Tweet Love

2nd
Mar. × ’10
By Claire

You Tweet, I Post.

SalzberrySteak: One positive to a sore throat: my renditions of Janis Joplin are legit

I am unsure how many positive things there are about sore throats, but this one is #truth!

robertmcbean: i got janis joplin cranked up. trying to drown out the memory of buble and nickleback

American 60’s rock has long been known to cleanse the palate of Nickleback. It’s like ginger to sushi.

DrOBcookie: @cassettenova Janis Joplin was one of the best gifts my mother ever gave me

These are my mom’s favorite stories. She loves hearing about mothers sharing Janis with their children and that continued cycle.

cassettenova: This Janis Joplin person is awesome.

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trishnphilly: Me: “Hey mom, what are you doing?” Mom: “Playing air guitar and singing with Janis Joplin” Yup, she was serious.

After reading this I immediately entered a fantasy filled with all-mom air bands. In the words of Liz Lemon…I want to go to there.

Carmelinagunn: Observation: you cannot listen to Janis Joplin while reading about John Mayer.

John Mayer’s focus genes are recessive. See definition 2.

ddh77: Janis Joplin was/ my very own rock idol/ lady sang the blues/ lady sang it true/ i gave her a piece of my heart @regularweirdppl

Janis Joplin haiku FTW!!!

thesyncwhole: Dude, you got 42 posts in Janus January, wholy Janis Joplin!

Janis Joplin used as an expletive FTW!!!

shittychick: PINEAPPLE AND TEQUILAAAAAA and Janis Joplin FTW!

FTW trifecta!

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NO! SOUL!

23rd
Feb. × ’10
By Claire

Janis was on the Dick Cavett show quite a few times, this is one of my favorite videos from those appearances.  There are a lot of performance videos out there and there are a lot of interviews, but not much unique material.  This is Janis, with the improvisational group The Committee performing a piece called the “Symphony of Emotions” featuring the likes of Dick himself, Gary Goodrow, Jessica Myerson, a young Howard Hessmen (aka Don Sturdy) and more.

Note: In true “we’re just getting used to you people”, 60’s fashion, there is but ONE person of color on stage.

Anyone else find it curious that current suburban-mainstream television’s definition of “diversity” often just means black?

CASE IN POINT

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The population of Hispanic Americans is now 3% higher than African Americans.  That’s only 9,000,000 people.  No big deal.

Debbie Downer is taking a break.  She’ll be back on a later segment of our program.

Anyways, I hope that you enjoy this fun peek into the personality of Janis Joplin!  All I’m thinking about is taking auto-tune to this video and bringing the joy of  T-Pain to it…oh T-Pain.  Your noises make me happy.  Shawwwtyy!

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Craft That!

16th
Feb. × ’10
By Claire

You may be familiar with Etsy.com where people list their art as well as handmade and vintage crafts for purchase. Due to human nature these items range from fabulous to unfortunate.  The latter of which find their way to Regretsy.com.

Etsy is another place where people have allowed their Janis Joplin creativity out of the box to fashion all types of interesting things, my favorites of which I will share with you today! Luckily none have made the Regretsy cut, but…let’s just say there is a fine line to which some Janis Joplin crafters have gotten a little close.

Bust out the glue sticks, felt and markers…we’re gettin’ artistic, yo!

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How awesome is this?! Gorgeous.  Wonderful interpretation.  I get pretty sick of tie dye and mushrooms and peace signs and the like that many people still see as the ONLY lens through which to see Janis. This has taken a different angle and it is appreciated.   What a great portrait!  CLICK HERE FOR ETSY LINK.

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The woman who created this blows my mind…Just about anything you can imagine to represent Janis is on this guitar: song lyrics, photos, a Mercedes Benz hood ornament, an autograph, Southern Comfort label, a piece of brick from the Joplin’s childhood home…holy crap you should see the list of stuff the woman used.  I’m, uh—, I’m impressed.  That’s a feat of true passion. CLICK HERE FOR ETSY LINK.

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Tweet Love

16th
Feb. × ’10
By Claire

YOU TWEET. I POST.

885KCSN: “88.5 KCSN is playing: Me And Bobby McGee by Janis Joplin From the Album: Best Of Janis Joplin

…spin that, yo!

victoriacheryl: Haha this guy on millionaire matchmaker lives in the hotel room where janis joplin died. Um odd much?

What?! WHAT?! Thank goodness for Hulu.com, I’m am all over this.

jaceykeehl: I’ve got Janis Joplin stuck in my head!

leowizy: pequeno passeio de bicicleta agora a noite ao som delirante de Janis Joplin… viajei tanto que quase me atropelam…

This, uh, says something about a bike and Janis Joplin being delusional? Damnit! Why didn’t I pay more attention in Spanish?!

maripimenta: Confesso que fiquei decepcionada no dia que descobri que Janis Joplin era branca e não preta. Tem muitos anos e até hoje não me esqueço.

“I confess I was disappointed the day I discovered that Janis Joplin was white and not black. Has many years and still have not forgotten.” – Translation from Google…bahahahahahahaha!  This is my favorite of the day.

MarieMeriwani: God I love Janis Joplin, maybe I should try to trend her #JanisJoplin lol

unnievang: @nicecap Fritt etter Janis Joplin?

Norwegian!

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Viva YouTube!

25th
Jan. × ’10
By Claire

Ahhh…the internet.  Where people of all countries, races and creeds come to semi-anonymously share, interact, learn…and create YouTube cover videos.

Here are some of my all time favorite Mercedes Benz covers:

There is something about the juxtaposition of this man and his ukelele that get’s me excited in my YouTube place.  It’s also possible that I just find his tattoos really attractive.

That is s a fucking turtle. Did you fucking see that adorable, little fucking turtle? It’s in front of a fucking fake mic with a fucking golden fucking rabbit. That fucking turtle is off the fucking chain.

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Chicks With Bigger Balls Than You

22nd
Jan. × ’10
By Claire

Janis was as fiercely strong a woman as her voice was powerful.  This is a place where that quality is celebrated. I think it’s also a proper forum to celebrate other Chicks with Bigger Balls Than You.

Let me introduce you to Tanya Tagaq Gillis, a contemporary Inuit throat singer.  She creates fire, sex, pleasure, longing, want, need…all within the constraints of her throat.  It’s primal and electric. It’s honest and almost meditative. Through her collaborations with artists like Bjork and the Kronos Quartet she’s bringing new flavor to a centuries old tradition. She’s kind of my new “main squeeze” in music right now.

Check out these videos.  The first is a short documentary with her and the Kronos Quartet the latter is my current favorite song “Force”.

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Tweet Love

20th
Jan. × ’10
By Claire

YOU TWEET. I POST

kenindro: @rajinsihombing janis joplin sambil mabok pasti gokil jin! tambah mushroom.

words, words, words, words, mushroom…I understand you.

ChrisBerlin82: On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. – Janis Joplin

sarahweissman: Janis Joplin is such an excellent way to start the day.

nexrei: Janis Joplin ～ Pearl なう。Janis is, and forever will be Janis. #nowplaying

DuckMustaine: Janis Joplin, we miss you.

eyeofh: I’m one of those regular weird people. ~ Janis Joplin #quote

NMMNGFRANK: Janis Joplin is what I consider “ugly sexy” (much like myself lol) I would have done dirty dirty thing to that woman!! #justsaying

!!!!!!!!!!! I’m filing this under “hilarious”.

GregKerr33: throwing this out there, janis joplin is one of the greatest yet under appreciated rockers of all time…. just throwing it out there…

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Happy Birthday Janis!

19th
Jan. × ’10
By Claire

Today she would have been a ripe 67. Born on January 19th, 1943, she is a Capricorn.  As am I.  Which means we are cooler than you.  Did I mention we are also partial to egotism?

I’m about to get all astrological on your ass.  I own a book called The Secret Language of Birthdays. It has what it calls a “personology” guide with specific characteristics influenced by sun sign, season and day of the year. Which really means I have astro-stalked all of my exes…

HA! This book knows he was a cold hearted bastard too.  It even knows he was an insensitive, smothering child…It also knows that I’m bossy, hypocritical and closed, but, really, who’s looking at details?

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Let’s talk about INK

18th
Jan. × ’10
By Claire

Of all the irresponsible, bad decisions I’ve ever made, getting a tattoo is probably the best.  I admit my friend had to physically push me into the chair when I tried to escape and there are times I think…maybe I’ll regret that…but for the most part it makes me feel just a little bit more bad ass. Mind you my tattoo takes up about one square inch on the front of my shoulder and is the outline of Africa so it took all of one minute to complete.  I am a wimp.  Wimpius Maximus I believe is the technical Latin term.

Enough about my lame body art choices.

Janis was one of the original tattooed women.  That’s not to say she was the first woman anywhere to get body art.  There are cultures that have been practicing forms of body decoration for centuries.  However, Janis got tattooed when it was still considered extremely rebellious, loose and low brow in Western cultures.  Now a tattoo with a side of woman known as Kat Von D has her own TV show.  We are obviously more comfortable with it.

I thought I’d take a moment to show off some fan tattoos.  Apparently you people feel strongly enough about Janis to have pieces of her permanently etch-a-sketched into your bodies with needles. That’s dedication.  I like it.

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Holidayzzz….

27th
Dec. × ’09
By Claire

Well it’s been an eventful holiday season and I thought I should share some of the awesomely amazing things that I have been up to.  First I took a fabulous series of holiday photos.  They were done by only the best…a Target photographer at their chick, Denver Target studio. Only the finest things here on TheRegularWeirdPeople.com

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This may be your first introduction to my running obsession with Star Wars. It is real and righteous.

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