Wednesday, March 21, 2007
It'll Cost Ya
Captain Chaotic with Henry Phillips (video)
Physical State: creaky
Mental State: murky
Music: Loscil - Plume
Fashion sense: black polo top, blue jeans
This video on YouTube made me laugh. So typical of radio experiences. When you want to say the right thing...
Captain Chaotic with Henry Phillips (video)
Physical State: creaky
Mental State: murky
Music: Loscil - Plume
Fashion sense: black polo top, blue jeans
This video on YouTube made me laugh. So typical of radio experiences. When you want to say the right thing...
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Am I "Mittyesque"?
Bat For Lashes - Prescilla (video)
Physical State: lumbering
Mental State: foggy
Music: Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold
Fashion sense: grey sweatshirt, blue jeans
For the past few days I have had the name Walter Mitty coming up in dreams and when I'm walking around during the day. You know like when you get a jingle from a commercial or some obscure name that you keep repeating over and over again in your mind? (Ok just me huh? uh haha). So Walter Mitty is the name I kept thinking about (or heard in some dream). So today I looked the name up and this is what I found in Wikipedia:
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1941) is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's stories, it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939; and was first collected in his book My World and Welcome to It (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942). It has since been reprinted in James Thurber: Writings and Drawings (The Library of America, 1996, ISBN 1-883011-22-1). It was made into a 1947 movie of the same name, with Danny Kaye in the title role, though the movie is very different from the original story.
The name Walter Mitty and the derivative word "Mittyesque" have entered the English language, denoting an ineffectual person who spends more time in heroic daydreams than paying attention to the real world.[1]
I think the last sentence strikes me immediately, speaking about the adjective "Mittyesque". Weird that I would have this name going over and over again in my mind (and in dreams). I should rent the movie. Maybe I should stop daydreaming. I probably read it or heard it referred to on the radio. Strange how this stuff gets in there.
Oh and Natasha Khan (aka Bat For Lashes, above) is this week's new musical obsession. Mix of Cat Power, Siouxsie Sioux, Kate Bush and Pram among other comparisons. Love it!
Bat For Lashes - Prescilla (video)
Physical State: lumbering
Mental State: foggy
Music: Bat For Lashes - Fur and Gold
Fashion sense: grey sweatshirt, blue jeans
For the past few days I have had the name Walter Mitty coming up in dreams and when I'm walking around during the day. You know like when you get a jingle from a commercial or some obscure name that you keep repeating over and over again in your mind? (Ok just me huh? uh haha). So Walter Mitty is the name I kept thinking about (or heard in some dream). So today I looked the name up and this is what I found in Wikipedia:
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1941) is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's stories, it first appeared in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939; and was first collected in his book My World and Welcome to It (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942). It has since been reprinted in James Thurber: Writings and Drawings (The Library of America, 1996, ISBN 1-883011-22-1). It was made into a 1947 movie of the same name, with Danny Kaye in the title role, though the movie is very different from the original story.
The name Walter Mitty and the derivative word "Mittyesque" have entered the English language, denoting an ineffectual person who spends more time in heroic daydreams than paying attention to the real world.[1]
I think the last sentence strikes me immediately, speaking about the adjective "Mittyesque". Weird that I would have this name going over and over again in my mind (and in dreams). I should rent the movie. Maybe I should stop daydreaming. I probably read it or heard it referred to on the radio. Strange how this stuff gets in there.
Oh and Natasha Khan (aka Bat For Lashes, above) is this week's new musical obsession. Mix of Cat Power, Siouxsie Sioux, Kate Bush and Pram among other comparisons. Love it!
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
The Cinematics: Glasgow Strikes Again
The Cinematics - Keep Forgetting (video)
Physical State: headachey
Mental State: cloudy
Music: Luxuria Music (internet station)
Fashion sense: blue fleece, brown shirt, blue jeans
The next Franz Ferdinand meets Interpol are about to be unleashed on North America and they go by the name, The Cinematics. I love the look of this video (reminiscent of Godard and Truffaut's New Wave era). We'll probably hear a lot about these laddies in the next little while.
The Cinematics - Keep Forgetting (video)
Physical State: headachey
Mental State: cloudy
Music: Luxuria Music (internet station)
Fashion sense: blue fleece, brown shirt, blue jeans
The next Franz Ferdinand meets Interpol are about to be unleashed on North America and they go by the name, The Cinematics. I love the look of this video (reminiscent of Godard and Truffaut's New Wave era). We'll probably hear a lot about these laddies in the next little while.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Obsessed with Lee Hazlewood's "Some Velvet Morning"
Physical State: sleepy
Mental State: druggy
Music: Lee Hazlewood - The Best of Nancy and Lee
Fashion sense: black hoodie, blue jeans
I heard this Lee Hazlewood song again on Coast To Coast AM over the weekend when Art Bell was hosting and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since then. What a truly perfect song. My friend Blair talked about having an "art party" that he was thinking of creating where guests would show up with one thing they would talk about to everyone else. Could be a book, a song or a postcard, whateever. Something that mattered to them. I think that this song might be the thing I choose. What an amazing time period this would have been to be making music.
Lee is still at it (despite the fact that his days are numbered with cancer he has been enduring). His new Cake or Death in an amazing new release. Be sure to check it out (including a new version of this classic Lee song, Some Velvet Morning). I think that we'll see more of Lee mania over the next little while.
Physical State: sleepy
Mental State: druggy
Music: Lee Hazlewood - The Best of Nancy and Lee
Fashion sense: black hoodie, blue jeans
I heard this Lee Hazlewood song again on Coast To Coast AM over the weekend when Art Bell was hosting and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since then. What a truly perfect song. My friend Blair talked about having an "art party" that he was thinking of creating where guests would show up with one thing they would talk about to everyone else. Could be a book, a song or a postcard, whateever. Something that mattered to them. I think that this song might be the thing I choose. What an amazing time period this would have been to be making music.
Lee is still at it (despite the fact that his days are numbered with cancer he has been enduring). His new Cake or Death in an amazing new release. Be sure to check it out (including a new version of this classic Lee song, Some Velvet Morning). I think that we'll see more of Lee mania over the next little while.
