Something going off in my head

Five songs which are awesome to hear randomly and turn up super loud and sing too.
1 .Hazy Shade of Winter - Bodyjar
2. Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
3. Alive - Shihad
4. Leaving Home - Jebediah
5. Missing - Everything but the Girl

We don't Walk

Inspired by another great blog I read today I'm going to document some of the great things I learnt this year...

1. Planes really aren't all that bad. Big ones that is. Big jets that can sit at way up in the air and you don't feel a thing. Found this fact out when I made my first overseas trip to Thailand in August. Had such a great time and also realised that international travel is easy. (Little planes still suck.)

2. I love Australian music more than ever. Have been to see a few aussie bands this year (namely Cog) but just hearing tonnes of stuff on triple J highlights that you could go a whole week and hear brilliant musicians writing, creating and distributing great music.

3. Pineapple is one great fruit. Thanks to thai pineapples for helping me discover the fact i really like them (both fresh & cooked lol.)

4. The best thing I did this year was give up dairy! Feeling over 100% better. Whilst slipping up occasionally on ice cream, brie & camenbert at parties, or butter on toast, the non-dairy diet is definately staying on for the long haul.

5. I quit my job and it wasn't scary. The prospect of being unemployed is scary, although hopefully won't be around for long. Being free and rid of possessions can be quite liberating.

6. All of my friends & family are so brilliant. They give me so much inspiration. They're all over the country, the world, getting married, doing amazing things. But i love the fact we can communicate in a message, an email, a call and they are always there - no matter what.

7. Music is moving, growing, progressing. It just keeps me going - the chance to listen to new things, write about new music and most of all sharing tunes with the people i love.

8. And i really do think that 2007 is going to be the best year of my life.

thanks to www.myspace.com/auslive for the inspiration for this blog. xx

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Cool lyrics which you might find interesting today,

tommorow or sometime.

Leave me out with the waste
This is not what I do
It's the wrong kind of place
To be thinking of you
It's the wrong time
For somebody new
It's a small crime
And I've got no excuse
- Damien Rice, 9 Crimes

He could've played guitar better than Hendrix

He could've told the future

He could've baked the most delicious cake in the world

He could've scored more goals than Wayne Gretzky

He could've danced better than Barishnikov
Jesus could have been funnier than any comedian you can think of

Jesus was way cool

He told people to eat his body and drink his blood

That's so cool

Jesus was so cool

But then some people got jealous of how cool he was

So they killed him

But then he rose from the dead

He rose from the dead, danced around

Then went up to heavenI mean,

that's so cool

Jesus was way cool

No wonder there are so many Christians

- King Missile - Jesus was way cool

10 reasons why i hate The Killers

1. the suck big time

2. the songs make no sense. Example “Now she’s smoking a cab, and she’s doing her hair, and I’m getting quite bored, rather wrestle a bear...”, or “Somebody Told Me, You had a boyfriend, looked like a ladyboy, I write like a schoolboy...” and so on.

3. If the Rolling Stones hate them that is worth gold Review - "Why, Killers? Why? It's the oldest story in the New Wave book: (1) Boys get famous wearing makeup and acting tarty to impress girls; (2) Boys wash off makeup and act sincere to impress boys; (3) It never works. Loads of the original New Wave bands fell into this trap, the Killers take themselves too seriously'.

4. they are mormons. Now don't read this as some crazy anti-religious plot, because i have nothing against any other mormon. just The Killers. obviously part of the reason they are so crap is because unlike all other excess lovin' rock n rollers', they just have not had enough sex or drugs, or both in large doses. And look how important that is in music making.

5. chances are that if you hate alternative rock bands with heavy use of the synthesizer, you're probably going to hate The Killers. As PopMatters.com put it: Some might be a tad uncomfortable with the prominence of the synths and Flowers' rather theatrical delivery. Tad uncomfortable!? makes me feel positively ill.

6. Lead singer Brandon Flowers refers to the Sam's Town one of the best albums of the past 20 years. Wanker. Enough said.

7. .Flowers has recently gone on record claiming that Green Day's politically driven concept album American Idiot displays "calculated Anti-Americanism." He explained that he has problems with the album content itself and also the fact that the band's recent live DVD, Bullet in a Bible, was filmed overseas. Stating that he feels Green Day's DVD is a bit of a stunt, he went on to say that he feels The Killers' most recent release, Sam's Town, is a much more accurate representation of American culture. What the?

8. the Lead singers name is Brandon Flowers. How more pouncey and Las Vegas do they wanna get.

9. The song Bones: "Don’t you wanna come with me? Don’t you wanna feel my bones on your bones? It’s only natural Don’t you wanna swim with me"? They sardistic freaks.

10. they just suck big time.

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."- William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941)