SOUNDTRACK: KING PRINCESS-Tiny Desk (Home) Concert #6 (April 8, 2020).
I’ve heard a lot of buzz around King Princess–that she’s fun and puts on a wild show.
This home Tiny Desk is not wild in any way.
“Welcome to the quarantine shed!” King Princess exclaims. She’s in jogging pants and sitting on a fluffy white chair, with two guitars, an amp and a tiny keyboard at her side. “I’m in Hawaii and brought as much gear in the carry-on of my plane ride as possible.”
She calls herself KP, which I rather like. These songs are really quiet. She plays “the three songs from her late 2019 album, Cheap Queen, in ways I never would have imagined.”
“Isabel’s Moment” is played on a quiet keyboard. She says it’s an homage to people experiencing quarantine thirstiness–texting their exes and ex friends and everyone. It’s my least favorite of the three because I don’t like the keyboard sound she chose. But her voice is excellent.
“Prophet” is played on one of her guitars (with lots of echo and slightly out of tune she admits). The chorus turns surprisingly bright. She says it’s about the entertainment business and it is now more relevant than ever. We’re all out of jobs right now.
She says this is back to making music in my room, trying to find that creative spark we had as children, when I could sit in my room and make things for hours.
“Homegirl” is also on that guitar and sounds really pretty, too. I really like her singing voice quite a lot. It holds up well in this quiet setting–so if Bob says that it’s very different from what he’s used to, I’m very curious about what her live show is like.
But I really don’t like her speaking voice, I must admit.
[READ: February 2020] Burning Bridges to Light the Way
Evidently I asked S. for a book by David Thorne a few years ago. I don’t know what book it was, I don’t recognize any of his titles and I didn’t even recognize his name when I saw this book. She didn’t get me the book then, but she did get me one this past Christmas.
Turns out that David Thorne is an Australian smart ass.
As the foreword from Peter Goers puts it, this book is full of “barely coherent rants about friends, family, and colleagues.” He continues,
David isn’t a dreadful human being all the time. He has to sleep and I know he cares a lot about squirrels. There are parts of this book that even hint at a certain degree of empathy for other human beings. Some human beings, not all of them, maybe three.
I’m not sure who Peter Goers is, but his introduction is very funny. Don’t skip it:
I once asked David if he’s autistic and he replied, “It’s pronounced artistic and no, not really, I can draw a cat though.” I assume he was joking but it’s hard to tell with David.
In the first essay, David says that every year when he releases a new book friends and associates say that they are going to sue him if he says anything derogatory about them in his book. But he’s not worried. Nobody he knows has enough money to hire a lawyer. (more…)
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