this is ticking on the edge of my mind.

Lesson No. 1

Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1

I can't breathe with you looking at me

[unknown + lina scheynius]

Deerhunter - He Would Have Laughed

I honestly can't remember the last time an album immediately affected me like this one did. Basically sometimes things seem to spin off their axis and there are only a few things tying me to the earth at all and when the edges of my vision get blurry and I need something to hold on to, I'm holding tight to this.

[Halcyon Digest]

Brisbane, do not miss Deerhunter along with Beach House, Blonde Redhead, Les Savy Fav, Menomena, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and many more at St. Jerome's Laneway Festival this summer.

Pop is pop is pop is pop is poop is pop

[egon schiele]

Egyptian Hip Hop - Rad Pitt

I think we've come across each other once before when you were taking off your shoes outside the swimming pool.

[myspace]

I want you bad underneath my skin

No Age - Glitter

For the last two hours she'd been twisting paper clip after paper clip between her fingers until they broke, her palms and fingertips were red and damaged but she couldn't stop while trying to laugh and smile with her friends. By ten o'clock she let her shoulders drop with a sigh that he's not coming. A huge outward breath that was half relief and half bitter disappointment as she let her last paper clip drop to the floor . And of course that's the exact moment he walks through the door and she's caught unprepared like a deer in headlights. They make eye contact and she turns on her heel and walks straight out the back door and into the night.

[Buy Everything In Between ]

You look okay, in every way

[unknown, turnedout, debbie harry (source/photographer unknown), simonon]

Blondie - Pretty Baby

I spent an afternoon on your bedroom floor. I looked through your pathetic moleskine filled with quotes and drawings and laughed at your pictures, well worn paperbacks and ticket stubs that you keep, dirty mugs, a set list or two. I spent an afternoon on your bedroom floor.

[Parellel Lines]

It seems this game is simply never ending

[unknown]

The Strokes - The Modern Age

Like most mornings the driver's seat of the car is cold enough to produce a whole body shiver and the colour of the sky (grey, white) is not important and ignored. Turning over our conversations doesn't thrill me anymore and I'm suddenly scared stiff and have a horrible feeling that I've made a comment I can't take back and I've never been more aware of the cavity of my chest. I'm dazzled and frightened by you daily but in the interests of being an adult and having adult conversations and not not talking about anything that is remotely important---- Because mainly I'm just sick of waking up in the morning feeling like I was put together wrong.

[Is This It]

Are teenage dreams so hard to beat

[unknown and gunslingers]

The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

[The Undertones]

Tip on the tightrope

Best fun I have ever had in a youtube video.

I could run away and leave you anytime

[unknown]

The Cults - Oh My God

SO I've been catching up on the latest that's been happening in the 'blogosphere' after exams/portfolio/skiing/general disillusionment with music on the internets/trying to read a shit load more and what not and I'm glad I got back in the game in time to hear about these guys. They're just so cute, and I mean that in a totally non-patronising way, and totally deserving of all the hype. Great melodies, great voice, nostalgic instrumentation and this song has some great lyrical one liners that suck-a great blow above the relative softness of other elements of the song.

BHANG, BHANG, I'M A BURNOUT

so. good.

Never needed anyone for so long

[lotte scott, unknown, unknown]

LCD Soundsystem - All I Want

I thought I was getting old enough not to get that feeling in my stomach all the time like it might drop out/tear itself to shreds. I can sit on window sills and bar stools all day long singing David Bowie and having arguments with myself. I try to avoid having real conversations with anyone so I just spout my mouth off about anything and anyone and cut off the hair of best friend. Remember when I pretended I didn't see you, haha, which time?

This is really great music.

[buy this album]

Sorry, I've been slowly dropping off the radar recently because of uni/generally being lazy, but I think I'm back for a while, we'll see how long it lasts this time.

I live in a graveyard

[via suzywire]

Harlem - Friendly Ghosts

I've been hiding all my life, I hide from you so you don't know how alone I am. So you don't know how much I want you. I don't know how to tell the truth, the truth betrays me. In the end all I can do is laugh freely at least.

[buy Hippies]

I could sleep wherever I lay my head

[unknown]

Vampire Weekend - Diplomat's Son

"If I like you, it means at least one of these things: you are disinterested, I am scared to admit I like you so I am not going to call you back, I will write about the possibility of us everywhere, I will email my best friend about your voice, you are not single, you don't know my name, I really have to know what your favourite type of music is, I like to eat green apples and think of you, I didn't mean to become your best friend but now I don't know how to tell you that I'm in love with you, you are not my type but I like your t shirt (and your eyelashes), I am an idiot, you are beautiful, I really want to call you, I didn't see you today so I am going to yell at everyone, you are miles away, I am desperate, you don't even know me, I want to get drunk with you, let's sleep under the sky together, I wonder if you would like to wake up next to me, I want you for my birthday."

- Mehmet Erdogan (via madeofglass)

Well mercy me

[jean paul gaultier haute couture ss 2008/villa fallet by le corbusier]

Joanna Newsom - Baby Birch

We had an idea in the attic of your house after your parents were asleep, passing a cigarette and a stolen bottle of whiskey between us next to an open window. You said you couldn't hear a thing anymore, see anything, so I said we need to change, we need to be somewhere new, let's pack all our shit into leather suitcases, all the books we want to read, all the clothes we want to wear, I'm packing up my three leather suitcases (two filled with books) and scraping the money from the bottom of my drawers for a place on an ugly freight ship around the world to get to Paris to find the lives we're supposed to live. Living in a metal box, on the sea, no solid land, breathing fresh, few people, less noise, more noise. Grinning like my only confidence, you tell me of all the fur you're going to wear.

[Have One On Me]

Don't I know you better than the rest

[unknown/jess gough/some required]


Beach House - Silver Soul

[Teen Dream]

I'm off to the UK/France for the next few weeks, enjoy the rest of the summer without me. I think this song is a good way to start.

[myspace]

[website]

I've got a thrist for liquid gold

Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Action

[Heartland]

"While working on Heartland, I was getting this strange feeling... seeing videos of The-Dream making hits in a manner of hours. Hearing about Jona Bechtolt programming songs in twenty minutes. Meanwhile I was taking a full eleven months to produce this record, and working on it day and night. The very nature of it, featuring a fifty-piece strong section, full percussion, winds and brass... it seemed so proposterous, especially given that 80% of the people who'll hear it will be listening to freely downloaded mp3s on laptop speakers.

One of the things that kept me sane about it, was to read these gigantic, overblown classics of literature. Ulysses; sure, but also Complete Proust, Moby Dick and Gravity's Rainbow. I'd read one of those National Geographic style "anatomy of a whale" chapters of Moby Dick and feel like Herman was holding my hand, saying 'There, there, it'll be alright.'"

Owen Pallett on the torture garden.

I think this is one of the most noble and moving things I've read about music recently. I have real groundbreaking emotional moments listening to this record and thinking of the hard work and isolation that went into this project and how Mr. Pallett created an epic and beautiful piece of art that will endure and hopefully be appreciated how it's supposed to be appreciated.

Have one on me

Joanna Newsom played a remarkable show at the Tivoli on Saturday night. It's the first time I've seen her live and, apparently, her first show in about a year and a half. I'm a pretty big fan and have been pretty excited about her new album, Have One On Me, which is due out Feb via Drag City (probably earlier in Aus) and the set was filled with new material, the first time her and her band had played it live. There were occasional mistakes in the performance but her pretty much boundless grace, humour and obvious talent more than made up for it as the crowd were spellbound for the two hour long show. My friend nabbed the setlist afterwards and there were ten new songs in the set, and all remarkable. The music was phenomenal, somehow more accessible than Ys but still containing the bravery and beauty of her poetic story telling and verse.

Joanna Newsom - Emily

[Ys]

[here]

As you leave me

[the forest hears and anna karina]

The Twerps - Dance Alone

[buy]

[myspace]

Terminally chill

[unknown and troptout]

Neon Indian - Should have taken acid with you

Bleeding regret in the prettiest colours reflected onto the cigarette smoke curling out of your mouth, imagined images of what could or should have been. Somehow everything's more beautiful, my life better and my problems gone. Everyone has always said I self sabotage. But when I lie still in my bed my possibilities are endless and infinite, I can see my future self flying and jumping through a thousand future adventures in the woodbeams of my ceiling, just by moving, by choosing just one, I feel like I'm watching my bright imagined futures fade away.

[Psychic Chasms]

[myspace]

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Great week for music in Brisbane this week. Sunset Sounds on Wednesday and Thursday with personal favs Grizzly Bear, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Andrew Bird coming to our Botanic Gardens and Riverstage.

Friday night you can catch the brilliant Neon Indian at Barsoma.