20090604

Fashion Icon Brigitte Bardot








I want this...



The wine and eggs diet


the WINE AND EGGS diet:

Breakfast:
1 egg, hardboiled
1 glass white wine (dry, preferably Chablis)
Black coffee

Lunch
2 eggs, hardboiled
2 glasses white wine
Black coffee



20090407

Peter Gabriel






There was a band I had heard of but never really listened to. Then somehow by chance, a boy from school had a crush on me and made me a mixtape. The mixtape was amazing.. it had songs by Ennio Morricone and Frank Zappa but nr 12 on the mixtape was Genesis - Musical Box. I couldn't believe my ears, by the 6th minute I had to stop the car and really dance with the song. It's blown my ears away for the past week. I listen to this song often each day and bought the record.. If you haven't you really should give this band a listen.

Here is an excellent live performance of Musical Box CLICK HERE and here is my favourite live performance of all time. Play me my song here it comes again. <--- you must see this video my heart exploded.

So I'm going to continue listening to this man because I am so infatuated with him right now it's like I'm in love. Can't stop thinking about this song all day long.

20090311

Meredith Monk





I just recently discovered this American composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer by chance. And besides the fact that I had smoked a little bit beforehand... she astounded me. It happens quite often though, I must say, like once I was staying up late and accidently watched a documentary on Jessye Norman and I felt the same.

Meredith is so utterly unique and working with the space of sound in dimensions that are abnormal. Her singing technique is wonderful. I don't hear a single word when she sings, just the feeling and the emotion. She doesn't use lyrics. She's just wonderful. And I've just discovered her.. I've only listened to a few songs of hers.. but she's been going on since the 60s so there's a lot to look forward to. As well as her films!! :)

I can't stop listening to this song!!!


Stranded in this spooky town
Stoplights are swaying and the phone lines are down
This floor is crackling cold
She took my heart, I think she took my soul
With the moon I run
Far from the carnage of the fiery sun

Driven by the strangled vein
Showing no mercy I do it again
Open up your eye
You keep on crying, baby
I’ll bleed you dry
The skies are blinking at me
I see a storm bubbling up from the sea

And it's coming closer
And it's coming closer

You, shimmy shook my bone
Leaving me stranded all in love on my own
What do you think of me
Where am I now? Baby where do I sleep
Feel so good but I'm old,
2000 years of chasing taking its toll

I LOVE THIS SONG BY KINGS OF LEON SO MUCH!!

20090222

All Wrong

She had black hair like ravens crawling over her shoulders
All the way down
She had a smile that swerved
She had a smile that curved
She had a smile that swerved all over the road
It's all wrong all wrong
All wrong all wrong
She had a way of making people feel good to be around her
As it should be
It's all wrong all wrong
All wrong all wrong (x2)
All wrong
And when she laughs I travel back in time
Something flips the switch and I collapse inside
It's all wrong all wrong
All wrong all wrong (x2)
All wrong

I like this beatnik





Mark Sandman, the leader of the idiosyncratic Boston rock trio
Morphine, died on a Saturday during a performance at the Giardini
del Principe in Palestrina, near Rome. He was 47.

The cause was a heart attack, according to The Associated Press.
Sandman collapsed in front of several thousand fans during a
performance on the second day of a three-day festival that was a stop on
the band's two-week European tour.

There were few groups in the rock world like Morphine. Instead of
playing guitar, Sandman played a slide bass with only two strings. He
sang in a near-monotone baritone while his band mate Billy Conway
played delicate percussion. The third member, Dana Colley, often played
two saxophones simultaneously.

Despite such a limited palette, the band's songs were memorable,
evocative and accessible.

Morphine's slow, smoldering albums often sounded like soundtracks
written for pulp-fiction novels, and its concerts reflected Sandman's
devilish, dry humor. The group's music appeared on the soundtrack to
many films, including "Get Shorty," "Spanking the Monkey" and
"Beautiful Girls."

Before forming Morphine in the early 1990's, Sandman was a taxi driver.
He also played with the Boston group Treat Her Right, throwing the
occasional minimalist pop song into the band's blues-based repertory.

Once in Morphine, he was signed to the leading independent label
Rykodisc and then to Dreamworks, releasing five albums, including
"Good," "Cure for Pain," "Yes" and "Like Swimming." Favorite songs
among the band's cult, college-aged audience ranged from those with silly
lyrics delivered in a deadpan voice to those with Sandman's more
insightful beatnik-style poetry.

Sandman also formed several bands as side projects, including the more
upbeat Hypnosonics, the country Pale Brothers and the sarcastically
titled Supergroup, with Chris Ballew of the joke-pop band Presidents of
the United States of America.

Sandman is survived by his parents.


-Neil Strauss-




Beat Generation

20090206

Lux Interior














My hero. My image of manliness rock n roll. My favourite singer of all time. My inspiration. My feel good music, my getting ready to party music, my music in the shower, my music in the car, my music at home. The Cramps is one of those bands you can listen to all the time whenever. Some people just don't get it. They think it's noise. But like they say, it's bad music for bad people :)
I am really sad I just heard the news this morning and it messed up my whole day. I don't even feel like having lunch. I just want to go and get drunk and listen to my band. My favourite band in the whole wide world. They've been my favourite since I first heard them and they always will be.
VIVA THE CRAMPS FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!