Compensation... a fill in post!

Enjoy some good clean fun with a game of hipster bingo! Print copies of this card for you and your friends!

That's all I've got for today!

Appreciation... Recent Heavy Rotation Favourites!

I'm the type of person who gets easily stuck on a good album and it doesn't leave my attention if it strikes that certain chord inside of me upon discovering it! There's been a number of great albums and bands that have come into my attention the last several months, but in my blog neglect have never mentioned much here. So I'm going to do a little musical catch up today with this post and mention Glasgow, Scotland's, Glasvegas, whose first full length album which hit in the UK back in September 8th, 2008, finally made its State-side debut on January 6, 2009 with two bonus tracks! Their sound was exciting right from the beginning reminding me of the best sonic guitar moments of The Jesus and Mary Chain meeting that brand of lyrical sensitivity UK and Irish songwriters simply excel in writing!

Enjoy!

Appreciation... All You Need is Morrissey

Here's a quick daily dose of Morrissey for the Moz fan in you and he gives you a new boast and a classic track for good measure!



Enjoy! You are welcome! Thank you Morrissey! Thank you Jools Holland!

Appreciation... For the English Romantic in you! Poetry meets Music meets Film.

I just discovered a fan made video for Neil Hannon's setting of Wordsworth's fifth "Lucy" poem to music from the Divine Comedy album Liberation which is used here to soundtrack a segment of A Journey to Avebury which is avant garde filmmaker, Derek Jarman's 1971 silent short landscape film. I am impressed how such various works of art cross paths with this video.



This is Jarman's original film.

Recollection... Morrissey Show = Amazing!

I am so much later posting this than I wanted to be but it's been a crazy busy week, but I had to finally do a quick post to say the Morrissey show in Pittsburgh was everything I hoped it would be and more! I suppose the big thrill my girlfriend and I were anticipating for this show was seeing him perform songs from his days with The Smiths, and he certainly did not disappoint! The first song of the show was "This Charming Man", which he belted out as if a personal anthem, and how him how could it not be?!? He also performed "How Soon Is Now?", "Ask", "Death of a Disco Dancer", and "I Keep My Hidden" (remember that little B-side gem from their final time as a band). I had seen Morrissey in 1991, and he performed material from that period of his career obviously, but this time around he visited it seemed mostly solo material from after that point, so nothing from Viva Hate or Kill Uncle or the intervening eps of that time were part of this show. The oldest solo material I recall hearing was "The Loop" a b-side from the "Sing Your Life" single. He did work a number of sad songs like "The World Is Full of Crushing Bores" and "Let Me Kiss You" into the set, and an obvious inclusion for a show on St. Patrick's Day was "Irish Blood, English Heart". Tracks he performed from the new album included "Something is Squeezing My Skull", "I Am Throwing My Arms Around Paris", and "That's How People Grow Up". I would say it was every bit as good as a show I enjoyed the first time with Morrissey, and honestly as a performer I think he has only improved with age. This show was extremely special to me! We had amazing seats near the front, but the best part was easily having Lexi and her mutual love of Morrissey at my side the entire night!

I could say so much more, but I think sleep beckons for tonight! I also want to make mention quick though of my old buddy, Eric Orchard, who commented on my previous post asking for a review of the show! His website is listed in my links, and his illustration work is amazing so please pay his blog a visit!

Here's some video clips that have already made their way onto YouTube! Enjoy...

My Blog is One Year Old Today!

It's a rather minor cause for celebration but here I am one year later with the blog!

Where does the time go... well, here's to year two!

Anticipation... Seeing Morrissey in March!

So it's now officially March, and in a mere seventeen days Lexi and I are venturing to Pittsburgh, PA for Morrissey's show at the Carnegie Music Center! Very excited we are... as our love of The Smiths and mutual appreciation for the great Moz was an immediate interest for us to bond over as a burgeoning couple!

From the new album, Years of Refusal, this is Morrissey and the boys performing "I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris" on Tonight with Jonathan Ross. Watch they entire clip too for they also play another little diddy you might recognise!