PJ Harvey - Black Hearted Love

If I have a daughter, I'm going to name her Polly. Isn't this like the best video ever?

I HEART IDA MARIA

Well, it looks like I already know what my favorite album and artist will be for 2009. It's fuckin' Norwegian rock sensation Ida Maria. I really haven't felt so strong about a female singer since maybe Kate Nash last year. In fact, I like to think Ida is kinda like a rawer, sexier, alcoholic version of Nash. I think I'm in love.



Queen of the World

Whisky please, I need some Whisky please
So bring me conciosness
And kill my innocence
Please lay your eyes on me
Lead me in the dance
Give me no chance to reconsider, reconsider

I'm Queen of the world
I bump into things
I spin around in circles
And I'm singing, and I'm singing I'm singing
Why can't I stay like this?
Dear God.
Oh let me be young
Let me stay, please
Oh let me stay like this ohhhh

Bring me home
I've got no plans for tomorrow
I've got no plans for tomorrow
I got no plans insight
In fact I'm free this week
I'm free this month
I lonely, lonely this year
I'm lonely forever
But today, oh

I'm Queen of the world
I bump into things
I spin around in circles
And I'm singing, and I'm singing I'm singing
Why can't I stay like this?
Dear God.
Oh let me be young
Let me stay, please
Oh let me stay like this ohhhh

And I'm singing, I'm singing I'm singing

I'm Queen of the world
I bump into things
I spin around in circles
And I'm singing, and I'm singing I'm singing
Why can't I stay like this?
Dear God.
Let me be young
Let me stay, please
Oh let me stay like this ohhhh

ZOMG!!1!!

ZOMG!!!1!!111

Look at that. It's Jenny Lewis with Brandon Flowers and Conor Oberst and his stupid hat at Coachella. Some NY Times photographer took this. ZOMG!!

st vincent - these days

I've been out walking
I don't do too much talking these days
These days...
These days I simply think a lot
About the things that I forgot to do
And all the times I had the chance to

I've stopped my rambling
I don't do too much gambling these days
These days...
These days I simply think about
How all the changes came about my way
And I wonder if I'll live to see another highway

I had a lover
I don't think I'll risk another these days
These days...
These days and if I seem to be afraid
To live the life that I have made in song
It's just that I've been losing so long

La la la la la

I've stopped my dreaming
I won't do too much scheming these days
These days...
These days I sit on cornerstones
And count the time in quartertones to ten
Please don't confront me with my failures
I have not forgotten them

rilo kiley b-side

i love rilo kiley b-sides. here's the track off of the moneymaker single called Draggin' Around.

Draggin Around (Non-Album Track) - Rilo Kiley

Here's to all the luck that pours down on me
Here's to all the melodies that picked us up off our seats
Here's to the younger ones when they replace me
Here's to the bitterness that keeps the sweet so sweet

Here's to all the words that we'll never speak
Here's to all the pretty girls that you're going to meet
Here's to the little lies I tell in my sleep
Here's to the secrets that you're going to keep

Why don't you raise up, raise up your cup?
I've had enough, raise up your cups

Here's to the company that we used to keep
Here's to the certainty of sickness and sleep
Here's to the death of who we thought we were
Here's to all our kids that'll never be born

Why don't you raise up, raise up your cup?
I'm choking up, raise up your cups
To dragging around
A cross and a thorny crown
And living because you're willing
And being forgiven, thankfully

i'm sure we've all been perplexed by lost loves and lives we could have lived. just makes you ponder at the frivolousness of it all. so why don't you raise up your cup to draggin around?

i love metric - gimme sympathy

hmmm, i think i already wrote about how i love metric a couple years ago. well, just a quick update. i still do and this song is amazing.

"Don't go
Stay with the all unknown
Stay away from the hooks
All the chances we took

We're so close to something better left unknown
We're so close to something better left unknown

I can feel it in my bones
Gimme sympathy
After all this is gone
Who would you rather be
The Beatles or The Rolling Stones?
Oh seriously
You're gonna make mistakes you're young
Come on baby play me something,
Like here comes the sun "

internet

i love living in the future.

St Vincent - Actor Out Of Work

Hey St Vincent is back. This song is quite remarkable!

dance with me

just enjoy...

dancing in the future

according to Germans atleast.

Best YouTube comment:

"This is from a documentary about Ladytron. It's actually very good. "

Before... After!

What the hell did I just see? I'm fascinated by this.

OH VERITY!

Come Back Electrelane!

This post is dedicated to my favorite band. Electrelane. Come back, come back, come back oh to meee! Please?


an interview


To The East - live


On Parade (live at the Troubadour)

Woo oh!

Hold Tight London

Ever fall in love with a really hot song at first listen without ever paying attention to its lyrics? And only years later you actually stop and pay attention to what it was saying? And then you realize how damn beautiful that song was on the inside. And how stupid you feel when you realize how much you missed out? Really?? Have you???

That's how I feel about this song.

So why do I warn you?
I see things when I hold you
But I've whispered, "It's alright."
It was you and me and a long night.

You're a ghost in the doorway
I can see through and I hold tight
Understand holding until it hurts
I just want you here and you're lovely

You're a ghost in the doorway
I can see through and I hold tight
Understand holding until it hurts
I just want you here and you're lovely

Don't worry, nothing can go wrong
Don't worry, nothing can go wrong
Don't worry, nothing can go wrong
Don't worry, nothing can go wrong

The Greatest Walrus Saxophone Solo Evar

Behold. The greatest saxophone solo evar in the history of rock and roll.

i'm not going to think about

i cant believe its not 2008

seriously. where did the year go?

anyways i thought i'd turn this blog into some sort of video blog and just post youtube clips all day. cuz i'm lazy!

lets start with a clip about the greatest sculptor that ever lived, bernini.



cuz i wanna show you that i'm all artsy and shit.