Maya Rudolph’s face for all the awards!
Speaking of that Veruca Salt SNL performance, here it is. Holy shit, right? I know. Seeing this is what made me fall in love with Louise Post.
Also, by the way, while I’m here, the solo in this song isn’t the best example of Post’s mad guitar skillz, but why the fuck isn’t she more recognized as being really fucking good at guitar? Like, really, what is that about?
This song. <3
If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is “Probably because of something you did.
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| — | Jack Handey (via mooncomeshiningdown) |
To me, it’s a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, “Hey, can you give me a hand?” you can say, ‘Sorry, got these sacks.’
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| — | Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts (via deforest) |
Did you guys hear about that train explosion in North Korea? The media is so sensitive there… so secretive— that they may never know how many people perished.
________________________Speaking of heat, if this greenhouse effect keeps up, we’ll all be living under water.
________________________By the way — By the way, it’s official: I can’t have children!
God I love Rachel Dratch, remember when she was on 30 Rock like every episode as a different person? I miss that. Someone get her a show or something.
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Hole- Violet/He Hit Me… (Saturday Night Live 1994)
I had been looking for this video on Youtube to show my sister, and couldn’t find it, probably due to how SNL flags any of their content on youtube, but luckily I remembered I had downloaded it years ago and found it hidden on my external hard drive.
This is a thunderous performance of Violet, and one of the things that’s so striking about it is how none of the anger in it feels artificial or put-on. This isn’t Courtney going through the motions and playing her big hit because it keeps the crowd happy, there’s real rage and fire behind it that’s just burning her up. That moment :30 in when Courtney swings her guitar behind her and throws her leg up on the amp is perfect. This video also made me miss Melissa Auf Der Mar too. Don’t get me wrong, I love the new guys, but there’s something special about seeing Melissa throwing her body around as she plays bass and provides back-up vocals that isn’t there anymore.
The other special thing about this video is the small bit of He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) at the end. After the fury of the previous 2:45, Courtney shows some vulnerability to the audience, with a pained but powerful vocal and alternating between staring directly out in wide-eyed defiance and keeping her eyes tightly shut to the world. This thirty second snippet of the song, for me at least, expresses much more than Hole’s full cover of the song and works as a perfect coda to Violet.
Damn.
