"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.