Mad beats for the first of many COCAINE FRIDAYS!!!!1
Kylie Minogue - "2 Hearts" (Gaetan Remix)
Thursday, November 29, 2007
must be love
Today I was asked out on a date via email.
Last week I received an invitation via instant message on Facebook, and the week prior to that, someone asked me out via text message.
The whole geek-chic thing is fine by me, I love having an internet just as much as the next Gen Y and (embarrassingly?) spend most of my time online, but when did it become OK to tech-date? Has my recently-ended-almost-three-year-relationship-to-an-actual-person left me wrongly expectant of real communication? And real touch? Is this what people do now?
2 weeks ago I read about Patrick Moberg, a guy from NY who set up a website called nygirlofmydreams.com designed to track down a girl he saw (and apparently fell in love with) on the subway. If someone set up something like that for me, I would never catch the train again. Ever. One of the girl's colleagues read the website, put the two of them in touch, and now they are, according to Moberg, "seeing what happens."
Hmmm...
What Moberg's website doesn't disclose is that a huge-ass film company has bought the rights to the story and plans to turn it into a movie. Plus, Moberg and his "homeless immigrant" (aka Aussie expat Camille Hayton) have appeared on ABC and Good Morning America, and have featured in newspapers all over the world.
I am inclined to believe it was all a hoax from the start. But perhaps that's where I'm tripping up. If I believed in love-at-first-internet, would I have agreed to those dates?
Probably not.
Michaella is available, and online
Last week I received an invitation via instant message on Facebook, and the week prior to that, someone asked me out via text message.
The whole geek-chic thing is fine by me, I love having an internet just as much as the next Gen Y and (embarrassingly?) spend most of my time online, but when did it become OK to tech-date? Has my recently-ended-almost-three-year-relationship-to-an-actual-person left me wrongly expectant of real communication? And real touch? Is this what people do now?
2 weeks ago I read about Patrick Moberg, a guy from NY who set up a website called nygirlofmydreams.com designed to track down a girl he saw (and apparently fell in love with) on the subway. If someone set up something like that for me, I would never catch the train again. Ever. One of the girl's colleagues read the website, put the two of them in touch, and now they are, according to Moberg, "seeing what happens."
Hmmm...
What Moberg's website doesn't disclose is that a huge-ass film company has bought the rights to the story and plans to turn it into a movie. Plus, Moberg and his "homeless immigrant" (aka Aussie expat Camille Hayton) have appeared on ABC and Good Morning America, and have featured in newspapers all over the world.
I am inclined to believe it was all a hoax from the start. But perhaps that's where I'm tripping up. If I believed in love-at-first-internet, would I have agreed to those dates?
Probably not.
Michaella is available, and online
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
PADDLE POPS - BUY THEM.
Do you know how hard it is to google image search Paddle Pops? Crazy hard.
This is the best I can come up with, and it's an ad. Not quite the direction that I expected movestill to head in, but hey... it's a dog eat dog world out there.
I don't mind advertising the Paddle Pop. You see lately, it's become a total vice. No joke - paddle pops, australian series LOVE MY WAY (see last post) and bad 'celebrity-day-off' outfits is who i am right now.
Right now I'm imitating Sport Spice, pre-'sexy' solo career.
Movestill has been getting occasional emails from the occasional record company, clearly loving the millions of hits our blog has been getting, wanting part of the action... but say, i dunno, if the Paddle Pop Lion wanted to get in touch... WHISPERED SUBTLY - OUR EMAIL ADDRESSES ARE TO THE RIGHT OF THE POSTS.
This is the best I can come up with, and it's an ad. Not quite the direction that I expected movestill to head in, but hey... it's a dog eat dog world out there.
I don't mind advertising the Paddle Pop. You see lately, it's become a total vice. No joke - paddle pops, australian series LOVE MY WAY (see last post) and bad 'celebrity-day-off' outfits is who i am right now.
Right now I'm imitating Sport Spice, pre-'sexy' solo career.
Movestill has been getting occasional emails from the occasional record company, clearly loving the millions of hits our blog has been getting, wanting part of the action... but say, i dunno, if the Paddle Pop Lion wanted to get in touch... WHISPERED SUBTLY - OUR EMAIL ADDRESSES ARE TO THE RIGHT OF THE POSTS.
Love her way
This past weekend was about three women.
Maxine McKew
Yeah, wow, Labour, Bennalong, evs. I get it. The seat she has taken, or is likely to take, is hilarious. Howard aside, two non-related things kept coming into my mind every time she appeared on the lil' screen on sat night.
1. Imagine the movie/play/musical about her political career if she went even on to be, say PM? She couldn't have asked for a better first act. Apparently Cate Blancette was at her party in EASTWOOD(?), clearly sourcing script ideas.
2. Maxine has the biggest mouth I have ever seen.
Natalie Something-Italian
I had my tickets to the Australian Idol final taken away from me BEFORE I even received them. My initial reaction was to get angry at the person who made the executive decision WITHOUT me, but once she explained that she had seen not one bit of (even vague) interest in this series from me... I realised there actually was no need for me to attend the Opera House Final. Turns out I didn't even watch the show.
All i really new about this series was the Daniel Misfud used to live Michaella's house, and that Kyle was still a c**t. Supposedly, runner up Matt Corby doesn't want to be identified as an Australian Idol artist so is glad he didn't win. Yeah, probably best. That's exactly how it all works... Don't come first so no one remembers you and you can get signed to Ivy League or Modular. Tour with Van She. Fuck, imagine if you HAD won! (Kate DeAraugo anyone?)
Lou
Frankie is a tempestuous ball of mad life: she colours in for a living at a large daily newspaper. She lives with Tom, a fallen star chef, now a cook at the local rehabilitation hospital. Just down the road in a much nicer house lives Charlie 35, architect, surfer, emotionally stunted and Lou's father. He's also Frank's ex and Tom's brother. Charlie's remarried to Julia, a woman with firm dreams about her life that are about to come true and scare the shit out of her. Love My Way is an exploration of big characters dealing with the deepest human emotions. Love, hate, truth, lies, jealousy and anger. It deals with the randomness of life and the bloody mindedness needed to carve out a place in the world. These people are family by blood and family by proxy - a web of relationships which are pulled and strained by the strongest desires and contradictions of the human heart.
Maxine McKew
Yeah, wow, Labour, Bennalong, evs. I get it. The seat she has taken, or is likely to take, is hilarious. Howard aside, two non-related things kept coming into my mind every time she appeared on the lil' screen on sat night.
1. Imagine the movie/play/musical about her political career if she went even on to be, say PM? She couldn't have asked for a better first act. Apparently Cate Blancette was at her party in EASTWOOD(?), clearly sourcing script ideas.
2. Maxine has the biggest mouth I have ever seen.
Natalie Something-Italian
I had my tickets to the Australian Idol final taken away from me BEFORE I even received them. My initial reaction was to get angry at the person who made the executive decision WITHOUT me, but once she explained that she had seen not one bit of (even vague) interest in this series from me... I realised there actually was no need for me to attend the Opera House Final. Turns out I didn't even watch the show.
All i really new about this series was the Daniel Misfud used to live Michaella's house, and that Kyle was still a c**t. Supposedly, runner up Matt Corby doesn't want to be identified as an Australian Idol artist so is glad he didn't win. Yeah, probably best. That's exactly how it all works... Don't come first so no one remembers you and you can get signed to Ivy League or Modular. Tour with Van She. Fuck, imagine if you HAD won! (Kate DeAraugo anyone?)
Lou
Frankie is a tempestuous ball of mad life: she colours in for a living at a large daily newspaper. She lives with Tom, a fallen star chef, now a cook at the local rehabilitation hospital. Just down the road in a much nicer house lives Charlie 35, architect, surfer, emotionally stunted and Lou's father. He's also Frank's ex and Tom's brother. Charlie's remarried to Julia, a woman with firm dreams about her life that are about to come true and scare the shit out of her. Love My Way is an exploration of big characters dealing with the deepest human emotions. Love, hate, truth, lies, jealousy and anger. It deals with the randomness of life and the bloody mindedness needed to carve out a place in the world. These people are family by blood and family by proxy - a web of relationships which are pulled and strained by the strongest desires and contradictions of the human heart.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
quickie
Remember when I blogged about Cadence Weapon?
Here's a taste of whats store from his sophomore release 'Afterparty Babies'
In Search Of The Youth Crew
PS. BIG UPS to the forkcast without which I would be lost (and without good new tunes)
PPS. I am listening to someone try and reverse park outside my window. Its hilarious. Poor Marie, If I had the girl with the nasal voice yelling at me from the pavement I'd scrape the side of the car against the gutter too!
Everywhere you go...
Is this passe yet?
Sophie Movestill was asking this same question months ago...
Tartan, tights, red nails, red lips, lens-less glasses, Club 77. I'm bored. This is so boring.
Sophie Movestill was asking this same question months ago...
Tartan, tights, red nails, red lips, lens-less glasses, Club 77. I'm bored. This is so boring.
black lips
Atlanta's Black Lips are back with 'Good Bad Not Evil', their fourth studio album and second for Vice Records
From start to finish the album is a truly engaging combination of alt country, swirling psychadelia and garage rock, with vocals from Cole Alexander reminiscent of a John Cale drone - for example 'Veni Vidi Vici' with the "I caaaaame, I saaaaaaaw, I conquered aaaaaall..." chorus. The guitar and vocal is lazy and meandering and the drum just paces - I can imagine a long humid car ride through the Northern Territory (or anywhere hot, that was just the first place that came to mind OK) with that song on repeat...
Black Lips released their debut EP in late 2001 through Die Slaughterhauslabel (their own label.) Their first tour was booked for December 2002, but tragically days before they were due to leave, guitarist Ben Eberbaugh was killed in a driving accident - someone was drunk and going the wrong way on a highway. The band continued, believing that Eberbaugh would have wanted them to keep playing. Its been claimed 'Transcendental Light' is about that accident, and it may be, but it also could not be at all... their lyrics seem nostalgic sure, but also kind of dismissive. Listen yourself, and see what you think.
They're playing the Meredith Music Festival, and a solo show in Sydney at Oxford Art Factory December 18. Buy tickets here - but do so at your own risk! I have never seen them perform live, and people tell me their shows are phenomenally loud and super violent. Plus, I hear they once pissed in each other's mouths ON STAGE. Seriously. If you're a toe-in-the-water-before-you-jump-right-in kind of person, take a listen to 'Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo.' It's a live record that was released through Vice last February and should give you some indication of the raucousness of their sets.
Read their thoughts at their blog and keep your eyes out for a film next year - the band are starring in a Hollywood release as a ficticious 70s group of struggling musos called 'The Renegades.' Why? Who knows! Lets just hope they're better than The Wonders
Monday, November 26, 2007
shake
video love
mp3 love 'All The Girls Around The World' Dj Blaqstarr
my internet is so frustratingly slow today... im giving up. more tomorrow
mp3 love 'All The Girls Around The World' Dj Blaqstarr
my internet is so frustratingly slow today... im giving up. more tomorrow
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
oh hellllllllllllll no!
i love oprah. seriously. she's taught me so much about being friends with celebrities, domestic violence, road trips with the old gayle, being southern and... just being a woman in the modern world. her father, vernon, lives in my old stomping grounds- nashville, tennessee. he still owns a barber salon- "winfrey barber & beauty shop" and he works every day. oprah bought the street his shop is on and named it after him. i used to just drive down there sometimes.
my favourite episodes are the dr.oz specials (holy shit! if a guy loses 15 pounds, he gains 1 inch in penis length! mad.) and oprah’s “favorite things” episode, which airs today in america. it's one of the television highlights of the year basically.
click here to see every item on the 2007 list that audience members get for sitting on their backsides for an hour.
some of the things are pretty great but i was kinda surprised to read this on one of the many (!) web-sites that gives tips on how to get tickets to the oprah show:
"one of the most popular shows is oprah's favorite things. this is the show where she gives all of her favorite things to her audience. trying to get tickets to this particular show will definitely take you about two years".
what the herg? two years for a josh groban CD and a swing turtleneck and sailor pants set??? gurrrrrl lemme tell ya somethin... that! oprah!
Monday, November 19, 2007
bamboo banger!!!
(click to enlarge)
please support this event with open arms and purses. it's a great cause and it's movestill-er anna lunoe's "baby". the night's gonna be awesome. bands? only the best. dj's? so many it will make your head spin.
it's going to be impossibly fun knowing that you're having a sick party AND doing it for a good cause.
for more info, visit the myspace.
p.s. it's also my dayyyyyummm birthday bitch, so no excuses!
Friday, November 16, 2007
early winter (summer if you're in australia)
someone: hey neha. love gwen stefani a bit more.
neha: impossible.
i'm also pretty crazy about expert british video director, sophie muller who is responsible for this clip for 'early winter'. she has directed over a hundred music videos and has been a longtime collaborator with acts like gwen, garbage, blur, eurythmics etc. but her entire body of work reads like a 'who's who' of the key players in music for the past 20 years. she has a pretty distinct style and you can definitely recognise her videos pretty much straight away these days (the killers- mr brightside, maroon 5- she will be loved, the strokes- the end has no end)
gwen thanks her extensively in a recent interview...
"i'd like to say that sophie muller is a genius. she is one of my most talented friends. she can and will only do projects that she is inspired by. she is driven by creativity and the love for what she does and as a result she never compromises. i consider her a true artist. i was a fan of sophie's work before I even imagined working with her. after working with her for the first time on our 'don't speak' video, we became close friends. on the set her direction is humble and simple, but she knows what she wants and knows when she gets it. a woman in charge in the male-dominated world of filmmaking makes the whole experience that much more exciting. she has a way of making every cut have a reason and meaning. the videos have a life of their own and become better each time you watch them. i am always in shock the first time i see them and then after a few more times i am actually amazed."
onya soph.
neha: impossible.
i'm also pretty crazy about expert british video director, sophie muller who is responsible for this clip for 'early winter'. she has directed over a hundred music videos and has been a longtime collaborator with acts like gwen, garbage, blur, eurythmics etc. but her entire body of work reads like a 'who's who' of the key players in music for the past 20 years. she has a pretty distinct style and you can definitely recognise her videos pretty much straight away these days (the killers- mr brightside, maroon 5- she will be loved, the strokes- the end has no end)
gwen thanks her extensively in a recent interview...
"i'd like to say that sophie muller is a genius. she is one of my most talented friends. she can and will only do projects that she is inspired by. she is driven by creativity and the love for what she does and as a result she never compromises. i consider her a true artist. i was a fan of sophie's work before I even imagined working with her. after working with her for the first time on our 'don't speak' video, we became close friends. on the set her direction is humble and simple, but she knows what she wants and knows when she gets it. a woman in charge in the male-dominated world of filmmaking makes the whole experience that much more exciting. she has a way of making every cut have a reason and meaning. the videos have a life of their own and become better each time you watch them. i am always in shock the first time i see them and then after a few more times i am actually amazed."
onya soph.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
faux pas
I love Tim Shiel.
We've never actually met, but I'm sure if we ever do, it'll be magic!
Tim makes music as Faux Pas.
He's one of the amazing Melbourne artists whose stuff I believe is far more interesting that Wally-De-'Hearts A Mess'-I-have-an-Aria-Baker, but that is unfortunately overshadowed by the juggernaut that is Gotye. Not that Gotye isn't a great artist, I just believe Faux Pas is better. When he independently released his 2006 debut album 'Entropy Begins At Home' I was blown away! It was a simple but layered, carefully considered fusion of pop, electro and crunchy psychedelia.
Its not suprising then, that when I was sent a copy of his new single last week, I was hooked immediately! The chorus line "every time I think I'm the only one whose lonely, someone calls on me" is hauntingly honest but also so cutsey and catchy!
Have a listen
Changes
'Bug In Mouth' Pikelet - Faux Pas remix
Yumi and the Sky' Zeal - Faux Pas remix
'Changes' is the first single from his upcoming sophomore record, and has been released with some of Tim's remixes that after floating around for a while on the web are finally available on disk. Pikelet (Melbourne) and Zeal (Adelaide) are two more artists definitely worth your time if you're after some great Aussie talent.
Find out more iamfauxpas.com
and read his hugely entertaining thoughts regarding Daniel Johns' Arias speech here
And I have to apologise for the quietness of Movestill recently, we've all been pretty flat out. We'll be back in full force soon. Promise x
We've never actually met, but I'm sure if we ever do, it'll be magic!
Tim makes music as Faux Pas.
He's one of the amazing Melbourne artists whose stuff I believe is far more interesting that Wally-De-'Hearts A Mess'-I-have-an-Aria-Baker, but that is unfortunately overshadowed by the juggernaut that is Gotye. Not that Gotye isn't a great artist, I just believe Faux Pas is better. When he independently released his 2006 debut album 'Entropy Begins At Home' I was blown away! It was a simple but layered, carefully considered fusion of pop, electro and crunchy psychedelia.
Its not suprising then, that when I was sent a copy of his new single last week, I was hooked immediately! The chorus line "every time I think I'm the only one whose lonely, someone calls on me" is hauntingly honest but also so cutsey and catchy!
Have a listen
Changes
'Bug In Mouth' Pikelet - Faux Pas remix
Yumi and the Sky' Zeal - Faux Pas remix
'Changes' is the first single from his upcoming sophomore record, and has been released with some of Tim's remixes that after floating around for a while on the web are finally available on disk. Pikelet (Melbourne) and Zeal (Adelaide) are two more artists definitely worth your time if you're after some great Aussie talent.
Find out more iamfauxpas.com
and read his hugely entertaining thoughts regarding Daniel Johns' Arias speech here
And I have to apologise for the quietness of Movestill recently, we've all been pretty flat out. We'll be back in full force soon. Promise x
Monday, November 12, 2007
Monday, November 5, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
having an indie moment
I have an exam on Monday, and I'm pretty sure I will fail. I also have my iTunes on random and this just came on...
planning my escape SLEEPING STATES
Yep, pretty much.
Sleeping States reminds me of Jens Leckman. He has the same charming sincerity, his songs gentle and honest and quite prolific at times. Plus, his real name is even cooler than mine - Markland Starkie - how awesome!
This is from his 2nd album There The Open Spaces, which is out now. If you like the song above, check the record. Its released locally through Etch n Sketch.
uumm... errr... just a trim?
Events for the 2008 Sydney Festival were made public yesterday, and after discussing the program at work today, my coworkers signed me up for this...
I think they reckon I'm vain, or something, and wont turn up. But fuck that!
As an experimental theatre project, a group of ten kids are undertaking a series of training workshops with local professional stylists and will then be offering free haircuts at salons in Parramatta and Darlinghurst - and it's entirely up to you and your 'young stylist' what look you end up with!
The press kit from the Canadian company Mammalian Diving Reflex reads: "'Haircuts by Children' pits our trust in the younger generation against the thrills and chills of vanity"
Hmmmm... how much do I trust a ten year old? Or, how much do I like my hair...?
I wanna know what I should get done! Consider this styling by public poll - What style should I go for??? Mohawk?! Lemme know!
I think they reckon I'm vain, or something, and wont turn up. But fuck that!
As an experimental theatre project, a group of ten kids are undertaking a series of training workshops with local professional stylists and will then be offering free haircuts at salons in Parramatta and Darlinghurst - and it's entirely up to you and your 'young stylist' what look you end up with!
The press kit from the Canadian company Mammalian Diving Reflex reads: "'Haircuts by Children' pits our trust in the younger generation against the thrills and chills of vanity"
Hmmmm... how much do I trust a ten year old? Or, how much do I like my hair...?
I wanna know what I should get done! Consider this styling by public poll - What style should I go for??? Mohawk?! Lemme know!
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