as i seem to always start blogs with something i've re-discovered or something i want, (living in the past/future too much or what) - don't expect to fall off your chair with my super-spontaneous words when/if you read on..
yesterday i was thinking of cool books to get for upcoming friend's birthdays (and comings of age that i've recently overlooked, i'm sorrrryyyy).
i was thinking back to some of my favourite presents that ive been superdoopz lucky enough to have received in the last few years - and a lot of my most preciously loved ones have been kookie/unheard of/good-quality-smelling-&-feeling books that ive only really taken the time to appreciate afterward - i can't get over the fact that someone has thought about me and wanted to share something special with me - i love that. sometimes ive gotten mixtapes and once even a friend's sketchbook, oh and homemade cards or some words jotted down on a piece of paper are just as sweet. to think that someone has cared enough to put some of their time aside to make/get something blows me away - i feel guilty even sometimes.. but of course theres no complaints. hehe.
ANYWAY, i digress..
with the books thing i was thinking of books id like to get people; ones that i'd like to receive myself - if that makes sense. i always try to get presents that the person would like, of course, but also ones that i know that i'd like to receive if i was them..haha. if that makes sense either !
i don't know if it exists even, but i ex-secretly really want the scrapbook full of photobooth photo off-cuts out of the movie Amelie.. you know the one that the photobooth fixing guy carries around ? ahh i've forgotten his name, but i'm talking about the cute jewish-nosed man that Amelie's got her eye one.. his book ! can you imagine ? so cool !
anddd as i've knocked off the thing i crave, here's what i discovered last night; hoolllyy doolie. i wrote this in a notebook last night up in my room while i was caught up in the moment, just so i didn't forget any of my little thought-tangents that i had in the span of about 3 hours when i was listening back to my re-discoverd and much-forgotten-about cassette tape archives in my bedroom. was mind-blowing:
there's nothing like imperfections in live music/live recordings. i don't mean when the vox are grossly out of tune with the back-up harmonies or anything hugely turning-off, but just the little slip-ups which make you realise that the artist/band on stage are actually real people too..
like for eg., when a voice breaks for a split second or a guitar string snaps (hello The Girl music vid :d),
or, if you're chris martin; when you start hecticly spluttering and coughing during the Scientist at the Splendour weekender in '03..which was followed by 'true professionalism' & a british chuckle as the band kept playing without his singing for a few lines.. that recording is seriously one the highlights of my musical life - it's tearjerking and laughy - all at once. and i wasn't even there !
or, maybe you're missy higgins and play a bung note after you realise you're live on the radio, being recorded - and get scared.
i remember when i was listening to that Live @ the Wireless session from oh so many moons ago.. i was in my little old bedroom at my desk, so probably drawing or writing a letter or something, and had tuned into jjj for the very first time in my life.
missy higs was debuting The Sound of White and my brother, sister and i were all separately tuned in, listening to it in absolute amazement.
the only song i remember specifically was The River, but geez it was a fab set.
but last night, i got to re-listen to both of those moments ! again ! yaaayyyyyyy TEAM NOSTALGIA, WOOO.
i dug out a box of prime cassettes that i'd accumulated over the years, since late primary school or so - and found a whole heap of live @ the wireless recordings of my sister's (eskimo joe, silverchair, s'thing for kate, jebediah, ben harper, coldplay, missy higgins, cody chesnutt etc), old mixtapes (!!!!!!), lauryn hill, will smith, the eagles, bob marley, blondie, the deltones, jjj hottest 100 volume 8, AND MUCH MUCH MORE KIDS.
a lot of the tapes were mis-labelled - which was sad bc a whole heap of great-sounding playlists had been taped over or couldn't be found in the epic shoebox to beat all shoeboxes - but it was almost equally great, bc i didn't know what to expect half the time !
there was a super cute mix my sister and her friend had made in primaryschool/highschool with quotes/songs recorded from 10 Things I Hate About You mixed in with some sweet old Michael Jackson and other gems.
one that i haven't found yet, sadly, had the best-sounding track listing, my word.
hello childhood:
SIDE A:
killing heidi - weir, pearl jam - last kiss, santana & rob thomas - smooth, blur - song 2, killing heidi - mascara, s club 7 -s club party, red hot chilli peppers - the other side, ultimate kaos - anything you want, nirvana - smells like teen spirit, RHCP - around the world, christina aguilera - what a girl wants, will smith - will2k, salt n pepa - brick time vs giddy up
SIDE B:
tlc - dear lie, all saints - pure shores, chris franklin - bloke, cake - going the distance, backstreet boys - show me the meaning of being lonely, blink 182 - all the small things, killing heidi - superman, supergirl, marc anthony - i need to know, sugar ray - falls apart, mel c & left-eye - never be the same again, kelis - caught out there, bardot - poison
BUT my absolute fave, no actually it ties with the old hottest 100 tape i found, was a mix made by someone in my family about half+ a decade ago - i can't even put into words how stoked i was to find the songs...faaarrr out it was an amaZING find.
(note: the other side of the tape had some foreign orchestral songs on it hahah, what a fun mixed bag)
i found:
silverchair - pure massacre, coldplay - shiver, radiohead - pyramid song, sophie ellis bextor - umm can't remember the title of the song, was the second one she released.., fuel - shimmer, morcheeba - rome wasn't built in a day, george - special ones, limp bizkit - rollin', magic dirt - pace it, outkast - ms jackson, my happiness - powderfinger, oh and there was about 10 more.. but i've lost the piece of paper with the rest of the songs..it must be in my room somewhere, qqqqqqqqq. :(
AND JUST QUICKLY: another (!!!) had on it:
big heavy stuff - hibernate, u2 - beautiful day, magic dirt - dirty jeans, bomfunk mcs - freestyler, r'head - everything in it's right place, wheatus - teenage dirtbag, living end - pictures in the mirror, ataris - teenager of the year, avalanches - frontier psychiatrist, ? - i love you, but..., area 7 - start making sense, foo fighters - generator, superjesus - gravity, moloko - the time is now, powderfinger - d.a.f, etc. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww
HAPPY BEYOND BELIEF/DESCRIPTION/ANY EXCITEMENT YOU CAN POSSIBLY MUSTER UP.
(all were terribly recorded of course, with starts and ends of songs missed and some rosie beaton voice snippets here and there, hehe. man i miss standing over the tape player every waking minute; ready to press record when the next best song comes one.. i think i'm going to make casettes mixtapes for birthdays this year, how fun !)
hahaa.
i really love/d it.
also, i did some fashn sketches today, was totally inspired, but i might post those later - i've run out of typing energy, and dinner smells way better than you :)
yesterday i was thinking of cool books to get for upcoming friend's birthdays (and comings of age that i've recently overlooked, i'm sorrrryyyy).
i was thinking back to some of my favourite presents that ive been superdoopz lucky enough to have received in the last few years - and a lot of my most preciously loved ones have been kookie/unheard of/good-quality-smelling-&-feeling books that ive only really taken the time to appreciate afterward - i can't get over the fact that someone has thought about me and wanted to share something special with me - i love that. sometimes ive gotten mixtapes and once even a friend's sketchbook, oh and homemade cards or some words jotted down on a piece of paper are just as sweet. to think that someone has cared enough to put some of their time aside to make/get something blows me away - i feel guilty even sometimes.. but of course theres no complaints. hehe.
ANYWAY, i digress..
with the books thing i was thinking of books id like to get people; ones that i'd like to receive myself - if that makes sense. i always try to get presents that the person would like, of course, but also ones that i know that i'd like to receive if i was them..haha. if that makes sense either !
i don't know if it exists even, but i ex-secretly really want the scrapbook full of photobooth photo off-cuts out of the movie Amelie.. you know the one that the photobooth fixing guy carries around ? ahh i've forgotten his name, but i'm talking about the cute jewish-nosed man that Amelie's got her eye one.. his book ! can you imagine ? so cool !
anddd as i've knocked off the thing i crave, here's what i discovered last night; hoolllyy doolie. i wrote this in a notebook last night up in my room while i was caught up in the moment, just so i didn't forget any of my little thought-tangents that i had in the span of about 3 hours when i was listening back to my re-discoverd and much-forgotten-about cassette tape archives in my bedroom. was mind-blowing:
there's nothing like imperfections in live music/live recordings. i don't mean when the vox are grossly out of tune with the back-up harmonies or anything hugely turning-off, but just the little slip-ups which make you realise that the artist/band on stage are actually real people too..
like for eg., when a voice breaks for a split second or a guitar string snaps (hello The Girl music vid :d),
or, if you're chris martin; when you start hecticly spluttering and coughing during the Scientist at the Splendour weekender in '03..which was followed by 'true professionalism' & a british chuckle as the band kept playing without his singing for a few lines.. that recording is seriously one the highlights of my musical life - it's tearjerking and laughy - all at once. and i wasn't even there !
or, maybe you're missy higgins and play a bung note after you realise you're live on the radio, being recorded - and get scared.
i remember when i was listening to that Live @ the Wireless session from oh so many moons ago.. i was in my little old bedroom at my desk, so probably drawing or writing a letter or something, and had tuned into jjj for the very first time in my life.
missy higs was debuting The Sound of White and my brother, sister and i were all separately tuned in, listening to it in absolute amazement.
the only song i remember specifically was The River, but geez it was a fab set.
but last night, i got to re-listen to both of those moments ! again ! yaaayyyyyyy TEAM NOSTALGIA, WOOO.
i dug out a box of prime cassettes that i'd accumulated over the years, since late primary school or so - and found a whole heap of live @ the wireless recordings of my sister's (eskimo joe, silverchair, s'thing for kate, jebediah, ben harper, coldplay, missy higgins, cody chesnutt etc), old mixtapes (!!!!!!), lauryn hill, will smith, the eagles, bob marley, blondie, the deltones, jjj hottest 100 volume 8, AND MUCH MUCH MORE KIDS.
a lot of the tapes were mis-labelled - which was sad bc a whole heap of great-sounding playlists had been taped over or couldn't be found in the epic shoebox to beat all shoeboxes - but it was almost equally great, bc i didn't know what to expect half the time !
there was a super cute mix my sister and her friend had made in primaryschool/highschool with quotes/songs recorded from 10 Things I Hate About You mixed in with some sweet old Michael Jackson and other gems.
one that i haven't found yet, sadly, had the best-sounding track listing, my word.
hello childhood:
SIDE A:
killing heidi - weir, pearl jam - last kiss, santana & rob thomas - smooth, blur - song 2, killing heidi - mascara, s club 7 -s club party, red hot chilli peppers - the other side, ultimate kaos - anything you want, nirvana - smells like teen spirit, RHCP - around the world, christina aguilera - what a girl wants, will smith - will2k, salt n pepa - brick time vs giddy up
SIDE B:
tlc - dear lie, all saints - pure shores, chris franklin - bloke, cake - going the distance, backstreet boys - show me the meaning of being lonely, blink 182 - all the small things, killing heidi - superman, supergirl, marc anthony - i need to know, sugar ray - falls apart, mel c & left-eye - never be the same again, kelis - caught out there, bardot - poison
BUT my absolute fave, no actually it ties with the old hottest 100 tape i found, was a mix made by someone in my family about half+ a decade ago - i can't even put into words how stoked i was to find the songs...faaarrr out it was an amaZING find.
(note: the other side of the tape had some foreign orchestral songs on it hahah, what a fun mixed bag)
i found:
silverchair - pure massacre, coldplay - shiver, radiohead - pyramid song, sophie ellis bextor - umm can't remember the title of the song, was the second one she released.., fuel - shimmer, morcheeba - rome wasn't built in a day, george - special ones, limp bizkit - rollin', magic dirt - pace it, outkast - ms jackson, my happiness - powderfinger, oh and there was about 10 more.. but i've lost the piece of paper with the rest of the songs..it must be in my room somewhere, qqqqqqqqq. :(
AND JUST QUICKLY: another (!!!) had on it:
big heavy stuff - hibernate, u2 - beautiful day, magic dirt - dirty jeans, bomfunk mcs - freestyler, r'head - everything in it's right place, wheatus - teenage dirtbag, living end - pictures in the mirror, ataris - teenager of the year, avalanches - frontier psychiatrist, ? - i love you, but..., area 7 - start making sense, foo fighters - generator, superjesus - gravity, moloko - the time is now, powderfinger - d.a.f, etc. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww
HAPPY BEYOND BELIEF/DESCRIPTION/ANY EXCITEMENT YOU CAN POSSIBLY MUSTER UP.
(all were terribly recorded of course, with starts and ends of songs missed and some rosie beaton voice snippets here and there, hehe. man i miss standing over the tape player every waking minute; ready to press record when the next best song comes one.. i think i'm going to make casettes mixtapes for birthdays this year, how fun !)
hahaa.
i really love/d it.
also, i did some fashn sketches today, was totally inspired, but i might post those later - i've run out of typing energy, and dinner smells way better than you :)
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