resurrection

How did it get so late so soon?
It's night before it's afternoon.
December is here before it's June.
My goodness how the time has flewn.
How did it get so late so soon?
-Dr Seuss

Seuss here, took the words right out of my mouth! Time!!! You are sifting through my fingers faster than ever and it's scary as hell. But, on a happier note, I have decided to end this slight (slight!?) retreat from lets waltz. There are a lot of reasons why my blogging activity ceased this fall, but the fact of the matter is that I have risen from the dead. Yes, I know, finally.

If you have read my blog before, you will have most likely noticed of my love for Vincent Moon and his take away shows (he has my dream job. Fact.) So, I am going to stick with the tried and true and reanimate this space by posting a new video that I recently came across that has begun to mean a whole bunch to me.

This is First Aid Kit. They always warm my heart ever since I discovered them back in the spring. You may have heard their lovely cover of Fleet Foxes' Tiger Mountain Peasant, but this video in particular just screams "watch me, watch me, i will Really warm your heart!" First of all, I hadn't heard of either of the songs they play, which was a delightful treat and second, there is just something about the way the shots are pieced together. The girls are just so real and so incredibly talented. These two teenage Swedish sisters, with their brilliant harmonies, their folky charm, their messy hair, baggy sweaters and all, reminds me, more than anything, of my beautiful, beautiful sister Lauren ( especially because we both secretly wish we were them).

So, this is dedicated to you, Laur. I know you will enjoy this oh so very much- if you haven't already seen it.

First Aid Kit - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

www.myspace.com/thisisfirstaidkit

somebody take me here...

Lifetime Collective - SS2010 from Salazar on Vimeo.

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Lisa Mitchell has been the soundtrack to my last summer days at home. I'm obsessed with her voice. I really, truly am. It is just so soft and effortless and original. AND she covers one of my favourite songs ever; Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straits. Unfortunately I can't embed this one, so follow the link if you would like her to melt your pretty little heart. I promise you she will.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkfOmBSxJVU

"We just sat there. Our heads bent towards each other like flowers, in the small hours of the morning while light wandered in, like a warning that time is passing."

-Shane Koyczan

bitterlemons

i’m not calling you a ghost, but stop haunting me

laurence philomene

GLISTENING PLEASURE

Okay so I've been meaning to post about this band- Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - for a while. A bff of mine randomly discovered them when she was galavanting in Lyon France this summer (lucky lady, I know). She listened to a track of theirs on her totally cool swedish friend's (Sigrid) ipod and from that point on, their album Glistening Pleasure, became the soundtrack to her time in French paradise.

In a nutshell, it's a super hipster teenager bundled up into an incredibly catchy band with hilarious, sexually charged lyrics- singing about all the important stuff in life like: slow motion tag teams, beard maintenance, sideways ponytails and "hitting the night like a SLAP IN THE FACE." These kids know how to party.

Anyway if you want fun dance music, I could not possibly offer a better suggestion. Definitely a crowd pleaser.

So, thank you Mackenzie.
But especially thank you Sigrid.

Watch the music video for "sophisticated side ponytail" below for a little taste.

WARNING: IF YOU ARE PRONE TO SEIZURES PLEASE REFRAIN FROM VIEWING.



Also, these photos are highly appropriate.

http://pandemoniumwithoutanenemy.tumblr.com/

Dear Karen,

If you’re reading this, then it means I actually worked up the courage to mail it. So, good for me. You don’t know me very well, but if you get me started I have a tendency to go on and on about how hard the writing is for me. But this, this is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write. There is no easy way to say this so, I’ll just say it. I met someone... It was an accident. I wasn’t looking for it. It wasn’t in the make. It was the perfect storm. She said one thing and I said another. Next thing I knew, I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation. Now, there’s this feeling in my gut... She might be the one... She’s completely nuts in a way that makes me smile, highly neurotic. A great deal of maintenance required. She is you, Karen. That’s the good news. The bad is that I don’t know how to be with you right now, and it scares the shit out of me. Because if I am not with you right now, I have this feeling that we’ll get lost out there... It’s a big bad world full of twists and turns, and people have a way of blinking and missing the moment; the moment that could have changed everything. I don’t know what’s going on with us, and I can’t tell you why you should trust a leap of faith on the likes of me, but damn you smell good. Like home... like Christmas. And you make excellent coffee. That’s gotta count for something, right? Call me.

Unfaithfully yours,
Hank Moody

NEW SEASON OF CALIFORNICATION SEPT. 2009.
more sex, hedonism, sex, wit, love, charm and well, sex. PERFECT. Can't wait.