I've developed a mild obsession with this dorky little song:


you know me, I take nothing seriously
I can see a laughing face in every willow tree
but i'd rather be the queen at the guillotine in a bloody insurrection
i would rather be king when the rooks take wing
than be losing your affection

losing your affection

willow trees lose their leaves in the autumn breeze
then there's these trees that stay green for a century
i'd rather be the queen at the guillotine in a bloody insurrection
i would rather be king when the rooks take wing
than be losing your affection

losing your affection

I would rather rub the hair of a bear in a lair in the opposite direction
I would rather put the make on a rattlesnake
than be losing your affection

I would rather be the frog speaking tagalog as they started the dissection
I would rather be the dog food in front of the dog
than be losing your affection

losing your affection

i'd rather be the queen at the guillotine in a bloody insurrection
i would rather be king when the rooks take wing
than be losing your affection
I would rather rub the hair of a bear in a lair in the opposite direction
I would rather put the make on a rattlesnake
than be losing your affection
I would rather be the frog speaking tagalog as they started the dissection
I would rather be the dog food in front of the dog
than be losing your affection

losing your affection




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have you heard stephin merritt's latest thing - his band 'the gothic archies' released a collection of all the songs they recorded for the lemony snickett audiobooks, and they're all very funny and dark. personally, i can't tell the difference between future bible heroes/the 6ths/magnetic fields/gothic archies, but fortunately it's all good stuff, so who cares?

i'll have to check this song out.

Anx said:

Huh uh! I've never heard any of them.

I'll go listen.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

all those bands are the same guy with more or less the same friends playing with him.

Anx said:

Yeah. . . listening. . . getting that.

Kind of digging the Magnetic Fields.

I loved the FBH's I'm Lonely and I Love It ep. It's a little dancier than his Magnetic Fields stuff, but ultimately they all do kinda sound the same, don't they? I also have a Gothic Archies ep called the new despair that is not too good, I think. Haven't heard anything from the new release, but the buzz is positive, as they say...
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I kind of like the Future Bible Heroes songs because they have this sort of speedy, airy thing going, like instead of getting a Kleenex to mop up your tears, you might rather want to get up and spin around in a circle as fast as possible to remove them via cetrifugal force.

Yeah. I like it.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

i guess the conceit (did i use that word correctly?) is, magnetic fields is the "main" band, future bible heroes is the "electro/dance" band, gothic archies is "bubblegum goth" and the 6ths is kinda like magnetic fields, only with all guest vocalists.

Anx said:

How odd.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

he must have a field day come tax time.

Anx said:

Shit, hadn't thought of that.

Anx said:

I LOVE the Tragic Treasury, one of my favorite Merritt thingees. I somehow totally missed that it even came out last year.

I just realized the band name was a variation on "gothic arches" when I typed it into google. oh. duh.