A book and a song

'enemy' shellfire was coming closer like the stitches of a gigantic sewing machine, screams of pain, shouted commands and whistling medics - the machine was running amok, and a billowing carpet of brown smoke settled across the town, so dense and boundless that it enveloped the sky as well, and there we sat, in the middle of all this, like maggots in the core of a rotten apple. - The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles, Roy Jacobsen

'comment pourrais-je vivre, si tu n'étais pas là?'

'how could I live, if you were not here?' - Si tu n'étais pas là, Fréhel

I am unoccupied, so I have picked two interesting things and included them in a blog together. The book is one that I am reading currently. The song is by Fréhel and I like it.

Maybe I think you're cute and funny

Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you if you know what i mean.

You grew on me

like a tumour.
I love Tim Minchin :)

This is my brain
And I live in it
It’s made of love
And bad song lyrics
It’s tucked away behind my eyes
Where all my screwed up thoughts can hide
Cos God forbid I hurt somebody
And the weirdest thing about a mind
Is that every answer that you find
Is the basis of a brand new cliché

This is my brain
And it’s fine
It’s where I spend the vast majority of my time
It’s not perfect
But it’s mine
It’s not perfect
I’m not quite sure I’ve worked out how to work it
It’s not perfect
But it’s mine - Tim Minchin, 'Not Perfect'

But he sang louder and louder inside the house..

I'd been listening to Bird Song for a while, sub-conciously singing along. Then I really started listening to it. And I realised how twisted it is. It's about a bird that was singing outside Florence's house, and she was worried that it would bother the neighbours, so she invited him in to reason with him but he sang louder and louder inside the house so..

'I trapped him under a cardboard box
And stood on it to make him stop,
I picked up the bird and above the dim I said
"That's the last song you'll ever sing."
Held him down, broke his neck,
Taught him a lesson he wouldn't forget.' - Florence & The Machine


Pretty damn sickening? Whats the inspiration for that?

Hate the sin not the sinner

'Key pieces include shirts based on retro college looks and given a treatment of beading and applique finished with a vintage worn feel.'




I love Elvis Jesus shirts. :)

Country Mile

I entered a competition to win tickets to the Green Man Festival, and now I wanna go to that!

It looks like a lovely place and the acts include Jarvis Cocker, Camera Obscura, Wilco, Peggy Sue, Noah and the Whale and Bon Iver..

It is £50 for people aged between 13 - 17 but I can imagine the transport to Mid Wales would cost a bit too! Hm.. what to do.

Also I have been looking at at San Fransisco's Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival.. the line up is amazing! But its quite expensive ($225). And, of course, it is in San Fransisco.. slight problem there. Augh...

The Day We Caught The Train

I want to go to beachdown! £45 for 4 days of music..

Was such a good festival last year.. but the line up is nowhere near as good as it was before.

Ocean Colour Scene have just confirmed their appearance.. but besides them, The Zutons, Grace Jones & Ida Maria, the line up hasn't won me over.

I've just been told that theres a festival on soon.. for free.. and The Smiths are playing?

Nice :) That has sorted my dilemma.. for now.