Everything becomes old news really quickly.Currently in between:
Birmingham and London
.Best Concert Ever. Best Encore Ever. Best William-Filming-Stuff Ever.
I'm not sure. I like to pretend I can play instruments. This provides entertainment [not opium] for [not of] the masses. Philosophical, yeah?I don't really like much, this isn't me making a moral stand. I'm just impatient.
Click Régine for my art!
LAST.FM .
That's a mighty list below. So I'll narrow it down to this for quick snappy judgements:
C/Kanadian...
Feist
Amy Millan
Efrim's collective..."stuff" [ASMZ, GY!BE...]
Broken Social Scene
Arcade Fire
Emily Haines [for being the middle BSS female child]
Martha Wainwright
Final Fantasy
Frankie Sparo
Singer / Song-writers:
Cat Power
Jenny Lewis
Smog
Regina Spektor [but in a stupid way, I hate Begin to Hope...Just for because of a bunch of indie kids wetting their polka-dot pants about sped up versions of 'Samson']
Juana Molina
Post rock:
As mentioned before... ASMZ, GY!BE
Explosions in the Sky
Library Tapes
Scraps of Tape
DMST
Low
Artists of musical shame:
Feist, what are you playing at?
For more involved judgement, just view now!
A Silver Mt Zion, Alban Berg Quartet, Absentee, Acoustic Ladyland, Air, Amiina, Alias, Anticon, Adam Ant, Animal Collective, Fiona Apple, Arcade Fire, Annuals, Architecture in Helsinki, Andrew Bird, Carla Bozulich Vashti Bunyan, Karl Blau, Bach,The Bad Plus, Bell Orchestre, Belle & Sebastian, Jeff Buckley, Billie Holiday,Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Cake, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Camera Obscura, Crimea, cLOUDDEAD, Controller 7, The Concretes, The Dead Science, Defective Chords, Deep Puddle Dynamics, Dosh, Marlene Dietrich, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Devotchka, The Ditty Bops, Doris Day, Death Cab for Cutie, Do Make Say Think, Julie Doiron, Bob Dylan, Eisley, Elastica, Ella Fitzgerald, Esmerine, Explosions in the Sky, Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton, Emmylou Harris, Erase Errata, Josephine Foster, Feist, Final Fantasy, Frankie Sparo, The Format, Four Tet, Frog Eyes, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Great Lake Swimmers, PJ Harvey, The Handsome Family, Imogen Heap, John Lee Hooker, Islands, Iron & Wine, Jel, Jean Sablon, Judd and Maggie, Julie Ruin, Norah Jones, K.C Accidental, Johanna Kunin, Kronos Quartet, Joan as Police Woman,Jenny Lewis, Library Tapes, Low, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Mt. Eerie, Madonna, Metric, Mice Parade, Amy Millan, Mendelssohn, Juana Molina, Mogwai, Múm, Neko Case, Beth Orton, Olivia Tremor Control, Okkervil River, Of Montreal, Papa M, Passage, Pants Yell!, Paris Hurley,The Postal Service,Pedro the Lion, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Rainer Maria, Rilo Kiley, Saxon Shore, Shalabi Effect, Schubert, Scout Nibblet, Regina Spektor, Semifinalists, Set Fire to Flames, Shelma, Sigur Ros, Six Times the Moon, Elliot Smith, Sleater-Kinney, Subtle, Smog, Songs:Ohia, The Strokes, The Unicorns, The Wood Brothers, Themselves, Tilly & The Wall, Travel By Sea, This is Your Captain Speaking, Martha /Loudon/Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Velella Velella, Viva Voce, Xiu Xiu, Wilco, Why?, Wooden Wand [& The Sky High Band/Vanishing Voice] Susumo Yokota, Yo La Tengo
And it's contagious!
The Locals, Easter Parade, The Heroic Trio, Jumbo, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Cabaret, Trainspotting, The Virgin Suicides, Dawn of the Dead(s), Edward Scissorhands, Lost Souls, Kill Bill, The Addams Family, Desperately Seeking Susan, Who's That Girl?, Sleepy Hollow, Waynes World, Hocus Pocus, The Witches, Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, Ginger Snaps (although it has been neglected, thankfully, by my friends), Calamity Jane, Underworld/Evolution, Wizard of Oz, The River Wild, Annie Get Yr Gun, Butterfield 8, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Pleasantville (because Jenny is in it for 7 seconds). I intend on watching: American Splendor, Foxfire, Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control and whatever the fellows at Choices recommend to me. They know their films. I will die happy if I never have to watch Oranges are Not the Only Fruit and ANALYSE THE FUCKER again.
The Boun-teee Hunter.
Last read: Gaskell, North & South Currently reading: Fisher [THE CARRIE!], Postcards From the Edge [NOT THAT STUPID BOOK ABOUT BEING A WALLFLOWER.]
Johnny Borrell, he wasn't born a genius you know.Ahhh, idiot.