First Impressions of Earth is my all time favourite album from Big Apple band The Strokes.
The amount of times I've listened to it during the course of last week is unreal. The songs that top it are:
You Only Live Once
Razorblade
On the Other Side
Electricityscape
You Only Live Once is such a catchy song and especially with the sun out, it's been putting me in a good mood. Yesterday, the high temperatures allowed me to stroll along The Front, reading my History Revision Book, yet this song distracted me and I sang along instead of taking in the words from the page, letting the whole world loose and not minding what others thought (for the records, I'm treacherous at singing). So here's the song for you to have a listen to live on Jools Holland.
Ps: The t-shirt below is to die for and a summer essential, I think so! ... into the basket and proceed to checkout!
Found this lovely EXAKTA Varex IIb 35mm SLR around the house that my parents never told me about, but it was a magical moment when I opened the nearly crumbling leather compartment it was contained within. Along with it was a whole set for the camera including tripod, different lenses and also a light sensor. It was all an exciting find but I doubt I'll be using all the extras to prevent confusion, bearing in mind the online manual doesn't work and the camera itself is quite mind-boggling already. There's already film in it and it's most likely expired so I'm oh so excited to start using it and then get it developed!
The weather's starting to warm up and already had a chance to wear shorts and my decks on the weekend! It was an essential to hit the beach with a pile full of revision and a copy of Dazed and Confused to simply relax. 'It's a beautiful day in sunny Jersey', said in an American radio host voice, so I strolled into what all native Jersey-ans call 'town', excited to pick up some embroidered patches (badges) from the market to add to a grey/olive coloured backpack I recently found in my parents wardrobe. I wanted to stick with the whole American/Canadian Wilderness Group theme, thus chose a 'SAVE OUT FOREST' badge, 'ECO PATROL OUTDOOR' badge and last but not least a 'U.S.A' shield badge. Pretty happy with my purchases eliminating the price which ended up being around £7 for three. Anyways, I'm hoping to collect more and create a collection because they are pretty darn addictive and they'll be provided a home in some shape or form.
Ambition: American Road trip and just collect these along the way sounds sensible enough.
Felt like summer today with the sun out and sitting on the wall at school, basking in the warmth and sunshine so this post must be a summer related one. Hear it goes...
I would go crazy to get my hands on some of the Jack Wills and Franklin and Marshall S/S 11 collection.
I love the way F&M and Jack Wills have taken the old school approach to summer and almost the faux-romantic teenager style.
This hooded jumpers by F&M is perfect for spring and summer evenings after a long day spent relaxing on the beach, soaking up the sunshine with a pair of my mustard shorts and either my boat shoes or espadrilles - hoping on getting blue/red and white striped ones, think I may stick with the nautical and simple look this year again.
fan of the high school jacket but don't think I'd suit, nonetheless
love the style of this picture
JACK WILLS COLLECTION
I love the basic white Jack Wills Jumper and on the back there's a grey imprint of sails from a boat with WILLS underneath which is pretty cool, though don't think I'm one of those who buys trademark clothing for the reason purely of the trademark logo. Also, the rugby top transports me back to my childhood when nearly every single time my parents and myself went to dinner parties at my dads dozens of colleagues, the kids were dressed up with these striped tops, looking all posh whilst I stood there in my good ole' yet embarrassing red fleece. Certainly wasn't a dress up kind of child. Lastly, I've always wanted a bag from Jack Wills mainly because the small Union Jack stitched onto the bottom is to die for, sounds kind of lame though.
There's a big empty white space in my room which I want to fill even though it may make it look smaller.
Nonetheless, I've always been dyeing to make a collage with bits and bobs collected over the year in the form of magazines or pieces of paper from previous holidays such as leaflets/tickets/guides ect. Never found the time though because these things need some effort and determination to complete! So you could say that it's more of an art project than just a casual thing: sticking pieces onto paper in random order on a Saturday night.
Anyways, I've been inspired by these great collage artists, or simply just artists who throw in a bit of collage into their work. Notpaper is a blog that is 'dedicated to showcasing the work of international collage artists'.
Also, sticking with the whole collage shenanigans (their album cover is sort of a collage), this song by New York duo Matt and Kim has got me in a 'sa-weeet sunshine' mood, bearing in mind the sun's shining and it may not be topping high temperatures, no where close, but who cares if the sun is out?!
Long winded post as a warning in advance.
I've been finally reunited with my beloved magazine Dazed and Confused. Even though March's issue is devoted to the model of Arizona Muse and almost half of it is literally her portfolio and the other half most adverts, there are still chunks of readable paragraphs scattered on pages and also a fair bit of intriguing articles.
One of them was of an artist who goes by the stage name of Toro Y Moi and his real name being Chazwick Bundick. (Is it only me or is Chazwick a rather crazy name that you'd love to have? Yeah, thought so - just me)
He's somewhat of a chillwave artist and surprisingly, his pieces are quite relaxing even though his sounds are filled with the weird and wonderful noises. On the other hand some may find it annoying and become bored a third way into it. So I'll leave you with a clip to decide, either love or hate.
'I'm always the one who chooses to go back to the hotel rather than party'
Also in this issue of D&C, there's an interesting article about the adaption of author Joe Dunthorne's novel Submarine into a film of the same title directed by comedian Richard Ayoade (must be one of my favorites).
So if you haven't checked this issue out or even Dazed and Confused, it's a must and a definite for the near future! (www.dazeddigital.com or purchase le magazine - £3.95)
Must fit this in because during Friday night browsing I found this by LA band La Sera. They may sound similar to Best Coast but this tune is priceless. On the contrary it's rather repetitive however the video's quite amusing.
