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Jag har en hard-on för surf-rock denna sommar.

Här är några av mina favoriter:

Best Coast

Surfer Blood

The Drums

Male Bonding

Wavves

Mysterious Skin

"As we sat there listening to the carolers, I wanted to tell Brian that it was over now and that everything would be okay. But that was a lie, plus I couldn't speak anyway. I wish there was some way to go back and undo the past. But there wasn't. There was nothing we could do. So I just stayed silent and tried to telepathically communicate how sorry I was about what happened. And I thought of all the grief and suffering and fucked up stuff in the world, and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically disappear."

Wow, en av de mera rörande filmer jag sett!

Creepy teepee festival

Rock on dudes!

Lately

No problem

Perfume Genius på YouTube

Genius

Enkel men otroligt hjärtskärande musik och djupa känslor i Perfume Genius låttexter. Att han dessutom gjort allting där hemma gör ingenting.

En anekdot från NME's blogg om Perfume Genius:

"Apparently not-so-long-ago the computer that housed his entire recorded works crashed, destroying every single bit of music he'd ever worked on. Discovering this he emails his record label late at night to notify them of the situation. Promptly they begin a series of panicked attempts to get in contact with him, leaving numerous increasingly worried and exasperated answer machine messages, texts and emails for him, inquiring as to what on earth they were all going to do? To which, after some time, they eventually recieved a single, calm, collected reply, reassuring: 'Don't worry guys, I can re-record the songs. I still feel the same way.'

Perfume Genius – Learning

No one will answer your prayers until you take off that dress
No one will hear all your crying until you take your last breath
But you will learn to mind me
And you will learn to survive me

Your father before you and your sister too, your husband blah blah blah blah, you.

Perfume Genius – Mr. Peterson

My work came back from class
With notes attached
Of a place and time
Or how my body kept him up at night

He let me smoke weed in his truck
If I could convince him I loved him enough
Enough, enough, enough, enough

He made me a tape of Joy Division
He told there was a part of him missing
When I was sixteen
He jumped off a building

Mr Peterson
I know you were ready to go
I hope there's room for you up above
Or down below.

The gangsta is strong in this one

Som, vafan?! Kombinationen av grädde och juice (?) gör hela grejen too sexy! Mmm rub that belly.

Seven fields of aphelion

Det har varit en väldigt regnig lördag, Seven fields of aphelion har varit perfekt musik för dagen. Imorgon jobba lite mer och förhoppningsvis får jag också städat, jag skjuter upp storstädningen dag för dag (okej, det ser nog inte sååå messy ut här, men jag borde faktiskt städa!)...

Seven fields of aphelion är bandmedlemmar ur gruppen Black Moth Super Rainbow, förutom det otroligt vackra namnet så har de denna video som är helt fantastisk.

Från kommentarerna:

"All i do is get high on weed and listen to black moth super rainbow"

Ja, jag förstår varför...

Böcker

Jag har varit väldigt dålig på att läsa böcker på sistone, men nu tänker jag ändra på det! Kom på när jag satt i laboratoriet och väntade på en analys att jag har så jävla tråkigt, började genast tänka på böcker och hur bra det vore att ha en fin bok att läsa just då. Efter lite undersökning så beställde jag dessa från adlibris:

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a 1997 book by Jared Diamond, professor of geography and physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1998 it won a Pulitzer Prize and the Aventis Prize for Best Science Book. A documentary based on the book and produced by the National Geographic Society was broadcast on PBS in July 2005.

Jared Diamond said an alternative title would be A short history about everyone for the last 13,000 years.[1] The book attempts to explain why Eurasian civilizations (including North Africa) have survived and conquered others, while attempting to refute the belief that Eurasian hegemony is due to any form of Eurasian intellectual, moral or inherent genetic superiority. Diamond argues that the gaps in power and technology between human societies originate in environmental differences, which are amplified by various positive feedback loops. When cultural or genetic differences have favored Eurasians (for example Chinese centralized government, or improved disease resistance among Eurasians), these advantages were only created due to the influence of geography and were not inherent in the Eurasian genomes.

Women is a 1978 novel written by Charles Bukowski, starring his semi-autobiographical character Henry Chinaski. In contrast to Factotum, Post Office and Ham on Rye, Women is centered around Chinaski's later life, as a celebrated poet and writer, not as a dead-end lowlife. It does, however, feature the same constant carousel of women with whom Chinaski only finds temporary fulfillment. In the book, Chinaski's nickname is Hank, which was one of Bukowski's nicknames. At times, Women has the tendency to become chauvinistic. But 'Women' focuses more on the many dissatisfactions Chinaski faced with each new woman he encountered. Aside from Chinaski's discontent, Bukowski added a certain comedic flair to his novel that may expose some women to the way a man sees the world.

The Master and Margarita (Russian: Ма́стер и Маргари́та) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics[1] consider the book to be one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, as well as one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a suffocatingly bureaucratic social order.

Surfing the void

Gold Panda

love!

Percées De Lumière

Här kommer en live version av en av mina favoritlåtar just nu, Percées De Lumière av franska black-metal/shoegaze bandet Alcest. Good shit, albumet Écailles de Lune är en av mina favoriter so far 2010.

Friday

Kvällens film blir Au revoir les enfants, hoppas inte den är för deprimerande för mig. Imorgon är det jobb som gäller och annars bara ta det lugnt. Skrev en tent i fysik idag, tror inte jag klarade den men det gör inget, sommaren har ju börjat. Väntar fortfarande på svar om jag får jobbet på universitetet, skulle passa mig perfekt i sommar, man vill ju tjäna så mycket pengar som möjligt! Förresten har Crystal Castles släppt ett nytt album, gillar bland annat låtarna Baptism och Vietnam. Albumet låter mycket renare och mindre kaotiskt än de tidigare.

Crystal Castles – Baptism

Crystal Castles – Vietnam

Colourful Life

aaaw!

Graveyard girls

Foto: Ellen Rogers

Via Dazed & Confused

Born Free?

M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

M.I.As nya video till låten Born Free har redan skapat rubriker, musikvideon som är politiskt laddat med polisvåld (eller utrotning?) blev nästan genast bannad på Youtube. En förklaring till innehållet kan vara att M.I.A vill visa allt det som sker i Sri Lanka mellan Tamilska tigrarna och regeringen.Vet inte om videon och låten är nåt jag gillar men kudos till M.I.A som visar sånt som många i världen blundar för.

What Stormtroopers do on their day off

Mer på What Stormtroopers do on their day off

Black Noise

Pantha Du Prince har släppt ett nytt album, Black Noise. De lågfrekventa ljud människan inte kan höra som sägs komma före naturkatastrofer som tsunamis och jordbävningar. Magisk minimal med så många olika dimensioner att man vet inte riktigt var man befinner sig när man lyssnar.

Pantha Du Prince – Lay In A Shimmer

Här är en kort intressant dokumentär om Hendrik Weber, mannen bakom aliaset Pantha Du Prince:

Pantha Du Prince Documentary from Rough Trade Records on Vimeo.

Salvation

På torsdag har jag presentation av mitt examensarbete, pirrigt! Har arbetat på min presentation i powerpoint idag, känner mig stressad och hoppas jag får gjort allt i tid. Vill bara ha det undan nu så jag kan pusta ut efteråt. Denna låt är förresten perfekt, satte sig direkt i mitt huvud!

Gucci Mane X Memory Tapes

Kvällens låt, störtskön.