Clouds of vampire bat wool leave me deaf to your rosaries

It might be the fact that I've been quite hung-up on Antony and the Johnsons and Bright Eyes lately, but it might as well be that this band is really good. I'm talking about Death Vessel and then of course Joel Thibodeau (songs, guitars, singing, & such). It's a neofolk band from the U.S. and they should defiantly be checked out!

Is it true when they say all you need is just love

Past couple of days I've almost been surprised in my ability to do nearly nothing productive. Since I've had the week of and the weather has been bad, it's been nothing to do. Since Monday this is what I have done:
1. Bought Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion and the Pains of Being Pure at Heart with their self-titled album. I really like them both.
2. Put up a tent, and took it down again. I'm going to Hove Festivalen in a little more than a week and seeing as we're camping, we had to be certain that we would be able to put the tent up. It was a great success.

I was going to listen to a band named Dirty Projectors, but I haven't really gotten myself to do it properly. I like the little I've heard so far though.

It's not often all the bands I mention are American! Of some weird reason I used to not like American indie, but right now there are a lot of really good bands. I guess I used to think all American indie bands were emo, but I didn't really took the time to listen to any of it. Good think I've changed, 'cause, as I said, the American indie scene is so full of awesome indie and pop music!

Dirty Projectors

How does it feel to be loved?

It's been a long time since the last time, 30 days to be exact. I seem to open a lot of my post in this way, but today I actually have one or two things I think most people would appreciate! First, Chairlift have finally made a music video to Bruises and the single will be released July 20th. I'm especially exited about this, 'cause I'll most likely see them this August at Øya! Second, I've had the pleasure to have recommended for me a really cute band called Pocketbooks. They just make really good and heartwarming pop music.

Journal For Plague Lovers

(...) and that's hello Oslo

Woohoo tomorrow is the 17th of May also known as Norway's national day! I am of course going to be at the best place to be on the 17th, and that is at a free, anti-racist arrangement with live bands, good food, and excellent people. The bands/artist I want to see, who are preforming, are Kultiration , Promoe, and Pony the Pirate. You got to love artists who will preform for free for a good cause.
There are plenty of good Norwegian music for the moment in my opinion. For the last couple of weeks, I have been walking around humming Ambitions by Donkeyboy, appreciated Bigbang's album Edendale, liking Hiawata!, listened to Datarock, and I could go on, but I think this is enough for now.

If you're a little off colour

It's nothing new, but I am listening to this right now so I figured I'd just mention it. Just right now Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly is just what I need. The relativly new demos on their myspace are good and nice to listen to. I like it when bands post many songs on their myspaces and not just 40 seconds of 'em, but the whole of it.

Clothes of sand - Nick Drake

Who has dressed you in strange clothes of sand

Who has taken you far from my land
Who has said that my sayings were wrong
And who will say that I stayed much too long?

Clothes of sand have covered yor face
Given you meaning but taken my place
So make your way on down to the sea
Something has taken you so far from me.

Does it now seem worth all the colour of skies
To see the earth through painted eyes
To look through panes of shaded glass
See the stains of winter's grass.

Can you now return to from where you came
Try to burn your changing name
Or with silver spoons and coloured light
Will you worship moons in winter's night.

Clothes of sand have covered your face
Given you meaning but taken my place
So make your way on down to the sea
Something has taken you so far from me.

Picture the morning taste and devour

Reason for updating: Boredom
Frankly I do not have anything better to do right now.

Listening to: Pete Doherty - Grace/Wastelands, K'naan, the radio, and some random Lykke Li songs.
I love Pete's new album, if you do not have it you should really but it, it is really really good in my opinion. K'naan is my new favourite rapper, he is from Somalia and he is really good, worth checking out.

Mood: Pretty darn good!

Reading: Winter in Madrid - C. J. Samson, the Trial - Franz Kafka, Rapport fra nr. 24 - Gunnar Sønsteby.
Yes, I am reading 3 books at once, but for the moment it's mostly Winter in Madrid I am reading, the other once are just there.

Making: Dinner for dad and me!

Bought today: Books!

Worst things happening the past week or so: 1. Lost, or someone stole, my handbag with ALL my stuff in it: phone, iPod, bus card, keys and wallet. Luckily most of it has been replaced. 2. Destroyed the dining table... This is the second time I have ruined a relatively pricey piece of furniture because of burn marks; I clearly lack the ability to learn from my mistakes.

You don't stand a chance against Gryffindor

So I just finished watching the Harry Potter trailer for Half-Blood Prince and even though I am not a big fan of the HP movies, I am pretty exited about it. The reason I'm not that into the movies is mostly because I love the books. The HP movies contain so little of the social life that's going on at Hogwarts and it's those little things that make the books so good. I mean, I am a Harry Potter fan; if you mess with Potter, you mess with me.. AND, don't you just hate the voice over; that dark dramatic voice? Ugh, i don't get why it has to be there, so annoying.

Harry and the Potters - Problem solving skillz

Hermione is brainy
Ron has red hair
And they're my two best friends
Here at Hogwarts
And we'll cause lots of trouble
Here at Hogwarts

How are we going to get out of this mess?
How are we going to get out of this mess?

Let's go to the library
I bet we can learn some valuable things there
Like facts about Nicholas Flammel

How are we going to get out of this mess?
Here's how we're going to get out of this mess:

We're going to solve the problem of the Sorcerer's Stone
That's how were going to get out of this mess!

Now that the dreams have given all they had to lend

I want to write about Nico because the song These days are really making me feel better right now. This might sound weird, but I don't really feel like getting into the whole reason why the song is important to me for the moment. Anyway, Nico was born in Germany in 1938 and was a part of the Andy Warhol's groupie-group (there's nothing called the groupie-group, I just find it easy to call it that), the Velvet Underground's album the Velvet Underground and Nico, a model, and last, but not least, a solo artist. Her most famous album has to be Chelsea Girl, which in my opinion contains her best work as a solo artist.



It is on the album Chelsea Girl my favourite songs are; These Days and Fairest of the Seasons. Some might find Nico's accent a bit weird at first, but it really makes the songs more genuine. If you're not already into Nico, check her out now.

I've stopped my dreaming,
I won't do too much scheming
These days, these days.
These days I sit on corner stones
And count the time in quarter tones to ten.
Please don't confront me with my failures,
I had not forgotten them.

Walking on a dream

I am miles away from the place I was last week! The weather is real good and things are turning green again. To be honest I have no new music to suggest, these past few days I have just listened to good old bands like the Strokes, Empire of the Sun, Nick Drake and stuff. I bought Nick Drake's Time of no Reply here the other week with unreleased tracks and demos and stuff, it's good.
Here is something I almost never do; posting a picture of myself! BTW the picture is not taken by me.

This fear's got a hold on me

I've had a really bad day and it's not getting any better. I have to chose what I'm going to do next fall with school and everything. I have literary no idea what to do and it's stressing me out. If it was just a small thing I would be alright even if I thought I had made a mistake, but this school thing will most likely affect the rest of my life. It's all just a little to much. The silver lining in this whole thing is that I have figured that White Lies really suits this kind of feeling and it is making me fall in love with To Lose my Life again.