02:56 pm - No Copyright Infringement Intended

This is a private blog maintained purely for personal entertainment. I'm pretty sure it doesn't get much exposure anyways. But if you are an artist featured in this blog, and you'd like whatever tracks posted to be removed, please message me, and I will remove that content immediately. Thank you for your patience.

12:14 am - sweeping the clouds away

I don't know how much more I can reiterate just how important music is to me. My life would be so utterly, painfully, heartrendingly stale without it. I can't imagine life without music of any kind, honestly. On some days I might even be persuaded to say it's all that keeps me going. That is the power of music. If you've ever seen that café scene in Casablanca, where 'Vive La Révolution' really takes hold, then you know what I mean. Or, to use a slightly more familiar analogy, when Éowyn dashes out of the halls of Théoden-King just as a flag rips loose and falls to the ground, backed by the plaintive wail of that distinctive violin theme. It hurts.

I can't imagine how pale it'd be without music.

Alright, enough of my soppery (: I'd been trying to hold myself back, even though I keep gleaning more and more tracks from new sources (ho ho ho!) that are so amazingly refreshing each time I hear them. And am I not gladder for the larger space my Sandisk 8GB Clip gives me. Before this I had the Samsung P2 (well, it wasn't really mine, per se...). But I'd been trying to go through and bring up the older tracks rather than zipping straight to the new ones, because there have been some fantastic tracks of the previous years that deserve...journal time. LOL. No, I am not on crack, no matter how much I would wish to be.

First of all, is one of my all-time favourites, possibly ever. It's a permanantly cheerful song, and I highly recommend searching up the youtube video for it: Sliimy's 'Wake Up'. He's this adorable little French scenester with the brightest primary-coloured cardigans and crazy nappy curls and the sweetest voice. It's soft with the slightest smoky curling of a French accent that just drags a smile out of that murky dungeon to your face. You cynics might find it's boppy vibe eternally annoying, but it's definitely better than a caffeine shot to start the day.

Sliimy - Wake Up

This next band sort of reminds me of The White Stripes, actually. Not musically, no, god forbid and strike me down where I slump. Eke. I hated them when they first came out, absolutely abhored their sound. It was annoying, loud, raucous, and had absolutely no redeeming tonal qualities at all. In my initial impression, of course. But they unfortunately grew on me, and I am, of course, talking about the lovely English duo of The Ting Tings. 'That's Not My Name' was a real headache inducer, originally because I kept trying to slam my head against the wall every time I heard it, and then because my head kept bopping so much.

The Ting Tings - Great DJ

Now I'm going to flip a great big metaphorical bird to those thousands of other songs I heard over the past year and skip straight ahead to a couple of tracks I recently discovered. They're all great British hopes for the future; terribly young bands who look to have a fantabulous headstart as long as they keep churning out things like this. Unfortunately I don't know altogether too much about any of them, but I do know that I will keep an eye out for any new material these guys will be releasing.

Flamboyant Bella - My Skies

Moustache for Insanity - The Ultimate Uno Championship

The Kabeedies - We Make Our Own Adventures

Moustache has a very different sound from Bella and The Kabeedies...it really is almost insane, whimsical, and singing like slam-poetry. I could get addicted to their crap, fortunately or unfortunately, I can't quite make up my mind. Bella and The Kabeedies, on the other hand, have a cheery pop-rock sound to them, with catchy singalong choruses and feel-good melodies. They're songs about breaking out, being you, and living for yourself as a young person in wherever. Viva la vie bohéme (:

09:47 am - Why Can't I Get (?)

The Violent Femmes - fantastic name that that is - is an alternative rock band from Milwaukee...wherever the hell in the States that means. Sorry, too lazy to check. They've been around for nearly thirty years now, having just called it quits last year. Boo hoo hoo.

But yes. Before they did, though, they created some of the most fascinating and rock-out songs. One of these, in particular, couls be the anthem of the flusterfuck that is college life. Or life in general. Or just living. God, I really adore that word. Clusterfuck.

If anyone's guessed that I'm in a mood, they're all fecking sherlocks.

'Add it up' is a great, flailing song that begins with the scratchy vocals of Gordan Gano. Once again, it has a terrific bassline, and the beat is a constant CRUNCH-CRUNCH-CRUNCH that twangs and bounces and rolls all the frustration turned to life into one huge ball of metaphorical 'fuck you-ness'. This has possibly been my favourite song to play on the fly for the past...2 years, at least.

The Violent Femmes - Add It Up

10:49 pm - Where Is My Mind?

So, what's the big deal about Film Noir? 

I honestly have no idea. I never quite 'got it', just like I never 'got' (and still quite haven't, to tell you the truth) Animal Collective. Not that I'm blasting either of them; I just don't 'get it'.

Other things I don't get? Rap. R&B. Jazz. Blues. Country. Anything from before the 60s. I'd rather listen to Enka.

So when I happened upon this very curious track that was said to practically ooze film noir...it wasn't as if I could let it slip by now, could I? When I don't 'get' things, it doesn't mean that I just want to abscond from it entirely. Rather I'd like to understand the just what its appeal is. If it worked for Animal Collective (woot! My Boys!), surely it could work for Film Noir, yes?

I am most pleased to announce that yes, it did work. Codeine Velvet Club is a Scottish two-piece alternative band that cuts a slinky and sharp piece with their release 'Vanity Kills. Lou Hickey's lazy voice contrasts very nicely with the cutting brass in the refrain. It's the perfect, smoky voice for a genre like this. Also, the other member of CVC, is actually Jon Lawler, aka, Jon Fratelli, of the Fratellis. Good on you, man. I never quite liked the Fratellis anyways, LOL.

Codeine Velvet Club - Vanity Kills

And just for the hell of it, here's a track from back in the day: 

The Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger

Listen to the refrains in both songs. Sound familiar?

02:48 pm - Only (human)

Hello hello! 

Another couple of tracks today, on the thought of being completely and utterly human. But of course, what in the WORLD does being human mean? Does it mean we can bleed? That we need nourishment to survive? That we have daily ablutions? That marks us as no more than animals, does it not? Or perhaps that we can think? That's certainly the excuse humans have been giving each other for years. I ain't buying it.

Do I have any excuse as to what makes me human? Certainly not. Because I hardly find it worth my time to argue something so utterly...monotonous and melodramatic. If you want to argue about something, how about-

Actually, I don't really have an alternative to anything. Arguments haven't really interested me in a long, long time. I simply have no energy nor emotions left for something as...ridiculous as that.

The band that I wanted to visit today is also, sadly, defunct. They have, though, released a mediafire dump with their 'greatest' hits. I think they're absolutely fantastic, and go by the name of Jocasta Sleeps. Those of you Classics majors or Literature majors or just regular well-read people will recognise that name as Oedipus's mother, and later wife and bearer of (was it?) two children. She hangs herself. Yay.

I think they're British...I don't have much information on them, and you could do a google search as easily as I could. I'm feeling slightly under the weather, so my fingers refuse to move any more than they have to (: The lead singer sounds a little like Dashboard and Secondhand. They sound slightly like later Dashboard, but there's a certain mellow quality about them that Secondhand lacks. They're unafraid to broach electronics. In 'We are Humans' there's a little bass ditty that makes me, as an amateur bassist, positively giddy.

Jocasta Sleeps - We are Humans

And just a little somethint extra, since we were talking about humans-

The Killers - Human

11:16 pm - (baby)Shambles

I think I'm going to change the format of this journal a little bit, and in that way actually force myself to update LOL. I need to be doing better things with my time anyways than trawling ebay and amazon. Although I must mention that I lucked out today and got a (pretty) fantastic deal (I think) on a Sandisk Clip 8GB (?) for 50 bucks. Not to mention my new JVC DJ swivel headphones coming in Tuesday! Can't wait for those since my refurbished Sennheiser went up and died :b However, on that note, I will have to wait another two weeks or so till I save up enough money for a camera...I was looking at a couple. The Sony Cybershot DSC-W190 or whatever the hell else it's called with 12.1M doesn't look too bad. Or I might try an Olympus. I was looking at the Samsung S202 too, but it got called out alot on battery life, and I'd really not rather have to deal with that. Despite the fact that I'm hardly ever going to use it (: Any suggestions?

RIGHT.

Where was I before I got sidetracked on my electronic gizmos?

YES. Updating format.

Instead of a journal on my life (it's narily that interestin anyways) I'm going to just update songs instead, bits of my current playlist, or what I think are songs that you really should listen to. They might not be that current, since I'm hardly keeping my fingers on the pulse of things here in SHERMAN TEXAS but I shall nonetheless try. Not to mention it'll probably give me something better to do with my days too (:

Rightio. First up is the accoustic version of Babyshambles' 'Carry On Up the Morning'. They're actually a currently-defunct band, fronted by the ever-obligingly-dysfunctional and previous beau of Kate Moss, Pete Doherty. Everyone give it up; cheers.

I'd actually heard this track a long time ago, and I only just got back into listening to them. Can't say I'm upset. Cheers.

Babyshambles - Carry On Up the Morning (accoustic)

Babyshambles - The Blinding

08:16 am - the lawyer i don't have told me to change the name of this blog entry so i wouldn't get sued

so, i just realised this morning that i had two hands. that i could use interchangeably. will wonders never cease, honestly? (:

11:57 am - re-lakk-su

"undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable."

-ralph waldo emerson, nature, 1836

honestly, who're you trying to kid? and seriously, w a name like waldo, it ain't never gonna work.


cedar, yew, willow, pine, my favourite's still ash, yknow.

02:48 pm - who're you trying to kidd, judd apatow?

What's Your Mental Age?

Result: 71 Years Old

You're a great person to know 'cause you're so wise and mature. Plus you're probably good at shuffleboard.

The good news is, you're fearless, and you've got a healthy outlook on life. The bad news is, you've got one foot in the grave. Hey, that's okay - we're sure you'll be partying it up in the afterlife, too.

STATS:

• 15% (44,496) other adults are also 71 Years Old
• 857,200 people have taken this quiz.
• Most people who take this quiz get this result: 7 Years Old

10:59 pm

ce qui se passe quand tu trop aimes l'idée de quelqu'un que tu as peur en face sa réalité?qu'est-ce que tu fais?tu va aller laisse-le?ou tu va essayer de n'être pas plus fier?est-ce que ce vraiment même compter étant dans l'amour,même quand tu lui veux tellement trop il te faites vouloir pleure tous le temps tu lui a regarde.au lieu tu souris et vague à lui,et éspere c'est assez.tu sait ce sentiment de une fois avant,quand tu as aimé l'idée de un garçon tellement trop il permet tu fais des excuses pour ce qu'il était comme vraiment.ce fois n'est pas plus différent,seulement que tu éspere tu te connais un petit-peu mieux et ce garcon.

tu éspere que tu as fait la bonne chose quand tu se laisse avoir tu,même si virginité n'est pas plus importante pour tu et tu as été trop anxieux à propos de ton prochain période.tu se laisse avoir tu ,même si il fait mal parce que son enormé caucassian wang ne peux pas s'adapter avec ton petit asiatique trou.tu as agi comme si tu as sait ce qui tu as fait,et tu sait,au moins en théorie,parce que tu as lu assez le grand nombre de salop romans d'amour que le moyenne personne,et en privé tu ce pratique.tu sait ce qui prendre de tu sentis bien.tu sait que ton virginal mur n'est pas à virginal comme il semble.tu aimé quand il sourait et a faisait des remarques sarcastique et jouait musique étonnant et étais tellement putain magnifique quand il sourait.et maintenant il fait mal même à lui regarder et vois son sourire,parce que tu n'étais pas là prèmiere et même si tu étais tu n'as pas de demande à cet tellement merdre magnifique sourire,ce qu'il tu cache dans une cubine sans ton sous-vêtements et veux pleurer.tu as pleuré beaucoup récemment,pour les juifs et les homosexuels et les romcoms,alors à quoi est une fois de plus?

tu souhais tu peux,tu sincérement que tu veux,mais tu est feindre-dans-amour et tu ne veux pas ruine pour les autres donc tu vas sourire.tu te demande à quoi il a prendre pour quelqu'un t'aimes.tu te demande à quoi il a éte à propos de tu dans le prèmiere,et si tu deviens avoir écouté quand il tu dit comme tu es belle,et comme il a plaisanté à propos de tenue ton main et vous embrassé dans le frais brise de la nuit sur la maniére à maison et au lit et sa propre odeur forte que tu aimes et peux sentis seulement quand tu es ce près.tu peux sentir encore ce odeur.il y a les autres,oui,mais tu lui veux.tu as prévu tout des écologies que tu vouloir direr à lui,à quoi tu vais faire quand tu lui vu encore.


et il y'a plus,mais il est pour une autre jour.PLEURE.