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I just logged on for the first time in a long time and read this sad news... Rest in peace Natalie.

I am and it looks super nice!

me too! picked it up on monday. Also:

Shellac - Terraform

Looks great, like it might have more substance plot-wise than the life aquatic. I'm a big wes anderson fan and i really like the stylised world he's created, I hope he keeps making films in that universe as well as trying new stuff. i don't see it as rehashing.

Calexico - All Systems Red

Felt a tremor stir beneath my breath

That forecasts storms on the gallup poll

Waking up from the nightmare news

Hoping to read a sign in the morning air

Nothing changes here and nothing improves

All say my friends who just want out

And leave these troubles behind

Scatter like paper in the eye of the storm

Documented with a silenced note

That's only heard from far away

More cards in play, following suit

Everywhere you look, you only see red

Wonder when to call off the race

Watching a horse running down its last legs

When you think it couldn't get much worse

The numbers rise on the death toll

And the chimes of freedom flash and fade

Only heard from far, far away

I hear you can't trust in your own

Now the grey is broken in the early morn

And the words forming barely have a voice

It's just your heart that's breaking without choice

Everything you hear is distorted in your head

Bouncing off the walls, unraveling the thread

Staying up with the blue screen glow

Forgetting everything you ever dreamed years ago

When the dread is flowing down my veins

I want to tear it all down and build it up again

Hear your heart that's breaking without choice

I want to hear those chimes ring again

Ring again

 

"Can you hear me now?!"

i need to get that. Shellac were a definite highlight of ATP for me.

NP: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf

first listen and loving it.

Next up: Why? - Sanddollars EP

The Believer Music Issue 2007 CD

this cost me

i've had a pretty miserable few weeks of being fucked up over a girl and i'm still in the wallowing stage. here's what has dominated my listening:

bonnie prince billy - i see a darkness

m. ward - transfiguration of vincent

beck - sea change

ryan adams - heartbreaker/gold

handsome furs - plague park

the national - sad songs for dirty lovers

the hold steady - seperation sunday

bright eyes - lifted

not pulled out 'electro-shock blues' in ages.

Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn

saw them live a couple of nights ago, was a great gig, although as my fifth night out in a row, i was maybe too knackered to fully take it in.

what's that dude?

today i picked up the new Dntel, Seperation Sunday and the last Yo La Tengo album. And now I'm off to inflict my tastes on a possibly empty room for 3 hours

I thought Wilco's set was pretty good, but I wasn't so keen on the new stuff. the bands actually seemed to enjoy playing the older stuff more. Still, it was a nice experience after the mental headfuck that was Les Savy Fav.

I had an amazing time, but tough choices had to be made regarding who to see. I missed Grizzly Bear, Band of Horses, Echo and the Bunnymen... argh!

hey,

i just got back from one of the most amazing weekends of my life, the ATP fest curated by the fans. Anyone go? I saw Subtle, Why?, Shellac (x2), Daniel Johnston, Wilco, Slint, Yo La Tengo, Mogwai, Akron/Family, Do Make Say Think, Edan... and more!

Still totally on a high. Subtle were possibly my highlight.

hold steady - boys and girls in america

i fucking love this so much.

Well... To counter that, ATP this year is going to be awesome:

despite having no money at all, i think i might be going to ATP this year.

tom waits - franks wild years

a friend bought me Innocent When You Dream: The Collected Interviews and it's sparked a major tom waits kick. Might stick on

hey, thanks guys. been a pretty good one. had a tough year so far and wasn't really thinking about it but i have some amazing friends who made it one of the best. bruises, ripped jeans and all. I went out Friday and didn't get home till Sunday night.

i do come around here fairly often still, but mainly in the music section. i'll try not to be such a stranger in future.

RJD2 - Deadringer

nice cover, what is it?

been off work for a couple of weeks now so I've watched a fair few films, and the more I watch, the hungrier I get for more.

Yesterday my brother decided we should watch The Island, which was so terrible I walked out halfway... from my own living room.

Next up was The Prestige which I loved; I could go on and on about why, but I'm tired and I already put it far more eloquently in the pub earlier than I could now.

I've just finished watching Traffic. I've had this on DVD for a while and not watched it... big mistake because it's hard-hitting, thought-provoking and disturbing. And not just because Eric Foreman from That '70s Show snorts coke in it.

As for the rest of the week, I think I'll be seeing Babel on Friday and Annie Hall on the big screen as part of my friend's film club at the local cinema. As if I haven't seen it enough...

BBC news, Guardian and The Times (all UK) for me.

avoid this guy:

definitely going to play the afghan whigs version of 'can't get enough of your love, babe'

thanks for the recommendations. this set is still gonna be a bitch though.