Some good music, packet please auntie.

http://www.blogotheque.net/takeawayshows/

Hurrah. There's music for you to dabao (takeaway) now. Literally, cos these musicians/bands including Spinto band, The Kooks, The Shins, Au Revoir Simone and Voxtrot are caught on camera while stroliing down the streets of New York, Paris wherever.
Music on the go, with great edits that don't make you giddy.

Best thing thus far: you can download some of the rare live tracks for FREE.

yay! I love collaborative websites. and for all, who read French, go to www.blogotheque.net ( i believe it just means "The Blog")

Harland Miller's International Lonely Guy, 2004

Book meets painter meets Pop Art = books + paintings





Meet Harland Miller, British artist-writer who has these witty, colourful and uncannily realistic paintings of Penguin Book covers (fictitious ones of cos, pun not intended ;D )

And who better to write an interview piece with Miller, but indie demigod himself, Jarvis Cocker. Read the Guardian interview here: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2072723,00.html

I love Penguin Books, which reminds me...I should get some more of their minimalist classics with green and white covers. Lovely reads with equally lovely covers, me friends. Go grab a shelf full of them.

Click on London Loves ...ART to find out more.

Rachel is currently reading: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Penguin Books

Stuck in a rut, with no f*** in the hut.

You know that you are stuck in a rut, when you woke up in the evening from half a day's worth of sleep, after a night out with a bunch of gay men, dancing with one who looks 10 years younger than he is and a roomful of vodka and vodka only.

my back aches somehow.

Girls in red skirts, Kathmandu

I said goodbye to someone that I love.
It’s not just me, I tell you it’s the both of us.
And it was hard,
Like coming off the pills that you take to stay happy.

(Belle and Sebastian, If she wants me)

When drunk, stay off handphones

A little "primary-school-science-textbook-life-cycle-of-a-caterpillar" diagram by yours truly, based on personal drunken episodes (read: explanation/apology for all my victims)

It is also found on www.cheeminology.blogspot.com Possibly the funniest blog on earth, by a bunch with very "structured" sense of humour. Go take a look and have a hearty laugh.

A bi-coastal Interpol Song.

We are all waiting for Interpol' s new album, aren't we... 10.07.2007

The new single, The Heinrich Maneuver alludes to a bi-coastal/transcontinental/long distance relationship.

If you have been in one, I think you will identify with Paul Bank's rather straightforward and candid lyrics, compared to his beyond-metaphorical lyrics in Antics (Touch your thighs, I'm the lonely one (Narc) )

Now try the brakes
I tried but you know it's a lonely ride
How're the things on the west coast?

Today my heart swings
Yeah today my heart swings

But i don't want take your heart
And i don't want a taste of victory
No i don't want to read your thoughts anymore
My god

I think Banks captured the fluxes, the gradual decline and death and post-death issues of a relationship so succinctly.

And, yes. Don't all our hearts swing sometimes :)

Photos by Rachxf: Part of a feature I'm writing on the death of Street Opera

- really proud cos I'm dabbling in both editorial and photos now. Yipee! :) heh