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For your viewing pleasure...

Perhaps you will like this. I <3 the lesbian community.




Official music video of The Smoke Can Rise by Kathryn Dearborn.

Lyrics:
I am a bird, and I am hurt.
I broke my wing
I cannot sing around you
I splint my wing and lit it afire
now I no longer fly
but the smoke can rise to the sky

I am a bird and I can't use words
they catch in my throat and come out like a warble
but in my mind and maybe yours
the meaning comes out right
the translation's not so horrible

I am a bird
and you're a goat or you're a llama
but we can be friends if we can hold off on the drama
I like your coat
and I like to hope
if it's not too much to ask
I hope that's not too much to ask



Directed by Kathryn Dearborn. Edited by Vince Mascoli.
for more of Vince Mascoli's work: http://vimeo.com/vmanimation

© Kathryn Dearborn for Obscure Celebrity Music. All rights reserved.
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Tegan and Sara's new photography books

Has anybody else heard about the Tegan & Sara photography books they are releasing? I've been a longtime fan of theirs and cannot wait to get my hands on these. The layout and art look really interesting.

Here's some info from their site:

"Hi Friends,

As we’ve been mentioning over the past few months, we are releasing our first ever set of books, titled ON, IN, AT. Now it’s finally time to share the details about this project that we have been hard at work on for over a year!!! It’s a three-book set that chronicles different time periods over a year in our lives with writing and photographs: the 2008 US national tour, a joint writing session in New Orleans for the new album in the fall of 2008 and the 2009 Australian headlining tour.

The book set will only be available for purchase with the pre-order of Sainthood, and the pre-sale will begin on Sept 28th!"

Amanda Palmer Interview: Rebel with a Cause



Amanda Palmer is a rebel with a cause; she fights fiercely for her artistic freedom.


When the musician and singer, who is currently on hiatus from the "Brechtian punk cabaret" band The Dresden Dolls, made a video to promote one of the songs from her debut solo album, Who Killed Amada Palmer, it seems her belly didn't conform to the ideal expressed by a male executive at her label, who apparently explained: "I'm a guy, Amanda. I understand what people like." She fought the label's attempt to slim down her stomach's role in the clip for "Leeds United" (it was already pretty damn small). Her loyal fans also rose to her defense, and a grassroots ReBellyOn website was launched.


The incident was the final straw in Palmer's already fractured relationship with Roadrunner Records, a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group. The singer subsequently asked to be released from her contractual obligations. So far the label has declined her request.


Palmer consoled herself with the very loving and direct relationship she enjoys with her fans via MySpace and her own blog. So when she sparked even more outrage with the release of her follow-up video, for the song "Oasis", they were the first people she turned to for help.


Amanda's semi-autobiographical lyrics tell a story of rape and abortion as told from the perspective of a teenager, who gets through the traumatic experience thanks to her preoccupation with the Brit-pop band Oasis. The subject matter of the song, and the up-beat way it was portrayed in the video, proved to be too much for broadcasters to handle.


Palmer, who is currently touring Europe, received an email while she was in the U.K. from her label there explaining that "all"' of the TV outlets had refused to play the video due to it "making light of rape, religion and abortion." Palmer, in response, reached out to her fans via a lengthy missive on her blog, and by calling up SuicideGirls.


Click HERE to read interview. The "offending" videos are above and below. I'd be interested to hear what you think.