January 2010
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“When we hear the term ‘independent music’, we should recall its actual,...”
– Jake Lodwick
“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.”
– J. D. Salinger
“I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
– J. D. Salinger
“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the...”
– J. D. Salinger, passes away at 91 years old.
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own...”
– ~J.D Salinger (via theimpossiblecool)
“Rain taps on your window - always did though, but you didn’t hear it when...”
– the streets
Cos this world swallows souls and when the blues unfold it gets cold silence burns holes. you're going mad perhaps you always were, but when things was good you just didn't care This is called irony - when you most need to get up you got no energy Time and time shit'll happen, the dark shit's unwrapping but no-one's listening your mates are laughing, your brethren's fucking and then you start...
“You go to the baker’s to buy a pound of bread, and you wait while the girl...”
– Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
“I continued in this style for about three weeks. The forty-seven francs were...”
– Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
“Or there was R., an Englishman, who lived six months of the year in Putney with...”
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Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Reading and Listening in Order.
If someone asks me what my favourite book is, I tend to reply “I don’t read books” because, for the most part, I don’t. I think because I take an active interest in film and stories and such, and I suppose I’m fairly oppinionated when it comes to films and music, they think I probably also read and have an opinion on books and are quite suprrised when I admit...
“rosie did her time
let her mind unwind
then ran away
tried to hold it in...”
– http://aaronkelly.muxtape.com
acunningplan:
“The NME awards is the one ceremony where you see the bands who have really meant something and made a difference get justly rewarded,” said the magazine’s editor Krissi Murison.
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first up, i mean no disrespect for any of the bands or artists nominated for an NME award.
but,
NME is a joke.
a big fat joke.
but it’s not funny, it just gets more annoying every year.
Oh...
The Problem With Music by Steve Albini
“Whenever I talk to a band who are about to sign with a major label, I always end up thinking of them in a particular context. I imagine a trench, about four feet wide and five feet deep, maybe sixty yards long, filled with runny, decaying shit. I imagine these people, some of them good friends, some of them barely acquaintances, at one end of this trench. I also imagine a faceless industry...
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“You will notice me when I’m not there,
Love is teaching me to Fall,
You...”
– zut alors
“Well, what I was trying to do with this album—which is the same thing I was...”
– Jay Z
“I think loneliness comes with being creative, because you are obsessed with...”
– Tom Ford
“If you are a designer, sometimes it is better not to delegate, because someone...”
– Tom Ford
“I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a...”
– Brian Eno (via nathanjohnson)
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Rulers, Ruling All Things - Midlake (New Album)
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Watchmacvicar:
Released 12th of February. Watch full screen here.
It’s rare I see a trailer I actually like, but this is really good. Bar the endless ‘oscar this, oscar that’ quotes, this is the best trailer I’ve seen in ages. I love how they’ve used the sound on the car window, the little girls feet and the car door, but no where else (except the gasp of breath at the...
“earn less, consume less and follow less, in order to do more, create more and...”
– (via liveforothers)
Last week, we went away to the Vendee. While there, Matt and I had many great conversations about future plans and ideologies. We talked a lot about the idea of ‘lo-fi living’, trying to encompass our thoughts on ‘environmentally friendly’ behaviour,...
