Going out is the scariest thing I do these days

Goin to the nirvana exhibit today I've been trying to go for a while but I'm a bit worried but I've got to do things I want to do just because they remind me of things that hurt doesn't mean I shouldn't do them anyway really looking forward to it :)) love love love nirvana and I'm writing a piece on them for an xfm comp to win one of kurts guitars :) I won't win but it's fun to do :)))

I'm worst at what I do best and for this gift I feel blessed our little group has always been and always will until the end

Last and First

This will be my last post in this form. basically I have used this blog for means it was not intended and now im going to delete all of my old posts and change it to what is was origionally for. I have used this blog to vent my feelings on certain maters of my life which i doubt anyone will find interesting so im taking it all down. I feel that its time to move on from that part of my life and start fresh.

music fashion and art have always been the most important things to me they work hand in hand. so from now on this blog will be used to exhibitit my musical work as well as mine and my friends art ill also be posting photos in a sort of lookbook way just of people who look good and of outfits i like of mine and people i know. hopfully we will have a post religion music and art label and some post religion nights, also ive been in talks of a post religion exhibition with a few established artists already showing interest and some live acts willing to play.

So keep your eyes out for the name †Post Religion†

Death in the family (in loving memory)

There was a death in the family when she came to town
There was a death in the family when she came around
From walking feet bloody through old cobbled streets
To drunken liasons with the devils and creeps

These star crossd demons that live inside her
 to cross her head with tenuios scars
to play games with herslf
to say shes a fool
she plays with herself
her demons en all.

sordid fantasy of ricocheted hearts left me alone in the hours of dark
with dirty love and fantasys past im dry of blood and forgotten my heart
but hours of dark they all yearn to pass and the morning arises for this frail heart
but this little girl her mourning is done hedonistic liasons with devils and drums.

The dark place In my head I recoil as love jumps at blood and it boils up
the words in my head will never be enough to stop me from folding and calling your bluff
so tell me sweet princess whats in your head?
I know when I come home
the familys dead

and I live this reality day after day
with bones and blood and complete disaray
The children are crying the noise is to loud
Theres was a death in the family when she came around.

RE: Seperation

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Time to die.




I need to ask you so many questions but you never listen or choose to ignore, maybe sub conciously but you never hear nontheless. Why is there so much negative energy between us constantly you have bassed the end of our love, life and friendship on me responding to your negativity in a negative way (how else should i respond?) you wait and wait unitil the very last minuete pushing me further and further away "and remember we can both get with whoever we want..if it happens .. no violence..no arguing. BROTHER ♥" I read this as we are all ready completely over and this is us trying to be friends going out meeting people kissing them? going home with them? deserting each other in the name of a one night stand? Im not ready for this, get scared and dont go out, how was i supposed to know? and imagine my suprise after youve told me we can definitely not stay at yours and made it very clear your uncomfortable with me coming out for you to say I love you, I need you , I want to fuck you needles to say these are all mutual feelings,things ive longed to hear for so long but as always in the wrong context. I cant help feel like this is some sort of game and there would be no way you would be telling me these things if i played by your rules but i cant, i had for a year and a half and ended up heart broken and completely destroyed . In the things youve said to me this isnt the end maybe for your in your head but in your reality you ended this a long time ago. the things youve said in the messages youve sent me bring back emotions full of love and kindness but i realise you only tell me how you feel when you want an emotional response. all i can say is what i always say im hear for you to love but not to hurt I will help you when you need me but i will not let you put me down or make me feel stupid or a failure anymore because im not and if that makes me a less appealing person to you then im sorry but we have both changed so much. I understand why you see this as the complete end and respect that but if what you said in those messages was true you would work at this with me, we have a connection, i want you , your my soulmate. anyway hope your move goes well and ill help if you need me. id like to come and hear you read stories but i guess you dont want that now i want to support you in all your endevours but im sure you dont want that either. so all i can say is goodluck for your future and i hope you realise that this isnt the end maybe just a new beginning, maybe you can be happy finally :) xxxxxxxx





The last thing i may quote regarding you 
“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they’re nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we’d be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.”
Sputnik's Sweetheart.

Music

Music is what drives me. I have for as long as i can remember felt suffocated by the modern world, the choice of culture of the majority and the hypocrisy of our goverment and western cultures. my cure for this is music music that lets me breathe, music that makes me smile and when i find tracks that give me that feeling of being complete i  feel alive again for 3 and a half minuets. Right Enough bullshit heres some music i love because it helps me live.

Burn

I slowly burn as the sun comes up, watching her upside down, knickers round her ankles, eyes wide from the cocktail of drink and drugs this night has thrust into her body, he moves to her as my stomach drops, someone just killed the power to the lift and im falling, falling, burning bright. I watch theyre bodies blend and contort fitting neatly together, like a lost jigsaw piece finally finding its place in the puzzle, her primal howls echo through the house. I blend into the backround.



Later she tells me "I hate to love you so I hurt you to live" I tell her I love her as I kiss her forehead, she kisses my lips softly and tells me she misses me but tomorrow will be tomorrow and the day after will be then. she falls asleep in his arms with tears on her face.



Our past burns brighter than our future.

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I miss you

I love Blink 182 they remind me of house parties and being young , well TBH they pretty awful but they make me happy when im sad,. they remind me of being 13 when all i had to care about was skating, girls and getting high. anyway heres some of theyre songs that make me smile.....

Listening to this now reminds me of a girl i once met at a babyshambles gig in camden.











This video is great Dev and Florence playing blink 182 covers cant go wrong haha.


Keep it teen

Some might say goodbye

Some might say goodbye if they were leaving someone they love B
some might say goodbye if they love someone they leave L
some might say goodbye if the connect with someones heart B
some might say goodbye if they know them pretty well L

and some might say goddbye if they can feel you in theyre head B
and some might say goodbye if they'd just given head L
and some might say goodbye if you were leaving on a plane B
and some may say goodbye because your not cuming back again L

others tend to cry when you dont say goodbye B
and others forget your smile when you dont say goodbye L
others only see angry eyes and words but no goodbye  B
and others seem to lie when you dont say goodbye L

but brothers they cant smile and words dont reach theyre lips B
and lovers they can not cry when they're wrist begin to itch L
and  lovers tend to sigh when theyve seen it all before  L
but brothers turn theyre back when your walking to the door B

Message Understood 




Goodbye 


Good Friend


We are both forgotten 


xxx

Official secrets act

I love this band and song, kinda grown out of it now but it brings back great memories.

I also find myself asking questions

do we change as we get older?

Ive found myself becoming lazy and boring in my opinion anyway and i wonder if its because im getting old and cynical or just well boring?

who knows but i love this song and want to be the version of me that loves this song.

Lost and Found

I wake up every morning with my eyes still blurry, I notice someone next to me, its her, its always her. Something dripping, running down the walls, a redish brown colour. the bed is damp but its not water and its drying, everything comes into focus and her dead lifeless eyes are staring right in to mine, blood crawls across the clean white sheets as the sun bursts through the gaps in the curtains, I scream, I cry but nothing, I feel it, I feel her there, but nothing. I grab her in my arms and scream her name I scream for help but nothing.

I shoot upright in my bed staring, sweating, crying. I look to my left nothing I look all around my room and there is no sign of anyone but me being here, im sure I fell asleep next to her I search the house and no ones around, I feel isolated lost awkward in my own reality.
I place a call to her number no answer, I call again no answer, I txt, getting more and more angry as I feel more lost and desperate, did she even exist? were we together last night? Was I dreaming?

If you go away

Theres a million versions of this song but I love these 2 the most.



Dusty Springfield is just amazing.

Summer Blood mix tape

Link here to Free download from soundcloud
http://soundcloud.com/alex-wolf-1/alex-wolf-summer-blood-mix

DRUGS

It was close, so close, it was serious.
You nearly freed me from these chemical shackles that have imprisoned my mind for as long as I can remember, you nearly saved me from all this. Aeriel, Jude, Helena, Opheilia do you remember? all were yours, could have been ours. Only you will know...... I hope.
Distant memories never fade in meaning.
I Want More.
The summer is here and I've never been colder,
The days are long and I am tired.
Be Happy.
Drink
Dance
Love
Have the best summer ever.
Please Please Forget this.
But remember once for 1 fleeting second that you could have saved me
not my life my soul.


Love a distant memory xx

bigmouth strikes again

drone (I hate to love you and wish to die)

Sleepless nights
sleepy days
I hate you
I love you
I hate the way I feel
your love
Like a constant buzzing in my head
a drone
of unforgetfulnes
eats me up
consumes me
my arms barley able to lift themselves
these thoughts these dreams dispearce
puzzles
your love
a drone
constant
unflailling
on and on and on
in the back of my head
pieces of contorted desire
aesthetic ability
show you dont caree PROVE you dont care
lies upon lies
drone
stone cold sound waves
drone in my head
what do they want?

What do I?

Why?

Why have you done this? I know its my fault I know you could never trust me but I just wanted to prove to you that I'm worth it. It was great before, before them, it was hard at times but was never like this, never empty. we fucked each other over constantly, hated each other from time to time and when we were broken and hurting and ruined we would put each other back together. Now after the last 6/7 Months, God its seememd like much less, all that time half a year since we were us, after the last 6/7 months of destroying each other and refusing to put each other back together, being apart, not having you there has become so persistent in my thoughts. I die everytime I need you, you have torn me to pieces and I want to forgive you I want you to be safe and I want life to cary on as it was but I feel that time has passed, Have we lossed our innocence? I want it I want to move forward but I just ask Why has this happened?

Why are you not here anymore? you used to be with me all day everyday in my head now your lost.

Just please tell me why soon.

Lots of love

Wolfie

Keep your friends close but your drug dealers closer.

I want reality 2.0, I want a personality upgrade, I want to escape this body and surf the infomation of the universe on my consciousness. we are nearly at the end well 576 days until a complete change in the way the world operates, It may be the end for us, it may be the beggining, who knows. What we do know is the realms of science, magic, the consciousness of us as indaviduals and us as an entire entity are crashing together in a million ways. Right now people are learning new things about the human mind, about how we process reality and how we can control our reality. People going about there daily lives dont have the time to stop and try and understand the world and the universe around them. How often do you knock something down to a coincidence? Add it up and I promise you will be suprised, everytime you think you saw something weird or out of place or have de ja vu write it down and you will realise it happens way to much for it to be a coincidence all the time, but what is it? There is lots of room for speculation but who really knows? All in all who really asks? For all we know in our tiny little minds on this tiny little planet the universe could be unraveling, reality and timespace may be disintergrating, our minds couldnt possibly apprehend something on that grand a scale and we would make it our reality. (stops writting a large amout of vulture type birds are attacking my house) Wait....what does this all mean? Where does it take us? Maybe the hippies were right "fuck it we should all love each other man, like we should totally just all be happy all the time". Fuck that its not how the human DNA is written, we are designed to fuck up and kill anything thats not us and when we dont have anything other than us we just self harm and start fucking each other up. We are just a race of parascites infecting the earth, sucking it dry and causing it to retaliate . Humans are the most destructive, violent, dangerous and stupid breed of animal known to humans. Think about that.

I wish

I wish for so much
I look for control
You could have had it all
But selfishness prevails

You have lost it
We are lost forever
Our souls interwined, unhappiness combined
We threw away what we had together

Jelousy beyond belief
Pride sunken in skin
Loss of faith in a lover
Something we can never be

You have your freedom
Be free for your own sake
But what you had was responsibility
I didnt give you my heart to break

Sorry for the confusion
I never wanted you to feel unloved
But I wanted to feel love thats true
something I could never take from you.

A Screwball Tradgedy

Adam Green New york indie street folkster has unsuprisingly just realesed an amusing ketemine binge film starring the likes of Macauley Caulkin, Dev Hynes (aka Lightspeed Champion), Sky Ferreria, Pete Doherty, Davendra Banhart and Har Mar Superstar. Filmed entirely on a I phone the film see adam green and his cohorts running around new york but to say there is a story or plot would be ridiculous, the acting is hilarious with lightspeed champinon owning some hilarious lines "All fogots run away intuitively, and they cast themselfs such, in a play of life" as you can see pure genius.
At one point Adam get's his cock out and a dildo shoved up his arse which is pretty surreal.

To be honest this film is awsome its just a crazy mess of pictures and words which pretty much describes my life so yea get to 

http://thewrongferrari.com/ and watch it you will be suprised.

Fucking to young for this shit.

There really is a time when you have to say stop, when you try and try and try to be the person you are but people keep telling you your evil.
when nothing works and you always end up where you start its time to quit.
I mean its not like i'm not going through shit, Ive been on an emotional rollercoaster for the last 3 months, I havn't been myslef and behaved in ways I'm not to proud of.
I just wish things were different I wish it hadnt come to this but it has to be this way for both of our sakes.

Its time for us to both move on completely and stop wasting our lives with this ridiculous charade of darkness and light.
The only time I feel ok is with you, the only time I dont feel lost or worryied or at war with myself, I love you so much.........

You give me slight glimpses of hope that things will return to the way they once more, brief intervals of happyness..... an escape from insanity.

But its just a guise your hurt, I'm hurt, can it ever dissappear?

No
It cant to much has happened and its a mess.
Were both about to destroy ourselves and we both need to be saved
I spent last weekend off my face on more drugs than I can remember
I came out of the daze around tuesday not knowing where I'd been
Or
What I had done.
but the short amount of time I was out of it I wasnt hurting I wasnt needy or being and idiot I was just lost.
As you can imagie that tuesday was pretty messy.

then wednesday came and everything got alot better.
and now its worse again
I just cant do it

Sorry

Don't fucking stop me yeaahhh

This song will forever remind me of new years day in a gay bar with effy and dan ahh it was so peaceful haha.

BLOODY BITS :)))))

I've been feeling really shit today until i found this ahh it made me happy :)))))))

Girl Child and Time

Girl Child

I met her at a place I always planned to take her
I found her when I stopped looking
I loved her when I was unloveable
I fucked her when I was a girl.

I lusted her warm hands on my cold flesh
I lusted her cock in my mouth
I lusted her cum on my face
I lusted her infinite lust.

She was always so young
to young
to innocent
but so deceptive
Strong Tough always blocking
walls are not meant to be knocked down.

we were so naive for each other
fantasist realist in our own little world
ducking diving emotional bullets
words so strong
never forgotten.

Time

They say time heals
what pain does time heal?
as we grow older time slowly decomposes our body's
before the grave, we are already dead
human condition
human submission

Time kills

slowly
inevitably
deceptively

Time flies
when your living life
life is a deception
this bleak nothingness used to be my distraction

YOU
were my distraction
from this eternal darkness

A desperate attempt to be free
clawing climbing begging
drinking smoking laughing
dancing dropping dying

flying

One day

And i'll be getting head, under the rainbow.

Everybody deserves head.







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FUCK LOVE

A Little selection of music i was listening to on my way home from work but im listening to this alot at the moment aswell.



I'm in love with her :) Ill be posting more of her.

Sputniks Sweetheart

“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they’re nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we’d be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.”


— Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)

Somewhere.

I really want to see this film and the music in this trailer is a the best.

Everyone likes drugs

Lost girl

I'd like to put you in a picture
put you in a film
put you on a poster and stick you on my wall.

Edie Andy even Lou
Sat with them would be just you

and fit you would so perfectly
in a club with them all in 63.

Alex Wolf

xx <3 xx

I wish I were a Warhol silk screen hanging on the wall.

Or little Joe or maybe Lou. I'd love to be them all. 
All New Yorks broken hearts and secrets would be mine. 
Id put you on a movie reel, and that would be just fine.

Ian Curtis from the film Control.

GuMMy Be▲R and Some other shit

Cigarettes

From

From now on no one will want me

I'll make sure of that. 

From now on I'll Slowly disappear

I'll make sure of that. 

From now on my only pain will be physical 

I'll make sure of that. 

From now on I will never be the same 

you will make sure of that.

Piano

I like to sit and play woesome ballads on my piano 

It helps me concentrate

I sometimes like to cut my wrists to see how long it will take to die

but I just wake up. 

When its over I like to play macabre odes on my 88 keys

my 88 keys to my mind and body 

black and white 

the only way I see. 

When insomnia gets the better of me 

you are there to sing me to sleep 

when i'm bleeding your keys red 

bleeding till I'm bloody dead. 

These laceration of tonal prescition guide my fingers in the moonlight 

deeper and deeper in to me 

until I'm dry and fingers ache 

until I die and fingers break 

Cigarettes 

Ouch 

as my searing flesh slowly boiled 

my mind raced and recoiled 

of thoughts of pain and when I met her 

Thats why I chose the pain, its better.

Ouch

as i smoke another one 

my heart beats like heavy drums  

passion for pain I couldn't say 

I didn't choose to go this way.

Ouch 

3rd time now and its getting better

my thoughts of you start to whither 

but my dear its quite a shame 

to forget you causes such great pain.

Float

A gap, a loss
an answer
a question
a question.

a love, a hate
an answer
an answer
a question.

a heart betrayed?
a scream, a scream
all dreams............
 gone.

no longer forward
no longer backwards
sucked into nothingness
always end up where it started.

destroy, deconstruct
ingest all offers
live to die
I would die to live.

to feel alive
to feel again
desperatley numb
desperatley dumb.

torn apart
bloated and bloody
existance is void
existance is nulled

float on past loves and memories
float on unfinished jigsaws
float on punctured tires
float on self worth.

float on failure
float on dissapointment
float on despair
float on self deprication.

no hope
full loss
see things this way
see things my way.

†CROSS†

2 Weeks off

So after 2 weeks or so of not posting anything due mainly to losing my I phone....TWICE in 1 week and generally getting wasted and losing my life but mainly just being lazy i've got a few bits to say, Probably over a few post's.

John galliano
well... john galliano went a bit mental  and decided to hurl anti semitic abuse at a couple in a paris restaurant, which I though odd as his collections have always been influenced by other cultures and the understanding of, so for him to come across so narrow minded and ignorant at the impact of those comments seems very stupid no wonder dior dropped him. London fashion week happened and as usual the shows were great..... well what I saw of them and I managed to get to one party at concrete in shorditch which was a fun night got a bit wasted and lost my phone:( (1st time), had the usual selection of fashonista and hipster types hanging out and looking swish.

On the music front theres been some exciting new releases from the likes of Radiohead, Yuck and Noah and the whale, and some not so exciting releases ...... Jessie j. Im going to do a post hype review of james blakes album and a short radiohead king of limbs album review and this little rant.


Jessie J was hyped up so so much and it just goes to show never trust the BBC when it come to music they are a government institution and don't know shit except some ill informed suggestions towards electronic female solo artists anyone remember Pixie Lott? Ellie Goulding anyone?  all championed by the bcc only for they're albums to flop much like Jessie J. The problem being these artist make one radio friendly track every fucker loves it and it gets radio play so the hype begins and when the album actually drops everyones bored of the artist, its a shame and unfair on the artist but its the way the dying industry is shaped so fuck it.

James blake review
We have all heard it, you know the hype, james blake, big in 2011 and all that up until he actually released his album, well i have decided to review this album post hype and see if it has any sticking power. Now in all honesty I have wanted to review this album for a while but wanted it to be real, so here goes. James blake matches minimal electric slices of soul with distressed vocals sometimes edging on dark and restless but also warm. First track 'unlock' begins with a simple piano progression and builds into thick as fuck synths with a little clicking beat pulsating in the back ground its an awesome opener.



Wilhelms scream, has james in his breaking vocals singing about falling and not knowing about his love over warm synths that just float in the background making tiny impressions upon you. The whole album seems ghostly and like its not coming from your I pod or mp3 dock its like its coming from a tortured consciousness all around you.



  First Single and Feist cover 'Limit to your love' is stripped back and the usual cracking vocals seem more together, with rippling bass carrying through the verses and heavy piano leading the track its a great cover and wise first single. This album has been labeled post dub-step but its more minimal electro indie, its occasionally repetitive all the tracks seem to be done in the same vain but with little twist's there is not enough change to keep the listener interested but when its good it really flies and some of the vocoder work is genius.  I give it a 7/10



More to come in a few days Peaceeeeee and love and all that hippie shitt.

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 Some videos and music I made messing about with my mac, a drum machine app on my Iphone plugged into a bass amp and a MicroKorg synth plugged into a distortion pedal and run through a fender tube amp.







I cant really call these songs I would call them journeys into the way im feeling about the current world that surrounds me. I say journey because when i start i dont know how or where ill end up, im not really paying attention and its all completely improvised.

Undone

As he lay there surrounded by friends and family, unaware of they're company, his drug addleded brain had never betrayed him to this extent. Slowly dying at at the age of 63 was never his intention he had once youthfuly exclaimed "ill be dead by 25, anything after that is pointless" his memories deny him access to past lives and loves. He cannot speak or hear or even see but just before his time slowly a quietly he whisperd her name......................

See you at the bitter end..........

A Life, a death
            a knife in the back
                         a Love, a breath
                                      Breath with me
hearts beat in time
tears drip like blood on white walls
                                 a scour, a hate, a dream
                                              fantasy forsaken  I was mistaken
When awoken I was mislead into a dreamworld
Mislead to believe
              to believe the truth?
                              the lies?
                              the hate ?
I never believed the hate...... and never pretended to.
a loss, a gain
            a new chapter of a failed past
                                            what's next
                                             me? you? him or her
Beginners luck will drive you to place heavy bets

To old, To young stupid and dumb
                                                        Its all fun
                                                              its all fun
                                                        its not fun
       ANGRY ANGRY ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blood tears lies and bruises heart shaped contortion of counter class dreams
                      Failed lucid unpredictable dreams
Dreams of fallen heroes
                                       as I was one of yours
                                                                             and you of mine
                                          Love, Hate, Sex and Lies

WITCH HOUSE

Ive been listening to some of these groups/Bands/Artists for a couple of months and thought i should share a few of my favs so here ya go.



Loving this slowed down hip hop influenced sound it gets to my head. Its been labelled witch house but we all know how much music journos and media types like a good label on something they cant describe.


 Its like heavily minimal slowed down hip hop with a goth influence but thats me, some might say its industrial influenced, i just love



Might put a short mixtape together at some point and ill definitely link some of mixtapes ive been checking out soon. 


More to come on this subject.

Enjoy xx

what do you like? and new strokes song.

Fucking love these bands but I must say that this new strokes song is amazing I've been waiting so long for this cant wait to here they're album. They are definitely back on form after they're not so amazing third album but this sounds like its right from the is this it/ room on fire stage of the strokes career.

Sunday Songs

I am the Devil and I am here to do the devils work.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=71iRMXG2y_A&feature=related

This is the music video of house of 1000 corpses.

The Devils rejects by rob zombie is a horror movie that ends the story of the sadistic firefly family initially brought to the screen in House of 1000 corpses. Unlike the first film which was a Bizzare and surreal twist on the standard horror movie cliche of 4 lost teens with a broken down car being stalked and prayed on, the devils rejects focuses more on the film aspects rather than the artistic style, darkly comic and funny at times with more dialect it is more a movie than a cult horror music video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB4QICDYC_g

Im not sure if these links will work but the one above shows the run rabbit run scene from house of 1000 corpses and is chilling

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGSw3af2uFw&feature=fvwrel

This link show baby firefly Lip syncing to marilyn monroes i wanna be loved by you.

baby firefly is such an interesting and very funny character

House of 1000 corpses has some amazing scenes but you tube wont let me put them on here so heres a few of the best from devils rejects including the greatest ending to any film EVER.

The links dont work sorry copy n paste if you wanna see em theyre well good.

GROUPLOVE - Never trust a happy song

Grouplove are a los angeles residing band who collectively met in Greece while vocalist and keyboard player Hannah Hooper was taking up an art residency there. She travelled to crete with lead singer Chris Zucconi, the pair had only met a matter of days before the trip. At the residency they met Sean Gadd who is originally from london and Two long time friends from los angeles Rick Rabbin and Andrew Wessen. They spent the summer writing songs and living the high life before eventually departing, it would be another year before the incarnation of Grouplove was formed.

Im very happy to say I was at GROUPLOVE's first UK gig as its not so often a band like this come along let alone play such a small venue. The folky five piece who say they were brought together by fate are bringing back hippy love with an edge. On first listen you automatically liken them to acts such as arcade fire as well as the lo fi summer sounds that seem to be playing out of every indie kids stereo.

We Call It Life...... Oh Yeaa Thats What We Call It....... When We Cant Call It Hell.

With songs like first single 'Colours' which plays on hallucinogenic metaphors "So I pull the switch the switch the switch inside my head and I see black, black, green and brown, brown brown and blue, yellow, violets, red" and tendencies towards madness with discontent towards the modern world "so mistress, mistress have you been up to the roof? he shot him self, self there's blood on the wall coz he couldn't face the truth" the last thing you would label them is hippie, but as the song builds to a climax it becomes a life philosophising mad rush that draws you in and spits you out as it breaks down.

Other songs like 'naked kids' which is a joyous ode to living your dreams freely and a day with friends at the beach are equally as invigorating, 'Dont say oh well' is another more upbeat song about understanding life and the things it brings, "I told my band mates, they are my soul mates" is sung sincerely in a un-cringy way which I think is a testament to they're songwriting ability.

The whole band seemed so down to earth the lead singer christian zucconi even plugged this blog which was nice of him.

Playing through tracks off the Grouplove Ep including some of my favs gold coast and getaway car these eccentric dreamers mesmerized the crowd but it was current single and last song 'Colours' that showed they have a unique, interesting sound and they write amazingly catchy tunes of pure genius.

I would descirbe them as something fresh with a natural spark and instant likability much like the band theyre on tour supporting Los campesinos unique, original yet slightly mad.

Love the video to colours aswell ahh LOVE LOVE LOVE this band get out there and buy they're 7" or just download the GROUPLOVE EP worth every penny.

So LONG ±+± MATER SUSPIRA VISION

Long clothing are a London based clothing
company who specialise in dynamic
yet simple designed oversized T's .



They're minimal designs have the all sorts of Dj's, musicians and other creative types hyping them up as well a international market.



WELCOME TO THE WITCHHOUSE

MATER SUSPIRIA VISION - W†TCHCR∆FT 69 (2011) from Mater Suspiria Vision on Vimeo.

Long have also co hosted some amazing partys across london that never dissapoint. Just before xmas they put on a show with BITE, super super mag and god dont like it which had Fostercare andMater suspira vision Live..... awsomenessness.

so yea look out for long and if they throw any parties ill probaly do a blog about it.

SALEM

I Love anything Witch house or witch style so i absolutely love salems darkness and gothicly electric sound.

Im going to do short review of they're album soon.

Art Fashion Aware at the RA

On at the RA is the Third season of
the GSK contemporary aware: art fashion identity at 6 Burlington gardens. It takes note of the way artists and fashion designers use clothing to communicate there cultural amd visceral identity. The exhibition displays works from well known international practitioners such as Alexander McQueen, yoko Ono, Grayson perry and Marina abromavic (more below) as well as newly commissioned pieces by yank shonibare and Hussein chalayan.

The exhibition is split into four parts.

STORYTELLING which looks into the Personal and cultural roles of clothing.

BUILDING takes account of clothing as shelter or protection and goes into the concept of carrying ones own shelter.

BELONGING AND CONFRONTING  Examines ideas of nationality as well as political and social confrontation, understanding the tensions associated with the assimilation of new cultures and traditions. 

PERFORMANCE Highlights presentation of fashion and clothing in the role our daily lives. It features film footage of Yoko ono's performance of cut piece at carnage recital hall in new york, for which the artist invited the public to cut strips from her clothing.  Also in this section was a instillation from Hussein Chalayan which uses the form of traditional japanese puppet theatre to examine the manipulative elements within the fashion industry.  

MARINA ABROMAVIC 

One of the works by the self stated grandmother of performance art marina abromavic was a video entitled imponderabillia in which two performers stand completely naked in a doorway and the public must squeeze between them in order to pass. The crucial element in this performance was that the participants had to decide who to look at as they past through the small door frame. This performance looks at the audiences personal aesthetic with the protagonist's as the frame and the audience the performers it exposes the audience to the unfamiliar bodily Sensations between shame and awareness of their own bodies, and forces them into a situation of human contact not usually experienced between strangers.

I find abromavic's work intriguing and think this is because for me alot of her work is quite hard to watch yet displays emotions I can relate to in sex, anger and personal exploration and destruction.   I'm a fan of a lot of her performances but AAA AAA effects me the most. I found myself wincing at the sight of her and long time collaborator ulay screaming at each other as they get louder and louder, gradually drawing themselves closer together, I can't help but find a sexual element as well as one off anger and despair on display here.

PLASTICZOOMS

I love this band I think they define what post religion Is as an entity rather than a blog

The inspiration behind this blog (Although I dont always stick to it) is to explore the darker side of Fashion, Music and Art.

Holy Beast of Bethlehem

Tennis, Baltimore Ep Review

Something I haven't been able to stop listening to recently is the baltimore Ep from husband and wife duo Tennis. They wrote they're album (released later this year on fat possum records) while on a 8 month sailing trip which resulted in some beautifully crafted and dreamy pop songs.

There has been a lot of similar sounds in the last year but this has an edge of purity , although they draw similarities to bands like the drums the music sounds pure and less forced .

Im Happy to give it an 8/10

Download marathon if you haven't already and look forward to they're debut.

Happy Birthday Bowie

Today the Genius that is David Bowie is 64 Years old.

What an amazing career this man has had, he basically invented modern music and inspired and took inspiration from evolving fashion and artistic trends. I love his berlin trilogy works none of which i have posted because I personally believe the three albums (Low, Heroes and Lodger) Should be listened to in there entirety.

Also check out The man who fell to earth its an amazingly weird and surreal film.

Bowie has continued to push the boundaries of popular music throughout his career inventing characters such as major tom, ziggy stardust and the thin white duke.

In more recent years bowie has collaborated with critically acclaimed artistes such as arcade fire and placebo.

I only hope he will tour once more but Bowie has been in recluse for the last few years.

Happy birthday Bowie.

I'd never ask anyone to do something I wouldn't do myself

For Christmas I was lucky enough to open a gift from my best friend entitled TerryWorld, a book detailing the compelling work of Terry Richardson, a renowned fashion photographer who's vision is as controversial as it is genius.

Photos of his appear in the pages of Harpers Bazaar, Vogue and many more, yet models have been known to speak out about his methods, most notably Danish model Rie Rasmussen who stated his works to be exploitive of younger more naive models. Admittedly in TerryWorld the aesthetic tends to edge towards the sexual, themes are often younger looking girls who fit the profile of heroin chic. There are other themes he takes portraits of celebrity's, young and old men and women although the sexual content is never far away its not always as obvious. Terry himself states that "I don't like to exploit anybody. Thats not my bag. Everyone has fun at my shoots.

His style is often abrupt and striking while making the viewer intrigued yet wary of what they perceive. The TerryWorld aesthetic slips away from the artistic and into bold, beautiful, funny, often scary and unsettling images while retaining a sense of realism in the world of fashion.

I would not call what he does exploitive, I would however state that his work is amazing on so many levels and there's a reason he is one of the most sought after fashion photographers in the world and an international celebrity.

I feel like i can relate to his work and his personality as a free thinking individual who's not afraid to offend in the name of his creativeness.

Photos By Terry Richardson From the Book TerryWorld.

Cool Cam

Well The I Phone 4 is amazing. Just the other day I discovered an app called Hipstamatic, its a digital camera with changeable lenses flashes film and lots of other bits. It also recreates the effects of a lot of vintage and hard to find cameras. Its a must have app for any I Phone owner who likes to save and share their memories in the coolest

and cheapest (Apart from the actual phone) way.

Just Some photos I took on my way home from work and at my house, they are pretty rubbish but was just testing it.

5 Bands that should have made the list

I know its hard

35 hot bands for 2011

1. Salem
2. Anna Calvi
3. Japanese Voyeurs
4. Flats
5. Warpaint
6. Yuck
7. DOM
8. Funeral Party
9. The Vaccines
10. Oh Land
11. Is Tropical
12. Brother
13. MNDR
14. Cults
15. Mona
16. The Knocks
17. Fixers

18. Jessie J
19. Fiction
20. Alex Winston
21. The Naked Famous
22. Kurran & The Wolfnotes
23. Clare Maguire
24. J.J
25. Toro y Moi
26. Pure Ecstasy
27. Washed out
28. Small Black
30. James Blake
31. The Middle East
32. Chapel Club
33. Mazes
34. Foster The People
35. Tribes



Some are newer than others, over the next month I will review some of these bands live or on
record.


Photos From http://www.stereogum.com/, http://www.clashmusic.com/, http://www.musicrooms.net/
http://www.redhotvelvet.com/ and http://www.thefourohfive.com/