The Rumor Said Fire - The Balcony



The best thing that happened to folk rock and vocal harmonies since Simon & Garfunkel. Pure and simple.
I dare you to stop listening to it - If you're anything like me, you can't.

http://www.myspace.com/therumoursaidfire

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/

Understatedly absurd and beyond reason - The dada approach to Wikipedia, and completely free of moderation or fact-checking (if there even were any facts to check) ;)
Holy fuck, this is the funniest shit I've read in AGES!
Just try to read some of the articles!


Röak Band - Teütonic Invasion
Following ze monumental success of ze Guitar Hero und Rock Band game series, vich allow for ze soft decadent muziek of ze vest, zer honorable German games company Spielen Mit Meinem Bälle has decided nicht mehr.


Karl Lagerfeld

To model

No! You are too fat! Look at you. If you could see my eyes, you would see them grow dark like the fire of a burning umbrella under the rain of your shame! Get out of my sight! No, do not leave. I may grow to enjoy you, like a panda does the soft fields of clover. Just move to my left. Back. Back. More! Now you are out of my sight. Stand there and think about how you can climb out of the night and return to the light of me!

To another model

Delicious! If you were yogurt, I would mix you with strawberries and pour you on my head! Is that a blemish? You are not yogurt! Leave now. Now! Stand behind this one who is out of my sight. You are not to walk the runway in fashion by me! You will not be employed by me again until you are yogurt!

BEAT THE DEVIL'S TATTOO


New album released in March and I'm soooo fucking stoked! :)
They're also playing in Glasgow in April

It's rare I urge people to join a group but here's a worthy cause: Getting Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" to #1 in the charts, as an ironic nod to Northern Ireland's homophobic first lady Iris Robinson who was caught having sex with a 19 year old boy, mirroring the lyrics of the song.
The scandal have caused her husband, the First Minister to step down, after what is being called Irisgate, hit the media.
Before the scandal, she was widely criticized for her outspoken hatred towards gays.

Download the song from Amazon here
Join the Facebook group here

The song is currently at #26 on Amazon's Bestsellers, after only 4 days in the top 100, and the goal is to get it to the top ;)

Many media outlets have picked up on the Facebook campaign, and it's spreading to both the US and Australia

Okay so cryptic title, but just listen to this track - The perfect song for new year's eve!
A playful nod to the 90's, which I'm glad to see, and it works really well when you're intoxicated ;)
It's topped the charts in Denmark 2 months ago and I predict it's gonna rape the UK charts as well, when the album is released overhere.
Of course, it helps on the song's likability that I've got my Grado headphones back, when I was in Denmark for Christmas (will update about that later), so I've been enjoying music at the highest level of oh-holy-shit ;)

( Some of the best international press photos of the noughties. )

WARNING: Some of these pics show death and destruction - You have been warned

From NOPENHAGEN to HOPENHAGEN

Although Obama is his usual enthusiastic self, word is beginning to spread that the 192 nations represented at the Copenhagen Climate Conference, won't reach an agreement. On the last night of the conference, nobody has a clue what's going on.
My sister works at the conference, and she says that everyone is just walking around, confused. The rumor mill is running wild, with talks of extending the talks.

Let's hope for the best


UPDATE:
It seems that the UN has accepted a statement known as the Copenhagen Accord, which would function as a stepping stone for a binding agreement at a later time. Now it's just up to the individual countries to adopt or reject it.

Assorted pics from December in Scotland!


In other news, Jason Derulo's "Whatchu Say" seems to stuck in EVERYONE'S HEAD!
And it's a pretty average song, except for the chorus, which is a steal from Imogen Heap's impressive track Hide And Seek, featuring some of the finest use of harmonizers ever ;)

So today I come home from a very rainy and miserable day, open my mail, and glanced at an email titled "YOU ARE A WINNER!"
I guess we all get those, but this one was actually not SPAM, I had won a Phosphor Digital Hour watch :D
Enterered the contest not more than a week ago, and I had completely forgot about it :P


It was going on my wish list, but luckily I haven't dispatched it to the family yet :)
But yeah, it's a super cool watch, with an E-Ink display also known as electronic paper, which means high visibility, low battery drain, super slim case and geeky goodness :P
They retail at 185$ and have been sold out for some time, but they're back in stock now.

I believe the last time I won any sort of public contest, was on a radio show where I won a cd (Eagle-Eye Cherry's "Living In The Present Future") and that was about a decade ago :P

Jamie Cullum released a new album yesterday, and within that hides a jazz cover of Rhianna's Don't Stop The Music.
I like how the song changed from "Crowded tacky club with Red Bull + Vodka" to "Intimate date with a sexy guy and a glass of wine"

I've been thinking about getting a tattoo for a long time now, and now I think I've finally settled on a design, as you see above.
I'm thinking I would get it tattooed wrapped around my right wrist, where my watch is on the other arm.
Seems like a combo that would work well, especially since I really don't have a body for tattoos.

For those of you who don't know, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, it's a band.
It's not really my favorite band (perhaps third?), but it's been the band I've listened to the most in the past 2 years at least. It's rare I would use words such as "satisfying" and "rewarding" about music, but BRMC is just that.
It's probably the richer sound that comes from using hollowbody guitars ;)
Plus, I have a thing for typography and especially this font (Avant-Garde), so it's just as much because I think the font and text is wicked cool, as it is about me liking the band.
It's also one of only 2 fonts I've ever paid money for (the other being Optima), so I might as well get it on my body :P

The reason for including an album name as well (Baby 81) is, again, not so much because of the album itself, but the feel and the look of the album.


I might later add the broken Gibson ES-355 from the US album cover of Baby 81 further up my lower arm. But that's a big maybe.
I don't play guitar, but it's still a very iconic model :)

Shirley Manson (of Garbage) - [untitled solo album]
-Recorded, but without a record deal to publish it as it was deemed too "noir".

Garbage - [5th album]
-On the "persistent rumors" stage.

Interpol - [4th album]
-The band started recording new songs in March.

Ratatat - LP4
-Nearly finished, but still no date.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - [6th album]
- On schedule to be released in March 2010.

Supergrass - [7th album]
-Info sketchy, but it has been confirmed for release next year.

The Black Keys - [7th album] / Blak Roc
-They're releasing a collaboration album in Nov. with several notable rappers, while also having begun work on a studio album of their own.

Keane - [4th album]
-Apparently going to be a "mini album".

A good song to help you unwind after a long week.

Noel Gallagher quits Oasis, band splitting up.

50 million albums, 8 UK #1 singles, 15 NME awards... And now it's over.

It's a black day for music.