Hula skirts twirl

Rainbow Bridge - Big Wave Rider

Blogger keeps eating my posts. This makes me most unhappy. Suffice to say this song gets stuck in my head day after day, it goes round and round - in a good way and now they've made a peachy and beachy video to match.

I heart the home video vibes, beach 'fashions' and non-epic waves.

Ashtray floors, dirty clothes, and filthy jokes

Can't Hardly Wait by The Replacements. This song is absolutely amazing - actually my favourite song of all time right now - and best of all there about 5 different record versions and 2 live ones for me (and you?) to enjoy - just like an online cassa single.

ps Tim version is my fave, but they're all pretty good.

Gettin' my nails done by Cronenberg and Scorsese

You don't get much more Russian Navy (below) than 'Eastern Promises'.

THANKS FOR THE TIP'S MARTIN AND DAVE!

Both 'Gangs of New York' and 'Taxi Driver' inspired my (fade to) greige and coral fetish from the new Mecca polish range.

Can you tell I've just stoppped biting my nails? They may not be claw length yet but I'm obsessed with amassing a nail polish fetish/collection to make up for lost time!

does anyone not love dinosaur comics?

Cyanide and Happiness

A Softer World

Dinosaur Comics

when you go away, I am big boned and fey

The Family Jams - Trailer from kevin barker on Vimeo.

Produced by Kevin Barker (Vetiver), The Family Jams features Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, and Vetiver as they tour the country performing their genre-defining music in the summer of 2004 - remember 2004 - it was a good year for music.



Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields. See the best lyricist and crankiest personality in music today.

Someone in Melbourne needs to screen these films - we have too many cinema's and music fans for this not to happen.

I Have News for You

There are people who do not see a broken playground swing
as a symbol of ruined childhood

and there are people who don’t interpret the behavior
of a fly in a motel room as a mocking representation of their thought process.

There are people who don’t walk past an empty swimming pool
and think about past pleasures irrecoverable

and then stand there blocking the sidewalk for other pedestrians.
I have read about a town somewhere in California where human beings

do not send their tuberous feeder roots
deep into the potting soil of others’ emotional lives

as if they were greedy six-year-olds
sucking the last half inch of milkshake up through a noisy straw;

and other persons in the Midwest who can kiss without
unpacking the imperialist baggage of heterosexuality.

Do you see that creamy, lemon-yellow moon?
There are some people, unlike me and you,

who do not yearn after love or fame or quantities of money as
unattainable as that moon;

Thus, they do not later
have to waste more time
defaming the object of their former ardor.

Or consequently run and crucify themselves
in some solitary midnight Starbucks Golgotha.

I have news for you:
there are people who get up in the morning and cross a room

and open a window to let the sweet breeze in
and let it touch them all over their faces and bodies.

Tony Hoagland

Im gonna be a rude boy

It seems like Jay-Z ain't the only part of the Def Jam familia that loves contemporary art references in video clips - see Damien Hirst ref's and more in On To The Next One.

Peep the epic "work of art" screen shots from Rihanna's 'Rude Boy' film clip below - its a beautiful thing

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Keith Haring

Warhol

(via the eternal genius that is Flavorwire)

Also the entire genius that is 'Rude Boy' below - proof that sometimes lyrics do not maketh the song: