Monstrous Media!

2009 is here and I suppose it’s time to dust off the ol’ blog and pick up my posting habbits. To kick off the new year I’ll leave you all with the most wonderful coincidence that has happened upon me in ages. My step-mother, acclaimed scientific illustrator Portia Sloan, must have been googling herself one day to have stumbled across this tune. It is a rare bootleg by recently raved-about indie heartthrobs MGMT; and yes it is about my step-mom. Listen to the tune and you will see that they are describing her craft, scientific illustration. And furthermore, they even drop the name of one of her more popular reconstructions, a “four-winged dinosaur” called Microrapter. Enjoy this one… so weird.

MGMT – Portia Sloan

*UPDATE 1•20•09* My stepmother is a humble woman, but, like most of us, will google herself now and again. This was the case last month when she came across this track with no prior knowledge of MGMT existing. She sent it to me in an email laughing at the ridiculous situation that anyone would write a song about her. She was unaware that the silly kids who had written the song were in fact international indie-pop superstars. When I received the email and heard the song I was doubly flabbergasted to see that there was a song out there about my step-mom; and that it was MGMT who had recorded it. It was just absurd. So I informed her of the gravity of her stardom, told her to do a little research on MGMT so she could really see what had actually happened here. She was astounded and became immediately embarrassed when she found them at the top of most of 2008′s best of lists. This meant that tons of people had listened to her song. It has over 1000 plays on Last.fm alone. She has since dropped it and is waiting for me to write to MGMT and find out how the hell they came up with this number. When I get around to doing that I’ll be sure to post about the other side of the other side of the story.