Blowin' kisses to disinterested bitches

(unknown)

Why? - Good Friday

[Alopecia]

He's the shaker baby

I've started a tumblr just to post things in a less 'formal' way then I do here. Will still be blogging here aswell.

grinmagic.tumblr.com

There will also be a blog post later today.

Gotta feel at home

[becauseartislife, nobodyshippie and tomorrowsparties]

WU LYF - HEAVY POP

You aren't so haunted baby.

[myspace/website]

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)

Turn me inside out

[unknown]





Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round

Sometimes things are cold and bleak. And you literally mean that. You really need to get somebody out to turn on your heat, and the sky looks like it needs to be outside a bit more often. And sometimes your interiority matches the world, like you really were meant for each other--even if the world seems like a big asshole. At that point, you stop drawing comparisons between yourself and the world.

-The Orphanist

[myspace/buy stuff]

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]

That's a pretty nice hair cut

Some of my favourites from this season, all from style.com: ann demeulemeester\burberry prorsum\stella mccartney\proenza schouler\preen\marni\marni\dolce & gabbana\rag & bone\dries van noten\chanel\dries van noten\rodarte\cacherel\alberta ferretti\charlotte ronson\acquascutum\jil sander. There will be a music post later today guys.

She was my good luck charm

[unknown]


Spoon - Trouble Comes Running [mp3 removed]

[Transference]

Spoon will always be ON YOUR SIDE.

[buy myspace]

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]

***

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.

And you'll be where you wanna be

[unknown and troptout]

Wilco - When You Wake Up Feeling Old

[Summer Teeth]

[buy]