NOT ALL THOSE WHO WANDER ARE LOST: PAPERTWIN, YOUNG WONDER, SUPER MAGIC HATS, MMOTHS, TEED


You ever worry that  there's no right or wrong? That everything in the world is simply a matter of perspective? That one small step for man is one giant earthquake for ant? That who the 'terrorists' are is mostly dependent on religion and culture? Or that the hydrogen bomb is effectively a star because both are simply a manifestation of the energy produced by thermonuclear fusion? You ever have one of those days you just don't want to get out of bed? The day starts as a struggle and it doesn't get any easier and you sit down in the evening and wonder where it all went so wrong, wonder over the things you've done. You look into the night sky and you think to yourself how none of it really matters, and how everyone will forget about it tomorrow. How soon it will be a vague and distant memory, how this too must surely pass. But the truth is right in front of you because you're looking at sparks of light remnant from stars, some of which were born and burned and died, exploding and collapsing many many years ago, and the light is only reaching you now. You're looking at those stars and they're saying you don't know it yet but in time you'll come to see it. That everything comes and goes but nothing fades. That everything leaves its mark. You're looking up thinking nothing matters but the truth is in the stars, you're just blinded by the beauty, because if you're far enough away even a nuclear explosion looks wonderful. Because everything is just as you feared. Everything is simply a matter of perspective. There is no right or wrong.






Vacationer - Trip (MMOTHS remix).mp3



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NO CEREMONY

consistently brings a smile to my lips and a swelling to my lungs and a thrum to my heartbeat.

consistently original and heartbreaking.

i've never heard a NO CEREMONY song that didn't stir me.

never seen a NO CEREMONY clip that didn't move me.







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BEAUTIFUL. SO IT HURTS.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

Sylvia Plath - Mad Girl's Love Song

NO CEREMONY make music that is beautiful. so i hurts. so it stays with you. and these film clips are perfect.





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EVERY TIME YOU FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM


“She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
- JD Salinger 'A girl i knew'


for the ears. for the morning. for the power. for the glory.

flume's 19. he's from sydney. flume isn't his real name.

'possums' is one of the best morning walk to the train station/evening walk away from work songs ever. it makes me so damn happy. and his 'anthem' remix is so flip








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THERE ARE THINGS WE'VE NEVER SAID


“Look...Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier. And the lives of such stuff as dreams are made of may be rounded with a sleep but they are not tied neatly with a red bow. Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train, though time may run on truth. And the Scenes Gone By and the Scenes to Come flow blending together in the sea-green deep while Now spreads in circles on the surface. So don't sweat it. For focus simply move a few inches back or forward. And once more...look.”
-Ken Kesey, Sometimes A Great Notion

"You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely certain of its treacherous impermanence. Hank knew . . . "
-Ken Kesey, Sometimes A Great Notion


a great book. a truly overwhelmingly beautiful piece of writing. i've heard some people say that they find i hard to read, with the techniques he's used. but that's the beauty of it. you're getting these first-person perspectives from multiple people all at once and he creates this depth of character. and each scene in the book just has this added weight because of it. it's a beautiful thing. a truly beautiful thing.


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with his wonderfully sparce arrangements and use of loops to build layers in a track hayden calnin establishes this depth and emotion and its fucking lovely.

summer is such a bold song. i love it.

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THIS ROOM ON FIRE


youth lagoon is the best thing that's happened to me today.


i was mad depressed earlier...

one of those days when it's sunny outside but the shadows just seem to follow you.
can't get the light.
can't feel the warmth.
can't get anything to go my way.

...but then i downloaded youth lagoon's 'the year of hibernation' and all was good.

i fucking love that music can do that.

all you have to do is listen.




this film clip is stunning too. tyler t williams has mad talent behind a camera.


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and as an aside,

have you seen this trailer? beautiful. the song is by chad vangaalen, who until now i'd actually overlooked. he's amazing.





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REMEMBER WHEN WE LIVED IN A DIFFERENT WORLD? REMEMBER WHEN WE WERE INVISIBLE?



this movie is so flip.

i was pretty devastated when i missed it at the cinemas and i've only just got around to watching it but if you haven't seen it lock it in for essential viewing it's got a kinda lars and the real girl vibe and that film was sick.

leon ford wrote and directed and nailed both and the two stars ryan kwanten and maeve dermody are amazing particularly dermody she's perfect i've got a maddd crush on her.

and the music is sick.

for example:




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EVER FEEL THE NEED TO PUNCH AN INANIMATE OBJECT JUST TO PROVE THAT YOU'RE NOT?

...YOU SHOULD DO IT IN SLOW MOTION LISTENING TO CHET FAKER + TANK + BOARDS OF CANADA + BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH + BIG DUMB KID


"listen. hear the dulcet tones of ethereal beauty. listen, and feel the beat stemming from deep, deep within your chest. feel it course through your veins. feel it become you. feel you become it. see the colors now, see how they're brighter, they're sharper. look yonder, see how close the sky appears. so close you could touch. you could feel it. taste it. clouds come closer. swell and fade. and time slows. and its you. only you. travelling through an unmoving scene. travelling while the sounds flow through you. while the colours are bold. while the sky is close and the clouds are closer. and those tones are your soundtrack. and the beat goes on..."



when this song opens up it makes me so happy - i want this to be the soundtrack to my life


man chet faker just keeps dropping these absolutely immense tracks - all so flip - i wanna see this guy live in all his bearded glory


sling this man some votes here for fbi's northern lights comp - this cover is charlie sheen good - izzle


mike skinner can do - this is wicked - i like leftwich but sometimes he's almost too soft to listen to - skinner gets the best from this track


bro...fuck - this is dope right? - i mean when he opened i was sceptical - but what was i thinking - this is fucking sick - check out his ep 'vanilla' at his bandcamp

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BEAUTIFUL


= mooi = beau = schön = όμορφος = bello = 美しい = 아름다운 = bonito = красивейше = hermoso = pragtige = i bukur = eder = hardd = bell = güzel = nzuri = fallegur = álainn = ...



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TELL ME SOMETHING SWEET TO GET ME BY: MOTHS



MOTHS is one of those dudes i've been listening to for a while but because there is still no internet in the house of gus and charlies haven't got around to posting. he's way young (17), irish, and makes delicious electronic beats.

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WUGAZI


WUGAZI


get up in this.

13 chambers is a slick mashup of wu tang clan and fugazi from cecil otter and swiss andy.

such a flip mixtape. jump over to wugazi dot com and get the lot.


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BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART: ZOO KID


ZOO KID.


archy marshall of london.

old soul but this guys only sixteen.

great music. nice riffs, raw voice. plays with silent parts in his music, gives it an emotive quality, a maturity. sweet lyricism too, the dudes a poet.

zoo kid is genuine.

legit.

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can't go wrong with star slinger


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DREAMS, THEY'RE FOR THOSE WHO SLEEP: GRIMES + COMA CINEMA + JONATHAN BOULET + FISHING + CHET FAKER + SEEKAE




“Isn’t most of our lives an illusion?”
“Well, everything in the past is memory…and everything in the future is imagination. Those’re both illusions — memories are unreliable and we just speculate about the future. The only thing that’s completely real is this one instant of the present - and that’s constantly changing from imagination to memory. So, see? Most of life’s illusory”

jeffery deaver, the vanished man

(this girl is so flip, chopped samples and an epic voice, you can get halafax free from the arbutus records site, this song is beautiful)

(coma cinema absolutely never disappoints, he's got most of his stuff up for free download on his site)


(get north (chet faker minor edit) from his site, so flip)

(i've said it before but if you haven't got +dome yet buy that album, its fucking beautiful man)

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WANDERLUST: PENNY AND THE QUARTERS, JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW, PERFUME GENIUS, EMA


Have you ever seen someone peacefully dozing in the morning light? The sun is rising and the birds are singing and they look so wonderfully serene. In that moment you can believe in a higher being, you can believe in love and fairy tales and innocence and peace. In that moment everything is achievable and everything is real, and the tooth fairy doesn’t seem so far-fetched. And then they start to wake, almost always with a smile, almost never in a rush, almost perfect, these moments are. Have you seen the sunset? The fragmented blues and reds and purples, and the warmth that courses through you, and now suddenly the dread, you see that magnificent luminous ball, see it dip and hurry beneath the horizon. How beautiful the scene. How nice to you. How nice to me. Have you witnessed this splendour? And when you witnessed it did you seek answers? Or did you find them? I believe in the absolute wonder of the every day. I believe that knowledge has saved and ruined us. I understand the need for an explanation and I question the value of a scientific one. I want for everything and I know that that means I really want for nothing. I believe that ignorance is bliss, and that bliss ignorance is an ideal condition, because nobody wants to know the truth about everything. I believe that truth is relative and that lies are sometimes more honest than facts. I believe in magic and deception and I believe that one day a lie will be told that is so profound it will bring the whole world to tears. I believe in a higher truth, I believe that nothing is real and everything is imagined and that the ultimate honesty lies in our mistakes. I believe in opening your eyes, to see. See the mountains and valleys of virtuous nature, and the perfect grandeur of an uninterrupted skyline, see snow falling through windows and the sun set over the ocean, see fog veil the early morning light. See you. See me. See the furious glory of a shared yearning, a yearning to be free, free of plans and goals and rules and structures, limitations all, limitations of the mind and spirit. Have you felt that harsh grip of the shackles that bind us? That blind us?


penny and the quarters - you and me.mp3

james vincent mcmorrow - we don't eat.mp3

perfume genius - mr. petersen.mp3

EMA - the grey ship.mp3



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ALL GREAT AND PRECIOUS THINGS ARE LONELY: PLAINS, TYLER THE CREATOR, PURITY RING, JAMES BLAKE

i'm moving to sydney next week to start a new university course. so ima be busy sorting myself out here and there over the next few weeks and thus there won't be much posting going on. here are some words and songs and moving pictures to keep you sated.


I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that peope are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in American is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians and unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of casual chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to chose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

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