just the right amount of toe cleavage/getting high and mumbling german fables

'My name’s Jake - Jacob, or ‘yahcov’..I converted to the church of the big fish.
I’ve been listening to rock and roll and I’d even considered getting a tattoo, which was a low-point..for me. And then I met Stav.
I guess we were lovers for a little while, but it didn’t really work because I’d taken a lot of acid..and it had driven me mad.
..and Stav made me feel like that was okay, you know? It was okay to want to stab a man in a petrol station because he looked at you funny which made you think that he was Satan.
..and all of these beliefs that I had; that the world was made up of thousands of tiny spiders or the inside of Peanut Butter was actually negative space..
A lot of these things, that seemed to be ‘crazy’..
turned out to be..
quite true.'

Confused ? I just remembered THIS (see directly below) vid..so good.
if your humour isn't quite that similar to mine, be sure to wait it out til i think 1:10 or so when the song starts..i love that with each listen/watch, i feel the same way as i did the first time i experienced bluejuice. so good.
the take-off of religious-seeing-the-light-seizures toward the end is pretty hilariously dry, I just wish I was there/one of those 90 yr old ladies midway at 2:20 that were having a big and contently loud cackle .
So.
Good.:



ps, the new bluejuice song made me remember this - i recommend listening to/youtubing 'Broken Leg' by Bluejuice if you haven't already. it's so so much fun. THEY'RE so so much fun.
so dancie, and such fantastic harmonies. and bouncie lyrics all round and ahh just so much excitement in two little white singing/dancing packages.
i found a live version of Vitriol by them on youtube the other day, and the dancing was exquisite. but that's quite definitely another story that requires more time than i currently have on my hands..or feet. for that matter.
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so i was listening to Editor's An End Has a Start album this morning and realised there's a great little line/message in every single song on that particular release.
Editors are by a long stretch my favourite artist out there, and i completely missed their appearance at Splendour in 07, although my sister's boy went along just to see them.
i admit i don't know aaall that much about the band and aren't immensely in-the-know with every factfile that wiki and the internet is willing to throw my way like some band-crazed fans, but i will add that i have and will continue to appreciate their gems of compositions no end.. forever and ever.
the instrumenation is just so epic and full in ever track, and the lyrics are so dead-on in spots with tom's voice just hauntingly massaging my ears over the top of it all..
in fact i just found a blog that read 'His voice is worthy of making love to.'

i got the album one christmas a few years ago from my mum and dad after much wishlist-culling (and denying of a leather jacket for christmas, - which i really don't desire so much or at all any more, it now being three years on as well as being surrounded by the beauties day in/out). at the same time as i 1st listened to An End Has a Start i must have been reading twilight (i know, i know :s), bc i get huge de ja vu of that 1st book in the series whenever i listen to any of the songs. which makes me laugh a little..then cry.

some of my favourite lines taken from the album incluuuude the following..
they seem a little morbid on their own, but a lot of them raise really really interesting points/word things fantastically as well as sound phaaaaaantastic, i think. i recommend the album to anyone and everyone, it's just so wonderfully full of wonder.

Eg. Song 1.:
- The saddest thing that I'd ever seen were smokers outside the hospital doors.
- How can we wear our smiles with our mouths wide shut ?

2.:
- Theres spiders in your room, but there always will be.
There's people to be fooled, and there always has been.
- Hold out your hand, I will (i prefer to think it's actually "or we'll", the line doesn't mean so much to me with the correct wording. dang bad hearing.) carry you.
- With your back to the wall, you've got one place to fall. Sometimes its all better unknown.

3.:
- If a plane were to fall from the sky, how big a hole would it leave in the surface of the earth ?

4.:
- Keep a light on those you love, they will be there when you die.
- Every little piece of your life will add up to one.
Every little piece of your life, will it (also, here, i wish it was simply "will" sans "it" + the question mark) mean something to someone ?
- You touch my face, God whispers in my ear.
There are tears in my eyes, love replaces fear.

5.:
- It creeps all over you like a dull ache, it pulls you to the ground like soaking wet gloves; the change in your face when anger shows.
- In that moment you realise that something you thought would always be there will die, like everything else.
- How can you know what things are worth if your hands won't move to do a days work?

6.:
There's people climbing out of their cars
Lining the roadside, trying to glimpse at the dead

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alsho, to -quickly- quote a little favourite film of mine:
'Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.'

those words remind me again a little of one side of the emotion that can be found in hospitals, like in the Editors song, but i won't touch on that for another millionth trillion bagillionth time.

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ps, are Empire of the Sun the more modern/successful version of the Dissociatives ?
remember them anyone ? Daniel Johns had teamed up with Paul Mac, much like the similarly indie vocalist Luke Steele has teamed up to collaborate with PNAU's similar electro music-maker Nick Littlemore.
i always had a soft spot for the original duo but they didn't seem to last long in the limelight, despite their talent and incredible idea of teaming up.
anyone agree that they were not vv v vvv v vvv great fun ?
..theyre sort of like the dead great-aunt who always smelled a bit funny like mothballs but made crooked but yummie home-made biscuits but still gets forgotten every year when home-made invites to the family christmas get-togethers are given out.

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i was sick as a canine on the weekend, and found myself watching a movie all friday ? night that i proooobably would not have otherwise.
in it, i found out about this great thing that nature has done on occasions throughout history.
when sand gets struck by lightning it creates a sort of hollow glass piece of awesome called a Fulgurite.
the secret movie - and this image will probably completely give it away to those in the know - had a scene involving these epic little natural structures and i was so caught up in it all. theyre so incredible!
i mean, in life theyre about a thousand time LESS impressive than the ones that look like THIS in the movie:

in reality, theyre just sort of these pebblie/glassie lumps of wonder, which are interesting and sort of intriguing - sure- but not attractive. haha. at all.

what appears to be the biggest one recorded in history, that i could find, was THIS one, though:


image via
so yeah, from my short researching it appears that often theyve been smaller/equivalent in size to most average-sized coins and not so impressive at all, so i wont include images of those..but doesn't that just blow you away that sand can be melted into a sort of glass when hit by lightning ?
dayum nature yo so scary.



this post was all over the place - as per usual really,
but i had a whole heap to just get off my chest and written down somewhere.
reminds me, i've always loved the lyric 'i've just got to get off my chest, that i think you're divine' :).

..i've got about an equal if not larger amount of jumbles to chat away about in the fairly near future, but they can wait a little bit. lots of school stuff to get done right now !
larder.