pete drake and his talking steel guitar

I thought that this was a modern video, it is so perfectly stylised and these people just can't exist. Everyone is straight out of Twin Peaks and at any time something dark and twisted is going to happen. I wont lie, they creep me out a bit. I love the sound of the talk box, at first I thought it was a vocoder because they sound so similar. I have never heard of either being used with a steel lap guitar though, so that's cool.

collecting

I bought three new lovely records from The Record Crate in Glebe tonight, after a considerable hiatus from collecting I have returned with a vengeance, buying five more for my collection in the past week alone. I am usually very restrained, and I don't let myself enter these shops anymore because invariably I will find a record to lust over and I am an impulsive buyer. The Record Crate is my enabler, they are fairly new and possibly the finest second hand store in Sydney. I have not seen such a well curated selection in a long time, and such fantastic quality - they are certainly not 'padding out' the occasional good record with shit. I was even condescendingly asked at the register if I "actually owned a record player", it wouldn't be a visit to a record store without being asked if I'm "buying these for my father" or if I actually own the machine on which to play these records I'm paying $60 for. Either way my resulting facial expressions made him back-pedal as fast as he could manage. 

 Crowded House - Self- titled debut
 Leonard Cohen - The songs of Leonard Cohen
 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country

In all their beautiful unscratched, undamaged glory. 

take this waltz/leonard cohen

"...I want you, I want you, I want you

On a chair with a dead magazine

In the cave at the tip of the lilly,

In some hallway where love's never been

On a bed where the moon has been sweating,

In a cry filled with footsteps and sand

Take this waltz, take this waltz

Take its broken waist in your hand

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz

With its very own breath of brandy and Death

Dragging its tail in the sea..." 

THE THINGS I DO FOR YOU

so this is why I'm spending the rest of my week memorising scales and key signatures. eugh, worth it.

Gil Scott-Heron

tom waits

cause he's the ice cream man

nick cave

cant stop

  

this must be the place (naive melody) // talking heads

if a relationship is to survive there should be a mutal love of this song. never have a wanted to be an inanimate object as much as i would like to be that lamp.

Autre Ne Veut // play by play

this x 4

this...

and this...

plus this...

 

 

cloud atlas

 

 

I am so much looking forward to this film, it looks epic in the true sense. M83 at the end gave me those incredible chills you get when a song just makes the scene.

 

 

 

Cat Power//Sea of Love

 

 

 

 

Another lovely song that i had forgotten until recently.

Kanye West//Blame Game

 

 

 

"Things used to be, now they're not. Anything but us is who we are, disguising ourselves as secret lovers, we've become public enemies. We walk away like strangers in the street gone for eternity, we erase one another. So far from where we came with so much of everything, how do we leave with nothing?"


I've become one of those horrible lyric posting people, but faaarkkk Kanye is good. It even excuses the Kim Kardashian crap and the whole being an asshole thing.

bruce springsteen//fire

I have no words

elegia//new order

i'm such a lazy poster.

bombay//el guincho

Boob overload.

saimon chow

fucking hypnotic.

flat duo jets//crazy hazy kisses

circle pit//bruise constellation

i like you.