Thing that amused me the most today: Marissa Nadler has released a second volume of covers just for those of us who ordered the album directly from her. When she tweeted about having finished one of them sometime last week, she said it was Learning To Fly and I immediately responded with a joyful "Omg, that's my favourite Floyd song, yay, can't ( Read more... )

Over the past week, I keep thinking of this question and my possible answers to it: if you could bring any musician back from the dead, which one would you pick?

( ... on music ... )

Oh god, I love Tim Buckley So Much.

This time around, it's entirely because of rhiannonhero ... :p Cos she posted Sinead O'Connor's cover of Song To The Siren which sent me to the original just to refresh my memory before I listened to Sinead. And suddenly I was shocked to remember that there are still Tim Buckley albums out there that I don't own. Talk about ( Read more... )

Dear God ( Read more... )

30 Days Meme

Day 16 ** A song that makes you cry (or nearly)

You mean aside from Holocaust, Identify, Smile, Tu Jahaan and Rehna Tu?

Hold On/Oh Baby, Spiritualized because the two songs always go together in my head, because the sequence of them quite breaks me with the bleak tenderness of Jason Pierce's voice and the big empty beauty of the ( Read more... )

Whoops. Forgot about the meme yesterday.

30 Days Meme

Day 15 ** A fanfic

What, just one?! No no, will have to have three, one from each of my fandoms that were.

BTVS: Hard Candy by anniesj and wisteria_. Because I will always be a Spuffy shipper and this series of vignettes and snapshots through the infamous Season Six is so powerful and sexy and dark, exactly ( Read more... )

Okay, Alan Vega's pseudo-Elvis vocals are just irritating me!

Goddamnit.

I was really looking forward to Cubist Blues. Mainly because I was listening to Alex Chilton the day Michael died and afterwards I couldn't bear the sound of him cos it kept taking me back to the surreal horror of that day. Now I'm finally returning to Chilton and thought ( Read more... )

Nicked from boojumlol.

Don’t take too long to think about it.
Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you.
First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
Copy the instructions into your own post.

( ... no surprises here? )

I think I may be a fair way to falling in love with Alex Chilton.

*sighs*

Is always the tortured ones, innit? The tortured ones with pretty voices.

*sighs some more and goes to bed*

take care not to hurt yourself ( Read more... )