Sunday, August 15, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
THE ANTLERS - HOSPICE
Hospice is a type of care and a philosophy of care which focuses on the palliation of a terminally ill patient's symptoms. These symptoms can be physical, emotional, spiritual or social in nature.
Ok, so, this album has begun to consume my life! It all started with the songs "Bear" and "Two", which are great. So i went on to listen to the entire album and thought, hey, this is really great, really haunting, really gripping. Then i decided i needed to find out a bit more about it leading to me spending an entire day listening to and researching this album.
This, my friends (Liv), is not just an album, it is in fact a story. A 'concept album'. This will be reiterated upon reading the endless great reviews. A few of which i will link to here. The other crucial thing to have at the ready is the linear notes from the album (or, the inside bit from the cover). This is when the story truly unfolded for me. Reading along whilst listening. Its simply.. wow. I suggest you definitely get familiar with the songs first however.
Peter Silberman is a lyrical genius and a music god if you ask me. And these songs he has written come from himself. The story behind the album is somewhat autobiographical but im pretty sure its also fictional if that makes sense. The charcters in the story are loosely based on a relationship he had with someone or something. Dunno exactly as the guy seems to not want to delve into the details of the personal side of it.
Now i know you may or may not feel as strongly as i do about this album, which is fair enough, just wanted to share my thoughts. And share some links to some recreational research into this poignant album.
Peter Silberman
Reviews:
Pretty Much Amazing 90/100
Pitchfork 8.5
Tiny Mix Tapes 4/5
Interviews with Peter Silberman:
Linear Notes:
Hospice blog:
Hospice by The Antlers
Oh, and relating to the previous post with the widget for the free download; here is what Peter said on the Hospice blog about it: "The New York Hospitals EP came about rather unexpectedly. Two covers from New York-ish bands from around 1999 surround an original, entitled "Sylvia (An Introduction)", intended to introduce the focus of the soon to be completed Hospice LP. ..."
Oh, and relating to the previous post with the widget for the free download; here is what Peter said on the Hospice blog about it: "The New York Hospitals EP came about rather unexpectedly. Two covers from New York-ish bands from around 1999 surround an original, entitled "Sylvia (An Introduction)", intended to introduce the focus of the soon to be completed Hospice LP. ..."
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
ES & MZ
This is that song that you guys like right?
Well here's the vid if you haven't seen it. It's pretty radical i think.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros "Home" from Edward Sharpe on Vimeo.
Well here's the vid if you haven't seen it. It's pretty radical i think.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros "Home" from Edward Sharpe on Vimeo.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
The death of casey steele
You should read this guys blog. He's like a big psycho crude/rude ranting spazz but I think he is funny and I like what he says. Link to it is in title. Cool. Kface I think you'll like it. This ''cool fucking calculator' post is pretty funny , this is the first bit then he goes on to do this elaborate equation thing.
The Cool Fucking Calculator
Dude, how fucking wasted was I last night?
Ugh…what you see above is but a representative opening line to perhaps one of millions of conversations currently being undertook as to how ‘fucked up’ an individual became as a result of the gross over intoxication of one’s self relative to time. Or more simply put, everybody is a drunk piece of shit and feels the need to rave on about it to no end. In fact, I feel if we removed it as a topic of conversation - the general public would descend into chaos. Frightfully overwhelmed and confused, desperately trying to restructure their cognitive processes to accommodate all the subject matter discussed prior to the invention of the $10 goon bag and cheap methamphetamines. Think of all the stories of love, philosophy and the road less wandered that remain untold due to the foul superseding by stories that involve a passed out slut and a champagne bottle? We have been so conditioned to flock like sheep to a story involving substance mediated self deprecation, feeding off it like word starved hyenas, licking up every last drop of tragedy as if the downfall of others somehow nourishes our own being…and especially if it involves someone projectile vomiting.
The Cool Fucking Calculator
Dude, how fucking wasted was I last night?
Ugh…what you see above is but a representative opening line to perhaps one of millions of conversations currently being undertook as to how ‘fucked up’ an individual became as a result of the gross over intoxication of one’s self relative to time. Or more simply put, everybody is a drunk piece of shit and feels the need to rave on about it to no end. In fact, I feel if we removed it as a topic of conversation - the general public would descend into chaos. Frightfully overwhelmed and confused, desperately trying to restructure their cognitive processes to accommodate all the subject matter discussed prior to the invention of the $10 goon bag and cheap methamphetamines. Think of all the stories of love, philosophy and the road less wandered that remain untold due to the foul superseding by stories that involve a passed out slut and a champagne bottle? We have been so conditioned to flock like sheep to a story involving substance mediated self deprecation, feeding off it like word starved hyenas, licking up every last drop of tragedy as if the downfall of others somehow nourishes our own being…and especially if it involves someone projectile vomiting.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Tecktonik?????
So i'd say i'm a little late on the tecktonik buzz but heck its fun to watch haha.
Anyone else heard of this? Click on the blog link to go to wiki and read about it, meanwhile here is a little lesson on how to tecktonik and also a music video where some dudes (one with a bum bag on == epic) are doing this tecktonik shit pretty intensely.
Let's all learn and go to some underground techno bars in Europe? Thoughts?
Anyone else heard of this? Click on the blog link to go to wiki and read about it, meanwhile here is a little lesson on how to tecktonik and also a music video where some dudes (one with a bum bag on == epic) are doing this tecktonik shit pretty intensely.
Let's all learn and go to some underground techno bars in Europe? Thoughts?
Monday Morning Reading/Downloading
This 'mixtape' is definitely worth a look/listen. I suggest you download some of these songs, they are great. Monday morning pick me up. Nothing better than a good song to drag you out of your haze. Or in some cases put you into one, if that's what you're after.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Beauty Feast
You can go to Vanity Imprint to download a few songs for free from these guys, and i suggest you do, they're pretty rad.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
ps
I don't know how to make the youTube thing come up on the blog like you guys?
few pointers perhaps?
so you just need to click the title to get to it in post below
Chur
few pointers perhaps?
so you just need to click the title to get to it in post below
Chur
Monday, May 3, 2010
Some people are soo stupid
Asher
watching this random program with crazy expensive property
and the stupid woman was like..oh..it's that strange ugly wallpaper again
and the person selling the house was like...it's marble...
Sir I love you
K I looked at Mr Castle, he is brilliant. Totally is Jay right? Reminded me that I meant to post this last one from him for Ben to read. Such a frickin gentleman.
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:45:08 -0700
From:
To: olivia_munro@hotmail.com
Subject: nia class, etc...
Hi Liv,
I'm sitting in my classroom at my computer, not thinking about the papers to grade or the lessons to prepare, but about you and your request that I pick up Grace from Acting Class so that you can attend Nia.
I want you to know that I support your motion practice. I think it's just great.
Sometimes, (whether or correctly or incorrectly, I don't really know), it doesn't seem important or valuable to you that Grace spend time with me. Rather, I think, sometimes, I'm regarded as cheap daycare, useful when it helps your life, but otherwise, my time with Grace is thought of as much less important than your time with her. If I am incorrect about this, I welcome your correction.
As I drove home yesterday evening, I found myself wondering what it would seem like to you, if I asked you to make a special trip into Talent to pick Grace up, be with her for 15 minutes, before I came to spend the rest of the evening and night with her. Would it make you feel like you were being thought of as a shuttle service? Or would you be okay with that? This isn't a rhetorical question, as I realize I don't really know how you see things.
Today, EPHS has its parent teacher conferences, so I'm stuck here until 8:00pm.
However, next week, I'd like to pick Grace up from Acting Class, and have her spend the night with me. I'd like Grace to be able to spend the night with me on Mondays and Wednesdays, with you on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The weekends are already divided evenly. This would free you up to attend your Nia class, your energy work class, allow me to be more involved in her acting class, and balance our time with Grace and our responsibility.
I want you to know that I consider your influence on Grace, and the time you spend with her as valuable and important, as mine equally is.
I may be confused, but I find that each weekend, I'm not really sure which weekends we're splitting, which is yours, which is mine. Maybe we could take some time to talk about this, so we can plan ahead. If we already have had this conversation, and I've somehow botched it in my memory, I apologize.
Hope you have a fantastic day. You can picture me, all afternoon and evening, corralled in a dismal cafeteria.
-Jay
>>> Olivia Munro4/14/2010 5:12 PM >>>
Hi there.
Sorry it seems you have the wrong email address for Liv. I really hope you guys can sort this out, you seem very reasonable and it sounds like a frustrating situation.
Regards
The wrong Olivia Munro
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I offer a red faced thank you for being gracious regarding my error.
-Jay
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:45:08 -0700
From:
To: olivia_munro@hotmail.com
Subject: nia class, etc...
Hi Liv,
I'm sitting in my classroom at my computer, not thinking about the papers to grade or the lessons to prepare, but about you and your request that I pick up Grace from Acting Class so that you can attend Nia.
I want you to know that I support your motion practice. I think it's just great.
Sometimes, (whether or correctly or incorrectly, I don't really know), it doesn't seem important or valuable to you that Grace spend time with me. Rather, I think, sometimes, I'm regarded as cheap daycare, useful when it helps your life, but otherwise, my time with Grace is thought of as much less important than your time with her. If I am incorrect about this, I welcome your correction.
As I drove home yesterday evening, I found myself wondering what it would seem like to you, if I asked you to make a special trip into Talent to pick Grace up, be with her for 15 minutes, before I came to spend the rest of the evening and night with her. Would it make you feel like you were being thought of as a shuttle service? Or would you be okay with that? This isn't a rhetorical question, as I realize I don't really know how you see things.
Today, EPHS has its parent teacher conferences, so I'm stuck here until 8:00pm.
However, next week, I'd like to pick Grace up from Acting Class, and have her spend the night with me. I'd like Grace to be able to spend the night with me on Mondays and Wednesdays, with you on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The weekends are already divided evenly. This would free you up to attend your Nia class, your energy work class, allow me to be more involved in her acting class, and balance our time with Grace and our responsibility.
I want you to know that I consider your influence on Grace, and the time you spend with her as valuable and important, as mine equally is.
I may be confused, but I find that each weekend, I'm not really sure which weekends we're splitting, which is yours, which is mine. Maybe we could take some time to talk about this, so we can plan ahead. If we already have had this conversation, and I've somehow botched it in my memory, I apologize.
Hope you have a fantastic day. You can picture me, all afternoon and evening, corralled in a dismal cafeteria.
-Jay
>>> Olivia Munro
Hi there.
Sorry it seems you have the wrong email address for Liv. I really hope you guys can sort this out, you seem very reasonable and it sounds like a frustrating situation.
Regards
The wrong Olivia Munro
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I offer a red faced thank you for being gracious regarding my error.
-Jay
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
Joe Dunthorne
I have linked the title of this to that 'choose your own adventure' thing i got you do today on Joe Dunthorne's website. It's fun. Lou you will like it.
K I think you would enjoy Submarine, me and Lou have both read it and found it quite the agreeable read.
Here's the blurb
"Hello. I'm Oliver Tate, the protagonist. I am likely to use words like protagonist and, moments later, words like twonk. My ambitions are as follows:
1) To find out why my father sometimes stays in bed for days at a time
2) To find out why my mother's getting surfing lessons - and probably more - from a hippy-looking twonk
3) To lose my virginity before it becomes legal – in just over a year
I am monitoring my parent's intimacy via the dimmer switch in their bedroom. I know when they have been at it because the next morning the dial will still be set to half-way (romance lighting). My parents have not had sex in two months which, my research suggests, points toward impending marital breakdown.
I will employ various techniques to save their relationship. I have read the book Simple Methods – Super Marriages. I know how important it is to go on outings. I know about Feng Shui and how peach coloured wall furnishings can encourage affairs.
There are other, lesser characters in the book: Jordana, who is my love interest, despite her eczema. Zoe, whose only real schoolfriend is a dinner lady. I feel sorry for Zoe which, in turn, makes me feel better about my own life. Then there's my friend Chips, an outstanding bully. He made our Religious Education teacher cry.
This book might not change my life. But there is no telling how you will react."
K I think you would enjoy Submarine, me and Lou have both read it and found it quite the agreeable read.
Here's the blurb
"Hello. I'm Oliver Tate, the protagonist. I am likely to use words like protagonist and, moments later, words like twonk. My ambitions are as follows:
1) To find out why my father sometimes stays in bed for days at a time
2) To find out why my mother's getting surfing lessons - and probably more - from a hippy-looking twonk
3) To lose my virginity before it becomes legal – in just over a year
I am monitoring my parent's intimacy via the dimmer switch in their bedroom. I know when they have been at it because the next morning the dial will still be set to half-way (romance lighting). My parents have not had sex in two months which, my research suggests, points toward impending marital breakdown.
I will employ various techniques to save their relationship. I have read the book Simple Methods – Super Marriages. I know how important it is to go on outings. I know about Feng Shui and how peach coloured wall furnishings can encourage affairs.
There are other, lesser characters in the book: Jordana, who is my love interest, despite her eczema. Zoe, whose only real schoolfriend is a dinner lady. I feel sorry for Zoe which, in turn, makes me feel better about my own life. Then there's my friend Chips, an outstanding bully. He made our Religious Education teacher cry.
This book might not change my life. But there is no telling how you will react."
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Mr Castle seems like a radical guy.
Look at this guy's webpage, its cool
Kinda makes me think of that Jay guy that was emailing you Liv
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Accurate review of Grizzly Bear
Just thought i'd share this with anyone who happens to read. It explains almost exactly how i felt about this album. From http://www.thecoolhunter.com.au/music
It's hard to imagine any band that's able to utilise the studio as effectively as Grizzly Bear. The Brooklyn-based quartet seamlessly weaves instruments into textures, rendering music that is almost irrelevant to discuss in traditional terms of rhythm and arrangement. But Grizzly Bear's art is not something to be thought about, it's something to be felt; it sweeps through you, feathering imagination and unlocking emotion. While this is prodigiously modern music, the cleverness of its coordination and restraint of delivery makes it seem of a porous and playful past, leaving the listener lying on a hardwood floor in the 60s, reading Kerouac and smoking Lucky Strikes. A spectacular triumph, Veckatimest is as absolutely enchanting as it is thoroughly impressive. - Matt Shea
Power und Beauty - Gnome EP free
Hey guys, this is pretty cool, download and have a listen, its free n shit.
Follow ze link to ze webiste to get it yo.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Japan Wishlist
Feel free to leave comments on this post for things you would like from Japan :)
You may or may not get them. Or you may get something that I believe to be more suitable for you.
I will decide.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Brilliant Line...
"Just cause you're hungry, doesn't mean that you're lean"
From LCD Soundsytem - Drunk Girls
The Extraordinary Ordinary Life of Jose Gonzalez - trailer
Trailer for a documentary about Jode Gonzalez...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Pee.Pee.'s
- People that wear high heels (boots & shoes) to uni.
- People who have iPhones and use them as normal cell phones.
- People who wear sunglasses inside.
- People (especially 'cool' people) that have convos across a st i.e. "You going out tonight...blah blah blah"
More to come, you can be sure of that...
Saturday, April 17, 2010
A role model for Ben.
Hi Liv,
I'm sitting in my classroom at my computer, not thinking about the papers to grade or the lessons to prepare, but about you and your request that I pick up Grace from Acting Class so that you can attend Nia.
I want you to know that I support your motion practice. I think it's just great.
Sometimes, (whether or correctly or incorrectly, I don't really know), it doesn't seem important or valuable to you that Grace spend time with me. Rather, I think, sometimes, I'm regarded as cheap daycare, useful when it helps your life, but otherwise, my time with Grace is thought of as much less important than your time with her. If I am incorrect about this, I welcome your correction.
As I drove home yesterday evening, I found myself wondering what it would seem like to you, if I asked you to make a special trip into Talent to pick Grace up, be with her for 15 minutes, before I came to spend the rest of the evening and night with her. Would it make you feel like you were being thought of as a shuttle service? Or would you be okay with that? This isn't a rhetorical question, as I realize I don't really know how you see things.
Today, EPHS has its parent teacher conferences, so I'm stuck here until 8:00pm.
However, next week, I'd like to pick Grace up from Acting Class, and have her spend the night with me. I'd like Grace to be able to spend the night with me on Mondays and Wednesdays, with you on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The weekends are already divided evenly. This would free you up to attend your Nia class, your energy work class, allow me to be more involved in her acting class, and balance our time with Grace and our responsibility.
I want you to know that I consider your influence on Grace, and the time you spend with her as valuable and important, as mine equally is.
I may be confused, but I find that each weekend, I'm not really sure which weekends we're splitting, which is yours, which is mine. Maybe we could take some time to talk about this, so we can plan ahead. If we already have had this conversation, and I've somehow botched it in my memory, I apologize.
Hope you have a fantastic day. You can picture me, all afternoon and evening, corralled in a dismal cafeteria.
-Jay
I'm sitting in my classroom at my computer, not thinking about the papers to grade or the lessons to prepare, but about you and your request that I pick up Grace from Acting Class so that you can attend Nia.
I want you to know that I support your motion practice. I think it's just great.
Sometimes, (whether or correctly or incorrectly, I don't really know), it doesn't seem important or valuable to you that Grace spend time with me. Rather, I think, sometimes, I'm regarded as cheap daycare, useful when it helps your life, but otherwise, my time with Grace is thought of as much less important than your time with her. If I am incorrect about this, I welcome your correction.
As I drove home yesterday evening, I found myself wondering what it would seem like to you, if I asked you to make a special trip into Talent to pick Grace up, be with her for 15 minutes, before I came to spend the rest of the evening and night with her. Would it make you feel like you were being thought of as a shuttle service? Or would you be okay with that? This isn't a rhetorical question, as I realize I don't really know how you see things.
Today, EPHS has its parent teacher conferences, so I'm stuck here until 8:00pm.
However, next week, I'd like to pick Grace up from Acting Class, and have her spend the night with me. I'd like Grace to be able to spend the night with me on Mondays and Wednesdays, with you on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The weekends are already divided evenly. This would free you up to attend your Nia class, your energy work class, allow me to be more involved in her acting class, and balance our time with Grace and our responsibility.
I want you to know that I consider your influence on Grace, and the time you spend with her as valuable and important, as mine equally is.
I may be confused, but I find that each weekend, I'm not really sure which weekends we're splitting, which is yours, which is mine. Maybe we could take some time to talk about this, so we can plan ahead. If we already have had this conversation, and I've somehow botched it in my memory, I apologize.
Hope you have a fantastic day. You can picture me, all afternoon and evening, corralled in a dismal cafeteria.
-Jay
Friday, April 16, 2010
Liv's Glory
Here, i did it seeing as you didn't get around to it... although i don't quite get why your one isn't repeated like the rest are??
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
MP3s
So from now on i'm just going to link to the places i found mp3s of interest rather than put the mp3 files on here... yes i know its an extra step (clicking the link to the site, then right clicking) but you will just have to deal with it. Liv and Louise, you guys can just pray to music god if you can't deal with this and music god shall provide... if you have been good that is.so to start things off.... i have named a few songs that i have listened to and liked today, but, obviously, you can trawl through all of these blogs yourselves if you wish.
From Tsururadio:
The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio (If you like this let me know, I also downloaded their previous album)
From Stereogum:
Apples In Stereo - Dance Floor (Some syck funky pop or something, super catchy)
LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yourself Clean (These two off new album, not sure who's into LCD and who's not...)
Also, how bout y'all post comments stating your thoughts to these songs or something yea? I'd like that...
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