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Candypants
“I Want A Pony”
5 of Wands (Strife)
With this song about unquenchable desire Candypants brings the 5 of Wands to life.
Candypants is a superior pop band from Los Angeles, CA
featuring Lisa Jenio, who turns emotional strife into musical brilliance on this song, and many others.
Lisa and Andras collaborated on several songs for a yet-to-be-completed project, Smartypants,
exploring the lives of great writers who moved to Hollywood and hated it.
Lisa and Andras have also performed together in Andy Dick’s Bitches of The Century,
and on Shmushkin’s Total Fucking Bullshit CD.
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02/25/2015 at 4:17 am
Today’s Pop Oracle song of the day from The Radio8Ball Show is a general kick in the face but for me it holds all kinds of personal syncage. Care to explore my rabbit hole?
OK, well this is from Candypants and my beloved songwriting colleague Lisa Jenio an LA songwriter who balances a very cool little music career with editing Larry Flynt’s Barely Legal magazine as her day job. This dichotomy probably creates more strife in your mind than in hers but it’s still there and it’s been fun to watch her drop that bomb on unsuspecting closeted porn fans and fellow feminists in the past. Jimmy Webb certainly got a kick out of it when they were on the most recent R8B podcast.
Today Lisa posted on FB that she had The Beatles’ “Misery” stuck in her head and, to “help her out”, one of her friends posted the theme to the early 80’s TV show “Hello Larry” about a radio DJ in Portland.
Let’s leave aside all the Strife I’ve experienced in Portland (Robyn Lynn Thoren Smith, Andy Dick, Anna Marti, Jim Brunberg, Wahkeena Sitka) a city I have come to consider Olympia’s vaccum cleaner, because it sucks up our hipster trash. There is a more interesting wrinkle here.
I just discovered Anya Marina’s comedy podcast “We Know Nothing” in which, as far as I can tell after listening to the last three episodes, she surrounds herself with funny people that she digs and talks about her love life or lack thereof. Thing is, that’s what it’s like hanging out with Anya except that listening from three thousand miles and several weeks away, I can’t get a word in edgewise. Something which really isn’t a problem in person, because like “Hello Larry”, Anya is a great radio DJ, in that she bring out the best in her guests by being cool.
Anya and I worked together in a few capacities, playing shows together, writing music, doing the R8B thing. Andy Shmushkin had a brutal crush on her that resulted in a bold musical declaration some say is the reason Anya relocated to Portland and NYC not long after her appearance in Shmushkin’s “Christmas Cunnilingus” video.
But that’s all just conjecture. What’s interesting to me are the themes of Portland, Radio DJ’s and this song which I know was intended as an indictment of a spoiled brat rock star but, to me, sounds like loving parody of the joyful jaundiced feminine rebellion that smart ladies like Lisa & Anya both represent in my personal pantheon, which is why they are each well represented in this deck.
So, if that creates a little strife, well, my advice is to enjoy the sensation.