rattling bones

"Remember the light and believe the light, an instant of clarity before eternal night."

- The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Zane: Sex On Fire, it's a bold title!?
Caleb: Yeah, bold title. You know, we're getting so old we try to make people think we still have the sex drives that we did from years passed.
Zane: You're just trying to make up for all the unbridled honesty on the second record man, you're just like, you know, after a song like Soft you've gotta come out with Sex On Fire, you've gotta redeem yourselves man!
Caleb: Yeah, you know, I mean I think a lot of people expect a certain element of sex to our music and just kinda wanted to wrap it all up in the one song. There's appearances of sex throughout the record but this is the most blatant I would say...It just came from a melody I kinda wrote when I was at home kinda recovering from surgery and I knew the melody but I didn't know what I was gonna say and so we were in rehearsal one day, and i said "Your sex is on fire" and I thought it was absolutely ridiculous but the other guys thought it was a hook and I was like "Come on, man, I'm gonna have to be singing about someone's fiery sex for years man, thanks!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lELj_dO7OPs&NR=1
They get more love from me than most of my treasured bands
Loveable hick music magicians

Here now

anberlin - a day late

wake the earth

I actually cannot wait! =]

A few things that made me happy today:

One. Jools Holland is back!
Two. Colin Murray's last.fm
Three. The Black Keys covering Captain Beefheart

scott matthews - passing stranger

delivery

I do believe i have found a new favourite thing and that is the delivery of books. Books i want and need to further my fictitious knowledge.
These are the lovely three that the postie who thinks i have an online ordering problem delivered this morning. It caused a happy feeling, a happier feeling than when i get the usual cds/dvds/clothes - i really do have an online ordering problem. Bless the 21st birthday present receiving.
Anyway, book receiving. I like. I like book stores more but those old dark and dusty ones that are so lacking in Scotland.

Speaking of deliveries, i got The Company of Wolves in the post also. It's just as camp and pretty as i remember. If i was allowed loose on a film set, that's the kind i would do. All dark and tangled. Second to Labyrinth, oh and Pan's Labyrinth. Anything that involves fantasy and trees really.

kings of leon - sex on fire

digitalis purpurea

A 'Thank you' card i made for the relatives who were nice enough to send me presents for my 21st.
It took me a stupid amount of time because i'm obsessive compulsive when it comes to detail, especially when using fineliners. Plus, i kept on getting distracted =] I suck.
But it's done and i don't completely hate foxgloves now. I'd call that successful.
I would have drawn them all but there was a significant chance it would take me until my 22nd birthday aka my third 20th. I liked being 20.

"I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick to it."

- Eva Gabor

Uni starts on Monday. My reading has already started waning. Unfair.

elbow - one day like this

the fleet

I would like to introduce you to the March of the Many Coloured Birds. They crippled my fingers and were almost squished by Godzilla, also known as Dizzy, my extremely rain-soaked cat.
My sister and I (the rest of the Boyd clan joined in later) spent half the day making these little fluttery creatures for the window of my Dad's Practice. I think we made over a hundred and the origami joy will continue into tomorrow.
So, being the family that we are, whilst making them we concocted a fairly ridiculous story that involved the Cranes and Chinguins at war over the Golden Crane. We don't know why, they just had to have it. There was pecking and wing slapping and for some reason a crane orgy right in the middle. Birds do the strangest things. And all through the mayhem, the Neon Swans lit up the scene so no mutant Crane/Chinguins were conceived. Terrible stuff, who knows what'll happen tomorrow. Perhaps a new bird, a fortress, a frog!
Fun fun fun =]
The Chinguin pattern has burnt itself into my brain, i mean to make swans and out of nowhere appears a Chinguin! Evil little crossbreeds.

Elbow got the Mercury Music Prize! Ace =]

rogue wave - eyes

red sky at night

It smells like Halloween outside =]

people press play - these days (Dntel Instrumental remix)

happy hunting

My birthday gift. Amazing. Truly amazing
My rentals looked at me funny when i proclaimed that i love the sound they produce. Infamously known for crackling and buzzing, turntables aren't the most clear sounding machines...but i love 'em.
Nostalgia junkie. That's what i am.
So i've spent the last week, listening and trying desperately not to scratch/fingerprint/break the small number of LPs i nabbed from my parent's collection in the loft, plus a few extras. Biffy Clyro Mountains on vinyl...oh so nice. The Blue Nile on vinyl...OH SO NICE!
I will be raiding Grouchos as soon as i get back to uni, which is becoming ever closer.
Bleurgh, 7am starts. An ungodly hour. Truly.

Few books read since the last entry:
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov - i don't know if i was missing something but it was the most tedious and unrewarding 157 pages i have ever read. Yuck
The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky - Lovely. A twist i wasn't expecting and that's always welcome. More people should write letters.
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks - It goes down as one of my favourite reads, even if it deeply unsettles me. Awesome turn of events at the end. Read this one please.
And just now i am in the midst of Paul Auster's Mr Vertigo. I couldn't tell you how i feel about it yet, i'm only 60 pages in.

Other news. I have no other news. Just something that made me laugh:

nalband - always assuming