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20 Neutral Milk Hotel icons
Mar. 8th, 2008 | 12:10 am
mood: 
awake
music: Man Man - Van Helsing Boombox
These icons have been sitting on my hard drive mocking me for the last few weeks, so I thought I’d put them up.
There are a few doubles in there because it’s not like there is an abundance of band pictures floating around and I ran out of inspiration so a lot of them are textless, fell free to use them as bases if you want. Also, how awesome is the picture of Jeff Mangum with the gnomes, seriously.
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49 Johnny The Homicidal Maniac Icons
Jul. 26th, 2007 | 05:21 pm
mood: 
calm
A few JTHM icons, most of them with text, comments are love.
40 Nny
7 Fillerbunny
1 Happy Noodle Boy
1 JTFM Logo
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Does this count as a proper ‘diary’ entry?
Jul. 12th, 2007 | 02:28 am
mood: 
creative
music: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Love Song No. 7
I should start treating this like a diary or something shouldn’t I.
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First Day of My Life
Jul. 10th, 2007 | 04:42 pm
I’m gonna start getting back around to putting songs up, because really, why not. This song is from the fantastic band Bright Eyes and their album I'm Wide Awake It's Morning. It’s is quiet possibly the sweetest music video clip ever, as well as a really lovely song; they both compliment each other well. If watching this doesn’t make you feel at least a bit happy then you have no soul. And also, kudos to Bright Eyes for including some gay couples in the clip; always gets you into my good books. Anyway, enjoy.
Bright Eyes
First Day of My Life
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Hurt
Jul. 10th, 2007 | 04:29 pm
This is one of those music video clips that have emerged from that great tradition of putting together lots of poignant archival footage. The song, Hurt by industrial band Nine Inch Nails marks the conclusion of the concept album The Downward Spiral, which tells the story (and I’m stealing all this from Wikipedia) of a character losing control of his life as he tries to escape the trappings of society and religion with sex and drugs and eventually finds himself on a downward spiral culminating in his own suicide at the end of the album after facing his own internal void. Trent Reznor himself was at the time an alcoholic and drug addict and has also stated that he has suffered from depression and manic-depressive disorder.
One rather interesting side note is that most of the album was recorded at Le Pig in
Nine Inch Nails
Hurt
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Televators
Jul. 10th, 2007 | 04:00 pm
This next song comes from The Mars Volta’s spectacular prog rock concept album De-Loused in the Comatorium. De-Loused is based on a short story of the same name by the bands lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and sound manipulation artist Jeremy Michael Ward (I would recommend this story, which can be found here to anyone interested in reading something different and challenging themselves).
The album, by way of it enigmatic, often cryptic and unintelligible lyrics tells the tale of Cerpin Taxt, a man who tries to kill himself by overdosing on morphine. The attempt lands him in a week-long coma (this forming the majority of the album) during which he experiences fantastic visions of the most frightening and incredible creatures in a narrative that unfolds amidst an epic battle of good and evil within his own psyche. It would really be impossible to explain exactly what happens during this portion of the album and story in one short post, suffice it to say that the very creatures Cerpin has imagined in his art, now manifest in his mind in a tale that defies logic.
The album's protagonist is based on Bixler-Zavala's late friend Julio Venegas, an
The Mars
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Maps
Jul. 10th, 2007 | 03:59 pm
Short intro for once, this is Maps from indie band the Yeah Yeah Yeahs debut album Fever To Tell. One of the slower songs from the album, its got a great simple beat and beautiful lyrics. And how gorgeous is Karen O, she’s one of the best front women you’ll find in rock today, though she’s a little more subdue in this clip then usual. There’s a good reason this song was one of there biggest successes.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Maps
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Blow Up The Pokies
Jul. 10th, 2007 | 03:57 pm
Ok, it took me a while to pick this song; it’s from one of the best, if not totally underrated Australian bands ever, The Whitlams. they took their name from former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam who during the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis became the only Australian Prime Minister to have been dismissed from office by the Governor-General. The songs is called Blow Up The Pokies; the pokies are another name for slot machines by the way.
There’s actually a very sad story behind the whole thing, it was written by front man Tim Freedman about founding band member Andy Lewis on the destruction he saw in Andy's life due to his gambling addiction. The song had been waiting to be released as a single just before the band, who were touring in Canada received word that Andy Lew is had committed suicide back in Australia. Tim Freedman, is now the only founding member of the original three still alive today, the other being Stevie Plunder who committed suicide on Australia Day 1996. So, anyway, keep that in mind if you listen, the song has a lot of sentiment to it.
The Whitlams
Blow Up The Pokies
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Glad To Be Gay
Jul. 10th, 2007 | 03:55 pm
I LOVE this song.
It was written by Tom Robinson who was an outspoken advocate of the gay movement in the 1970s and this is one of his most well known songs which was originally written for a Pride rally in
Tom Robinson Band
Glad To Be Gay
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Once I Was
Jul. 10th, 2007 | 03:54 pm
This is an absolutely beautiful, sad song from Tim Buckley. If his name sounds familiar that’s because he is the father of Jeff Buckley, unfortunately the two shared more then their superb three-and-a-half octave voice and and like his son Tim Buckley died very young at just 28. though from a drug overdose, leaving us only with the work he created in his short career spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s. the clip footage (which really has nothing to do with the song) is taken from an 60s show called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, but it does give a kinda nice feel to the music.
Tim Buckley
Once I Was