"
• Jem "Finally Woken"
• Kate Havnevik "Melankton"
• Keane "Under the Iron Sea"
• Kenna "New Sacred Cow"
• Kings of Convenience "Riot on an Empty Street"
• Lavender Diamond "Imagine Our Love"
• M83 "Saturdays=Youth"
  
• Madonna "Confessions on a Dance Floor" (hey, gay here, remember)
• Margot and the Nuclear So and So's "The Dust of Retreat"
• Menomena "Friend and Foe"
• Midlake "The Trials of Van Occupanther"
• Ms. John Soda "Notes and the Like"
• Natalie Walker "Urban Angel"
• Peter Bjorn and John "Writer's Block"
• The Postmarks "The Postmarks"

• Radiohead "Kid A"
• Sade "Lovers Rock" and "Stronger than Pride"
• Sara Bareilles "Little Voice"
• Sarah McLachlan "Fumbling Toward Ecstasy" and "Surfacing"
• Scissor Sisters "Music is the Victim"
• Sia "Colour the Small One"
• Sissy "All Under"
• Every Stereolab Album. Literally.
• Telepopmusik "Angel Milk"
• Tori Amos "Scarlet's Walk" And "Little Earthquakes"
• Yelle "Pop Up"
• Zero 7 "When It Falls"
  

*My resident brit and I were having a convo this morning about albums I love from beginning to end, and it got me thinking.

I was looking at FFFFound today and this amazingly nice picture asked me a question:


It's a question I ask myself all the time. I'm hoping I can answer that with something that isn't so bad at some point. I can say that I have done art that still is currently technically in the White House. I can say that my designs are in the Pentagon (they really, are, isn't that cool as hell?) all I have left to design for is the Capitol Building and I have all the buildings where important people are.

But still, people don't know my name. I yearn for Joe Lamour brand recognition. And in the coming months, I hope to work towards that goal. "How the fuck do you plan to do that?" Well, I'll tell you, and stop cursing, it's unbecoming of a lady. I'm relaunching my website, and you'll see my website design sketches, artwork for coming shows, and lots of other cool shiiite. Yeah, I just used the term shiiite. I'm not apologizing.

*Every now and then I have more to say than a couple words and a cute picture, so I have deemed these momentary lapses in the paradigm to be Thoughts on Life.

Well, this orginally was going to be a picture of Dog Bounty Hunter looking really stupid (which is fabulously easy to find as he is a steaming hot mess) and a link to an open letter to him, stating that he doesn't deserve words because he is not relevant.

But I think I have something to say. The truth is that he is relevant. He doesn't deserve words, and that's right: He's someone that will never change- I mean look at his hair. But- he is relevant, because he signals the latest milestone in a trend of media racism that should be examined more closely. I know someone that used to edit the show in NY, and apparently acts this way all the time. Those clips just end up on the cutting room floor. Someone who has some control of the show has to have known that he throws out slurs like a tennis ball machine. Still, his show airs. I have two levels of bigotry to experience (being black and gay), and when someones mean to me I always wonder if its one or the other or both. People say it's not surprising that he's racist, but just because he has a mullet, it never was patently obvious to me. Good editing, I guess.

It would be really naive of me to think that because this man is racist he would have his show taken away. It's naive of us to have him fired because now we know he's a racist. Shouldn't someone have blown the whistle sooner? I mean, his own son, who's on the show as well, did it.
And it was probably more because it was his girlfriend who was insulted, which is understandable, but where were the cameramen? The lighting people? The sound department (I know they must of heard it.) Are there no black people at A&E? Do you need to be black or black-adjacent to care about racism?

From the actions of Tucker, apparently so. I'll leave this interminable post with a conversation between my sister Loree, and I:

Loree: Linda said when she went bar hopping on halloween she saw someone dressed like Hitler swastika and all
Me: Holy shit.
Loree: Yeah.
Me: Halloween costumes usually are a reflection of ones inner desires.
Me: So someone should of pushed him into the street. Maybe someone dressed as Roosevelt...
Loree: Yeah he obviously had issues. Who knows if he made it home in one piece
Loree: Linda said he left the bar after one drink
Me: He saw too many Jews there, probably
Loree: Honestly... I mean its like someone wearing a KKK uniform
Joe: COULD YOU IMAGINE
Joe: Wow
Loree: That was a good analogy
Loree: Well its the equivalent to the jewish people
Loree: You just never know who smiles in your face, but is racist deep down
Joe: Like when i say hi to certain people or smile they totally ignore me
Loree: Makes one wonder