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The Life Pursuit

I got Belle & Sebastian’s new album, The Life Pursuit. I don’t know what to say about it, but it’s really really good. I guess everyone knows anyway. Belle & Sebastian are one of those bands that are ‘cool’ to know about, and to drop phrases like ‘indie pop’ when talking about them. Anyway, it’s good stuff.

I left my washing in the launderette
You can put some money on it, you can place a little bet
That when I see my washing
The black will be grey and the white will be grey
But the blues are still blue

(How good is this year looking music-wise? Two thousand and four was awesome, last year was poor with the exception of a couple of releases, but this year will be an absolute killer if it keeps going like it is!).

No Promises

Alright, no promises, but maybe all that server changing site being not online fun is over for a while now.

Edit: The basic explanation is that the old host was bad, the new one was worse, and the new new one, well, let’s just wait and see. The people in charge (who have much more spare time than I) did a top job. My dribble will resume normal service now.

Edit #2: My email address(es) at this domain are also now working again. So if you tried to email me in the last week or so and I never replied, you may want to try again.

Quick and Tacky

Good Friday special. A couple of second hand jokes, courtesy of the radio.

Q: What did Jesus say about 2000 years ago on this day?
A: “Don’t touch my Easter eggs, I’ll be back in three days.”

Heh.

If Australia ever reached zero percent unemployment, everyone at Centrelink would lose their jobs.

Haha.

A Grate War

Way back when I got Triple J’s Home and Hosed (Freshly Plucked) compilation CD I fell in love with Rock Boys by The Grates. After hearing a couple more tracks on the radio, I knew I had to have the album. Then I saw them at the Big Day Out, and they were close to the best set all day. Energy!

Photo source : Daniel Boud

This morning I picked up their debut album, Gravity Won’t Get You High an entire sixty seconds after it was put on the shelves. Silly idea, as I was itching all day at work with it sitting on my desk. Had to tell myself to settle a few times.

Turns out (wahey) it’s really quite good. Quite good, meaning insanely awesome. They sound so real. Not to mention fun. You could sit still, doing absolutely nothing but listening to this record, and it’d still be impossibly fun. It is in fact impossible to sit still, you’ve just got to get up and dance. I can’t dance at all, but that’s okay, because somehow this music suits that. And I kind of like singing along to a high-pitched yelling (yet melodious!) girl. Er, alone.

If you’ve ever heard Art Of Fighting’s music, well, this is the opposite. Ahh, see, now you get me.

Gravity Won’t Get You High also comes in the coolest packaging since Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds’ latest double album. Stuff the iTunes store, I’d pay my twenty five just for the sleeve. In fact the guy at the store was so excited about the sleeve that he pulled it out and showed me right there and then at the counter. What a nutter. But I guess I would have done the same.

If you only own two of this year’s releases, they should be TZU’s Smiling AT Strangers, and this one from The Grates.

I also picked up The Flaming Lips’ At War With The Mystics, also released today. It’s insanely good too, and for some reason gives me the urge to play it to my (future) children. It’s like kids music, but good. Yep, The Flaming Lips and Steve Burns’ Songs For Dustmites. My kids are going to be seriously mixed up when they’re young. So this record also makes me dance. I mean, I just read the title of It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big … I Am So Small … Do I Stand A Chance? and I start dancing.

(Believe it or not) I don’t insist you rush out and buy every CD I rubbish on about, but these two are musts. Especially The Grates. Go get them. Really. Sorted.

These Tits Are Way More Indie Than You

My new IndieTits T-shirt came in the mail the other day. Which is sweet, except that now I have to go around explaining to my ignorant friends the tit is a type of bird, and I’m not actually wearing some unfunny b-grade slogan on my shirt.