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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James Gurley…

21st
Dec. × ’09
By Claire

I was saddened to hear of the passing of James Gurley on Sunday evening.  He was just two days from his 70th birthday.

Despite the sorrow that surrounds his passing, I’d like to remember the tremendous and full life that James led.  He was a wonderfully accomplished musician who was ever evolving and explored many different types of music throughout the years.  He found fame with Big Brother and the Holding Co., but he found joy far beyond the band.

So take a minute out of your day to remember James.  Remember his piece of history, his contribution to this intangible feeling we call the 60’s and the magic of Big Brother.  Also take a minute to revel in the plethora of guitars he is playing somewhere now…They sound fucking fantastic.

Rest In Peace James Gurley.

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Peace Jam’s FUCKING Awesome Peace Fueling Acoustics…

14th
Dec. × ’09
By Claire

A good friend of mine works for PeaceJam, an international education program that brings the knowledge of Nobel Peace Laureates to youth around the world.  I pretty much piss excellence, joy and beauty when I am around them.

“Piss” is not a word they employ with any regularity at PeaceJam. However, I do.

A couple of years ago I participated as a mentor in a PeaceJam Slam which brought together youth from all over the mountain region to Denver for a day of awesome discussions, awesome lectures, awesome goal planning and an awesome speech by Naomi Tutu (daughter of the awesome Desmond Tutu) who inspired us to be even more awesome than we felt in our awesome glands.  I was blown away by how involved PeaceJam had made these students.  They were, by themselves, creating all types of programs in their schools, neighborhoods and cities from picking up trash to raising money for African NGO’s.  They were taking on huge projects and accomplishing deliverable goals.  I very much enjoyed encouraging their continued awesomeness…and wanted to be more like them! Please check out their website and learn more about how to be involved with the organization.

Well, PeaceJam is currently auctioning off a series of acoustic guitars EACH signed by 10, TEN Nobel Peace Laureates on EBAY! These include:

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Now THOSE are some sounds I can get behind.  I’m fairly certain that we can all support peace, love and music on this blog so get in on this bit of Nobel history and OWN it.  It’s not every day that the Dalai Lama signs a guitar.  It’s currently unknown what great powers these guitars can bring you, but me thinks they involve the powers of diplomacy, mediation and the famous and funky “peace” booty shake.

LET THE EBAY BIDDING BEGIN!!

If you don’t think this is awesome…then your conscience is LAME.

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Cleveland RECAP!

22nd
Nov. × ’09
By Claire

So I missed most of the weeks festivities due to my 8-5, but I did get to spend a great weekend with my family and our managers in Cleveland.  Here’s a kind of “behind the scenes” of what happened during the weekend.  It was so special to see so many of Janis’ friends together as well as so many of her fans.

Brief recap: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is honoring Janis as their American Music Master of 2009!

FRIDAY

  • Landed in Cleveland at 10pm…driver took me to the hotel.  Kept unabashedly asking me about my husband/boyfriend (neither of which exist outside of my head).  So that was awkward.
  • Got to the hotel hugs for mom, uncle and managers, younger cousin was asleep: lame.  Missed all of the events of the day, but showed up just in time for a meeting so I felt good about that. We talked about all kinds of awesome secret things that will sometime not be secrets and I can talk about them unsecretly.
  • Went to hotel room to find guitars made out of chocolate filled with more chocolates.  OMG.  Joy!


Yummies in my tummies!

Yummies in my tummies!

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Tweet Love

22nd
Nov. × ’09
By Claire

jikova_ra_ddmb: Lucy Lawless Janis Joplin ivanka trump

  • In the words of Liz Lemon…”what the what?!”

nadinew6t2: The Official Janis Joplin Forum • View topic – Janis last room http://tinyurl.com/ygccfso

  • So, this link is about people spending the night in the room where Janis died.  I can appreciate peoples need to understand Janis death and one way people do that is by finding a way to personally connect to it.  However, the way that people talk about this is like death stalking…it’s creepy.  However, I suppose I spent a Christmas in Rwanda studying the genocide and touring various places where mass murder had been committed.  Maybe we aren’t so different…connoisseurs of death.

freedubya: If Janis Joplin had a baby with Dirty Projectors, it’d be Tune Yards… Been LOVING Merrill for months! If you’re at Music Hall, you feel me

  • I love when people talk about bastard music children…

Attackofthe: Janis Joplin was out of her fucking mind.

  • The most interesting people always are.

juliejulie13: J and I getting our Janis Joplin on after work. 3 cheers for 5pm!

  • hmm…

sirK88: I feel like rockin out to some janis joplin ol sangin ass white heffa

  • Unexpected.  Never thought I’d see “Janis Joplin” and “Heffa” in the same sentence.  Or such an interesting spelling of the word “singing”…he did save a letter there though.  Way to stick to 140 SirK!


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