fyght

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Now playing: Amy Winehouse - Me & Mr Jones
via FoxyTunes

grand finale
kukla, fran and ollie
mind scattered
leaves no trace























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Now playing: Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
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Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end--
waiting 'round the bend,
my huckleberry friend,
Moon River and me

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Now playing: Arcade Fire - (Antichrist Television Blues)
via FoxyTunes

How Soon Is Now?

"To be born the son of a Middlemarch manufacturer, and inevitable heir to nothing in particular". - George Eliot

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Now playing: And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Monsoon
via FoxyTunes

When a solid projectile strikes a granular layer, the impact forms a crater. This impact cratering phenomenon is basically simple. It can be described as a one dimensional motion, and the underlying physics is only classical mechanics. Nonetheless, a lot of dissipative macro grains, granular media, bring intriguing features to such a simple phenomenon. Surprisingly, nobody exactly knows how a projectile stops in a granular layer, even in terms of phenomenology. Some candidates of the force model have been proposed recently. To clarify which one is the best at describing a wide range granular impacts, we are measuring the velocity of the impact and discussing its dynamics.


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Now playing: Broken Social Scene - Stars And Sons
via FoxyTunes

Stars And Sons

Then when you let it
You asked for nothing
Why don't you share it
All of the time you live
There's something out there

Just wanna know, how far to live on
there's one more avenue in this town
And in the red room
At a distance

How would you know it
You're the same when you're living
I don't know it
It won't be this

Just wanna know, how far to live on
Just wanna know, how far to live on

All of the time you wait, there's someone out there
And no one can find all the red

How would you show it
You can see through the red
I don't know it
It won't be this time

- Broken Social Scene


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Now playing: Joseph Arthur - Slide Away
via FoxyTunes

The Steampunk Trilogy

The SF Site Featured Review: The Steampunk Trilogy: "The Steampunk Trilogy is a magnificent specimen of that rare bird, intelligent humour. Di Filippo stirs up a funky stew of puns, literature, natural history and sex, and serves it up in an elaborate Victorian dish -- 300-odd pages of juicy reading pleasure."




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Now playing: The New Pornographers - My Rights Versus Yours
via FoxyTunes

“Always remember to pillage before you burn”

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dyn” - Allen Ginsberg

“All things, oh priests, are on fire . . . The eye is on fire; forms are on fire; eye-consciousness is on fire; impressions received by the eye are on fire.”- Buddha



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Now playing: Broken Social Scene - Pitter Patter Goes My Heart
via FoxyTunes

what makes music fanatics thirst for the obscure is the desire to discover music that is "uncontaminated by the commerce machine."

Broken Social Scene: You Forgot It in People: Pitchfork Record Review

Who could have imagined it would come so easily? You Forgot It in People explodes with song after song of endlessly replayable, perfect pop. For proof, pick virtually any track: the sound barrier-bursting anthem "Almost Crimes", the subdued, gossamer "Looks Just like the Sun", the Dinosaur Jr.-tinted "Cause = Time", or the shimmering, Jeff Buckley-esque "Lover's Spit". And there's plenty more where that came from. How about the chugging guitar-pop of "Stars and Sons", which spins a distant, churning keyboard drone beneath the best moments of Spoon's Girls Can Tell and punctuates it with a barrage of percussive handclaps. Or "Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl" which showcases Emily Haines' melting alto caught in a beautiful, cyclical refrain and intensely modified by vocal effects while violins float atop subtle banjo plucking and cascading toms. Or "KC Accidental", which blasts searing, super-melodic guitar, a drumkit alternately galloping and relentlessly beaten, and an impenetrable wall of accelerating orchestration, before crash-landing into a deliquescent pop lullaby.

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Now playing: Broken Social Scene - Stars And Sons
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Now playing: TV On The Radio - Staring At The Sun
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Arcade Fire September 24th Seattle "This band might change your life"

My camera phone photos from possibly the greatest live show I've ever seen.
The energy still infuses me to this day.



Other's photos from the same show:

I'm somewhere around that circle... 2000 others on the floor around me.

Still more:
arcade fire - a photoset on Flickr

Set-list:


Random newspaper quotes:
"So original, so weird and so grand!"

"a haunting but addictive combination of orchestral pieces, harps and pipe organs with more traditional rock instruments, making them nearly impossible to classify"


"Forget wind turbines on the Palouse—someone should outfit these Canadians with some kind of energy-harnessing contraption. One live, helmet-pounding, sweat-soaked show alone could garner enough to stave off a rolling blackout."

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Now playing: Arcade Fire - (Antichrist Television Blues)
via FoxyTunes

September

1) "1234" by Feist (3:03)
2) "Birthday" by the Sugarcubes (3:58)
3) "Golden Blunders" by The Posies (4:28)
4) "The Body Says No" by The New Pornographers (3:56)
5) "Dry The Rain" by The Beta Band (6:05)
6) "Hang Me Up to Dry" by Cold War Kids (3:38)
7) "Where It's At" by Beck (5:30)
8) "Justine, Beckoning" by Apostle Of Hustle (4:55)
9) "Electrical Storm" by Joseph Arthur (4:50)
10) "Far Away, By My Side" by Peter Bjorn And John (3:21)
11) "We've Been Had" by Walkmen (3:29)
12) "So It Goes" by The Broken West (3:11)
13) "Sons & Daughters" by The Decemberists (5:13)
14) "Major Label Debut" by Broken Social Scene (4:28)
15) "Kathleen" by Josh Ritter (4:36)
16) "Backwater" by Meat Puppets (3:42)
17) "Don't Make Me a Target" by Spoon (3:55)
18) "Staring At The Sun" by TV On The Radio (3:27)
19) "To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge" by My Teenage Stride (3:43)
20) "Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" by Camera Obscura (3:49)
21) "Soft & Warm" by Voxtrot (4:06)
22) "This Is The Way" by Devendra Banhart (2:53)

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to discover through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened." - Albert Camus

what was that you tried to say? wait that was me

Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything in its right place
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place

Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything in its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place

There are two colours in my head
There are two colours in my head
What, what is that you tried to say?
What, what was that you tried to say?
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say
Tried to say

Everything in its right place... (to end)

Radiohead

Wake Up Somethin’ filled up my heart with nothin’, someone told me not to cry. But now that I’m older, my heart’s colder, and I can see that it’s a lie. Children wake up, hold your mistake up, before they turn the summer into dust. If the children don’t grow up, our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up. We’re just a million little god’s causin rain storms Turnin’ every good thing to rust. I guess we’ll just have to adjust. With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’ I can see where I am goin’ to be when the reaper he reaches and touches my hand.

With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’ I can see where I am goin’ With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’ I can see where I am go-goin’ You better look out below!

The Well and the Lighthouse - Arcade Fire

I am serving time
All for a crime I did commit
You want the truth?
You know I'd do it all again
Left for dead, heaven is only in my head

In my head, in my head
In my head, in my head

I heard a voice
Calling from down inside the well
So let silver shine
She said to come claim what was mine
So down I fell, down into the water black
My prayers are said, only the moon was shining back

Shining back, shining back
Shining back, shining back

If I seemed lost
When I weighed the cost
And chose my crime
Now, it's mine, all mine

I heard a voice
Calling from just outside the well
She said
"You fool, now that you know your island is near"
"You always fought for what you desire over what you fear"

What you fear, what you fear
What you fear, what you fear

Resurrected, living in a lighthouse
If you leave them ships are gonna wreck

Resurrected, living in a lighthouse
The lions and the lambs ain't sleepin' yet

Resurrected, living in a lighthouse
Can you see the funny side? the ships are gonna wreck

Resurrected, living in a lighthouse
The lions and the lambs aint sleepin' yet

The lions and the lambs ain't sleepin' yet
The lions and the lambs ain't sleepin' yet

stereogum: Arcade Fire In A Freight Elevator

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible & Wake Up - Arcade, Fire, Olympia, Paris, live

"The First Duty of wine is to be Red..." - Harry Waugh

"Days of wine and roses laugh and run away,
Like a child at play." - Johnny Mercer

"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken." - Homer

"We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now!" - Withnail in Withnail and I

"When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself." - Shunryu Suzuki-roshi

"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better." - Henry Rollins

"Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock, Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok." - Monty Python


Ex-lover Is Dead

God that was strange to see you again
Introduced by a friend of a friend
Smiled and said 'yes I think we've met before'
In that instant it started to pour,
Captured a taxi despite all the rain
We drove in silence across point champlain
And all of the time you thought I was sad
I was trying to remember your name…

This scar is a fleck on my porcelain skin
Tried to reach deep but you couldn't get in
Now you're outside me
You see all the beauty
Repent all your sin

It's nothing but time and a face that you lose
I chose to feel it and you couldn't choose
I'll write you a postcard
I'll send you the news
From a house down the road from real love…

Live through this, and you won't look back…
Live through this, and you won't look back…
Live through this, and you won't look back…

There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave
You were what I wanted
I gave what I gave
I'm not sorry I met you
I'm not sorry it's over
I'm not sorry there's nothing to say

I'm not sorry there's nothing to say...

- Stars

Set Yourself on Fire

Stars

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