The Fashion Photography of Matt Irwin

A really rough way of photographing some really special things.

In a day and age where photoshopping and airbrushing are so abundant the eyes are blind to their 'glamour', Matt Irwin manages to create something that catches the eye for a different reason - genuinely interesting subject matter in genuinely interesting scenarios.

Aly & AJ - Flattery

It scares me that I can ALWAYS think of a situation relevant enough to play this.
Also - WHAT AN AMAZING PICTURE.



Please, don't flatter yourself
You're not the only one
This heart has ever felt
Please, don't exaggerate
Don't tell me you're okay.

I will admit, if you admit it
It's harder than we both thought
It's easier to fall apart
Look where we are
I can forgive it, I can't forget it
You left me here with all these scars
and you can't deny the hardest part
I'm not in your arms

We're more hurt than we appear
The world will never know
We both have tasted tears, my dear
You're denying what I say
Don't act like it's okay
Cuz it's not okay

It's not in the cards
It's not in the stars.
I'm not sorry
I'm not sorry
You're not sorry

I will admit, if you admit it.

Patrick Wolf - Tristan

I am the tragedy
And the heroine
I am lost And I am rescuing

The storm is come
And I am following

My name is Tristan
And I am alive

Forever young
I come from God knows where
'Cos now I’m here
Without a hope or care

I am trouble
And I am troubled too

My name is Tristan
And I am alive

Sorrow by name
And sorrow by nature
Working for joy
On overtime

Stuck on a line
Of misadventure
I fear no crime

I am the victim
And the murderer
You speak of love
But I’ve never heard of her

I am fucked
And I am fucking too

My name is Tristan
And I am alive.

Usher - Moving Mountains

Now, now she loved me, I love her
Used to jump up in the maybach and roll out.
Used to care, she used to share
The love that she used to give me can't be found.
I lost my way, she said she'd stay
And lately I've been sleeping with a ghost
My stock is down and out, I used to be worth my weight in gold

That was before the great depression kicked in and rocked us
And that was before the huricane came, came in and stopped us.
I told you to leave, but you lied to me
When you said that, baby no worries I promise to get us back
I know sorries just wouldn't do it,
Her heart is obliterated,
I'm trying to travel through but it's like moving mountains
It's like moving mountains

But I keep climbing and hoping things would change
And the sky turns grey
and the water from the rain, washes progress away
It's like moving mountains
Why don't you just leave me
Just leave me be

She don't touch me I don't touch her
We ain't really even said a word
I really wanna give her everything she deserves,
But the bad took away the good
She thinks that I'm full of it
Arguments, always pissed, man I'm tired.
Every kiss, that I missed, girl you know I'm trying.

You never believe when I say,
and I never believe it when you say,
'I love you'
And I shouldn't complain about it,
I should take it like a man and walk up out it.
Cause we will never be the same
I've been standing in gas, and you have been the flame.

Adele - Hometown Glory

Now she's finally releasing this properly, it's time it gets some credit.
However, a crappy 'live' performance video does nothing to capture any kind of emotion behind this song.
So that's why I put some screens from Cassie's finale episode from series 2 of 'Skins', where it was used to much better effect.

Yeah, I cried.
THATS HOW GOOD IT WAS.
Do the video again love.





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

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

Keri Hilson - Energy

I wish I could rip out a page of my memory
Cause I put to much energy in him and me
Can't wait till I get through this phase
Cause it's killing me
To bad we can't re-write our own history

Such a mystery when hes here with me
It's hard to believe I'm still lonely
Chances fading now, patience running out
This ain't how it's supposed to be

I'm having nightmares from sleeping with the enemy
We gotta re-reverse the chemistry
I don't want us to be the end of me
This love is taking all of my energy

Seems only like yesterday, Not even gravity
Could keep your feet off the ground when u go to me
How can two be as one
We've become to divided now
There's no use hiding from my misery

Such a mystery when hes here with me
It's hard to believe I'm still lonely
Chances fading now, patience running out
This ain't how it's supposed to be

I'm having nightmares from sleeping with the enemy
We gotta re-reverse the chemistry
I don't want us to be the end of me
This love is taking all of my energy


Cause your taking all of my energy
I'm having nightmares from sleeping with the enemy
We gotta reverse the chemistry
I don't want us to be the end of me
This love is taking all of my energy

I'm having nightmares from sleeping with the enemy
We gotta reverse the chemistry
I don't want us to be the end of me
This love is taking all of my energy

I Found A Really Big Beetle.

That is all.

On the postive side...

The Night Everything Got A Bit More Broken.

I can write how shit I feel now in retrospect.

Not being drunk on 2 pints of strongbow / emotional breakdown.
Not taking fucking pictures of myself crying in a park in the fucking dark.
Not turning up to something I KNEW was a bad idea from the beginning.
Not pretending to be okay.
Not waiting for something to happen for so long, it's JUST ABOUT left your head, then you see it driving up the fucking road.
I thought I would have been at least prepared enough to spot the car.
You dick. You silly dick.

Joss Stone - What Were We Thinking

Although this woman is generally a massive twat, this song stirs up all kinds of drama in my silly little head.

Don't cry, just shut up and get on with it.




Try to turn it off
But it's hard to see
Through this emptiness
Slowly breaking me
Maybe hurt me just a little less
Then I can start to breathe
But still your heart is out of reach

The sun hasn't shined today at all
A funny thing
You haven't called
Tell me why
Or should I be asking?
How would I respond to it all
Times were good
I wish you were around more
I can feel you at my door
But it's not you
It's someone else
What can I do?
what did we do?

Try to turn it off
But it's hard to see
Through this emptiness
Slowly breaking me
Maybe hurt me just a little less
Then I can start to breathe
But still your heart is out fo reach

What were we thinking?
What can we do now?
Right now

Try to turn it off
But it's hard to see
Through this emptiness
Slowly breaking me
Maybe hurt me just a little less
Then I can start to breathe
But still

I should have known
It was right in front of me
Screaming girl just walk away
See it can't ever be
Oh, what would we do now
We carried on making our mistakes
Thinking our love was free
Now you've taken part of me
Right now

M.I.A. - Paper Planes

I fly like paper, get high like planes
If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name
If you come around here, I make 'em all day
I get one down in a second if you wait

Sometimes I think sitting on trains
Every stop I get to I'm clocking that game
Everyone's a winner now we're making that fame
Bonafide hustler making my name

All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money

Pirate skulls and bones
Sticks and stones and weed and bombs
Running when we hit 'em
Lethal poison through their system

No one on the corner has swag like us
Hit me on my burner prepaid wireless
We pack and deliver like UPS trucks
Already going hell just pumping that gas

All I wanna do is (BANG BANG BANG BANG!)
And (KKKAAAA CHING!)
And take your money

M.I.A.
Third world democracy
Yeah, I got more records than the K.G.B.
So, uh, no funny business

Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go
Some some some I some I murder
Some I some I let go

Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating

Very excited about Reading Festival this year with this bunch.

how good it feels for me
you smell great disease
cause we're young
fell in from the stars
when your skin is shead
and a pile of your heads
now then, ill look so smart

stove burns on my hands
show them to my friends
make you participate
eyes roll back around
when skulls hit the ground
visions of the hosiery

im suppose to interfere
im coming from your fears
when they wander into their cage
sew their arms and thighs
and their rubber covered eyes
their skin will never age

make you participate

Rebecca

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

"Rebecca is a blend of psychological torment and gripping mystery. Hitchcock never abandons the audience and keeps the film’s pace tight and controlled. There’s a reason he was called the Master of Suspense."

- Wesley Lovell, 'The Oscar Guy'

Bat For Lashes - Bat's Mouth

I recently discovered this on a run-through of this album, don't understand how I missed it.
After re-evaluating the album, it really is quite incredible.
Long live Natasha Khan.





The caves of our mouths are forest darkness
And the air in between is overflowing
And the rushing wolverine flies past
His shiny shiny teeth
And she is kind, and he is free and full of knowing

She is sure.

The caves of our mouths are bear’s bellies
And the air in between is spewing comets
And the dancing centaur queen flies past
Her tiny tiny teeth
And he is kind, and she is free and wants to show him

She is sure.

Find him in the bat’s mouth
He is singing in the bats mouth
He is shaking and dancing in her bat mouth
Getting tired and sleepy in her bat mouth
She is holding him tight in her bat arms
And she’s wrapping him up in her bat arms
And she’s thanking her mother sea,
"Thank you mother sea for letting him see the sea in me"

She is sure.

Resident Evil 5

The new setting of a dry, barren African village evolves the series in a totally different direction.
New features may include:

- A new cover system, leading to stealth mechanics
- Drop-in online co-operative play
- The return of 'Mercenaries' from Resident Evil 4
- A more political direction to the series and it's storyline?