Art

There was a time when we updated this blog about two to five times a week. Sometimes I only had time for one post a week – and Steven would supply the other one – but most times I wrote every other day. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Nothing on weekends because people were out. No...
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Coma Cinema is the band furry, cuddly, squishy, huggly Snowshoes are known to play to their kittens when they want to get them to sleep. As most people know, Snowshoe cats are notoriously light sleepers and often prone to insomnia.  Luckily, researchers in the field of feline sleep patterns have found that a bottle...
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Your dog, tranquil and innocent, dozes through our cries, our murmured dawn conspiracies our telephone calls. She knows - what can she know? If in my own arrogance I claim to read her eyes, I find there only my own animal thoughts: that creatures must find each other...
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Visuals are important, you know. There will come a time when for hours on end you’ll sit around just conjuring up fantasy landscapes and hope they’ll somehow become embedded in a little participle of your brain. You’ll wait and wait and wait some more until some night (maybe years from now, who knows?), while...
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This here is Akiko Hijichi - a person I know nothing about but whose works I dearly love. (see how craftily I've avoided specifying gender there? If anyone here speaks Japanese or is familiar with Japanese names please let me know if that's a masculine or feminine one, please. Thanks. This is embarrassing.)
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A grand statement to start the post: “Terrible Yellow Eyes is a wonderful website.” Music to establish the right mood before elaborating: Jams Dean – Where the Wild Jams Are Language-Arts – Where Were You in the Wild? Explanation: Terrible Yellow Eyes is a project initiated by Cory Godbey in an attempt to pay...
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1. Songs that will sadly not be making our top 100 for the year …but that we love nonetheless: Washed Out – New Theory Small Black – The Kings of Animals Blake Miller – Tomorrow Sorrow Orenda Fink – High Ground Tada Tátà – Hit the Wall Real Estate – Black Lake 2. Another...
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So I’ve been listening to Idlewild’s new album “Post Electric Blues”, whose title by the way I love. First impressions: Idlewild seem to have left behind the murkier, grungier sound of their alt-rock, indie-rock, Scottish-rock, en fin whatever-you-want-to-call-it rock past and turned to the greener, sweeter pastures of folk pop. During so many of...
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When you woke up from half-forgotten tangled dreams this morning there was a buzz in your head. It was dirty and muddled and stifling like last night had been and wouldn’t stop gnawing at you. And at first you wanted to punch and kill it and trample it down with your feet until the...
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♠ pic ♠ Good morning fellas! How are you finding the latest Swan Lake album? Personally, I find it delightful… Heartswarm Settle on Your Skin Peace
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***pic*** Nosoträsh is currently my 4th most played artist on Last.fm. This is largely due to one album of theirs, the sheer musical joy that is “Popemas”. If I had a top 50 albums that say a little something about who I am, this would definitely be one of the 50. One of the...
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♥ pic ♥ As you probably read in the last post, my beloved fellow co-blogger (also known as Steven in this thing called “the real world” or something) is now in Spain. And so I’ll take advantage of this opportunity to make a little tribute of my own to this sunny sunny country which...
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*by Ahren Hertel* I don’t think we’ve ever written anything about Emmy the Great. Which is weird because, if you had asked me a year ago to give you ten reasons for starting this blog, five of the reasons would have been variations of “to make everyone love Emmy the Great”. Well, it seems...
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* North by North * * Polaroid Solution * First lose the light, then the train, and as the great boxed-in shadow of yourselves takes out whole cornfields, wordlessly agree to right-crossed journey-legs. Corn. What’s it to you, now your shadow snaps in half the flood-lit steeples? Unvisitable towns wave their plastic welcome mat...
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Weezer – The Christmas Song Cocoon – Christmas Song Irene – Christmas On the Beach Via Audio – Presents I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business – The Best Happiness Money Can Buy El Perro Del Mar – You Can’t Steal a Gift Low – One Special Gift Doris Day – Christmas Present...
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