Retro Update

I love these.
Seminal videogame covers re-revisioned in the style of Penguin Classic Books.
Made by Olly Moss.

Kazuo Ohno

Came to my attention when listening to Anthony and the Johnson's 'The Crying Light', of which he is the star of the cover.

A Butoh artist, from Japan.

Butoh is the collective name for a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. It typically involves playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and is traditionally "performed" in white-body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion, with or without an audience.

Ariana Lindquist Photography

A selection of her work for 'Time' Magazine.

I need shine

I have wandered past your window many times.

I find your face too hard to define.

I can't touch you, hollow thing.

You plague my mind, I can never go outside.

I will never go back to being blind.

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Oxford Comma
Why would you speak to me that way
Especially when I always said that I
Haven't got the words for you
All your diction dripping with disdain
Through the pain
I always tell the truth

Campus
Then I see you
You're walking cross the campus
Cruel professor
Studying romances
How am I supposed to pretend
I never want to see you again?

The Kids Don't Stand A Chance
A devastating backstroke
All the way from France
With shiny, shiny cufflinks
A shirtsleeve to enhance
The pin-striped men of morning
Are coming for to dance
With pure Egyptian Cotton
The kids don't stand a chance

Emma Watson for Crash Magazine

Hermione grows up and gets photographed by Karl Lagerfeld.

FIERCE.

Bye, Bob

It happened really quick, and I didn't know until it was done.

I'm sorry, I never got to see you again sooner.

But I hope you had a good time while you were with us.

Love you.

Nelly Furtado - Onde Estas (Where You Are)

Nas horas do dia
Nas horas do dia
Espero... a noite
Espero... a noite

Vejo as ondas a passar... pelo mar
Vejo as ondas a passar... pelo mar

Nas horas do dia
Nas horas do dia
Espero... a noite
Espero... a noite

Vejo estrelas gritar seu nome... pelo ar
Vejo estrelas gritar seu nome... pelo ar

Nas horas do dia
Nas horas do dia
Fecho... meus olhos
Fecho... meus olhos
Vou pelos campos a perguntar... onde estás
Vou pelos campos a perguntar... onde estás

Onde Estás...





At times of the day
At times of the day
I wait... the night
I wait... the night
I see the waves passing... by the sea
I see the waves passing... by the sea

At times of the day
At times of the day
I wait... the night
I wait... the night
I see the stars shouting your name... by the air

At times of the day
I close my eyes
I close my eyes

I go by the fields asking...

Where you are...

Brand New - Degausser (Take Apart Your Head)

So now I have fnally heard the ACTUAL version of this.
The one on my version of the album was wrong, just a demo track.
In a way, I'm glad. Because this has definitely refined my love just that little bit more.

Take me, take me back to your bed.
I love you so much that it hurts my head
No I don't mind you living under my skin
I let the bad parts in, the bad parts in.

Well you're my favourite bird and when you sing
I really do wish that you'd wear my ring
No matter what they say, I'll still be the king
The storm is coming in, the storm is coming...

Martin De Thurah

Director / photographer.

Love his bleak, Eastern-European stark style.

Also done some films as well as some very good music videos (see Fever Ray, Royksopp) Which I definitely want to look into.

White Lies - Farewell To The Fairground

Keep on running...
Keep keep on running....
There's no place like home.

We'll head south just hold my hand now
I feel like I'm casting off my clothes
And I'm running through the snow towards a sunset
And I'm always with you.

Keri Hilson - In A Perfect World

Been meaning to tribute this for ages...

This album is outstanding.
She has totally pulled a gem out of the bag here, which is a shame as she gets criticised and sidelined so much.
Trumps Beyonce's 'I Am', and at least on par with Rihanna's 'Good Girl Gone Bad'.
Plus 'Tell Him The Truth' is possibly the most dramatic and emotional slow-jam ballad in the world ever.

Long live Queen Hilson.

Where Did He Go?
People always ask me
Why he's got me wearing all black...
And I ask them
'Where did he go?

Set Your Money Up
We don't like them broke boys
We don't like them broke boys...

Turnin' Me On
If you're fly as hell
Sawgga like brown skin poppin'
You know just how to drop them
You know just how I like it
'And if you do then get the F around me...'

La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy

'Its all false love and affection
You don't like me,
You just want the attention.'

We Are Smug

Free side-project album from Darren Hayes and Robert Conley.

Glad it's in the same vein as 'This Delicate Thing We've Made', but it seems to have lost some of the pop sensibility. Maybe that's the price of losing decent production though...

'Electro-queer.'

6/10 so far.

When I Grow Up

Incredible video, puts the song in another league entirely.

Utterly mesmerizing.

Will definitely be keeping an eye on Martin De Thurrah.

The Maccabees - No Kind Words

This song is brilliant.
Lyrically, and in terms of pace.
And really sad, too.

Dear friend of mine has
Broken his union
Broke from tradition
Broken his vision of the future
Alone? Alone? Alone?
Not alone at all.

Dear friend of mine is
Testing his body
Tempting disaster
Testing water
with another's daughter
Alone? Alone? Alone?
Not alone at all.

Dear friend of mine my
Ear is bending
I'm not helping
I'm not telling
I'm not solving
I'm not saying you're pretending
Alone? Alone? Alone?
Not alone at all.

Dear friend of mine is
Helpless without helping
Here without scattered skies
and union fountain.
Alone? Alone? Alone?
Not alone at all.

If you've got no kind words to say
You should say nothing more at all.