I got hit hard, I’m on the ground
And if you swing again I’ll duck
And I wish you best of luck
You deserve yourself
And I return from my trip to hell
As a headless horseman
Oh what I lost
I went back to get my stuff
And it was tangled up and tough
I stood there and stared you down
And I walked aimlessly around
With a flaming pumpkin head
Oh what a loss
My soft hands replaced by claws
You turned me into a stray dog, from mighty human man
Oh what a loss
Oh what a loss
I miss my closest friend
And now I cling to rocks and wind
It’s a precious thing we lost
Tonight I am playing with Nate Kinsella’s band, Birthmark and Alan from Tangled Hair (Someone Died), and Shakey Hands.
Old Blue Last.
Curtain Road.
London.
8pm.
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I love a good arctic fox.
THANK YOU.
QUAINT BULLSHIT
There’s barely a trope of olde-worlde London that hasn’t been co-opted by the type of dickhead who subscribes to The Chap and spent all summer moaning about the Shard on Facebook. London’s got a grim and rich history to it, and bit by bit, every part of that’s being sold from an unfurnished shop in “Stokey” to new dads who dress like CBBC presenters and ex-pat Melbournites with antiquity envy. We’ve already had moustache waxing, ballroom dancing, opium (probably) and door frames, so I guess, if you’re a prick, you can look forward to getting cholera, air raids and a 48-hour shift in a child peasant workhouse for Christmas.
A chief symptom of this pandemic of quaint bullshit is the cupcake, a foodstuff that doubles as the most innocuous signifier of ingrained racism yet devised by man. Who actually likes cupcakes, anyway? They’re the sort of thing you eat half of at a village fete before feeding to a dog.
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This has been a great year for music. And the year has whizzed by. I know I say that every year.
I have also had a very good year because I fell in love with the best boy ever, and I got a new job at [PIAS] UK, and I went on tour in Europe, and I went to Cornwall a lot, and I embraced London a lot, and I got a piano. I also had the best tour ever in May, and the best time ever at The Great Escape Festival in Brighton.
It was also a sad year because my Grandpa died in November. But otherwise, I have been very lucky this year.
SO NOW FOR THE TOP 10. I normally put a paragraph under each one as to why it made the top 10, but this year I decided that it should speak for itself probably. They all mean something different to me and remind me of times throughout 2012.
Things I enjoyed this year but didn’t quite make the cut or couldn’t go in for various reasons:
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (don’t care)
John K Samson - Provincial
The Shins - Port of Morrow
Gallows - S/T
Marmozets - Vexed (but that’s an EP so it can’t go in….)
Fang Island - Major
Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation (but apparently it came out in 2011 )
Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital EP (again it’s an EP)
Cloud Nothings - Attack on Memory
First Aid Kit - Lions Roar
Best Coast - The Only Place
Why? - Mumps. Etc
Cancer Bats - Dead Set on Living (haven’t listened to it enough for it to make it into top 10 though - not on purpose, just haven’t somehow.)
Daughter - All EPs
TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2012:
1. Now, Now - Threads
2. Front Bottoms - S/T
3. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball
4. Deftones - Koi No Yokan
5. Perfume Genius - Put Your Back N 2 It
6. The Chariot - One Wing
7. Right Away, Great Captain! - The Church of the Good Thief
8. Every Time I Die - Ex Lives
9. Sharon Van Etten - Tramp
10. Mewithoutyou - Ten Stories
A different mood on a different day would put these in an entirely different order - especially the top 5 - those are kind of interchangeable and could really go in any order.
Top Tracks (from top albums and also shows I attended) - in no particular order:
Lana Del Rey - Video Games
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die
Deftones - Entombed
Right Away, Great Captain - Blame
Mewithoutyou - Elephants in the Dock
Perfume Genius - Dark Parts
Youth Lagoon - July
Every Time I Die - Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space
The Chariot - Not
Sharon Van Etten - Serpents
Front Bottoms - Maps
Now, Now - Prehistoric
Now, Now - Threads
Bruce Springsteen - American Land
Why? - Sod In The Seed
Paul Simon - The Boy in The Bubble
Paul Simon - I Know What I Know
Paul Simon - Under African Skies
The Shins - Simple Song
Best Coast - The Only Place
Best Coast - Boyfriend
Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital
Vales - Stallions - Adrenaline
Japanese Voyeurs - Dumb
Bonnie Rait - I Can’t Make You Love Me
Hundred Reasons - What You Get
Hundred Reasons - Harmony
Cheatahs - Swan
At The Drive In - Napoleon Solo
Refused - Rather Be Dead
Refused - Protest Song ‘68
Neutral Milk Hotel - Song Against Sex
Tellison - The Way You Look Tonight
Tellison - Hospital
Tubelord - In Greenland
Yo La Tengo - Tears In Your Eyes
Bastions - Augury
Deftones - Knife Crime
Pariso - Mystifier
The National - Wasp’s Nest
Alexisonfire - This Could Be Anywhere In The World
Cave In - Stained Silver
City And Colour - Sensible Heart
Candy Hearts - She’s So Cool
Into It. Over It. - Anchor
Into It. Over It. - Embracing Facts
Seahaven - Goodnight
Seahaven - Honeybee
Cancer Bats - Bricks and Mortar
Loads more but I can’t think at the moment.
TELL ME YOURS NOW PLEASE.
I don’t understand why Ginger porn blogs are following me on both my Tumblr accounts. Did I once say I like Gingers?
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