Posts Tagged ‘music’
Elephant Elephant
- Habit :: bad habit
- Relaunch :: brand
- Mondays :: itis
- Bootstrap :: upright
- Funk :: soul
- Appreciate :: reward
- Yay! :: woo!
- Life :: death
- Sheets :: satin
- Date night :: bottle of wine :p
Currently bopping along to the Evelyn Evelyn album, downloaded from their Bandcamp page. You can pre-listen there too. It’s a new Amanda Palmer project… :D Sitting in the UC library… accidentally bought real coke… disaster. Don’t want it, it can come home with me until I find someone to drink it for me.
Volunteers?
My voice is coming back. Slowly. Have tomorrow off work, it’s been good for it, and me, not talking to many people at all. One more day of that (and hopefully not coughing all night like I did a lot of last night) and I may feel better. xx
People-watching Pre-Amanda Palmer at the Sydney Opera House
No photos from the gig, since it was truly awesome and I spent the whole time falling in love with her even more, but got a few outside the Opera House, on the steps ;)
There were so many girls in awesome corsets, petticoats, hats, dresses… didn’t snap any (focussed) shots of them though.
Fairy Bread!
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Will play bins for Laptop
I really don’t care whether this kid is actually saving for a laptop or not, but he had rhythm, he had creativity, and sounded a hell of a lot better than the girl with the violin around the corner from him this morning at the Old Bus Depot markets. He even had a biscuit tin lid under something to make a high-hat-like sound.
So he got my $2. And made us all smile :)
Sunny yet ?deadly
I’ll admit the style or the content o f Amanda Palmer or the Dresden Doll’s music is not for everyone. But I have a thing for upbeat songs which may be able the world ending, depression, suicide… or in the case of Oasis by Amanda Palmer – abortion, date rape and Oasis fangirlism (a href=”http://www.metrolyrics.com/oasis-lyrics-amanda-palmer.html”>lyrics).
So, of course, I’m interested in when she blogs that she can’t get the song played on UK stations and certainly not the film clip – with references to Sarah Palin, and a hot nurse bottle feeding a newborn baby beer. It’s such a bouncy song, and I love a dark sense of humour.
If you haven’t, watch the film clip and perhaps read Amanda’s blog entry. And then never listen to her again if you don’t like it. But I do :)
Sweet as
Freak occurrence at the supermarket this morning. I was in the “express” lane (yeah, it was long) with a new laundry basket and assorted items for dinner… when I saw some new Tim Tams on display.
Being Australia Day, I think it’s important to take note of new Tim Tam lines and whether a new size of Vegemite has come out. So I looked.
They were dessert flavours with “Sweet Surrender” as their tag line.
In a moment of marketing brilliance – I’m standing there, trying to work out the calorie value and how many kilometres I’ll have to run to work off a single one of there.
And a song comes on.
It’s Wet Wet Wet’s Sweet Surrender.
Woolworths, what are you trying to do to me?
Local DJ
I’ve not been to a party in someone’s house before with a DJ all set up with his many speakers, turnables and … well laptop these days…
Nothing but the local DJ.
He said he had some songs to play.
What went down from this fooling around.
Gave hope and a brand new day.
[Loving the Ting Tings :)]
Hey it was a complete novelty for me anyway :) Gave me something to do when the conversation lost my interest. Dance!
(And the drums, the drums, the drums, the drums.)
Love New Music
Always ona quest to have something new on this computer and my ipod (for gym, or for drowning out noisy workmates in a shared office space) I have two new albums as of yesterday:
The first one is the new Portishead album, Third. Had heard one or two of the songs on Triple J, but saw it yesterday for $19.99 at JBHiFi, and thought why not, I’m sure I’ll like it that much :)
And I do. It’s definately an album that the more you listen to it, teh more it grows… :)
The other album is the downloadable Nine Inch Nails – The Slip. Yes, I downloaded it because it was free. No, I don’t own any other NIN, but I do have memories of some of the more popular songs over my time. I prefer the Portishead, but am not deleting the NIN :p
=^.^=
Spent the afternoon doing articulation assessments. 5 of them in 3 hours. I actually enjoyed it – Proabbly because I had success with some and got some sounds out of them that they hadn’t said before :) Sometimes I really love my work :p
No, Virginia!
I was in meetings for 5 hours today *dies*
I think I have tonsilitis. I suspect I may not work tomorrow, we’ll see after I’ve slept for 8 hours, gotten up, had a nice hot shower…etc. But I was suspecting today that if I hadn’t been midlessly sitting in meetings all day that it may not have been a good idea to be there. Not with the razors in my throat and the headache.. *dies*
*adds No, Virginia to her wishlist to buy when it comes out in .au*
News of new music from artists I love is NOT good for a girl who should really want to be saving her voice. Damn :(
*stops singing to Yes, Virginia and goes back to cooking her veges for her cous cous tonight*
I’m trying hard
not to be ashamed
not to know the name
of who is waking up beside me
or the date, the season or the city
but at least the ceilings very pretty
and if you are holding it against me…
(okay, too many action stars tonight)
It’s just a song
I wasn’t going to buy anything today, but on my way into the city, they said of Triple J that the Hottest 100 cd was being released today, so I just had to pop along to add it to my collection.
If you buy it from the ABC shop at the moment, it’s at the bargain price of $24.95. For 2 cds (a huge 43 songs!) that’s an awesome price. even if there are a few songs you will skip every time ;) Tracklisting is here.
Which brings me to having to sort out the songs I want on my ipod again. While at the gym, pondering the question of whether it’s true that thin people run or that running makes you thin (while huffing and puffing away feeling like I was dying), I realised that I really need to set up two playlists on my ipod – one for active gym stuff and one for calm, trying to ignore everyone at work while writing reports stuff. Because I kept having to skip over songs that I love, but that wouldn’t make me run. SO that’s what I want to achievve tonight. Two playlists!
Thought I might share my gym efforts on here. Yout won’t be privvy to my food journal because that’s still a little shaky and too personal, but the gym stuff I might as well! Read the rest of this entry »
So forgot about Muse
The idea of Muse having the top song in the Hottest 100 did not occur to me whatsoever. heh. But if you lok a the list, not much of the top ten was in my area… Like that damn Soko, and Daft Punk getting in wiht a live version of a seven year old song. Ooh that’s it, just re-realease your hits as live versions and it’s like they’re new again!
I did vote for Karnivool’s vesion of Gotye’s The only way. I love it. At least that’s a cover, not the same song by the some band!
Spent the morning yesterday in the car – had a good run, except for being stopped on teh F3 heading out of Sydney for a bit. Crawling. But, it’s just an expected part of a long-weekend drive there. I had estimated I’d get in around 12:15, and I pulled into my parents’ driveway at 12:12pm, according to my clock :p
Spent the afternoon at a friend’s place listening to the countdown and catching up with people. Nice day. Plenty of opinions about what should and shouldn’t be in the Hottest 100 :) and exclamations of “I don’t know this song!”
Had dinner with the family, wiht my sister too. Still some wedding-y stuff to sort out, but it seems ot be pulling together hehe. And she said I can wear the shoes with the silver heel :)
Okay, need to figure out what I’m doing today – I can’t shower yet because there’s a burst pipe in th front yard and the water’s off… I need to catch Rish’s parents at some point – because it’s a nice thing to do, and because they have a monitor for Rish heh. Also give me a chance to get away from my family. i love them, they just drive me crazy…
