The cover art of Fleet Foxes’ debut self-titled album is a detail of the 1559 painting Netherlandish Proverbs by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Vocalist/guitarist Robin Pecknold notes that: When you first see that painting it’s very bucolic, but when you look closer there’s all this really strange stuff going on…dudes defecating coins into the river and people on fire, people carving a live sheep..I liked that the first impression is that it's just pretty, but then you realize that the scene is this weird chaos. I like that you can’t really take it for what it is, that your first impression of it is wrong.
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..we can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
'fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months', OSCAR WILDE.
2. learn how to play the guitar,
3. write a song with the word 'batman' in,
4. see polly paulusma live again,
11. get down to 9 stone,
12. stop thinking about my weight,
13. learn how to make a good carrot cake,
15. work out how to use logic,
17. have a big party [18th at lincoln massive],
18. go to at least one music festival,
19. learn to like coffee [vanilla cappucinos. and mochas. but i guess that's cheating.]
22. have a bath when fully clothed,
23. apply to university,
24. go for an hour long bike ride ,
27. floss my teeth once a week,
28. stay up partying for 24 hours in a row,
29. use the words "don't you know who i am?" successfully,
30. read tolstoy's 'war and peace’,
35. pretend to be a foreign tourist for the day,
38. send a message in a bottle,
50. grow my hair,
52. save 10% of everything i earn,
54. learn about electronic instrument things,
56. fall in love,
58. visit ten cathedrals,
61. be a member of the audience for a tv show,
65. run 5k,
66. cook a three course meal for friends/family,
68. try and tone down my tendency to exaggerate everything,
69. always look on the bright side of life,
70. take more pictures of places i visit,
72. buy a stranger a coffee,
75. remember all my friends' birthdays,
80. swim 60 lengths in a row,
86. learn some very basic Russian,
87. accidently get locked in the park,
88. watch more 'classic' films,
89. watch more films in general,
90. learn all the states of America,
91. have my picture taken with someone called Rodney,
94. eat something i've never tried before,
96. give a fiver to a really good busker,
97. make the effort with people,
99. find something good about every single day,
100. stop making lists
I think my biggest style inspiration comes from movies.
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(replace fear of the unknown with curiosity)
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