My posting has been on pause for the past week or so due to a uncontrollable, delirious, sickening fever.

Lichtenstein - "Stalking Skills"

In 7th grade or so, I was an internet fanatic. I was constantly searching the web for videos, music, books, etc. I had a couple of friends who would occasionally join me in these idle hours so that I could somehow amuse myself with their reactions to what i'd found. This song renders a certain finding during my pre-teen web ventures. Once, I was absorbed in a short string of music videos playing on the yahoo music page. Most of the musicians I had previous experience with(Ladytron, Red Hot Chili Peppers etc.) and then Action Time distributed itself through my screen. Action time was a London based trash/punk band who put out one album, barely had a hit, made a music video and then fell off of the face of the planet. I watched the video constantly, but their obscurity left me defeated. I havent been able to find any Action Time since, but I did find this. Although this isnt exactly "trash/punk", but perhaps a softer, dream-like sound, parallel to the louder, rougher noise that comes from Action Time. I cant wait to play this in my car while driving around in the springtime.

CocoRosie - "Honey and Tar"

CocoRosie consists of Sierra and Bianca Casady, a few electronically manipulated childrens toys, a harp, a guitar, a piano and some percussion instruments. They grew up with their artist mother compulsively moving the girls across the country, while their father was deeply involved in shamanism and the peyote religion. They spent summers hiking from indian reservation to indian reservation, until their parents divorced when they were still young children. They girls were seperated for 10 years (Sierra ended up studying opera at the Paris Conservatory, while Bianca studied sociology and linguistics) before being reunited in Monmatre, where they began to record music in Sierra's small bathroom. "Honey and Tar" is a good example of CocoRosie's ghost-like vocals and slow backround harmonies. The songs repeatitive lullaby-esque meoldy is enchanting and is sweetly contrasted with debauched lyrics. They have a new album coming out on April 10th titled "The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn".

(R.I.P Anna Nicole Smith.)