Back in your Head

Tegan and Sara is really cool!

The are lesbian twins (no, not lesbian with eachother, they are lesbians, and they are twins. seperate facts) from canada.

They're really pretty. Too bad huh!

listen to Back in your Head - Tegan and Sara.

Let the cool goddess rust away

Let the cool goddess rust away

I found
A new face
A new image staring back at me
Let the cool
Goddess rust away
Let the cool
Goddess rust away
You so different
In a different way
But what goes up has so far down to fall
So go salvage
Some of that human dignity
It'll be a long
hard
road

-Clap your hands say Yeah

There are lots of different oppinions about the lyrics of this, since they sing so inaudibly, but I like this one best.

The reason I chose it is because I had to make relationship decisions rescently and I feel I have to stick with them. It's just better for everyone. Now the other person is so damn charming and I just can't help but doubt myself! Women just mess with you. for fun. Or by accident. I don't really understand it all.

None the less, the cool goddess should just rust away :).

Fool in the Rain

Vandag het ek gaan draf in die reën. Dit was eers net 'n liggiese motreëntjie, maar later moes ek maar my kappie oor my kop trek.

Beforehand I was reading a very inspirational book and I felt that I wanted to listen to real feel-good music while running. I then decided to skip pass all my usual unconventional, and downright Indie, music and to go directly to Coldplay. After being recommended to me by a friend, they have certainly grown on me. I started with Lovers In Japan (Osaka Remix) which climaxed into a spectaculour kaleidoscope of orchestrated harmonies. After awhile, I realised that I was running at a real good, steady pace. It perplexed me.

Dit tref my toe.

Wat maak musiek wat dit is? Is dit die sanger se gay Tom-DeLong-like stem? Is dit die extremely overused en cliché melodies? Of is dit die doel? En wat dit kan verrig?

Of ek nou mainstream goed luister wat my soms net irriteer en laat dink "wat weet hierdie loser nou eintlik oor 'liefde'?" en of ek nou rerig diep diep diep electronic komposies luister wat dalk net my geestes-oog kan oopmaak, wat maak dit saak? As ek deur wat ek hoor geinspireerd kan voel en dalk effens vinniger kan hardloop, dan is dit damn good list'ning.

Fool in the Rain - Led Zeppelin.mp3

Untitled (I guess)

Vanand het ek Straatligkinders gaan kyk smack-bang in die middel van brackenfel met hypermarket links en Cheetahs regs.  Dit was 'n lewendige performance met baie sweet en angst wat die kamer vol gevlieg het.  Die klank was effens shitty en ekt nie die liedjies geken nie, so ek kon nie my vuis in die lig gooi en Bouwer Bosch (leadsinger) se ewebeeld speel nie.

Ek het eerder my aandag gerig op die mense daar.  Dit was die interessantste versameling van wesens nog!  Bouwer het 'n boodskap van verlossing en genade gedeel met die mense en daar was klomp blink oogies wat in verwondering gestaar het en ingeneem het.  Die beste was egter dat hulle musiek en lirieke soveel verskillende tipes mense kon lok.  Dit spreek tot en inspireer almal: ryk, arm, jonk, baie jonk, oud, emo, goth, metal-heads, melaats, gebreklik, daai ou wat effens soo hunchback of Notre Dame lyk...

Of jy nou na die tyd Presleys toe gaan en of jy Edward Street toe gaan, vir een aand het julle iets in gemeen gehad.

Ekt dit nogals profound gevind.

Sleeping Lessons

LUISTER - The Shins - Sleeping Lessons.mp3

Ek sit nou met hope en hope werk, agterstallige werk, werk wat kom, werk wat is, alomteenwoordige werk, en dan nog boonop die aankomende eksamen wat oor my kop hang soos 'n geroesde guillotine. Ek voel net dat ek nie genoeg tyd het om goed uit te dink om te doen om my tyd mee te vul nie... ek hoop jy verstaan!

Ok, eerlikwaar dink ek nie dit is als so baie nie, maar niemand hou daarvan om uit die slaap en uit die lewe gehou te word deur 'n voorgeskrewe boek of 'n LO taak wat jou net sal help om matriek deur te kom en nie verder nie. Ek soek intelektuele stimulus! Ek soek die dae waar 'n hele middag afgestaan is aan 'n skeinat prakties sodat die kinders behoorlike ontploffings kan genereer, waar juffrouens ekstra poetry in engels gedoen het, sodat die kinders bietjie kan dink, waar ons nog dodgeball kon speel in LO!

Ai, toe ons nog jonk en onskuldig was...

You've got to hide your love away

Here I stand with head in hand,
Turn my face to the wall.
If she's gone I can't go on,
Feeling two foot small.

Ev'rywhere people stare,
Each and ev'ry day.
I can see them laugh at me,
And I hear them say.

Hey, you've got to hide your love away.
Hey, you've got to hide your love away.

How can I even try,
I can never win,
Hearing them, seeing them,
In the state I'm in.

How could she say to me
Love will find a way?
Gather round all you clowns
Let me hear you say.

Hey, you've got to hide your love away.
Hey, you've got to hide your love away.

-------------------------------------The Beatles

Also Frightened

LISTEN - Animal Collective - Also Frightened.mp3

I recently had the pleasure of sharing my first KKNK experiences with Johan Schutte, a good friend of mine, and he burned me a DVD full of some of the strangest music I have ever heard...

but on this DVD was a bunch of music from a band called Animal Collective.  So at first I thought that it has a very strange, somewhat hard-to-listen to sound to it, but as time passed their music really grew on me, so now I can truly say I'm a fan.

Here is the strange part...

I also discovered a band called Panda Bear in between my endless arrays of musical folders.  And then I got the Indie Rock Playlists from my friend and I discovered Avey Tare, also a seemlingly unknown artist.   Strange enough  Animal collective is a collection (thu

s the name) of musicians including the two childhood friends, Avey Tare and Panda Bear (Obviously not their real names).  So I, by accident, uncovered an entirely desolate part of the musical world, by accident.  They rule the lands of Baltimore, Maryland and beyond.

weird... but so worth it.  Animal Collective is a brilliant band.