This album is AMAZING. It is really all I have been listening to for the past couple of days. I first heard Bat for Lashes in 2007 and I must admit at the time I wasn’t too in love with the first album except for 1 or 2 songs but this album is very different for me. Every song I am in love with, the lyrics, the music … the concept it all works and it works magically. It’s inspired me a lot these past days that have been filled with nothing but rain and a lot of self reflection. Obviously one of the best songs is the first single “Daniel” but there is one song on there that literally made me tear up when I heard it and I listened to it over and over again. I’m not sure how to describe when you hear something that really sounds like the inside of your heart and your mind. So beautiful: “Siren Song” Videos and lyrics below. Go get this album!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00ZHah-c0hQ

Daniel when I first saw you
I knew that you had a flame in your heart
And under under our blue skies
Marble movie skies
I found a home in your eyes
We’ll never be apart

And when the fires came
The smell of cinders and rain
Perfumed almost everything
We laughed and laughed and laughed
And in the golden blue
Cryin’ took me to the darkest place
And you have set fire to my heart

When I run in the dark, Daniel
To a place that’s worst ?
Under a sheet of rain in my heart
Daniel
I dream of home

But in a goodbye bed
With my arms around your neck
Into our love the tears crept
Just catch in the eye of the storm
And as my heart ran round
My dreams pulled me from the ground
Forever to search for the flame
For home again
For home again

When I run in the dark, Daniel
To a place that’s worst?
Under a sheet of rain in my heart
Daniel
I dream of home

When I run in the dark, Daniel
To a place that’s worst
Under a sheet of rain in my heart
Daniel
I dream of home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9Y-mtihWiI

Are you my family?
Can I stay with you a while?
Can I stop off in your bed tonight?
I can make you smile.

In the morning I’ll make you breakfast
In the evening I’ll warm the bed
And I’ll always be happy to kiss you
Promise I’ll never get sad

Till the siren come calling, calling
It’s driving me evil, evil
I was a heartbreaker
Loved you the same way I do
But I’ve got so much wickedness and sin
My name is Pearl and I love you
The best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart
And the siren calling, calling
It won’t be long until you’re running

Help you dress yourself up fancy
And bathe you when you get sore
I’ll be good, I think I could
Be all you would want
And more, and more
Be proud when you dazzle the wondrous
Glitter your eyes for the town
Tell every last boy that you’re my man
I’ll try not to let you down

Till the siren come calling, calling
It’s driving me evil, evil
I was a heartbreaker, loved you
The same way I do
But I’ve got so much wickedness and sin
My name is Pearl and I love you
The best way I know how
My blonde curls slice through your heart
And the stars are exploding in lights
It won’t be long until you’re running
It won’t be long until you’re running
It won’t be long until you’re running
Cause I’m evil
Cause I’m evil

Twice I turn my back on you
I fell flat on my face but didn’t loose
Tell me where would I go
Tell me what led you on I’d love to know

Was it the blue night
Gone fragile
Was it both men
In wonder steady gone under
Was it the light ways
So frightening
Was it two wills
One mirror holding us dearer now

It’s true I do. I’ve gotten some feedback in the past week about the sudden rise in cursing here. It’s funny and a little embarrassing I guess, but that’s how I actually talk. The words fuck and shit among various others are interchangeably nouns verbs and adjectives in my vocabulary. Sorry to all those delicate ears out there, I’ll try to keep it to a minimum. I once watched this movie FUCK and afterward didn’t feel so bad for the gratuitous amount of cursing I do. So that movie is a whole other level. Anyway, I think I should own the following shirt just on principle. It’s pretty nice looking too. Don’t you think? Reminds me of that classic “fuck you, you fucking fuck” tshirt you always see in shops in the village and chinatown, which somehow always manages to make me laugh whenever I see it.

it’s only $16 and I love the description: “This about covers it all!”  http://printliberation.com/store.php?id=88 They have other great tshirts. Definitely check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMYHJsoz3yE

I was going through a pile of cds  trying to find one specific mix I made around 6 years ago. Amen! It is found and on it was this band: Gray Matter. I seriously love these guys. Hearing that song made me soooo nostalgic. The name of the mix was “Gina’s Ass Kicking Mixx 3000″. Other pearls include songs from Murder City Devils and Poison the Well. Me and Dana used to make ridiculously awesome mix cds to play before and during the crazy adventures we used to go on. I was talking to her not too long and she found a cd named “Your Mom’s Patootie Pie”. Needless to say it was an epic mix. That’s just how we roll.

the illest of the ill, the trillest of the trill, the brillest of the brill.

photo from *aesthetics*

Make it do what it do.

remember the awesome tunes on that record? sigh brings me back to weird times filled with weird people.

check it:

Q And Not U – Nine Things Everyone Knows

Adele – Hometown Glory

http://www.myspace.com/adelelondon

I’ve been walking in the same way as I did
Missing out the cracks in the pavement
And tutting my heel and strutting my feet
“Is there anything I can do for you dear? Is there anyone I can call?”
“No and thank you, please Madam. I ain’t lost, just wandering”

Round my hometown
Memories are fresh
Round my hometown
Ooh the people I’ve met
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of my world
Are the wonders of this world
Are the wonders of my world

I like it in the city when the air is so thick and opaque
I love to see everybody in short skirts, shorts and shades
I like it in the city when two worlds collide
You get the people and the government
Everybody taking different sides

Shows that we ain’t gonna stand shit
Shows that we are united
Shows that we ain’t gonna take it
Shows that we ain’t gonna stand shit
Shows that we are united

Round my hometown
Memories are fresh
Round my hometown
Ooh the people I’ve met

Are the wonders of my world