Music for Your Midweek: Arctic Monkeys

Dear Alex Turner and the other monkeys,

Your new album is great, but I still miss the good ol' days.

Remember when your music videos were directed by Roman Frikin' Coppola?




And this. This is really great.



And remember when you played at In the Venue, and I missed it?



Let's not talk about it.
It still hurts.

Love you, anyway.

xoxo

Gossip Girl

A Poem for Saturday: Shakespeare's Sonnet 55

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments 
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents 
Than unswept stone besmear'd with sluttish time. 
When wasteful war shall statues overturn, 
And broils root out the work of masonry, 
Nor Mars his sword nor war's quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory. 
'Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room
Even in the eyes of all posterity 
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise, 
You live in this, and dwell in lovers' eyes.

Music for your Midweek: ∆ (Alt-J) and Thin Lizzy

Hey guyz hey.

I was chatting with Ingrid yesterday, and she mentioned her new-found love of Alt-J. I was so proud! And I quickly sent her this cover . My apologies dear readers. I thought I shared it with you already. I've listened to it almost daily since April. It's great. And it reignited my desire to get into Thin Lizzy.

Listen to the original here. 

It's so groovy. I love it.

It's winter. Time to Let Town Pale. Time to Plot New Tale.

This morning.


I had to scrape snow off my car.



It was only a centimeter of snow and ice, but enough that it would have impaired my vision if I started driving. It's symbolic, ok?*

The cold weather also signifies I'm getting meaner. One of my co-workers (who I've only interacted with maybe two times) told me, "You're awesome!". Really? Do you even know me? I'm mediocre most of the time. And that's not me being modest, that's me being honest. I brush my teeth in most normal way. I type at my computer at an average speed. My clothes and manner are unremarkable. I'm not awe-inspiring, intimidating, or accomplished. Doing you a favor doesn't make me "awesome", it just makes me polite.

See?

Mean, mean, mean.

Anyway.

I just wanted to let you know that since it's getting cold, you are all required to listen to Owen Pallet/Final Fantasy all day long.

Do you have five minutes and twenty seconds? Listen to a favorite song:



Do you have five minutes and forty one seconds? Listen to another favorite song of his:



Do you have an hour and six minutes? How about you watch this concert:



Do you have many hours?

Listen to everything here:


or here:


Or read some other posts I did about him here or here.


*You may be wondering why I was driving since my work is practically across the street from my house. I left twenty minutes early so I could drive a mile away to Carls Jr. for a lackluster breakfast sandwich. Breakfast fast food is my ultimate weakness. It is so bad. I also, woke up at 5:45 this morning, and then lounged in bed for the next 2 hours reading instead of going to the gym. For reals. What is wrong with me? To make up for it, I'll walk to the gym for my yoga class tonight. Deal?

We crave a different kind of buzz

This is funny

and I'm really liking this Lorde track:

My boyfriend, Ichabod

Don't have anything to do this Halloween? Watch one of my favorite old Disney cartoons. Click on the link to watch it; it won't let me embed. And if I'm not mistaken, I think it's Bing Crosby who's singing the songs?

I miss these cartoons. They are soooooo good.

And can I admit something embarrassing to you? I've maybe watched a couple episode of Sleepy Hollow. I mean, look at the guy who plays Ichabod:

Babe. A little different from Disney's version, no?

And who could forget our dear Johnny...

Gosh. That was an awful movie.

Anyway.

Hope you have a Happy Halloween!

Music for your Midweek: Hozier

This song. It's killer.
Also, the video broke my heart.

Here it is:

Wow wow wow

You know you want an acoustic version: