Today is KIM GORDON's Birthday. She has been the official -FUPPETS- Rock Goddess for so long it seems like forever. May she continue to out-skronk the competition for the rest of her life, and beyond, when -FUPPETS- will ensure her sensuous brain will be uploaded to a neural net along with -FUPPETS- to share in electronic bliss for all eternity.
In honor of this most wonderful and skronkalicious woman, -FUPPETS- brings you a set of Sonic Youth songs sung by Kim Gordon.
SONIC YOUTH - Tunic (Song For Karen)
SONIC YOUTH - Kool Thing
SONIC YOUTH - Drunken Butterfly
SONIC YOUTH - I Love You Golden Blue
SONIC YOUTH - Bull In The Heather (live)
SONIC YOUTH - Beauty Lies In The Eye (live)
He told his apprentice, Ascanio Condivi: "However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man." Condivi said he was indifferent to food and drink, eating "more out of necessity than of pleasure" and that he "often slept in his clothes and ... boots." These habits may have made him unpopular. His biographer Paolo Giovio says, "His nature was so rough and uncouth that his domestic habits were incredibly squalid, and deprived posterity of any pupils who might have followed him." He may not have minded, since he was by nature a solitary and melancholy person. He had a reputation for being bizzarro e fantastico because he "withdrew himself from the company of men."
The bust above was made based on Beethoven's Death Mask. Quite morbid and fantastic.
Here is Schroeder from Peanuts taking cares of Beethoven's biz-nass.
For your listening pleasure, here is a choice performance of Beethoven's music.
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