Music everyday challenge: Day 1

Day 01 – Your favorite song

Day 02 – Your least favorite song

Day 03 – A song that makes you happy

Day 04 – A song that makes you sad

Day 05 – A song that reminds you of someone

Day 06 – A song that reminds you of somewhere

Day 07 – A song that reminds you of a certain event

Day 08 – A song that you know all the words to

Day 09 – A song that you can dance to

Day 10 – A song that makes you fall asleep

Day 11 – A song from your favorite band

Day 12 – A song from a band you hate

Day 13 – A song that is a guilty pleasure

Day 14 – A song that no one would expect you to love

Day 15 – A song that describes you

Day 16 – A song that you used to love but now hate

Day 17 – A song that you hear often on the radio

Day 18 – A song that you wish you heard on the radio

Day 19 – A song from your favorite album

Day 20 – A song that you listen to when you’re angry

Day 21 – A song that you listen to when you’re happy

Day 22 – A song that you listen to when you’re sad

Day 23 – A song that you want to play at your wedding

Day 24 – A song that you want to play at your funeral

Day 25 – A song that makes you laugh

Day 26 – A song that you can play on an instrument

Day 27 – A song that you wish you could play

Day 28 – A song that makes you feel guilty

Day 29 – A song from your childhood

Day 30 – Your favorite song at this time last year

Obi-Wan you win!

My two favourite things; Star Wars, and wasting time.

Andy Warhol

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites who never meet. - Andy Warhol

I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and die my eyebrows. - Andy Warhol

I never understood why when you died. you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'. - Andy Warhol

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure i knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit at home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. - Andy Warhol.

In two days I get my brown eyed girl back.

The only thing to live for is today

This is how I spent my Sunday.

More to come I'm sure.

Bande A Part (Band of Outsiders)

I discovered this movie last year, and I feel madly in love with it. There is a certain innocence to French movies, something so delicate and beautiful that it can't be matched.
This movie is no exception to that thought, a movie about two criminals who convince a naive girl to help them steal a large sum of money from a man in her building.
The film is filled with such poetic lines, that will leave you sighing, and a love triangle that is anything but predictable.
But don't take my word for it, go watch it yourself.

http://stagevu.com/video/cjsidnvhzvnr

I find a map and draw a straight line.

So right now my hair smells like vanilla extract, I baked today.
And I am suffering a serious bout of writers block, which is unfortunate because I have two pieces that are overdue to finish (no one else in the class has handed them in either but it would be a relief to get them off my to do list).

On another note, I recently discovered how to take the audio from youtube videos and convert them to mp3s to put on your ipod, this sort of made me a mad scientist as I converted like a maniac for a good hour or two.
My favourite of all these new experiments was the audio of a video of a beat poet named Big Poppa E.
Now my ex boyfriend originally introduced me to this remarkable writer/performer/bearded man a year or so ago and I'd favourited a bunch of his videos and completly forgotten about him. But in my converting frenzy I went back through my favourites and found a bunch of his poems and was...blown away, riveted, intrigued, excited, mind blown.

Two that are now on my ipod and that I will listen to in times of sadness or bouts of writers block (like the one I am currently in) are the ones listed below.
The first made me sob the first time I heard it, it filled me with the greatest sadness, but at the same time made me feel so alive.
The second made me realise how much I love to write.
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QILkjFe3LiY

2)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN8hNQdD9WQ

These are random lines from a piece I wrote a while ago. A piece that borders on cliche but one that I'm too attached to right now to try and change, but who knows, even putting them like this I'm interested in the difference.

And we tried to navigate our way
between each raindrop,
but always found another just beyond it.

Hoping for clear skies
but down came the rain.

Mosquito bites covered our skin,
we connected the space between
each itchy dot
with our fingers.

Sunburnt and redfaced we crawled into bed.
In our dreams we were homeward bound,
finally dry.

I'm hoping that I lose this lack of inspiration. I'll just read some Leonard Cohen and watch Amelie and maybe I can stir something up.

Goodnight reader.

January 23rd Tegan & Sara

So yesterday I saw Tegan and Sara and I'm still reeling.

The show was ah-maaa-zing! One of the best I've been to I think.
T&S are so solid live, the songs that I managed to get on video are soooo amazing they could be put on a cd as is. I wouldnt be surprised if they recorded all their songs in one take.

As promised, here are some of the pictures I took, which are 100% mine.

7 random songs, and what they mean to me.

Literally the first 7 songs that came on shuffle.


The Harrowing Adventures - Tokyo Police Club
This song was on my sleepy playlist at some point so I always enter this almost catatonic state of calm whenever I listen to it. But also, a hint of worry, as I tend to think about a lot of things before I fall asleep. This song makes me feel like I'm in a cave, (ironically the name of a song by TPC) with a guitar. I also have the acoustic version, so this might not make sense to anyone but me.


Eddie's Gun - The Kooks
Dance party in my room, essentially.
This song reminds me a lot of my ex-boyfriend, as we used to talk about the Kooks and used to listen to this together.
Theres something really raw and exciting about this song, makes me all jittery and aprehensive, for what I'm not certain.


Eyelids - The Dodos
This song is too short, far far too short.
It reminds me of summer, my best friend, and the incredibly attractive drummer of this band (I've got a thing for drummers).
Its so beautifully romantic, as are a lot of songs by The Dodos, you just can't help but love it.


Flightless Bird, American Mouth - Iron & Wine
This song makes me cry, and I am never certain why, it's just so beautiful and seems to capture something in me that I might not even be aware of.
It is so timeless and simple, but seems to access a certain sense of loss, almost a sad memory.
All in all, a beautiful song.


Falklands Malvinas - Emperor X
No one knows who this band is, I'm pretty sure it's just one guy out of his basement. In fact I'm certain of this because in a moment of complete stalkerness I added this one guy on facebook. Yeah thats right, I have Emperor X on facebook... be jealous.
This song makes me think of a crowd of rowdy teenagers running through a suburban town, knocking over mailboxes and causing a general ruckus.
I can't help but move some part of my body when I listen to this song.


Blow Away - A Fine Frenzy
Ah, the strongest memory yet.
I was so lucky this summer to have caught A Fine Frenzy in concert while visiting family friends on Long Island. It was the sweetest little theatre, with a ceiling painted like the inside of a bigtop at the circus. In a crowd of trendy Hamptoners my sister, our friend and I were the youngest people there and it was one of the most special concerts I've ever been to.
Her voice definetley lacks the power of her live performance, and its almost too difficult to listen to without seeing her free spirited dancing I still can't help but smile when I hear this song.


Rag Mama Rag - The Band
This song just embodies all the conversations I've had with my Dad about music. Because he is such an influence in every aspect of my life it's no surprise that he should invade my music taste aswell, but its a happy invasion, one with streamers and confetti.


So...that was my friday night.
I had an exam today and so I decided to take a night to destress.
Tegan and Sara tomorrow, I am attempting to hide my excitement (but fuck am I pumped).

Mondaymondaymonday

I say damn your moodswings
Damn your mood swings
I'm calling out
I don't really care for your city anymore
I spend the night
I lay awake and miss you when you go
Without me
Oh what's wrong with you
Monday Monday Monday
Monday Monday Monday
Monday Monday Monday
Monday Monday Monday

Mondaymondaymonday - Tegan and Sara

So I am ridiculously excited, because on saturday I am going to see Tegan & Sara.
Now a few years ago I went through a phase where all I would listen to was T&S, literally my ipod was half full of their songs.
And though this phase of my life has passed, making way for bands of all sorts, I have always had a softspot for this indie duo.
So naturally I flew all the way to the moon and back when my friend told me he had two tickets to their show.
I'll let you know how it goes, maybe even take blurry, excited pictures.

Also, it seems like my family is really into the baked good these past couple days.

First the Pet des soeurs, and now three loaves of banana bread. The house smells like a bakery.

I hope your monday was full of pizaz.

I know mine was.

Typical sunday.

So today I was in the mood to bake, so I made Pet Des Soeurs.

Mmm yummy.

http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/americas/canadian/00/rec0063.html

Gotta hate dishes.

Waves

So these are just some pictures that I took this summer, I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed the moments they capture.

TV:

So I recently bought the first season of "The OC".

Now I know I know, this show is no more than a glorified soap opera, but for some reason I can't stop watching. Like a cheesy romance novel, it's got me wondering whats going to happen next.

I'll let you know if Marissa and Ryan get together, I have a feeling they will and a couple seasons later the lead actress will want to expand her horizons and the writers will kill her off in a dramatic car crash.

...but thats just a guess.