I had to catch a taxi to work this morning because I met some friends for drinks at 3:00 yesterday arvo and somehow didn't make it home til midnight, sensibly leaving my car down the street. I got in the cab today feeling all kinds of miserable because my head hurt, not so much with the effects of the copious amounts of wine I'd accidentally consumed the night before, but because I couldn't remember whole chunks of conversations, and the bits I did remember were just downright embarrassing. And I was sick, and at some point I know I was [...]
Odd Spot from The Age on Tuesday: German police called to a weekend traffic incident found Jedi master Yoda from Star Wars at the wheel, much the worse for wear after Halloween celebrations. The green-costumed driver had his licence confiscated. "In this case, the force was not with him," police said. Totally unrelated yet very enjoyable slice of coverage: Heart It Races (Architecture in Helsinki Cover) - Dr Dog Filed under: Leftovers [...]
More journal pages. Okkervil River and The National. It had to be done. A Stone - Okkervil River Gospel - The National Filed under: Leftovers Tagged: journals , mp3 , Music , Okkervil River , The National
Have suddenly discovered art journals, via the magic (and serious time sucker) Pinterest. Check these out willya? Wow. Inspired, today I thought I'd give it a go, and splurged on some new stationery. This is something I try not to do too often because I bloody love the stuff, but I was quite restrained today. I came away with new fine liners, some funky textas and some watercolour pencils. Nothing too fancy or out there, and more than capable of carrying out my fairly modest artistic ambitions! I've started two different journals today, [...]
I could tell you all about my uneventful yet totally lovely morning OR I could just post a few of the tunes that soundtracked it. All unashamedly nicked from Captain Obvious , and all unashamedly wonderful. Marie (Jack Nitzsche Cover) - Family Band I was deep in study when this came on, but it pulled me right out Love The Way You Walk Away - Blitzen Trapper Just the right amount of [...]
Spent an hour today studying. That was enough. Had forgotten just how blahhhhhh study can be. I've been procrastinating long enough though - I was awarded a grant to complete this course almost a year ago and I've only just started the damn thing today. Sigh. Self motivation has never been my strong point. Ran 4 k's this morning. Want food but am not actually hungry. Have to work in an hour. Listening to Grouplove's 2010 self titled EP. Really like 'Colours' and 'Naked Kids', but 'Cruel and Beautiful' has stolen my heart this afternoon. Big [...]
I want to rearrange the furniture in my lounge room, but we had a mouse plague here a few months back and while I can't smell anything resembling death or decay, I am still slightly concerned that I may find something lurking behind the couch and if I do find it then I will obviously have to get rid of it and I still can't erase from my mind that time where I knelt down on the floor to fix my hair in the mirror that should be wall mounted but isn't yet and when I dropped a bobby bin [...]
Pet hate: When you finally get around to taking your car in for a service and you use the guy your dad recommended to you and you drop it off at 8am and you're assured by the woman at the counter that it will be ready by 3pm when you have to work but when you ring at 2pm to check on it the woman can't seem to remember who you are or where your car is and finally informs you that they haven't even started working on it yet and do you think you'll be able to organise another [...]
On Linked In, a group of Grateful Dead-loving professionals have gotten together to start the Deadheads With Ties group to help network with each other. A recent topic on the group was "Do you feel that being a Deadhead is a problem in the corporate world?" As you can imagine, for some members of the group the answer was "yes." Al Lewis has more . Here's six other stories of note this week... Randy Ray goes across Mickey Hart's universe Apple fanboys [...]
It's been said before, but needs to be said again: Tom Perrotta knows suburbia. In his previous works (Election, The Abstinence Teacher and Little Children), Perrotta used his unique perspective to tackle the everyday challenges and worries – both real and ridiculous – of his characters that populate the suburbs of America. And nowhere is [...]
Welcome to another edition of Music Emissions Podcast of the Week and welcome back to another edition of the Unsigned and Wound Up series. Every last Tuesday of the month, we dedicate our podcast to providing the best up and coming unknown and unsigned talent in the world. Due to scheduling conflicts, this podcast is still 'in progress', please bare with us. Unsigned and Wound Up 5 will be published as soon as possible. [...]
If you are an Aussie girl who grew up in the 802s and 902s, chances are you read the ridiculously prolific Robin Klein at some point throughout your childhood. Ahh, I just loved her books! They usually had a female protagonist who was fairly poor and curious and feisty and stubborn and blessed with a beautifully overactive imagination and I just adored every character she wrote. Vivienne from All In The Blue Unclouded Weather and Erica Yurken from Hating Alison Ashley - both of these girls were scrappy and flawed and full of stories that may [...]
Last week I sent out a plea on Twitter for some podcast recommendations. I got a handful of suggestions, much of them music related but there were a few that were not and of these, Radiolab (suggested by Anthony from God Don't Like It ) was an instant winner. Radiolab is an American radio show that airs all over the country and tackles both big and not so big issues in the realms of science and philosophy - I use these descriptive words because they use them on their 'About' page , [...]
Ah, blog. Hello again. I have a lot of time on my hands lately. Earlier in the year I found myself working around 50 hours a week for nowhere near enough money, despite promising myself this time last year to slow down, to not work so much because for some reason I'm just not wired to work standard full time hours (let alone an extra 10 on top of that). Somehow I forgot this around February, and before I knew it I'd signed a full time contract, was working extra hours in a second casual job as [...]
The coverage felt different from that of September 11th, when the networks had shown the burning towers over and over. October 14th was more amorphous, harder to pin down: There were massive highway pileups, some train wrecks, numerous small-plane and helicopter crashes - luckily, no big passenger jets went down in the United States, though several had to be landed by terrified co-pilots, and one by a flight attendant who'd become a folk hero for a little while, one bright spot in a sea of darkness - but the media was never able to settle upon a single visual image [...]
Two of Kingston Ontario's finests. Check out the new video for Ps I Love You / Diamond Rings collab Leftovers. PS I Love You play Electric Owl September 8th. Can't wait. Ps I Love You - Facelove posted by Tristan Orchard
Ever wonder what it would be like to join two rising Canadian indie pop bands on a US tour? Well, thanks to the new Colin Medley -directed video for PS I Love You 's "Leftovers" (featuring Diamond Rings ), you can experience some of the tour revelry from the comfort of your computer screen! (And none of the tour smells...)
by teepoo PS I Love you will be releasing a collection of singles and EPS titled Figure It Out digitally on August 30th. One of them of course will be the wondrous collaboration with Diamond Rings. PS I Love You and Diamond Rings- Leftovers Pre-order Figure It Out here .
This spring, indie superfriends and tour mates PS I Love You and Diamond Rings collaborated on "Leftovers," a noisy slice of dance pop featuring Rings' vocals and music by the boys of PS I Love You. Now they've released a video for the track, a sort of tour diary that combines live performance snippets [...]
One of our faves Diamond Rings that we've posted about before here has been on tour with PS I Love You . Seems on tour he would come out and sing on PS's last track "Leftovers" . Guess it went so well they decided to put out a video for the track which is kind of a little documentary of their life on the road. Cool track/vid. Check it out...
It All Started With Carbon Monoxide
Hidden Track
NeuFutur Magazine
Editorial Emissions
Inveresk Street Ingrate
Winnie Cooper![PS I LOVE YOU + DIAMOND RINGS 'Leftovers' [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/youtube/So1biOtjx9s_130.jpg)
Nicky Digital {smile}
Ride The Tempo
Sound On The Sound
::: Off the Radar :::
Bison - Quill
SABRINA JOHNSTON + TIEFSCHWARTZ
THE SINGULAR ADVENTURES OF EDWYN COLLINS (Part 9)
