A plague on both your houses!

On a rainy day off with a massive headache, I made the decision to watch Baz Luhrmann's greatest accomplishment (and might I add, rather cynically, the only decent film he made besides perhaps Strictly Ballroom)Romeo + Juliet. I really like this version, perhaps it's because it was one of my favourites from my early teens, perhaps because Leo is ridiculous or maybe it is just a sweet film; irrespective of this, the soundtrack is definitely a trip back into my teenage years, and I love it. So many pop-rock classics that made me think I was so cool for listening to them. The soundtrack was released in Australia and in that year it went platinum five times. I remember listening to it a lot, and I'm sure many other Australian's my age would remember doing much the same.
So, in that vein, I'm going to put some tracks up from it. Not in any attempt to be original or to even try to showoff any musical knowledge I might have acquired over the years, but mostly because of nostalgia (a common theme in this blog, might I add). Ohh, and it features Radiohead.


The Wannadies - You and Me:

Radiohead - Exit Music (for a film)

Everclear - Local God

Love Food - The Cardigans

Talk Show Host - Radiohead

Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) - Quindon Tarver


When Doves Cry - Quindon Tarver

"To live alone is the fate of all great souls." Arthur Schopenhauer

I have made a humble attempt to compile a list of songs that should be idealy be listened to in the comfort of only your own company - in hopefully the less "emo-sounding" way as possible.

Here goes.........

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans:

Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I & II):

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Sleep:

Sigur Ros - Untitled One (aka Vaka):

Elliott Smith - Miss Misery:

Michael Nyman - The Heart Asks Pleasure First:

The Beatles - Blackbird:




Goodnight.

"You were not hunting me." Chan Marshall

I'm not sure if I have blogged solely about my love for Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power, before. Cat Power is ridiculously beautiful music. I have loved her for a long time now, and even though her more recent work is not as raw as her previous, her voice is still undeniably stunning. This kind of music is exactly what keeps me continuously interested in the music industry. I started listening to her again the other day, and I realised, again, just how poweful I think she is. In the 90s and early 2000s she was an alcoholic, and was infamously difficult to watch perform, and often broke down sobbing instead of being able to finish. Although this perhaps is not something to admire, I do admmire the woman's strength and ability to pull herself through, and there is a noticeable shift in her musical direction since overcoming. I saw her live in 2008, and although I was excited, I was also skeptical that it might be a dissapointment, considering all her bad press from previous shows.... she rocked.
Let's have a listen!

PS. It helps that she is stunning. Karl Lagerfeld has used her for Chanel before. Woah.

Speak for Me:

Love and Communication:

My personal favourite
Metal Heart:

Free:

Blue:

Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover):

What Would The Community Think?:


Peace, love and crazy cat ladies
Liv

Ross Capicchioni

My old friend linked me to this the other day....

I would say it is probably one of the most incredible stories I've ever heard. If you have 15 minutes, use it to watch this, you cannot regret it.

"As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot." John Lennon

I grew up listening to The Beatles. Bless my parents for having both an interest in music, and great musical taste. I love The Beatles, and have done for as long as I can remember, their timeless music is still amongst my favourite songs today. Here's some of the greatest ones.

Let It Be:


Come Together:


I Am The Walrus:

Real Love:

Here Comes the Sun:


Blackbird:

Hey Jude:

Music doesn't sound like this anymore.

Liv.

"We all travel thousands of miles just to watch TV and check in to somewhere with all the comforts of home, and you gotta ask yourself, what is the point of that?" Richard

I finished reading The Beach by Alex Garland today. I used to love the film version; with the paradise, love and of course Leonardo. But I kind of hate the film now because it romanticizes what is, in theory, a fucked up intense book and creates this idea of paradise but barely focuses on the paradox. The book is remarkable. It was one of those amazing bits of writing where it remains in your head long after you put it down. I am tempted to flick to the start and go at it again, but I have more books waiting me, if uni would only settle down.

Regardless, I still think Danny Boyle is a great director, and I felt somewhat sacreligious making such negative connotations on what was once my favourite film. So, I'll conclude with one final statement: sick soundtrack.

Dario G Feat. Vanessa Quinones - Voices
You might be more familiar with Dario G's Sunchyme. A gay anythem and quite possibly one of the most recognizable film clips of the 90s.


Underworld - 8 Ball:


Leftfield - Snakeblood:


Faithless - Woozy:


Moby - Porcelain:



Just making conversation.

Liv.

"I hurt the flower." Russell Hammond

Harvest festival is approaching! First time festival, big time line up. Portishead is all time. Dummy is such a ridiculous album, this can only be good. The National will be great. TV On the Radio are a blessing live, sadly minus one member. The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is amazing. Family Stone. Mogwai. Good Grief....................................

Portishead - Roads:


Portishead - Numb:


Portishead - Roads:


Portishead - Humming:


Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - War:


Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Satin Sheets:


Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Spottie:


That's all.

Liv.

Explosive Music

My favourite post-rock Texas foursome are coming to Brisbane to play at Hi-Fi in December. Explosions in the Sky! I am so fucking excited. The last time they played I was 18 and couldn't find a soul in the world who would go with me, but this time me and my good friend Kate, after hearing only remarkable comments about their live performances, are going.

This is going to be amazing. It's going to be like Sigur Ros, but maybe even better...

Anyway, here's some tracks by the men themselves, and some film stills from some of my favourites. It's completely unrelated, I know, but sometimes I like too look at beautiful images when I listen to this.

Excited on this side of the fence,
Liv.

Your Hand in Mine:


Y Tu Mama Tambien:

The Only Moment We Were Alone:


The Big Lebowski:

Let Me Back In:


The Breakfast Club:

With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept:


Twin Peaks:

Remember Me as a Time of Day (Friday Night Lights, anyone!?)


The Royal Tennenbaums:

Glittering Blackness:


The Edge of Heaven:

"All art is quite useless." Oscar Wilde

I had a stage 2 disaster today. I had a totally shit day.

I decided to transfer all of my songs off my iPod and onto my semi-new computer, to get itunes up and running again. My beautiful 8 years worth of downloading and painstakingly listening to a lot of crap deciding if it's worth keeping or not.

And... because technology and I have a terrible history, it all deleted.

I had a monumental breakdown.
WHAT THE FUCK!

Luckily Dad was in town, and showed me where he had previously stored 7000 of my old songs, which were the ones I was most concerned about, because Nic's computer holds most of the newer ones.

So the breakdown calmed down. And it turned out to be pretty sweet in the end, because I stumbled across old songs that I had previously pushed to the wayside.

Here's some - and a useless blurb, meaning absolutely nothing.

They are primarily from old MoS Chillout Albums, because they were a lot of the first compilation albums I ever owned. Yeah dawg.

Sia - Drink to get Drunk:

This is before "Breathe Me" and whatever other tracks she has recently released. This song came out in 2001, when she was a mere humble singer from Adelaide. This song has a completely different vibe from her more recent albums, and I used to be totally obsessed with this track, primarily because it contained the sentence, "don't ask me why I smoke because I don't know, but I drink to get drunk...", which I thought was a) pretty poetic (yup....) and b) fucking naughty.



Fatboy Slim feat. Macy Gray - Demons:

Ahh, umm... Don't judge me. This is a beautiful union. Macy's voice is ridiculous and Norm, well... I have a soft spot for him and Moby. Always have, always will.
And, that aside... ahhhh... this song fucking rocks.



Air - Playground Love

I loved the novel The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (Sp.?) and I love Sophia Coppola. I used to play this song and fantasize I was Lux Lisbon, before I was completely aware that her character was trampy. Still love her but.... Air is pretty great. So many awesome albums, Moon Safari, the Virgin Suicides soundtrack... It's pretty blissful.



Mr. Scruff - Get A Move On

This song reminds me of my sister for some reason. It was on this Cafe Del Mar album that my parents used to play all the time, and Steph and I could never remember who the artist was, but when it came on we'd be like "OH it's THAT song!!!"... we eventually realised the World Wide Web was there for more than Tetris (fancy that!) and found Mr. Scruff.




Lux - 100 Billion Stars

I really like Lux, a lot. It's really ambient, beautiful music. I'm always rather nostalgic when I listen to this kind of music... It's pretty rad.



Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats

I've always had a thing for thinking this song is really amazing... and it is. I like The Knife. I like Jose. I like acoustic versions of already great songs... How very white of me!





I like nostalgia, so I'll probably do this again one day. I hope you can join me.

It's late, and I'm still awake.
Night.

Liv.

Arm, leg and Elbow

Elbow - Grounds for Divorce:



Don't care if you think it's cheezy. I like it.

And unlike the "You might be interested in" links on the side... No, I'm not interested in Kasabian.

Peace and shit.
Liv


PS. Behind the scenes of Nosferatu.... siick.

"We are accidents waiting, waiting to happen." Radiohead, There There.

It's been a while since I've had a bit of a cry about Radiohead. So here it comes....

I started listening to them from the start (similar to starting the Harry Potter series again, but slightly more satisfying), and chose another favourite track. There There is off 2003 album Hail to the Thief. And it's a really amazing track.

Why, why, why won't they come to Australia? This question has plagued me for too many years.
Here's a new collection of old/new tracks that I have rehashed in my revival of Radiohead.


So fucking flawless it hurts.

There There (live in Paris):


The National Anthem (live on Colbert) (this week) (check out Thom's locks!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1chOhkE0PmQ

Reckoner (live from the basement):


And finally:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/09/radiohead-hints-at-2012-tour.html

Don't tease, how rude.

Radiohead live in Prague (those Czech assholes):

Cheers,
Liv.

"The world fascinates me." Andy Warhol

I love pictures of just stuff. Just shit. It's awesome.

Here's some favourites.

I name this... Fuck yeah that's cool.

I recommend these tunes for viewing. The world is awesome, and we're in it.

Fuck yeah.







Otters hold hands and travel:

I want to go here:

I'm away in Bali for a week.

I love everything, everyone and every moment.

Liv.

"Damn Good Coffee!"

So, I began watching Twin Peaks. If you haven't heard of it, it's a melodrama/dark comedy about the murder of a homecoming queen in the small town of Twin Peaks. It was released in 1990, and it's director David Lynch, is somewhat of a weird-genius.

Anyway.

The show is absolutely fucking awesome. I recommend it. It's funny, scary, enjoyable, weird and wonderful. It's so bizarre. The protagonist Dale Cooper is played by Kyle McLachlan, more recently known for playing Trey MacDougall in Sex and the City. I hated him in that, and I delayed watching the show for ages because I thought I hated him. He's amazing. His character is the most bizarre TV character I have probably ever seen.
WATCH THIS SHOW!


On a different note. Killer track.

Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner - Big Red Machine:

Friday

Hey hey it's Friday!

Such tunes.

Stressed Out - A Tribe Called Quest feat. Faith Evans



Shell of Light (Shlomo Remix) - Burial



I love everyone.
Liv

"If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson." Thom Yorke.

You would assume that a Jacques Greene-Radiohead mix/remix would be good, but this is unprecedented. Such a tune. Radiohead, as anyone who knows the first thing about me, is my number one, always. I think that they are the closest thing to flawless since ... well... ever? And my tune for this year on the electronic circuit is Jacques Greene - Another Girl. So when I was told about this remix, I was pretty amped. It's ridiculous.

Radiohead - Lotus Flower (Jacques Greene Remix)

Love and stuff.

"

"There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were." Nina Simone

Insanely sexual and divine voice. It's silk.





My heart goes to Nic for bringing this back into my life.

Love.

Anarchy

There's anarchy in the UK. Sex Pistols said it first.



It's fucking gnarly.

"A true friend stabs you in the front...." Oscar Wilde

I haven't posted for a while; this is for a number of reasons:
1) lazy
2) uni (a little)
3) the flu
4) Splendour
5) lack of inspiration

Splendour was a great weekend. The highlights were Kanye, Thievery Corporation, James Blake DJ set and Coldplay..... and finally seeing Modest Mouse was a real blessing.

This is a post of songs, clips... images. It's the entry back into blogging.


This D'Angelo - Untitled. I am normally not really a die-hard fan of this rnb genre. But this song is probably one of the most sexy songs ever. It's quite beautiful.

This next track is an old personal favourite. It's by Handsome Boy Modelling School. This track is called "The Truth", it's got a cool vibe to it, her voice is silky.

This next song is self-explainable. A loss of a voice.

I'm a closet Coldplay fan. I was super excited to see them live. Chris Martin is one of the most enigmatic front men I have had the pleasure and privelege of experiencing. They played so much off Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head, which are primarily the only two albums of which I listen to tracks off... in my secluded room... alone... However, Everything's Not Lost is a wonderful, beautiful song... and I'm happy to have seen/witnessed it. His short-emotional tribute to Amy Winehouse at the close of their set was a memorable experience, one of those rare "festival moments" that you hope to remember.

I have wanted to see Modest Mouse for a long time. They were incredible. Everyone who I was with was so chilled out and I was running around having a blast. It probably annoyed them, but I was just so excited to be there.

This track is called Edit the Sad Parts
It's old, and they didn't play it. But I want to share it.

Peace and love and energy.

Liv

Hip Hop Sampling

Hip Hop tracks and the songs they sampled.

There's so many more. It's a fun game.

Public Enemy - He Got Game:


Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth:


A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?


Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side:


Kanye West feat. John Legend - Blame Game:


Aphex Twin - Avril 14th



Charlottes' Husband!

J Dilla - Stop!


Dionne Warwick - You're Gonna Need Me:

Liv