Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (Confirmation)

Sleep Alone

Last night's parties and last night's horrorshows

Smiling and dancing and kissing, it's all I know

Give my soul, give me soul

Sing it free across the sea

A lonely spell to conjure you

But conjure hell is all I do

Pearl's Dream
There's a place I must go...

There's a place I must go...

Siren Song

Mama was a heartbreaker, she 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 only way I know how

I will curse, and slice through your heart

Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (Anticipation)

It'll be here in 11 minutes.

I have a feeling it is going to be INSANELY good.

EXCITEDXCITEDXXXCITED

The Veronicas - Untouched

Been meaning to give these a proper chance for a while, but the lead off this second album really got me on board. Love a bit of violin drama!
The album is already one that will grow, I can tell.


I go OOH OOH
you go (ah ah)
LALALALA, alalala
I can't lie lie lie
I wanna wanna wanna get get get what I want
Don't stop
Gimme gimme gimme what you got got
'Cause I can't wait wait wait any more more more more more
Don't even talk about the consequence
'Cause right now you're the only thing that's making any sense to me
And I don't give a damn what they say, what they think think
'Cause you're the only one who's on my mind
I'll never ever let you leave me
I'll try to stop time forever, never wanna hear you say goodbye

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
Been goin' crazy from the moment I met you

Untouched
And I need you so much

See you, breathe you, I want to be you
Alalalala alalalala
You can take take t-take take take time time
To live live the way you gotta gotta live your life
gimmegimmegimme all of you you
Don't be scared
I'll see you through the lonely nights of wanting more a-more more
Don't even think about what's right or wrong, or wrong or right
'Cause in the end it's only you and me and no one else is gonna be around
To answer all the questions left behind
And you and I are meant to be so even if the world falls down today
You've still got me to hold you up up
And I will never let you down

I feel so untouched
And I want you so much
That I just can't resist you
It's not enough to say that I miss you
I feel so untouched right now
Need you so much somehow
I can't forget you
Been going crazy from the moment I met you.

Bleugh...

This month is dragging.

I need a pro-active smack in the face.

The Reader

So I did like this.
It's typical Oscar-fodder, overloaded with pregnant silences, beautiful shots and locations, characters heaped with layers and hidden bla bla...

And a LOT of gratuitous Winslet nudity.

But thankfully, there was a little of this too:



Am loving the Kross.

Away from my shallow reasoning though, there is quite a genuinely inspring love story buried somewhere in this.
I'm not sure if it's all a bit of a pipe dream (and if I had a Nazi lover, I think it would be quite easy to scratch them out of my life, as it's taken FAR less than being a Nazi to be erased before) but it still makes you think.

AND THEN THERE IS A BIT OF WINSLET SIDE BOOB AND IT PUTS IT ALL INTO PERSPECTIVE AGAIN.

Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted

The album basically just boils down to the following...

DON'T LET ME STOP YOU.

the end.

The Killers - Day & Age

I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO PASSION TO LISTEN TO THIS ALBUM.

BLAND.

The Saturdays - Why Me, Why Now

I bloody love this band, actually.
Even the bad songs I keep rediscovering.

Tragic.



I’m walking home one winter night
As the party is over I try not to think about you
Now I can’t wait for the morning light
Cause the feelings inside me they totally ruin my mood

Crazy I know
But I’m scare to fall
In a place I’ve been to before
Not a part of my plan

I’m falling out of control in love
For the first time
Girls, don’t be loosing your head with love
No no
Keep him at a distance
Guarding your position
I try so hard but love will always get its way
Why me why now?

It’s gone too far
No I can’t rewind
Though my conscious is calling me
Finding it hard to refuse
No one resist as I confide
Don’t go feeding the fire
And it’s slowly burning you

I may not know
Where I’m heading for
So I think I better get wise
And just enjoy

Better run and don't hide...
When is there a right time?

What A Disappointment, I Had It Perfectly...

I'm looking at you looking at me, what can I do but say sorry?
It's a little late but you know I just want you to be happy.
What have I got to say to make you let me get away with it this time?
I know you're upset and that you're happy just to sit and hate me,
But I'll make a bet that you'll be better to forget about me,
Even better yet I'll let a little light melt the ice.

Jennifer Hudson - Spotlight

Can't believe it took me so many plays and glasses of wine to get into this.
Lush!

See also: 'Pocketbook'. Because she isn't ALL about the ballads.



Are you a man who loves
And cherishes
And cares for me?
Are you a guard in a prison
Maximum security?
Do we stay home all the time
Cuz you want me to yourself?
Or am I locked away
Out of fear that i'd find
Someone else

Well, I don't like
Living under your spotlight
Just because you think
I might find somebody worthy
Oh, I don't like
Living under your spotlight
Baby, if you treat me right
You won't have to worry

Is this a relationship
Fulfilling your needs
As well as mine?
Or is this just my sentence
Am I doing time?
If this is love
Real, real love
Then I'm staying no doubt
But if I'm just love prisoner
Then I'm busting out

Oh, you oughta be
Ashamed of yourself
What the hell
Do you think you're doing?
Loving me, loving me
So wrong
Baby, all I do is try
To show you
That you're my
One and only guy
No matter
Who may come along
Open your eyes
Baby, I don't lie.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

I am so so in love with Penelope Cruz.

This film is so much fun, with subject matter that could easily be turned into a dark brooding mess of a love story, but is made so light.

But is it purely because of the way it is shot, and it's location?

Or is it because of the impeccably acted characterisation, or the playful way it is narrated to make it almost seem like nothing but a short story told in pieces over broken conversation, or in the side column of a magazine?





She is searching, and knows exactly what she doesn't want, yet ends up being the one to fall completely into the most inadequate situation. She is the epitomy of a forced free spirit; she wants so badly to uphold the image of what she wants to be, she ends up conforming to what people already think of her.





She turns out to be the hopeless romantic; while a totally unlikeable character due to her annoying reliance on 'what is right', she is the quintessential chick flick heroine.





She is the the fire, the exemplification of love built on the foundations of passion and lust for one another. She is the free spirit, the ideal.




And for some reason, no matter how much of a cad he so obviously is...
YOU CANNOT HATE HIM. He is not charming, he is barely even likeable, but his honesty means the blame falls on the feeble over-emotionality of the women rather than his ability to play all of them.

Bright Eyes - Landlocked Blues

If you walk away I walk away
first tell me which road you will take
I don't want to risk our paths crossing someday
so you walk that way I'll walk this way

and the future hangs over our heads
and it moves with each current event
until it falls all around like a cold steady rain
just stay in when it's lookin' this way

and the moon's laying low in the sky
forcing everything metal to shine
and the sidewalk holds diamonds like a jewelry store case
they argue "walk this way," "no walk this way"

and laura's asleep in my bed
as I'm leaving she wakes up and says
"I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave
baby don't go away, come here"

and there's kids playing guns in the street
and one's pointing his tree branch at me
So I put my hands up I say:
"Enough is enough,
If you walk away I walk away."
(and he shot me dead)

I found a liquid cure
for my landlocked blues
it will pass away
like a slow parade
it's leaving but I don't know how soon

and the world's got me dizzy again
you'd think after 22 years I'd be used to the spin
and it only feels worse when I stay in one place
so I'm always driving around... or walking away
I keep drinking the ink from my pen
and I'm balancing history books up on my head
but it all boils down to one quotable phrase
"If you love something give it away"
A good woman will pick you apart
a box full of suggestions for your possible heart
But you may be offended, and you may be afraid
but don't walk away, don't walk away

We made love on the living room floor
with the noise in the background from a televised war
And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say
"If we walk away,they’ll walk away"
But greed is a bottomless pit
And our freedom's a joke we're just taking a piss
And the whole world must watch the sad comic display
If you're still free start runnin' away
'cause we're comin' for ya!

I've grown tired of holding this pose
I feel more like a stranger each time I come home
So I'm making a deal with the devils of fame
Sayin' let me walk away, please
You'll be free child once you have died
from the shackles of language and measurable time
And then we can trade places, play musical graves
till then walk away walk away walk away walk away
So I'm up at dawn, putting on my shoes
I just want to make a clean escape
I'm leaving but I don't know where to
I know I'm leaving but I don't know where to

A - Z of Songs

So I'm doing this with Matt Brombley.
Every day must start with a song beginning with the next letter of the alphabet.
He wanted to do EVERY song, but that's a bit too much restriction.
And we don't want to give him that much.

I'm putting them all here in one post, because one every day just gets messy.

A - Air War, Crystal Castles
B - Busted, Johnny Cash
C - Cry Me A River, Justin Timberlake
D - DVNO, Justice
E - Electric Feel, MGMT
F - Fly Away, Lenny Kravitz
G - Glory Box, Portishead

He couldn't even get to fucking H.
:(

The Fray - The Fray

Happiness
Careful child,
Light the fuse and get away
Because happiness throws a shower of sparks.


We Build Then We Break
I don't know you but I know what you did to her
She told me and I happen to believe her too
They will be 3 steps behind
You will not know what's got you
Oh so you're sorry now
All is not well, it's not ended


Say When
I come across you
lost and broken
You're coming to
but you're slow in waking
You start to shake
You still haven't spoken,
what happened?
They're coming back
and you just dont know when
You want to cry
but there's nothing comin'
They're gonna push
until you give in,
say when.
Now we're here
and it turns to chaos
Hurricane
coming all around us
Double crack
throws you back from the window,
you stay low
It all began
with the man and country
Every plan
sends another century around again
Another nation fallen
Maybe god
can be on both sides
Of the gun never understood why
Some of us never get it so good,
so good.
Some of this was here before us
All of this will go after us
Never stops until we give in.

'Missouri Boy' by Leland Myrick

Lily Allen - It's Not Me It's You

Bloody good album.
Perhaps a little bit too... message-heavy.
But it's a selling point.
I hope it doesn't fade in it's appeal as quickly as the last one did.


The Fear
I don't know what's right
or what's real anymore
I don't know
How I'm meant to feel anymore.


Back To The Start
People seem to love you
They gravitate towards you
That's why I began to hate you so much
And now just completely ignore you.


Everyone's At It
I get involved, but I’m not advocating
Got an opinion, yea your well up for slating
So you’ve got a prescription, and that makes it legal
But I find your excuses overwhelmingly feeble.