addict yourself

Transform your day!

Ceu - Malemolencia


Lily Allen - F You - [I wanted to embed the actual video which is pretty cool but not allowed :( ]


Keane - Another One Bites the Dizzee (mashup of Queen and Dizzie Rascal)


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continuing the education

After the easing into with Everybody's Changing, I am here to announce that Keane are neither melodramatic:



nor are they boring.



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too much soul

Apparently, we need to look out.

New In Town - Little Boots


Too Fake - Hockey


and CL will be forced to listen to this -
Lily Allen & Keane - Everybody's Changing


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song request!

Requested by cl. (hint: guys we should make this a regular feature because I want to)

vita, spiritus et amor

So after all that weighty discussing, we thought we might lighten things up. These are just a few of the many definitions of my favourite noun:

Life
(n.) The system of animal nature; animals in general, or considered collectively. (n.) The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or any of its organs are capable of performing all or any of their functions; -- used of all animal and vegetable organisms. (n.) The potential principle, or force, by which the organs of animals and plants are started and continued in the performance of their several and cooperative functions; the vital force, whether regarded as physical or spiritual. (n.) The living or actual form, person, thing, or state; as, a picture or a description from the life. (n.) That which imparts or excites spirit or vigor; that upon which enjoyment or success depends; as, he was the life of the company, or of the enterprise. (n.) Something dear to one as one's existence; a darling; -- used as a term of endearment. (n.) Of human beings: The union of the soul and body; also, the duration of their union; sometimes, the deathless quality or existence of the soul; as, man is a creature having an immortal life. (n.) Figuratively: The potential or animating principle, also, the period of duration, of anything that is conceived of as resembling a natural organism in structure or functions; as, the life of a state, a machine, or a book; authority is the life of government. (n.) Enjoyment in the right use of the powers; especially, a spiritual existence; happiness in the favor of God; heavenly felicity. (n.) Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy. (n.) An essential constituent of life, esp. the blood. (n.) A person; a living being, usually a human being; as, many lives were sacrificed. (n.) A history of the acts and events of a life; a biography; as, Johnson wrote the life of Milton. (n.) A certain way or manner of living with respect to conditions, circumstances, character, conduct, occupation, etc.; hence, human affairs; also, lives, considered collectively, as a distinct class or type; as, low life; a good or evil life; the life of Indians, or of miners.

So here's some music to live to:

It's My Own Cheating Heart That Makes Me Cry Glasvegas, Glasvegas



New Romantic, Alas I Cannot Swim, Laura Marling



Gifted, The Spirit of Apollo, N.A.S.A ft Kanye West, Lykke Li, Santogold



2008, Hello Saferide



A Bad Dream (live), Under The Iron Sea, Keane



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oh, I don't know...music+clothing=XD

This will probably be the first and last time I ever blog about something remotely related to fashion, but it just so happens to be that graphic designer/artist Sanna Annukka who designed the lovely album artwork for Keane's Under the Iron Sea comme ca:
...has also designed a clothing range at Topshop which you can visit here: hello!






They're pretty and pretty baggy! yay for random links

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yay it's music time dance dance wiggle wiggle dance some more

It's almond almost time for a new year and normally this would mean lots of resolutions that are full to the brim with bullshite and mean even less! However, I have an exciting nuuu proposal that will save you all the hassle and haranguement and whatnot of waiting for that 11:59pm by....simply ignoring it!! Now sit back, cup your chins and stroke them ferociously (note: it would be wise to grow a beard before doing this, otherwise you run the risk of chinburn which is waaay nastier than sunburn or armpitburn or that nasty show Burn Notice) whilst muttering "Why didn't I think of that??!?!"

You see, my theory is that everything is relative. And since everything is relative, everything is different for everyone. And finally because this is so (and because I say it is so), everything must be subjective, and liable to change depending on your outlook and frame of mind. Although I may have ripped it orrf Einstein, I am re-appropriating it into our context of "nu yr's ev" - if you are ignoring this particular moment in time (and let's face it, time is just one of those things I know I'd rather not think about), then you are ignoring all of the conventions and obligations and celebrations etc. that come associated with it, and THUS TO YOU....IT IS NOT REAL!

If you just read all of that and thought "This is, like, totes irrelevant/boring/stupid/wackjobesque" you may be correct, but please remember that yes, I am in the exact state of mind as when I tried to proving that belonging is imaginary with mathematical induction. In other words, completely off my face - a major feat seeing as I have not actually required any sort of illicit dodgy mushroom to do it.

I feel that I have strayed far from my point long enough, so let us return to the real point of this - some music that I feel compelled I repeat COMPELLED to post on here on the grounds of my liking it veryy much.

Spaceman - The Killers (Day & Age)


Move - CSS (Donkey)


Spiralling - Keane (Perfect Symmetry)


First Love - Adele (19)


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