10 things I love…

1. pretty macaroons. i want to eat some so badly.

2. reading ‘the importance of being earnest’. it is the funniest thing i’ve read in ages.

it contains the rather hilarious quote…

Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

thank you oscar wilde.

3. the illustrator dallas clayton.
    

4. ‘wicked witch of the east’ socks.

5. kid sam’s song, ‘down to the cemetary’.

6. pumpkin. so delicious.

7. dress up parties.
 

do you like my molly ringwald outfit? i thought it looked like something she’d wear in ‘pretty in pink’.

8. hand painted speech bubbles.

this picture is of emily dressed as willow from ‘buffy the vampire slayer’.

9. cardboard.

10. feather hairpieces.
found on etsy by jade rose designs.

Blueprint 09

The weekend after Voices, I went to the Blueprint Festival. Which was, aside from the mud and the no toilet paper or no shower thing, excellent fun.

We camped in the middle of a paddock near Ararat and pretty much did nothing except for sit around and watch bands and drink coffee.

I saw bands like Claire Bowditch, Tim Rogers, Bertie Blackman, Ash Grunwald, Blue King Brown, The Panics, The Basics, Old Man River and a TON more.

Yeah…I had a good time.

Take a Bow

I really do just love them.

Muse’s new album came out 2 weeks ago and I LOVE it.

It still has the epicness, it still has a few good solos, it has a few songs that make me want to dance like Anthony Michael Hall in ‘Sixteen Candles’, and then it has those beautifulsymphony tracks at the end. The progression they are making makes me think of Radiohead, which is a very good thing.

I was worried when they started playing tracks on Triple J. I love Muse dearly and didn’t want to have to deal with the unpleasantness of one of your favourite bands turning a bit crap.

But once you listen to the whole album, you get it.

And yes, I did cry when I listened to it. I am a little pathetic in that way. Okay, very pathetic.

I hope they come to Australia soon because I am simply dying to hear ‘Uprising’ and ‘Unnatural Selection’ live!

I give it two very enthusiatic thumbs up.

10 things I love

number one
My little sisters 11th birthday!

number two
The Pixies are coming to Melbourne next March!

number three
I love Bollywood.

number four
N.E.E.T. magazine (it’s a lovely webzine).

number five
Picnic weather.

number six
Ravens (nevermore).

number seven
Zooey Deschanel’s fake band ‘Munchausen By Proxy’ (from the movie ‘Yes Man’). I wish they were real!

number eight
Getting Blueprint Festival tickets in the mail.

number nine
Fake wood paper

number ten
Power Pig’s photography (thanks Justin!)

       

Fire

Also, listen to this song. It is brilliant.

Fire, Kasabian

lovelovelove

The smell of the warm summer air

I made a new discovery recently.

And that is that God likes Radiohead.

No really, He does!

I’ve been avoiding listening to them a bit lately because I know that they tend to make me a little depressed. All I need to hear is “You and whose army?” on a bad day and I’m gone. But on the way home from work last week I decided to listen to “15 Steps”. But instead of getting all melancholy, I actually felt happy. 

This may be a bit hard to understand for people who don’t love music as much as I do, but I have a very deep emotional connection with music. I find it very hard to separate it from myself. Sounds bizarre but that’s just me.

So when I was listening  to “15 Steps”, which really is a cracking song, I was overwhelmed with the urge to dance, scream, cry, curl into a ball, grin like a manic, laugh and do various other embarrassing things that you shouldn’t do at a bus stop. I could feel God. All around me. It is a really hard feeling to explain. But I just knew it was Him. I felt optimistic. I felt joy. For a very brief three minutes, I felt hopeful.

See, God likes them. He used them to speak to me didn’t he?

Ocean of Noise

Um…
I am in the mood for a nice meaningless blog (I’ll tackle the more serious one later). Therefore, I will now compile a list of songs I have recently become obsessed with.

1. Last Goodbye, Jeff Buckley
2. Wanna Be in L.A, Eagles of Death Metal
3. Heart, Bertie Blackman
4. Kiss With a Fist, Florence and the Machine
5. Second Chance, Liam Finn
6. White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane (thank you Fear & Loathing)
7. Remember Me, Tame Impala
8. Cresendolls, Daft Punk
9. Banquet, Bloc Party
10. 1000 Cigarettes, MSTKRFT
11. Tomorrow, Silverchair
12. Scooter & Jinx, Sonic Youth

Lost!

I just bought Coldplay’s most recent album ‘Viva La Vida’ and fell in love with the song ‘Lost!’. I’d heard it before and liked it. But when I was playing it last night I had an ‘Oh yeah!’ moment. It was good.

Lost!, Coldplay

Hottest 100

1. Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. Rage Against the Machine – Killing In The Name
3. Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
4. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
5. Radiohead – Paranoid Android
6. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
7. Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under The Bridge
9. Foo Fighters – Everlong
10. Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
11. John Lennon – Imagine
12. Oasis – Wonderwall
13. Radiohead – Creep
14. The Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
15. Radiohead – Karma Police
16. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
17. Hilltop Hoods – The Nosebleed Section
18. Muse – Knights Of Cydonia
19. Metallica – One
20. White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
21. Powderfinger – These Days
22. Massive Attack – Teardrop
23. Hunters & Collectors – Throw Your Arms Around Me
24. The Beatles – A Day in the Life
25. Pearl Jam – Alive
26. Michael Jackson – Thriller
27. Powderfinger – My Happiness
28. Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
29. Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
30. Jimi Hendrix – All Along the Watchtower
31. Metallica – Enter Sandman
32. New Order – Blue Monday
33. Silverchair – Tomorrow
34. The Living End – Prisoner Of Society
35. Smashing Pumpkins – 1979
36. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Into My Arms
37. Tool – Stinkfist
38. The Killers – Mr Brightside
39. Pearl Jam – Better Man
40. Nirvana – Come As You Are
41. Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
42. Bloc Party – Banquet
43. The Beach Boys – God Only Knows
44. The Beatles – Hey Jude
45. Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows
46. Faith No More – Epic
47. John Butler Trio – Betterman
48. Beastie Boys – Sabotage
49. Guns ‘N Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
50. Crowded House – Don’t Dream It’s Over
51. Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
52. You Am I – Berlin Chair
53. Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
54. The Cure – Close To Me
55. Bob Dylan – Like A Rolling Stone
56. Jeff Buckley – Lover, You Should Have Come Over
57. Tool – Forty Six & 2
58. Daft Punk – Around The World
59. Augie March – One Crowded Hour
60. Johnny Cash – Hurt
61. Blur – Song 2
62. Nine Inch Nails – Closer
63. AC/DC – Thunderstruck
64. Violent Femmes – Blister in the Sun
65. Underworld – Born Slippy
66. Elton John – Tiny Dancer
67. Ben Folds Five – Brick
68. Blink 182 – Dammit
69. Jeff Buckley – Grace
70. The Prodigy – Breathe
71. The Smiths – How Soon Is Now?
72. The Shins – New Slang
73. The Clash – London Calling
74. Nirvana – Lithium
75. Green Day – Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
76. The Stone Roses – Fools Gold
77. Gotye – Hearts A Mess
78. Smashing Pumpkins – Today
79. David Bowie – Life on Mars
80. The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black
81. Pulp – Common People
82. System Of A Down – Chop Suey!
83. Placebo – Every You Every Me
84. Bob Marley & The Wailers – No Woman, No Cry
85. The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You
86. The Beatles – Come Together
87. Coldplay – Yellow
88. The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
89. Rage Against the Machine – Bulls On Parade
90. Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire
91. AC/DC – Back In Black
92. Bon Iver – Skinny Love
93. Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
94. Modest Mouse – Float On
95. Stevie Wonder – Superstition
96. Daft Punk – One More Time
97. Midnight Oil – Beds Are Burning
98. Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
99. TV on the Radio – Wolf Like Me
100. Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out

Well done Nirvana. Not the biggest shock in the world, but they deserved 1st place.

I got 6 songs in the 100. 4 of them were in the top 10.

The Devil

Another song worth listening to…

The Devil by PJ Harvey

Creepy and lovely.