Sally Shapiro - “Anorak christmas”
The song is available on a 12″!! I certainly ordered a copy as soon as I saw that. Hope you will love this as much as I do and in case that you have not listened to Nixon for a while maybe it will make you put those lovely gems on once again.

Sally Shapiro

Cats on fire @ myspace

Take a visit at their homepage as well for more songs, lyrics (well worth a read as well). You have the link here under “links”.

Some other guys that have been buzzing for a while now and that some blogs that I read have mentioned, and whom I had the privilege of seeing live a couple of weeks back (and yes, they sounded just as good live!!). They are called Days, at first I thought it was a gang of 30ish something men but that was not the case. Visit their myspace and listen to the lovely tunes

Days @ myspace

Records to be released on the reborn Shelflife (what a delight!) and the new label Lavender. Lavender by the way just put out their first release which was with Afraid of stairs.

Well, that was all for now, seems that lately the things that have been mentioned here have been done so in a haste. Loads to etc etc etc. Who cares, lovely songs by lovely bands, that is what matters!=)

Now to some more fun things, Celestial has treated us to a small Christmas present that you can download here

Celestial - “Saving up her wishes (for another christmas)”

It is a zip file with song and cover.
And it is a delightful thing!

As I said, I am speechless. Pay a visit to Chris Millers myspace site and listen to the songs there, that particular song is not up there but the ones that are, they are mighty fine as well. Though, you should buy the album just to get the chance to listen to “Won’t you ever know”!! If you have ever liked something that I have mentioned here, well, then this is a MUST HAVE.

Silver screen @ myspace

Claire records

Or why not from this lovely shop: Fraction discs

Their song, “From seas” is just pure greatness. At first I listened to it on repeat and left for school with a big smile on my face, then I told a friend that “with better recordings this would be a big hit!” But the more I listen to it (at least five times a day), I just think “hey! this is already a hit!!”. Just marvelous. Gives me a warm buzz every time, so become their friend at myspace and send them lovelettters, write them songs, hey, marry them!

The Bridal Shop @ myspace

There might be some things coming up here in just a short while, some records and it is beginning to be that time of year when one should do a “this caught my heart”-list, where The Bridal Shop will appear, as you probably already guessed.

Should maybe have mentioned that you should give “Lend me your heart” a listen as well, not as good but not at all bad!

Society, media etc etc are feeding you and you just sit there and swallow, almost screaming for more. Like yesterday, I was watching the telly and they showed from H&M, they hade some designers make an “exclusive” collection (not 2-3 of each garment, no… the commersial “exclusive”) and there were people actually standing in line, waiting, for hours! Just to get their hands on something that they have to pay for, H&M are usually not that expensive but as it was an “exclusive” collection they propably cost a bit more… What is going on in these minds? Standing in line, freezing, just to get to throw away money. When the doors opened they rushed in and started almost fighting over garments, have you seen the movie “Spirited away”? Well, it was like when her parents get turned into pigs (the reason they get turned into pigs). It was mostly sad to see, and especially to hear these people talk. So controlled by societys wheels and the huge commersial powers that are lid upon us constantly.

Another thing that annoyed me to bits was wathing a morning program and they had some philosofer and some other people there talking about something called “slow”. This “slow” is that we today should wind down, take it more easy etc etc. Cellphones, e-mail and other technical things are putting more and more stress upon us and the society (work and so on…(mostly capitalistic powers)) are demanding more and more from us, so if people continue like this they will get burned out. The host then asked, “ah, so we should take it more slowly, not do things constantly, not just work and bla bla bla” and I thought to myself, is this person 1) just plain dumb?! 2) making himself dumb so that the dumb (non thinkers) at home can understand. ? I vote for #2, but the sad thing about it is that that it is how media see the peple at home sitting wathing. And the even more sad thing is that they might be right. Most of this “slow” discussion were thoughts that I thought were clear to everyone, thought that everone has had. But over and over again I get proved wrong (when I talk to people about these kind of things). Usually people say “hey, you’re right”, the thoughts are not that foreign to them, it is just that they never allow themselves to think them. Somebody is playing with their mind.

Yesteday I went to the cinema, sadly I was the only one who bought a ticket for that movie and earlier this week when I was there I asked the girl at the register how long they were going to show that particular movie and she said “well not that long, maybe two weeks more or so, it’s been selling bad”. It is sad, well, it is not a movie that has a lot of money and a lot of commerisal powers behind it, I sometimes just wish that people at least could have a mind of their own when it comes to culture. The movie was “Dark horse”, a black and white such, , directed by the one who made the wonderful “Noi albinoi”. I will not tell you that much about the movie, just one particular moment.
Daniel (the main character) is sitting in his car with his girlfriend who is aslepp, they are on their way to the clinic to make an abortion. When they come to a bridge the bridge starts to open up to let some boats through and Daniel curses and sais “…we don’t have time for this!”, and as they do not have any option they have to sit there and wait. Daniel starts to calm down and he is starting to turn to look at his girlfriend, my first thought was the he would say “fuck this! (in a positive tone)” but that did not happen. When he turned you could see through his eyes as he looked at his girlfriend there at the seat where she is leaned against the window sleeping, and she was in colour. Just marvelous. My interpetation of it is that if those boats had not come, they would have gone to the clinic and made the abortion, but now when they came they gave Daniel some time to stop and think. This made him see her in another light (thus the colour) and this brought a smile to his face. This may have turned out to be a turning point in his life. But the thing about it is the message, stop sometimes and think.

A lot of talk from me now, I have not even read it so I do not know how it sounds, maybe I will read it later on today and maybe it will get erased or edited then, that remains to be seen….

Pay Jyoti a visit White Town
and buy this 7″!! Heavenly pop hits keep dropping those gems…

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On a side note, I just wanted to scream out into the night that I just won this mighty fine records THE CAROUSEL - I FORGOT TO REMEMBER TO FORGET LP