IT WAS A GOOD YEAR THEN, IT WAS A GOOD YEAR THEN
"Different people want different things in this world, and you have to be careful about taking risks. Hungry people have the cunning of wild beasts. A thing that seemed strange and wrong yesterday can seem perfectly reasonable tomorrow, or vice versa." Hunter S.
I've be terribly emo lately. It's awful & it's useless. Symptoms include: moping, constant second-guessing, vowing to get into more 'aggressive no-wave music', vague paranoia, etc. You know how it is, you loose your strut & look down to the ground instead. I now know how Stella felt when she lost her groove. Just how did Stella get her groove back?
In other news I was required to write up my top ten albums for the year, which was quite difficult cuz I generally listen to older music, & there's no room for weird MOR music from the '60s on these lists. But here it is, & I admit that I've only given some of these cursory listens but I have heeded Roxette's timeless advice to Listen To Your Heart, & this is what it says.
1. The Gossip - STANDING IN THE WAY OF CONTROL
2. Jarvis - JARVIS
3. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - ETIQUETTE
4. The Slits - REVENGE OF THE KILLER SLITS
5. The Crayon Fields - ANIMAL BELLS
6. Kimya Dawson - REMEMBER THAT I LOVE YOU
7. Macromantics - MOVEMENTS IN MOTION
8. Gaslight Radio - GOOD HEAVENS MEAN TIMES
9. Morrissey - RINGLEADER OF THE TORMENTORS
10. Belle & Sebastian - THE LIFE PURSUIT
My wrap up of the year that was in Oz Land
Ian Thorpe throws in the towel to concentrate on expanding his fashion ventures. Some label the move un-Australian, but nowhere near as un-Oz as Germaine Greer's untimely criticisms of Steve Irwin. An indignant Naomi Robson makes the ultra-Aussie amends of donning a khaki Boy Scouts uniform and, err, a pet iguana. Alan Jones can't decide which is more tasteless but is conspicuously silent on the matter from his holiday home in London; his publicist insisting the timing of his sojourn has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the release of Jonestown. While Jones waits for the dust to settle, Pauline Hanson dusts-off her dormant media profile to go Dancing With The Stars and closes the year by threatening a political comeback in 2007. Aussie, Aussie, oy, vey.
I've be terribly emo lately. It's awful & it's useless. Symptoms include: moping, constant second-guessing, vowing to get into more 'aggressive no-wave music', vague paranoia, etc. You know how it is, you loose your strut & look down to the ground instead. I now know how Stella felt when she lost her groove. Just how did Stella get her groove back?
In other news I was required to write up my top ten albums for the year, which was quite difficult cuz I generally listen to older music, & there's no room for weird MOR music from the '60s on these lists. But here it is, & I admit that I've only given some of these cursory listens but I have heeded Roxette's timeless advice to Listen To Your Heart, & this is what it says.
1. The Gossip - STANDING IN THE WAY OF CONTROL
2. Jarvis - JARVIS
3. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - ETIQUETTE
4. The Slits - REVENGE OF THE KILLER SLITS
5. The Crayon Fields - ANIMAL BELLS
6. Kimya Dawson - REMEMBER THAT I LOVE YOU
7. Macromantics - MOVEMENTS IN MOTION
8. Gaslight Radio - GOOD HEAVENS MEAN TIMES
9. Morrissey - RINGLEADER OF THE TORMENTORS
10. Belle & Sebastian - THE LIFE PURSUIT
My wrap up of the year that was in Oz Land
Ian Thorpe throws in the towel to concentrate on expanding his fashion ventures. Some label the move un-Australian, but nowhere near as un-Oz as Germaine Greer's untimely criticisms of Steve Irwin. An indignant Naomi Robson makes the ultra-Aussie amends of donning a khaki Boy Scouts uniform and, err, a pet iguana. Alan Jones can't decide which is more tasteless but is conspicuously silent on the matter from his holiday home in London; his publicist insisting the timing of his sojourn has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the release of Jonestown. While Jones waits for the dust to settle, Pauline Hanson dusts-off her dormant media profile to go Dancing With The Stars and closes the year by threatening a political comeback in 2007. Aussie, Aussie, oy, vey.