If you’re in Austin, might I suggest hopping over to Nomad tonight to do some indie lung-shredding for Karaoke Underground? Hannah and Kaleb, the lovely folks who run KU, have a night at the Nomad the first Saturday of each month. So come on out, knock back a few drinks, and sing some college radio classics.
And, in honor of KU, kareoke, and independent music, here’s the kareoke-themed music video for The Blow’s “Parentheses,” one of many songs you can sing tonight.
So, folks are probably familar with ThunderAnt, a very funny sketch comedy duo comprised of SNL‘s Fred Armisen and former Sleater-Kinney axwoman and music blogger Carrie Brownstein. They’ve done two sketches on Women and Women First, a feminist bookstore. In this one, Candice and Toni sort out CDs they’ve received for the store to determine which ones they’ll sell.
And here are the things I love about it:
1. Hippie dancing
2. They don’t want to sell an album from someone who bleaches their hair
3. They also don’t want to sell an album they don’t have any problems with
4. Lampooning white privilege is always funny
5. Lampooning the white privilege inherent to much of the feminist movement in America is necessary
6. Lampooning some of the spiritual woo-wooiness that comes with much of the feminist movement speaks to much of this white privilege and also acknowledges that some feminists (like me) aren’t very spiritual
7. I also say a little prayer when I hear a car siren because I’m sure it’s a cop unjustly harrassing someone (probably a person of color)
8. Drums = cop lashing
9. “Over-bodied”
10. “That is the sound of my chard”
Now, I know that some folks may take offense to making fun of a feminist bookstore, because the people who run them are hard-working and often go unpaid to stay local, independent, and political (much love to MonkeyWrench, much love to Book Woman). Also, some folks may take offense to the very second-wave depiction of feminists. To which I say, Toni and Candice, hire a young feminist. And let her be me.
But don’t ever fahcking tell Candice what to do.
Fun fact: This sketch was shot by Lance Bangs, son of Lester Bangs and baby-daddy to Corin Tucker, Brownstein’s former bandmate.
