Born on this day: totally unique post-punk No Wave chanteuse Cristina (Cristina Monet Palaci, 17 January 1956 – 1 April 2020) who made precisely two barbed, weird and distinctive albums - released by the cutting edge Ze label - that flopped commercially and then retired from music. Cristina’s trademark is setting scathing observations to perky music, and she mostly sings and writes within the persona of a jaded party girl or gold digger (a tradition that dates to Mae West and Eartha Kitt). Self-titled debut Cristina (1980) (reissued in 2004 as Doll in the Box) is her mutant disco album. Lushly produced by Kid Creole, it’s campy fun with Latin rhythm in its hips (if you like cowbell, this is the album for you!), but I prefer the 1984 follow-up, the tougher, darker and more cutting New Wave pop of Sleep It Off. Cristina’s venomous, spikily funny lyrics work as wry poetry already, but then she enunciates them in an alienated, deadpan can't-be-bothered snarl (she has “resting bitch voice”, occasionally punctuated with a Johnny Rotten sneer). Here’s a sampling of her wit and wisdom: “My life is in a turmoil / My thighs are black and blue / My sheets are stained, so is my brain / What's a girl to do?” from "What’s A Girl to Do?" is as lacerating as anything found on Lydia Lunch’s 1980 magnum opus Queen of Siam. “Don't tell me that I'm frigid / Don't try to make me think / I'll do just fine without you / Don’t mutilate my mink” from her punk masterpiece “Don’t Mutilate My Mink”. (In their obit, The Guardian describes it as sounding like Audrey Hepburn fronting the Sex Pistols). Like many abrasive early eighties New York punk funk musicians (see also: James Chance of The Contortions), she may initially work best in small doses and for many may be an acquired taste. But think of Cristina as analogous to Campari – once you acquire that taste, you wondered how you ever lived without it. Portrait by Jean-Paul Goude.
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What's the matter with these people?
Can I even get a drink in here?
Nobody's laughing.
But they all know how to sneer.
Everybody's making jokes in French.
Nobody dances, nobody sweats,
But they X-Ray every inch of flesh
As you walk by, but my mother said,
Smile like they want you,
Smile like you're in control.
Smile like you mean in it,
Smile, baby, you're on a roll.
Smile, smile, smile!
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Loki drops at 2am here, so I'll probs just get up, skip to the end and if they do my girl Sylvie dirty in any way, head straight back to bed, lol.
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the anxiety is startng to kick in lol can someone tell my body i don't care about uni results anymore eye roll emoji
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man i heated myself up a wheat bag in the microwave and my mum heard and went
‘what’s wrong? is it your shoulder? oh, no, your hand? or well, your arm? or is it your side? your stomach?’
and i stopped her and went ‘no, it’s my knee’
and she said ‘ohhhh, the one you bashed! is it still sore?’
and i just. ‘no. not that one. the other one.’
the fact that there’s so many possibilities to go through is a concern
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Mike: is struggling financially and mentally
Vanessa: *throws his prescription medicine*
Edit: it's not just about whether Mike needed the drugs (which he didn't, i understand), it's about the fact SHE LITTERED and most likely polluted the river too.
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Go back to bed—it’s World Sleep Day!
World Sleep Day is a global, annual call to action celebrating the importance of a good night’s sleep. Sleep is essential for health!
In partnership with World Sleep Society, we’re encouraging you to practice some self-care and look after your health. How? Just LOG OFF & GO TO SLEEP!
How can you help to make this our biggest celebration yet?
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caroline
By OSKAR O.
From the album Sleep It Off
Added to music worth sharing playlist by Dakota Younger
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