I am disappointed in half of the people I know

(10:55:26 PM) Marie: god everyone that thought secretary was a hot movie must have the tamest sex lives ever
(10:55:33 PM) Marie: also maggie gyllenhaal is gross
(10:56:32 PM) Charles: i described it as child abuse sold as romantic S&M the other day
(10:56:42 PM) Marie: haha it was just fucking trite
(10:56:57 PM) Marie: like if i want a fucked up fetish movie starring james spader its gonna be crash every fucking time

4 for Friday: Ryan Adams/Cardinals/Whiskeytown Edition

I'm back on my Ryan kick again so you know, you'll all just have to deal.

1. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cobwebs
2. Ryan Adams - Burning Photographs - "I used to be sad, now I'm just bored of you" This song is full of great little quips. Such a good breakup song, even if Rock N Roll is not a very good album.
3. Whiskeytown - I Still Miss Someone (Acoustic Version) - Super young, twangy Ryan covering Johnny Cash? Yes please.
4. Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up - The song that made me love him. A million, billion thanks to Bas for that. I can't explain all the memories I have attached to this song. It's basically perfection.

So that's that. I could basically sit here all day and post his songs and talk about how amazing they are and what they mean to me and what turns of phrase I love in his lyrics but you know, I should go out and have a life on my day off probably.

The best thing anyone has ever said to me:

"God, why am I a romantic and you a nihilist??"

Must save the runt.

(11:27:16 PM) Marie: http://www.flickr.com/photos/primalux/3696499357/in/photostream/
(11:27:21 PM) Marie: this is my favorite peepster
(11:27:24 PM) Marie: he's the runt
(11:27:32 PM) Marie: he like hasn't grown at all since he hatched three weeks ago
(11:27:36 PM) Marie: that's his sibling next to him
(11:28:01 PM) Chris: steal him and give him to the spca
(11:28:04 PM) Marie: i want to
(11:28:09 PM) Marie: cause he's gonna die soon
(11:28:14 PM) Chris: do it
(11:28:17 PM) Chris: they have to take it
(11:28:17 PM) Marie: cause the mom will stop feeding him
(11:28:21 PM) Chris: you don't know where it came from
(11:28:24 PM) Chris: it's a mystery
(11:28:32 PM) Marie: haha
(11:28:39 PM) Marie: i will sneak him off in my backpack
(11:28:44 PM) Chris: dooooo it
(11:28:52 PM) Marie: and play loud music so that people won't hear him peeping
(11:29:01 PM) Chris: give him a binky

Kill me.

There will be no "4 for Friday" post this week because my sinuses are hurting so badly that it's making me nauseous. I am actually staying home in bed on a Friday night watching movies because of this. I will accept all gifts of icepicks gladly.

I've had the flu for the past week and some odd days and this is just the tail end of that I think. I just hope it didn't somehow leave me with a gnarly sinus infection.

I will possibly post some songs or something tomorrow to make up for it, depending on how I'm feeling and if/when I go out holiday gallivanting. In the mean time, you should check out my flickr. I recently bought a new camera and I couldn't be happier with it. The first day I had it I took 143 pictures. Ha.

Here's a random sampling to whet your appetite:

4 for Friday

1. Coil - Are You Shivering - From the album "Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1" it is absolutely that. This might be my favorite Coil track. To me their weirdness and darkness and theatricality and intricacies of sound are totally present and at their best here.
2. PJ Harvey - Happy and Bleeding - Old school PJ, before she got all polished and theatrical. I used to have quite the angsty time singing to this album.
3. Ryan Adams - Wonderwall - I never thought an Oasis song could sound good.
4. Iron & Wine - Sea and the Rhythm - My favorite Iron & Wine song. I could die to this.

6 for Saturday

So I was terribly busy running around adventuring yesterday and wasn't able to post my 4 for Friday, so to make up for that I'll post 6 for Saturday. That's two more for the price of nothing, my friends.
1. The Knife - Got 2 Let U
2. Coil - The Tenderness of Wolves
3. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues
4. Combichrist - Sent to Destroy
5. H.I.M. - One Last Time
6. Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

Overheard on Valencia last night

Setting - Guy and girl standing in front of Ritual. I'm walking by with a friend of mine.

Guy: It's fake!
Girl: Pap smears are not fake!!

And scene.

4 for Friday!!!!

No text this week, just links to the songs. Find your own opinions of them.
1. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
2. Front 242 - Operating Tracks
3. Placebo - Nancy Boy
4. Magnetic Fields - The Death of Ferdinand de Saussere

I <3 you, San Francisco.

(12:20:20 PM) Marie: oh also on my way home
(12:20:27 PM) Marie: there was a girl on the train with her friends
(12:20:34 PM) Marie: who was like doing handstands on the moving train
(12:20:47 PM) Marie: she was really tall and was holding herself with her feet on the ceiling
(12:21:04 PM) Marie: then she was grabbing the handrails and doing flips and shit down the aisles
(12:21:11 PM) Marie: and hanging upside down off of them
(12:21:25 PM) Marie: and then she inspired a random guy on the train to do a backflip too
(12:21:28 PM) Marie: it was pretty magical

4 for Friday

1. Neko Case - That Teenage Feeling - This song is sooo indicative of my life 8 or 9 months ago. It's my favorite song off of Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.
2. Tracey Thorn and Jens Lekman - Yeah! Oh Yeah! - This is a great cover of a great Magnetic Fields song. I love the idea of Jens singing Stephin Merritt. And Tracey (Everything But the Girl)sounds lovely as well.
3. Propagandhi - Gifts - This is one of their more "emo" songs, solely because John Samson is singing it. Well, the lyrics are pretty emo too. John Samson is just emo. Go listen to the Weakerthans if you don't believe me.
4. Whiskeytown - Turn Around (Alternate Version) - Oh Ryan Adams. You were such a little southern-accented rough voiced boy. (I think he was like 23 when this came out). I love it.

I saw Jens Lekman!

I have video and pictures. He made us promise not to post them on the internet, but I have to show the world a small bit of his dreamy amazingness:

It was too fantastic for words.

4 for Friday

This one is gonna be quick cause I have shit to do:
1. Coil - The Dark Age of Love
2. Combichrist - god bless
3. Mika - Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)
4. The Knife - Listen Now

4 for Friday

So this is a little thing I'm going to start doing cause I've always wanted to have some sort of music feature for this blog but I didn't really know what. So on Fridays I'm just gonna hit shuffle on iTunes and post the first four songs that come up. Woohoo.

1. Jens Lekman - Run Away With Me This is one of my favorite Jens songs. I'm going to see him in a couple of weeks. I'll make sure to try to propose to him. Again.
2. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Sink Ships This is one of those Ryan Adams songs (much like Cherry Lane or Meadowlake Street on Cold Roses) that starts out fairly standard and mediocre and then switches it up at the end and becomes just sort of amazing and transcendent. I can't really describe it any better than that, but he's really fucking good at doing it.
3. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - You Remind Me of Something (The Glory Goes) A good Bonnie song. Very nice to sing along with.
4. Einstürzende Neubauten - Good Morning Everybody And now for something completely different...German experimental noise music. I like Blixa. He's tied with Warren for title of my favorite Bad Seed.

So hopefully I'll keep my motivation and continue doing this. I will confess that I did skip posting the real third song that played because it was a 17 minute long spoken word type thing by Coil. Should I have gone ahead and posted that? I have a lot of weird shit like that that will probably pop up from time to time in doing this so I guess I should figure out if everything is fair game or if I'm going to keep it strictly "Music music".

Overheard on the N last night

Guy talking to his friend on the phone: "He was like "You look like a fucking hipster" and I was all "I will stab you"."

(He was discussing how he got sucker-punched by some "Don Johnson looking motherfucker" and a few minutes prior had asked Robbie if his face was all red or if he was bleeding.)

I saw Iron & Wine for free!

In fact it was the second time I've seen him for free (last year's Hardly Strictly being the other) but this was so much better because it was a very small secret show at a tiny record store and my friends and I were in the very front sitting at his feet. So amazing. Plus it happened the day after my birthday.
Here is a little video I took of Naked as We Came with my shitty digital camera:


There are pictures here.

Yesterday didn't happen.

Yesterday was a waste of a birthday, so I've decided it didn't happen. I'm still 27. Ha.

Birthday Part One

So far the day has been uneventful. I went out for breakfast and had a mango mimosa. It was bomb. The weather has not been cooperating so I've just been hiding out inside, drinking rum and doing nothing. Garrett wrote me the best birthday email though. I miss my SD peeps. I will update later with more.

Crawl away, silly spider

I have very vivid memories attached to this sculpture.

Hopefully they crawl away soon too.

My New Place

Fireplace, Books, originally uploaded by primalux.

Moving, Part 1.
Pictures taken after a week of living in my new place.