This week's music accompanied by the versatile beauty of tomboy extraordinaire Freja Beha Erichsen.
ENJOY 1. Telephone by Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce
It would be hard to make a music post & not mention this. While the music isn't exactly of my tastes I can appreciate what Gaga does & after seeing her interview on Jonathon Ross (she also performed this song sans Beyond live=amazing) I like her alot more than I used to. The styling of this video is amazing.
2. Poker Face by Pixie Lott
Speaking of Gaga here's the adorable Pixie Lott covering her son 'Poker Face'. I almost wish that Pixie only did covers but they're all so much more beautiful than her own original songs.
3.Exterminate, Regenerate by Charlie McDonnell
I'd never heard of this guy before stumbling across him but he does something calld Trock which I'm led to believe is Dr Who related rock & while I don't like Dr Who I do like this song. I like nerdy things. Writing songs about your favourite fandom-that's just as nerdy as it gets & well ukulele's are the shit.
4.Pure Imagination by Gene Wilder
An oldy but a gooy. Whenever I hear this song played on a TV advert it haunts me for days. So good. The Johnny Depp/Tim Burton version will never measure up to it's magnificence.
5. Secrets by One Republic
I like a bit of good cello. I like it when classic music is fused with modern. This band has taken a really good new direction having broken away from Timbaland and his horrible brand of hip hop/pop. Eugh.
And one extra from 'The Life Aquatic' soundtrack which I really love. 'Changes' (David Bowie) by Seu Jorge.
you've made me jealous, summer is leaving for me! i guess i am excited about rugging up for winter but its just not the same as throwing on a dress and being good to go!
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“Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.” — RICHARD SIKEN
I know that it's been awhile but I've had a bit of an upheaval in the home situation which means my internet access isn't as amazing as it used to be. Let's ease back into things with a good old Music Monday post. Here are some new tunes.
1. Ambling Amp by Yeasayer
I've been sort of addicted to this song for awhile. I'm not sure if it's the kooky video, the repetitive, feel-good chorus or the drumming but for some reason I love it. Hope you do too.
2. You Don't Know Love by Editors
A jealousy, paranoia fuelled fight between lovers with that beautiful deep voice I so love to hear. This feels like it needs to be in a movie montage.
3. Heartless by The Fray
A raw and natural version of Kanye West's song. My brother got me hooked on this but it's so tragic sounding it'd be hard not to love it. I think the anger comes across in a much more subtle way in this cover.
4. Shame by The Avett Brothers
Okay so only two of these songs are new. I'm not really liking any of the new releases and haven't been on a new music hunt in awhile-so shoot me but these are still good songs I think.
5. Fade Into You by Mazzy Star
We all know this one we just don't know where from-is it from a 90's film? I think it sort of sums up the feel for the Spring that is to come.
Arcade Fire- Wake Up :) I'd heard of Australian label Limedrop long before I stumbled across these images as I'd often found myself swooning over their geek chic last collection but now I'm in love. The new collection sings to me. I really enjoy the mixture of fashion for function and representations of the natural world with names like 'oil slick', 'citrus stripe' and 'ocean cotton'. These final cloud print garments absolutely blow me away. My first fashion memory-a memory of really really wanting/coveting a piece of clothing was at about 10 or 11 and there was this cloud print dress in a shop and I wanted it so badly. I never got it but the memory of wanting it has always stood out for me. What's your first 'fashion memory'?
Do you not think the couldprint stuff looks really, really hideously 80's, in a plain bad way, not ironic?
My first fashion memory is from the age of five; of a puff sleeve, full skirted black velvet and shiny material 80's party dress which I loved so much that I tried to squeeze into it long after I'd grown out of it, and had to scream for my mother to release me on one occasion. It's why I always throw clothes away if they don't fit me any longer now. :) x
A happy little tune from a wonderful film called 'Wristcutters: A Love Story'. Go and watch it. It is the story of a boy after suicide searching through purgatory for his true love starring Shannon Sossamon. Gogol Bordello songs remind me of my best friend.
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I've loved Fiona for a really long time but the lyrics for this song and her voice in general just really make me smile. She seems like an old fashioned soul.
Why Try To Change Me Now by Fiona Apple.
I'm sentimental So I walk in the rain I've got some habits Even I can't explain I go to the the corner and I end up in Spain Why try to change me now I sit and daydream I've got daydreams galore Cigarette ashes There they go on the floor I go away weekends leave my key in the door why try to change me now
Why can't I be more conventional People talk and they stare So I try But that can't be Because I can't see My strange little world Just go passing me by
So let people wonder Let 'em laugh Let 'em frown You know I'll love you Till the moon's upside down Don't you remember I was always your clown so Why try to change me now
Why can't I be more conventional People talk and they stare So I try But that can't be Because I can't see My strange little world Just go passing me by
So let people wonder Let 'em laugh Let 'em frown You know I'll love you Till the moon's upside down Just you remember I was always your clown so why try to change me why would you want to change me Why try to change me now
Wow my 20th birthday is just not going well at all. Here's a song suggestion from mu musical soulmate. New Year's Kiss by Casiotone For The Painfully Alone.
Heather Marks freezes her snow bunny butt off surrounded by the white peaked mountains in Chalet Girl shot by photogrpaher favourite Arnaud Pyvka for Marie Claire Italy. I particularly love the shot with the apple and the one with the rocking horse on the table. She looks like a small town girl who secretly dreams of an escape.
Awh..this is NICE. Love the colours, and the baby! I hope those models have fun with those cildren and don't refuse to work with them unless they get pooped on.
So let us all come away with me into a magical place between space and time, in the middle of the sea and the moon and play hide and seek in a world where it is still Monday.
Music Monday timeee. 1. Cry Me A River- Michael Buble Cover
Now I'm not a fan of X-Factor in general or his kind of music but Buble's voice just gets me everytime and this cover is utter genius. I love the Bond like dangerous undertones-how unforgiving and malevolent it all sounds-like every chord is a slap in the face and a kiss on the cheek. Oh Buble. I even love to say your name.
2.Girl In A Coma- Their Cell
Is there anything better than an old love rediscovered with songs? You hear those introductory notes and you remembed just how it felt to hum this tune incessantly before, muttering word for word or just the ones your remembered.'So I'm saving all my secrets for a deaf man | Blabber on I blabber on | Stare empty at a wall | And make it try to sing along'
3.I Wish You Love- Rachel Yamagata
Now I'm not new to Rachel's beautiful voice but I am new to this song. I have a playlist on my itunes just for songs that contain piano. I am a sucker for piano- happy Gogol Bordello style or melancholy or dreamy playing you up to that second star on the right piano. I've pretty much been replaying this song for the last 3 hours. Today is my 20th birthday. This strikes me as the type of song you sing to a child- a little wishful lullaby.
4. Boston- Augustana
Now I have no idea who Augustana is-this wonderful man with bed hair and a tattooed ring of words around his fingers playing on a piano and singing with his little boy voice...but I think that I could grow to love everything about him. Not like I do Conor Oberst but pretty close. I dreamt about Conor last night. He was playing a concert and I didn't want to sit close to him because I was afraid that I might cry if he looked at me.
5.Three Bay Cliffs- Luminous Frenzy
I played this video on my tv yesterday while exploring the new realease list and I just really really liked it. It's creepy and it's sad and it reminds me the virgin suicides and zombie films and detective mysteries and Sweeney Todd making his death trap chair all at once. This is good in my books- a definite download. It sounds like it needs to be in a film.
In your favourite sweater. With an old love letter.
Some sounds to marry up the stylish American teenage runaways in Badlands featuring Millicent Lamber by Derek Henderson. Ryan Adams- Come Pick Me Up. I am love with this guy's voice. This song is pretty mellow but mhmm.
Recently I've been listening to a whole lot of Mumford & Sons, Lisa Mitchell and Florence & The Machine- just a lot of lovely, lyrical semi-Folk acoustic kind of stuff. Here are a few songs from my list of stuff that I need to download.
1. David Gray- The Fugitive
More pianos :) David Gray is and always has been awesome in too many ways to count.
2. The Pretty Reckless- Zombie
Ed Westwick's Gossip Girl co star Taylor Momsen's band. I love this song. Her voice is so raw and heavy but still feminine.
3. Ryan Adams- Desire
I downloaded so much Ryan Adams that I haven't even had time to listen to it all yet. Yeah that's a lot but I love him a whole lot too :)
4. Ingrid Michaelson- Morning Lullabies
Now beating Hayley Williams to the post of my favourite female singer ever. Amazing voice, amazing live, normal, down to earth girl <3
5. Margot & The Nuclear So and So's- Quiet As A Mouse
Introduced to me by a good friend who knew that I would love them. Listen. Great voice, wonderful lyrics-what more could I ask for?
Behold an on going obsession: Tom Andrew Felton. I thought he was wonderful in HBP and every Potter before that. Here's the Kai Z. Feng shoot I mentioned a few posts back. Also if it's true that Tom is distantly related to John proctor, victim of the Salem witch traisl that is out of this universe cool. Also enjoy this performance of a song from his upcoming album.
My name is Jasmin but I've always liked boys with girls' names and names that end in -ie.
I'm an insomniac. I like to stay up late to watch the sky change from blue to black to beige and blue again. I'm a critically indecisive realist whose in love with the little things. I enjoy writing lists and schedules but never stick to them. I want to learn to do a million things like speak Swedish, play guitar, skateboard, hula hoop and play poker. My mind is always turning over a million things but I am a simple girl and I never ask for much. I'm a typical nerd and I'm excited by fashion, photography, books, ideas and theories.
I could pour through books and magazines until my eyes dribbled down my face in a torrent of glitter and sequins. It's true.
I like to paint what I write, write what I think and photograph what I see.
"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known." Chuck Palahniuk, INVISIBLE MONSTERS
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