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This video is so full of rich, beautiful images backed up by powerful and passionate music and lyrics. Check out Laura Marling's newest video Devil's Spoke.
(Thanks James Earl Jones)



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thumb to index
finger frame
mossy engines roar
abandoned automobiles
you
grassy lot
petals plucked
purely for a picture's place
under eyelashed examination
you,

Blistered Fingers

I've been playing my guitar more lately, and thanks to a set of new strings put on by that good man Davey over at Space Man Music, I haven't been more happy to play it! Last night I looked up the chords for Gone for Good by the Shins, and tried to learn it. With the help from my roommate Jackson, I was able to make it actually sound good tonight!! I'm very excited to keep on learning. Hopefully once my fingertips blister over, I'll be more inclined to play for longer periods of time! :P

The Shins - Gone for Good (acoustic)

No water

I'm pissed. I try to go to school on time, and when I wake up, there is no goddamn water in my apartment. I swear to God I will kill those construction mother fuckers downstairs.

:)

I've been tired of everything new and recent being talked about over the past 3 months. I admit, I am into the new shit that's been going around, but I am getting bored of all that airy, electro-meets-indie simple-sounding musical business that's being so heavily blogged about. So this morning, I searched for some harder, more edgy, more substantial-sounding jams. This is what I've come across so far:

The ZEROS - Wild Weekend
From California in the late 70s, this raw, garage-punk band was known as the "Latino Ramones."

Check out this awesome clip of the ZEROS performing on a San Diego television show in 1977. Jesus, rare.




The Darling Buds - It's All up to You
From the Blondie era of the late 80s, this woman-fronted band from the UK got lots of locale radio air-play, but eventually broke up due to their lack of commercial exposure. This song is so pop-y, and dancey, I just love it.



Dum Dum Girls - Blank Girl
(Thanks Finner!)



(this post was started on Tuesday, but I never got around to finishing it until now)

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Mondays are nice. I like Mondays. Especially when you start the day by talking to someone who puts a smile on your face. That helps to make any day of the week feel like Thursday (that's my favourite day, I think). And Mondays are always great when you end them with awesome hang outs with the greatest girls ever. I went for Vietnamese with Slitt and Eggy, and then after spending the rest of our lives in Shoppers, decided to die my hair. Yup, I've got me some red hairs now. COOL!!

Mondays are the MOST best when they are ended by listening to great music. My friend M. Tamblyn shared a pretty amazing video with me tonight. Check out the video for For Agent 13 by the Besnard Lakes. I don't really know much else about them, other than they are Canadian, and from Montreal. Check out the video - I enjoy the original concept, and the potential for the images to have meaning. I find most music videos don't offer the potential for images to create an emotional connection with their story line. ANYWAYS! Blah, blah - watch it!

Ten Gold Stars

SO I have been super lazy about this blog. I just feel like no one REALLY cares about what I write, so what's the point. BUT, despite my lack on initiative to share my life with the internet world, I do love to share my music finds.

Music makes everything better.

Below is what I have been listening to lately. Mostly recent stuff from 09/10 releases, but also some older stuff.

Anyways, less chat, more playlist. GO!

Woods - Some Shame

Elvis Perkins - Hey

Emil & Friends - Sleepyhead (remix) (I know, this one's a bit of an oldy)

Cymbals Eat Guitars - And the Hazy Sea

Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Movement

The Nerves - Hanging on the Telephone

Mint Chicks - Hot on your Heels (Youtube)

Vampire Weekend - Cousins (Youtube) - My favourite song on this album is actualy Giving up the Gun, but couldn't find the link.

If you are having trouble downloading singles, you may need an extractor, like WinZip to download these files. Hopefully they work. If not, check out the bands' myspaces, or pick up their records at your local record stores!

Winter Reds

I would like to be in love. But maybe it's not a good idea. Maybe just in lust. That seems to hold less potential for heartbreak.

Until then, I've compiled songs into a playlist to win over a pretend boyfriend. That's okay if you don't understand what that means - we can talk later.




The Shins - Caring is Creepy
Camera Obscura - French Navy
The Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
Paul Simon - You Can Call me Al
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
Crystal Stilts - Shattered Shine
The Darlings - If This is Love
Tegan and Sara - Not Tonight
Pinback - Penelope
Joy Division - Love will Tear us Apart
The Smiths - Panic
Antlers - Two
Pony Up! - TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS
Carla Bruni - Quel qu'un M'a Dit
Eric Bachman (Archers of Loaf) - Web in Front
She and Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?
Adel Bengo - Pilot Can at the Queer of God
Black Lips - Transcendental Light
The Joy Formidable - Whirring
Wolf Parade - I'll Believe in Anything
Slingshot Dakota - Until the Day I Die pt. 2

Oh hi there!!

WELLL! Exams. That's all I have to say.

In the mean time, let's talk music.

I'm enjoying this track alot, Local Natives - Airplanes (this is a link to their myspace). I listened to the whole album - it's decent. They've got an Animal Collective feel to them, mixed with the airy-ness of Neon Indian, but more pop-sounding. This song, however, blows the entire album out of the water, and I was a bit disappointed in their whole album based on my expectations from this song. It's worth checking out, though.

While checking out some reviews about Local Natives, I stumbled upon Nurses. Totally up my alley of magical, lovely, weird-sounding experimental synthy-folk music. WOW - that's a genre, for ya'. Anyways, check out their track, Caterpillar Playground. I'll let you know what I think of their album, which was apparently recorded in the attic that this threesome live in together! I WANT TO LIVE IN AN ATTIC!

KAY time to watch some movies - Control, 24 hour party people, or the story of the Ramones? Think I've got a theme in mind???

Landing of my Jacket

So I did include Thao Nguyen in my last post, but only one song. I failed to mention how incredible their album "We Brave Bee Stings and All" truly is. I suggest listening to the full album, and I guarantee, no matter what mood you are in, you will feel good (or better) after listening.

If funds are tight, and album purchasing is not an option, check out their myspace.

Now get out and go dance. Or at least bob your head.

noday

End of weekend blues?


Only thing to get me through it is a wicked play list! Here are but a few tracks that I couldn't get enough of this week:
The Antlers - Sylvia
The Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
Mumm-Ra - She's Got You High
Thao Nguyen - Bag of Hammers
The XX - Heart Skipped a Beat
Elliott Brood - Miss You Now


Blargh blargh. Back to the grind. Hated.

Been so long

It has been so long since I have blogged. I have lots to share with you, but most importantly is to express how much this song rules.

Anya Marina - Whatever You Like (T.I. cover)




This song is so sexy. Bottom line. That's all.

Check out Anya Marina, from LA - she has a beautiful, breathy voice with cool, semi-dancey beats.

KAY BYE!

October 31st plans?

Where else to be this Saturday than Top of the World's annual Halloween jam! We usually do it at Babylon, but this year we're moving to Ritual Nightclub over on Besserer downtown. Bit of a bigger space (two levels), hopefully not as crammed! But I don't doubt all the cool kids will find their ways their! $5 with a costume, $20 without! Dress up and come have a drink. Get there early, as I'd suspect there'll be a line!

DJ Illo and Drastik will be spinning, while some other someones I am not familiar with will be doin' their thing in the lounge (I should probably be more informed). The flyer says Scotch Bonnet Soundcrew, feat. Ray Ray. Couldn't find an accurate myspace link. SAWRY!

COOME COME COME! You'll see me there - I sort of like to party...

NOVEMBER!!

...almost.

I haven't blogged in quite a while. Sorry for the lack of interest in the internet and music, etc. Hopefully this should make up for it.

In preparation for Halloween, and in true harvest nature, I spent last Sunday Carving pumpkins, making candy apples, and roasting pumpkin seeds!!

Pumkpkin carving!!!

Sticky, delicious candy apples! Homemadeeee

Pumpkin seeds!! Crunch crunch!

Final product! Owl, and drinking orange juice from cartons??! FUN!

run away

I never liked Camera Obscura too much, but something has drawn me to them more over the past month, and now I want them all the time.

Sad, sad love is how I would categorize their music.



I Need to find someone to travel with; run away with. I'm going to fall in love with adventure, and go places with him.

Heartbroken Innocence

Can someone please go take me to see this, already?..




I'm so sad.

You know what I love?

On a day like today, when you're hungover as hell, and your vision's blurry as fuck, you really can't do much more than to laugh at yourself.

Biking to school today, I couldn't help but smile. I am seriously in love with autumn. I love how the wind was blowing all the leaves down and my tires were biking over piles and piles of yellow and red and orange.

In mentioning things I love, I'd really like to say there is nothing that makes me more happy than my bicycle, named, not after, but inspired by, Ringo Star. Riding Ringo, every day. Ha.

I also love my camera. I got photos back from my trip to Paris from fucking ever a go. Holding a photo of the fucking eiffle tower made me so excited, I couldnt help but smile to myself. Fuck, I want Paris so bad right now.

To conclude of this, I love Slingshot Dakota. They are so simple, and frivolous, and lovely with saddness. The epitimy (spelling?) of everything I feel right now.

I think I'm going to go take some photos outside right now. I want to just sit in a pile of leaves and never, ever move.

Bright Lights

Can't stay focussed.

Heart, heart, heart. Nothing makes sense and I'm so selfish.

Listen, listen to childish noises.

x

Neon Indian - Should Have Taken Acid With You

Sugar Daddy

Alex McGill is my best fweind in da world. She is almost my complete opposite, but I love and adore err'thang about her! WOOT!

An Often Occurance

runny nose,
knows bleeds
gushed from the veins of a true believer –
hopeless romantic;

thunderstorms
raining on our skin
pressed together
through bones
holding possessions;
so superficial.

running legs
bloody elbows
gushed from the veins of a storymaker –
hopelessly lost;

imaginary love slept
through ticketed acoustic sets
(dreaming)
got to get up to find meaning
laying face down on concrete;
so deceiving.



that's a sleepwalker's nightmare.

In love with a banjo

I adore folk music. I love banjos, and fiddles, acordians, harmonicas, and those little drums that you play with the softs sticks? You know what I mean! Indie folk/folk pop/brit folk would probably be my favourite type of music. Ha - I hate categorizing music. Too difficult.

Among The Cave Singers, and The Wooden Sky that I have recently blogged about, here are some other musical acts that get me stompin' my feet 'round the farmyard. (what?)...

Just stumbled across this British act Mumford and Sons. I think I might have a new music crush. Sigh..

Mumford and Sons - Little Lion Man

(The Dodos aren't quite folk, but this song strums a pretty folky chord in my heart of music.)

The Dodos - Walking

The Tallest man on Earth - Pistol Dreams

Basia Bulat- Gold Rush

Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines

Familiar

Someone commented on my last post suggesting I check out Air's new track Sing Sang Sung. I don't mind it. I find light, poppy music like that kind of .. what's the word? Empty? Spacey? Blegh? Wish I would think of a better word to describe what I mean. I actually don't mind this track too much, but I wouldn't hit up their new album. I think I actually have some tracks from them from their last album in '07 (was it?)

UM this song has the same title as this track by Peggy Honeywell also called Sing Sang Sung. However, it is quite different. Check it!

Peggy Honeywell - Sing, Sang, Sung (it's her myspace 'cause I couldn't locate a track file)

While I'm here, allow me to post some more tracks I'm into. There is no purpose or point behind these selections, other than pure interest.

Discovery - So Insane

The XX - You've Got the Love (Florence and the Machine cover)
The XX - Basic Space