fun facts about salmon

"The Salmon Dance" has sat in petrov's music collection for a several months now and was only heard for the first time yesterday. Now it has been played a few too many times. The beat is extremely catchy and the thought of the puff fish doing it is quite humorous. The only problem with the song is petrov doesn't like the slow down transition, it just doesn't fit right into the song, but hey you can't have everything can you?

Did you know salmon can swim from the US to Japan and back? Thanks Sammy the Salmon!


The Chemical Brothers - The Salmon Dance

daily dose of electroclash

nobody ever said petrov was on top of his shite.... today's song was released on the album "I Created Disco" back in June. "The Girls"by Calvin Harris is a fun little song, granted not one petrov would blast in his car going down 17th St. Petrov acquired the cd today, but has only had the chance to hear this song and "Acceptable in the 80s". Are the 80s coming back? Petrov is afraid they might be. See here. This whole bit about fashion coming in cycles... Petrov doesn't believe in it, until men are wearing 3/4 length trousers with stockings and a colonial hat. Why in god's name would 80s fashion come back? is someone waiting to grow out their rattail? if show they should be shot on sight. petrov thinks it is more of a basic laziness of designers to actually come up with something new. the good news is Uggs were not part of the 80s.

To mix it up, there is even a Dragonette cover of the song (which petrov would play loud going down 17th St)


Calvin Harris - The Girls


Dragonette - The Boys

hipster olympics

another video making its way through the video interwebs.... Hipster Olympics (via Poofygoo (here) -- love the name btw). Poofygoo was even kind enough to post the Monty Python's Twit of the Year Contest from which the Hipster Olypmics pays homage.

petrov personally loves the choice of the Bruce Willis album "the return of bruno". quite smashing indeed.

Hipster Olympics



Twit of the Year

oh bea arthur!

so petrov originally saw this at JR's one night.... he randomly ran into it again on the intertubes..... who can't love bea arthur? sally struthers.... that's still questionable, but big points for her here though.

Sex and the City

wish upon a falling (pop) star

oh girrrrrll.... no you didn't! ok maybe a little too gay, but the message is relayed none the less. petrov got to work this morning and he was informed by his 42yo co-worker that britney spears performed at the MTV VMA's last night. unfortunately petrov a) didn't know the VMAs were last night and b)didn't know britney had a musical career anymore. so petrov puddled back to his desk and began search the intertubes for this. and oh did this not disappoint the tragedy that has been the last year named "britney spears." petrov was most pleased to see that she still hasn't mastered the lipsync (or else MTV.com has shitty sound-video syncing on their videos). but the real question lies in why she lacked the onstage charisma that she used to have? she looked bored to death and lacked any real dance moves. (well hopefully the lack of dance moves is because she has been in rehab)

anyway....petrov expended a whole 5minutes on that subject.... time to move on. well how does petrov follow up on this subject for all you pop kiddies? ah yes another fine pop-like band with a brand new video that in fact reminds petrov of britney spears (isn't she pretty in the video?). The Shins!

The Shins - Turn on Me

the national

tonight at 9.30club is The National with the Rosebuds opening up. Petrov is excited. he would also be equally happy seeing either band individually. which unfortunately, is not a common occurrence at 9.30club. the last time petrov remembers wanting to see an opening band as much as the main act was Smoosh at The Pipettes show at Blackcat. This won't be a jump around show for sure, so DCers prepare your crossed arm head nod perfected crowd mentality.

The Rosebuds - Silence by the Lakeside


The National - Mistaken for Strangers

editors

it would be petrov's guess that most blogs began when someone ended up having a very dull couple of months on hand. this was petrov's case, however, recently life has sped up a bit and now it seems like a constant battle trying to catch up in blogging.

last night petrov began the fall concert line up with the Editors at 9.30club. coming off a long weekend (both in days and tiredness) petrov made it with the lesbians to the show, but gave up part way through the encore and missed Ra Ra Riot. the lesbians were in love with the band and had nothing but praises for the superior performance live compared to recorded. Petrov, however, found Tom Smith ( lead singer) to have an amazing voice. There was nothing technically wrong with any of the music, but petrov just felt that the music lacked a diversity in sound required in keeping a less than die-hard fan engaged for the entire show. petrov thinks that another album or two will develop these kiddies into a formidable band.

Editors - All the Sparks