le' homosexual

or whatever it is in french. FYI, petrov is writing on a french keyboard, but have it turned to english, meaning that he is basically typing blind, as the key he pushes has nothing to do with the letter on the keyboard. he never realized how good a typer he was until just now. :-)

anyway, petrov is in cote d'ivoire, if that had not already been gathered. its very interesting to be a homosexual here. there is certainly no flaunting it here, but unlike in DC police, the police here (aka soldiers with automatics) will probably not be sending the LGBT laison to the scene. instead it will probably just be jail time. petrov is sure the laws don't bode in his favour, and he even considered... hmmmm, what if they are monitoring his web activities? granted there has been nothing bad, but it woudlnt' take a rocket scientist to figure out his sexuality based on his interent happenings.

so despite the fact the gays can't marry in the US, its nice to know at least you never have to fear being who you are. so petrov guesses, for once its good to be an american (though canadian would be better). off to ghana now....

parlez-vous anglais?

Petrov is writing tonight from Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire. Unlike Dakar, Abidjan is a "modern" city. The city looks very beautiful, with the exception of the fact that it looks like all care for the city was abandoned about 10 years ago, which makes sense given its history. Suprisingly (to petrov) it is a much cleaner and developed city than Dakar. Dakar was like a gigantic construction site and trashpit all rolled into one. Roads are being built left and right in Dakar, but construction crews for such roads were not witnessed.

After 4 days of listening to french... petrov is sick of it. spanish is good, french is not. the language as spoken has absolutely nothing to do with how the words are written. petrov is unable to decipher anywords from the context of conversation, plus they are shifty with the keyboards moving keys all around. ugh. petrov had a song to give you, but his ipod is locked away in the hotel room safe, so recalling what the song was will have to be left for another day.

two week hiatus.... unless really bored

petrov is off to africa tomorrow morning for two weeks. he recently purchased a new ipod touch (with wifi) to entertain himself (and his old baby died a horrific death via a malfunctioned harddrive) and will be his only means of communication with the world with the exception of his cell phone. though this a work trip petrov plans on using his free time to make it as vactiony as possible, so he has no intentions of writing on this bad boy until he returns, unless utter boredom sets in dew to night curfews or the like, but the ipod will be filled with season 1 of queer as folk and sex and the city... so it will take awhile for boredom to set in. so until then, read someone else's blog :-)

drugs... amy winehouse... no.....

Despite all evidence to the contrary, amy winehouse, was arrested in Norway for possession of the puff puff. luckily she was snagged in the kingdom of the vikings where the puff puff doesn't get you in too much trouble. seeing that both of the previous sentences provides basically no new knowledge for your eager-beaver brain that it didn't already know..... did you know that dublin was founded by the norwegians in 841AD? and the damn french are responsible for the current spelling because they were to lazy to actually call it Dub-linn. fancy day you can't learn something new.

in related news, winehouse's band, the Budos Band, previous mentioned on CYHFSN (here), just announced they are coming to the blackcat on December 15th. petrov loves the funkitude of their music. they are self described as playing a mix of "afrobeat, ethopian jazz and blues, and american funk and soul from the 1960s and 70s." quite the combination, no wonder they are hitting it with winehouse train(wreck).

fyi, petrov thinks the band deserves a seperate entry from winehouse, as he combined them before too, but it was just coincidence that petrov found out both pieces of news this week. so suck it, petrov is too lazy for two entries.

The Budos Band - Chicago Falcon

making your party hip

girrll, are you all frazzled out about that upcoming party? petrov has come to the easy conclusion of how to save an oodle of time when has a party. normally petrov sits down and builds a 4-6hour playlist of music, making sure there is a proper flow to the songs and that there is nothing too off the wall or party-killing thrown in there. there is lots of good music, but good music doesn't mean it is necessarily good party music. for this reason its important you are capable of making the distinction.

for the last six months or so petrov has been listening to the Liberation Dance Party (LDP) podcast, a podcast of the actual music played every friday night at DC9's, you guessed it, LDP. It seems to have that right mix of stuff everyone knows and the fun new stuff to keep things interesting.

Collect your podcast here and then don't tell anyone that is what your playing at your party... and *poof* you magically won't kill ur party with Fergie.

Petrov has yet to make it to LDP because it is a primarily straight event and getting a gay to go there with him is like trying to get a gay to watch football. This week Taint is co-hosting LDP for Reel Affirmations fundraiser, DC's LGBT film festival. YAY petrov can go.... well not quite. Petrov has to pack for Africa so he can leave bright an early Saturday morning for Dulles Airport, bleck. LDP/Taint are going to have cabaret and burlesque dancers and everything. Argh, it seems like whenever one leaves town, all the good shit rolls into town. Figures. See Taint's email below for more info on the your friday night dance groove.

/Liberation Cum Together This Friday! A Fundraiser You Won't Forget...

TAINT and Liberation Dance Party present a night of new music, new videos and more.... Join us this Friday, October 19th for a fundraiser for One In Ten's REEL AFFIRMATIONS Film Festival a very queer and special night with cabaret/burlesque performer, NYC's Erin Markey (11pm) and special guest performance by Rock&Roll (France) (12:30am) open bar 9-10:30pm (rail cocktails only) special night only $10

arcade fire

do you pine for the day you could control every movement of Win Butler, lead singer of Arcade Fire? Do you wish he could perform magical tricks? lucky you. click here.

via rybaby

okkervil river

petrov has been in hotlanta since thursday and this week is not shaping up to be a good one, so petrov will provide you with the link to the Okkervil River concert at Rock and Roll Hotel from NPR's All Songs Considered.





petrov hopes everyone is enjoying the hot fall weather.

justice

petrov was updating his ipod tonight to make room for an undisclosed tv show that Pocket got him addicted to as he rocked out to Justice. petrov then wondered whether he has mentioned Justice here. He has not. So here we go.

with a vague similarity to Daft Punk, this other Paris electro duo got their start when the submitted a song to a local paris college radio station for a remix contest. word has it they won and went on to become all the rage. since the good old days justice has remixed for the now-defunct Britney and surprise surprise, Daft Punk. Though not coming to DC-B'more, they will be making an appearance in Philly on Oct 21st. yet another show cut due to the Africa travel. See you next year Justice, see you next year New Pornographers.

Justice - Genesis

the klaxons

petrov had an all out 4-day weekend. petrov feels like more energy is exerted on his social life than on his work life. the week will provide him the necessary time to recover from the weekend. the highlight of the weekend was seeing the X. he was in town running a conference and spent his day off with petrov. brunch was obtained from U St followed by an unexpected shopping spree in georgetown and finally finished off with watching "The Host". though korean and about a monster, it provided a mish-mash of a drama movie to a scary movie to a funny movie to a sad movie that muddled altogether to apparently win some number of awards abroad.

but the point to the story was that the X and petrov visited a cute little indie record store on M St. where the aforemnetion movie was purchased The Klaxons new album, "Myths of the Near Future." Upon listening to the first song, petrov immediately recognized the sound and when it finally came to him he said "Bloc Party." The Klaxons though easily categorized with Bloc Party have a slighty more genre bending nature to them. The second song's entrance could easily have come from any mainstream club, but quickly peals back to reveal melody you would be more apt to find at Taint (here). So far petrov likes the album, though several songs that are mediocre on the cd have been attested to being fabulous live according to the X.


who wants that sweater for christmas?
The Klaxons - Atlantis to Interzone