2 posts tagged “black kids”

...because I will be working at the book store 5 days this week.  The families I work for are both out of town (Hawaii and England, respectively) so I foolishly volunteered to take on "some" extra hours at the store.  "Some" apparently translated to my manager as roughly 25 extra hours.  I'm not upset about it, really, since I can definitely use the money.  But still, ugh, the thought of being a full time retail worker again, even if only for one week, is not too appealing.  And it doesn't help that we recently got a new GM who loves nothing more than cracking the whip on upselling.  I'm sorry, but I just refuse to try to pressure people into buying more stuff than they want!  Hopefully I'll be able to stay under the radar this week and then go quietly back to my 15 hours a week. 
Enough about work though, let's hear a couple of songs I've been enjoying lately:

I'm pretty crazy about those Black Kids.  Still pissed that I missed them at Mezzanine, especially when I found out that one of my coworkers was there.  Apparently the show was crazy packed (the headliner was Simian Mobile Disco).  Maybe they'll come back around again after their full length comes out...  Anyway, this song was stuck in my head all day today, and actually I don't know if I would have made it through the entire day without this song to pep me up.  Not that I got peppy at any point, of course.

Okay, as far as Islands' "Arm's Way", I admit that I only downloaded this album because of the crazy weird album art.  I mean, WTF.  Really.  Anyway, I missed Islands' first album, so I had no idea what to expect.  So I was very pleasantly surprised.  It's a little weird, but not even a tenth of how weird I expected it to be based on that cover!

I am enjoying a lazy day leading into my MGMT night.  You know, sprawled out on my bed reading blogs and listening to music.  And I just happened to find out that Black Kids are playing at Mezzanine with Cut Copy this Saturday, and it's goddamn sold out!  I'm not to upset about Cut Copy, although I like the new album (downloaded this morning from emusic).  But I have been trying to get my hands on that Black Kids EP for a while now, with no luck.  Apparently it's available on iTunes UK, but not US.  Sigh.  I'm still amped about MGMT, though!  Focus!