a-life

sara7x: This is one good looking family of band members....

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:28:50 +1000

This is one good looking family of band members. Eisley, I love thee.

Agreed, hot.

addam: John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’...

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:41:57 +1000

John Hodgman at Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner

Everyone’s favorite PC questions President Obama’s nerd credentials on Saturday night.

I had more fun making this guy “scroll-over” dance than listening to him. Try it out for yourself.

Things I like on tumblr - also on my sidebar (mostly cute girls)

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:04:26 +1000

Things I like on tumblr - also on my sidebar (mostly cute girls)

Tastes like Franz Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Party In My...

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:13:00 +1000

Tastes like Franz

Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Party In My Head (Thieves Like Us Remix) (mp3)

Lazy lately with the updates. Here’s something that popped...

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:28:00 +1000

Lazy lately with the updates. Here’s something that popped into my inbox this morning.

Colette - Think You Want It (mp3)

(pic via churly)

Fresh from RCRDLBL - Bag Raiders remix from Presets’...

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:47:30 +1000

Fresh from RCRDLBL - Bag Raiders remix from Presets’ K.I.M.

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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:44:01 +1000

(via churly)

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haha you can see me at about 1:50 but this is posted clearly for...

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:18:19 +1000

haha you can see me at about 1:50 but this is posted clearly for the comdedic value of johnny - this guy i met that night, who started the mosh in the first place by running into the front and knocking everyone over. He’s the one crowd surfing at the start of the clip. this was about 2am

DZ - Yeah (mp3) it was

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:50:26 +1000

DZ - Yeah (mp3)

it was

Asked if he will be more selective in licensing his songs,...

Sat, 30 May 2009 16:39:27 +1000

Asked if he will be more selective in licensing his songs, Bridwell explains “I think I will. At the same time, I gotta keep my family fed and I gotta do what’s right by them. I could be dead tomorrow and have nothing to show for it. I would like to take care of my family, but at the same time I don’t want to piss off the people who really care about us.

“I don’t want young people to get the idea that we’re just shitty corporate whores, I guess.” - Ben Bridwell of Band Of Horses speaking on corporate licensing of music for advertising from PopMatters.

Band Of Horses - Monsters (mp3)

If I am lost it’s only for a little while.

Wake Up Princess Wake Up Princess

Fri, 29 May 2009 21:04:55 +1000

A FIRE

THE

SUN

im dying

just

for

fun

I am going tooooooooooooooooo the Syndney Film Festival! WHY!? I hear you ask, well, because 500 Days Of Summer is player - see, myah, see

SHOOT ME

INTO SLEEEEEEEEEEEp

so yeah, if you’re in Sydney next weekend (not this one) let us know, me and Jacinta will be round the citay

I will be getting royally fucked up at one point - Sat through to SUnday night, so come say g’day.

Now some music:

Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing! (mp3)

I need you so much closer I need you so much closer I need you...

Fri, 29 May 2009 20:35:00 +1000

I need you so much closer

Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism (mp3)

“Jared: That’s the one, all the other nine...

Thu, 28 May 2009 21:06:47 +1000

“Jared: That’s the one, all the other nine songs…like the four other songs on the first EP and the five on the second EP were recorded with Eric W. That one was recorded with Craig Downing at Esophagus. That song is about as old as the band, about three years old. It’s one of the first things we did and it is quieter, and our equipment was different we were still figuring things out. It is different.
Mitch: The back catalogue has such a wide spectrum of production styles.
Jared: Yeah you’d be surprised. There’s some stuff that doesn’t sound like Voxtrot.
Mitch: The Longest Part of the Winter…some country songs.
Jared: It used to be when we started out it was more of a recording project and each song was stylistically different. Then when we started playing live more we started to develop this sound, which is what you start to hear on the EP’s. Before then, if it needed a certain instrument we’d play that certain instrument, so the songs all sounded pretty different. So “The Start of Something” comes from that era.” - Jared Van Fleet and Mitch Calvert of Voxtrot talk up their epic track, (posted below) with Dreams Of Horses

Voxtrot - The Start of Something (mp3)

I have to post the lyrics to this song; I am compelled…

This time of night I could call you up
I’d get angry with athletic ease
Break common laws in twos and threes
If I die clutching your photograph don’t call me boring it’s just cause I like you
Oh, take me on back, take me on back, take me back
To the place where I could feel your heart
Is this the end
Or just the start of something really, really beautiful
Wrapped up and disguised
As something really really ugly?

Won’t you…

Come by and see me, I’m a love-letter away
I’d break your name before I’d say:
“I really love you, loved you,”
Now I don’t care if you saw
I watched every inch of film flash across your roman features
And I loved it, loved it

No, I don’t care if…

You think I’m eager to shut your eyes
Well, I’m sorry everybody knows you can’t break me
With your gutter prose
Would you believe it? She sent me a letter
The ring, it nearly weighs her down
She’s got another boy, oh boy

Steady your ears, steady your ears and read my lips
Poetry is not a luxury, it’s how I break this home
And when I’m really ill, won’t you cradle me?
Man is not a noble animal but maybe woman is

Remember, I heard you…

Inside your room you said:
“You never really live until your back’s against the wall,”
Oh, did you really mean it?
No, I never break my gaze, if just to see the scar
Remain reflected in your eyes
I think it’s time to go home

Oh, tell me your thoughts
Tell me your thoughts on liberty
See there’s a place where I sink to sleeping
She said:
“Oh, my vote is as red as my blood,”
Will you join me for another round?
I haven’t had the chance to speak yet

Godspeed…

I break the law once every week to feel your touch
What’s a book to you in bed?
Do you feel better? Older?
This just makes me ill
Your name is dripping from my pen
Still, you’re not around to curse
I’m gonna drop the gun now
Said I’m still under you

Marianne, let the ghosts sleep tonight
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep
Just shut your eyes, burn the past

Marianne, let the ghosts sleep tonight
Marianne, let the ghosts sleep
Just shut your eyes and burn the past away

“We had the entire album mapped out down to the very last detail...

Thu, 28 May 2009 15:06:51 +1000

“We had the entire album mapped out down to the very last detail before we went in to record the album with Paul McKercher (Augie March, Magic Dirt, You Am I). We’re just anal like that. We wanted to write the exact opposite of our first album so we wrote a commercial pop album to see if we could do it.” - Simon Carter of The Cops from Lifelounge

This is about as poppy as you could get from The Cops, was on the EP they released before Drop It In Their Laps spoken about above. Check it, one of those songs you could leave on repeat for an hour without realising.

The Cops - Call Me Anytime (mp3)

“It’s got a little bit of attitude in it, I guess. I didn’t...

Thu, 28 May 2009 09:05:58 +1000

“It’s got a little bit of attitude in it, I guess. I didn’t realise it at the time, yet I was doing an interview the other day and it was mentioned how we had a bit of progressive rock element and a little bit of anger. Something that, let’s say, Beasts of Bourbon have or what not. Just a little bit of extra energy and power in our music.” - Cameron Potts of Dead Letter Chorus from FasterLouder

Here’s something from them I’d throw closer to the piano rock basket than prog rock. Very much like The Hush Sound; good though - trust me.

Dead Letter Chorus - Down In Your Valley (mp3)

hovering above spacei flip the whole world on it’s...

Thu, 28 May 2009 03:05:56 +1000

hovering above space

i flip the whole world on it’s head

everything behind

Post War Years - Whole World On Its Head (mp3)

behind me

This was so much better live, it’s hard to believe...

Wed, 27 May 2009 21:05:04 +1000

This was so much better live, it’s hard to believe it’s the same song. Still a cool track and I’m loving the clip, little dizzying. The below track is from Morning Becomes Eclectic, not The Zoo set.

School Of Seven Bells - My Cabal (Live) (mp3)

Can we suffer, carry on girl, tonight i’m just scared i...

Tue, 26 May 2009 18:03:46 +1000

Can we suffer, carry on girl, tonight i’m just scared i might lose you out of sight

Magistrates - Make This Work (mp3)

I just wanted it to sink in your mind

We’ve got obsessions i want to erase every nasty thought...

Tue, 26 May 2009 17:03:46 +1000

We’ve got obsessions i want to erase every nasty thought that bugs me every day of every week

Marina & the Diamonds - Obsessions (Monsieur Adi Remix) (mp3)

We’ve got obsessions you never told me what it was that made you strong and what it was that made you weak

You take your clothes off he’s in the bathroom killing...

Tue, 26 May 2009 16:03:44 +1000

You take your clothes off he’s in the bathroom killing time…

Xylos - In the Bedroom (mp3)

…you still have faith in the power of the pantomime