Iko, Iko, Everybody Iko

11:33 pm - 08.07.02

I heart my local used record store. I went in with 5 really god-awful cds today and came out with 2 good ones! Good-bye, Limp Bizkit. Good-bye, Blink-182. Good-bye, Will Smith. Hello Shonen Knife!! I absolutely fucking LOVE Shonen Knife. They're a punky sort of band from Japan who sing about food and animals a lot. This is my favorite song of theirs so far:

Riding on the Rocket
Riding on the rocket I wanna go to Pluto
Space foods are marshmallows, asparagus, ice cream
Blue eyed kitty cat said, "Please let me go with you"
Iko, iko everybody let's go
Iko, iko everybody let's go
Iko, iko everybody iko
Mercury Venus Jupiter Saturn Mars
Uranus Neptune Pluto and planet Earth
Getting in radio communication
"Hello, Hello"
Earth is like a little star, "Hello Hello"
Shaking her hip, blue eyed cat dances the mambo
Uka boo, uka boo everybody uka boo
Uka boo, uka boo, space walk, uka boo
Uka boo, uka boo, let's do the uka boo
Floating through space with you it's a dance party
Floating through space let's drink to the planet Earth
Getting in radio communication
"Hello Hello"
Earth is just a little star "Hello Hello"
Blue eyed kitty cat said,"Let's do it one more time"
Iko, iko everybody let's go
Uka boo, uka boo, everybody uka boo
Iko, iko everybody let's go
Mercury Venus Jupiter Saturn Mars
Uranus Neptune Pluto and planet Earth
Floating through space with you it's a dance party
Riding on the rocket, cheers to the planet Earth

How can you not love them? And the guy who runs the record store is really nice. I got $10 for 5 cds. Now while that SOUNDS shitty, three of them were missing liner notes, one was scratched beyond playability (he couldn't accept this, but I accidentally left it in the store when I left) and the other was Willenium. This is a man who gave me $5 for Shawn Mullins. He kicks ass. I feel kind of bad, though, since I give him shit and buy good stuff.

CDs I've bought there: Shonen Knife - Let's Knife ($7 - used)
Shonen Knife - Rock Animals ($7 - used)
Hole - Pretty on the Inside ($8 - used)
Babes in Toyland - Nemesisters ($7 - used)
Basement Jaxx - Rooty (about $13 - new)
Hole - Live Through This (about $7- used)
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks - Here's the Sex Pistols (about $13 - new)
No Doubt - Return of Saturn (about $7 - used)
Deee-Lite - Sampladelic Remixes and Dancefloor Oddities ($7.50 - used)
The Matador 10th Anniversary Compilation: Everything Is Nice ($4.50 - used)

I mean, that's about half of what I would have paid for new stuff. And unlike the evil fye (scowl), they actually have music I like. And the new stuff they sell is pretty damn cheap too! And he only makes like $2 profit on every CD, 'cuz he usually gives you like $5 for one. And this is why I heart my local used record store. If you live anywhere near me, you must visit it now. The Disc Junkie on East State Street. The power of Christ compels you! I mean, it's independently owned and operated! And there's DVDs too! I'm just too poor to have a DVD player. Actually, I just don't want one. But anyway. Go. Now.

In other news:
1. I really need to lose like 20 pounds. I've gained 40 in the past year and I have not grown nearly enough to justify that. My stretch marks told me so.
2. I really need to work on my Spanish. I have 2 years of vocabulary to learn and school starts in twenty-two days.
3. My dog threw up all over my laptop case. Yucky yucky yucky.
4. I love laptops. But not mine. It is the child of the devil. I want an iBook.
5. Why am I bitching so much? I think I need to sit back and relax to the sounds of Shonen Knife for a bit. Yes. I'm a whiny bitch.
6. "Bitch" has got to be the coolest word ever, and not in a sexist manner. I call everyone and everything a bitch. Except for my mother. That would not be good.
7. The best pot cleaner in the world is Specially Selected Tortoise Brand.
8. One of the best SNL skits ever has got to be "Sprockets".
9. Tip for The Sims: You can easily make fires by having your Sims set fireworks off inside. I think they're a Livin' Large thing, though.
10. I'm an AIM name slut:
smurf9873 - I'm rarely on any other name.
XXXKinkySadist
ButeeLishus
TooCool4Jesus (long story)
TortoiseBrand (shonen knife lyrics)
BigBadBeyonce
bloodyicecream01
AntonioBakaGuy (shonen knife lyrics)
MeasureItGideon (another long story)
JesusNaildMeNBed (not long, but odd story)
Taitschi Tarot (Nina Hagen song)
I am BJ Cummings
BearUpBison (shonen knife lyric)
SpaceWalkUkaBoo (shonen knife lyric)
GiveMeAllYourSex (sex means food)
EverybodyIko (shonen knife yet again)
JeSuisTonMonde ("I am your world" in French)
one hot mutha fo
YrMomLikesAnal
nickccoolio
RedHotCuchie
BetterThanYrArt

Wow, that entry was long and boring. Super fun!

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