Gigi - "The Hundredth Time"
Gigi - "One Woman Show"
I'm looking over 3 years of doodles and drawings from a pad I keep near the phone. There's a dragon looking meanly at a fire hydrant with dog feet. There's about a hundred broken hearts, there's a bunch of testing-the-pen scribbles, a half-face that looks like a mix of Lenny Kravitz and Hunter Thompson. There's a coffee stain that's been outlined and turned into zero-gravity liquid that's flowing from some outer-space faucet. There's sign posts for made up destinations, phone numbers with no name, addresses for real but forgotten places. Some words that I think I was trying to write them out to test how the spelling looked. Like 'occurrence' and 'negligible' and 'hundredth'. Listening to this song, I'm suddenly walking in this weird world, looking up and around as the thoughts fall like half-formed flakes of snow, to be shoveled later into blue cracks, or just to melt away. [MySpace]
(thanks, Michelle)
Lenny Kravitz and Hunter Thompson are strikingly similar once you get to thinking about it.
These are great tunes.
Posted by Altman E. at November 4, 2008 10:36 AMhttp://yesyellocello.blogspot.com/2004/07/therere-going-extinct.html
Posted by MC Burboun at November 4, 2008 3:53 PMWhat be the story with Gigi? I'm really digging this.
Posted by MC Burboun at November 4, 2008 3:57 PM"what be", MC? come on :)
Gigi is, as far as I can tell, a band that was born and died for one small album in 2005-2006 ish. Members of, wait for it, P:ano, Ladyhawk, Veda Hille, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Black Mountain, Great Aunt Ida, Rose Melberg, The Choir Practice, Parks and Rec, Duplex, and Weathered Pines.
and yet it still feels like a small band, doesn't it?
Posted by dan at November 4, 2008 8:23 PMI have never heard of Gigi before, but I am now glad that I have.
Also, Dan, that description is one of the best.
Posted by Amanda at November 5, 2008 6:05 AMCan't stop listening to "Hundredth Time"
Posted by Jenna at November 8, 2008 2:51 PMMe neither. Such a catchy and sweet tune. Does anyone know where the only Gigi album can be found?
Posted by Dorian at November 22, 2008 6:53 PM