homework

Re-watching Fight Club is never a bad thing. Especially in good company.

Life is pain

So, my dear only sister posted a top 5 list. I decided to dedicate a new post to the “Top 5 songs you should never listen to when you wake up, unless you want to crawl back to bed and cry into your pillow all day”.

Basically, I could compile a list consisting entirely of Lanegan songs, but that’s against the rules.

Here it goes:

1. Mark Lanegan – When Your Number Isn’t Up
I posted the lyrics for this one right before BigSista’s list and I guess it explains a lot. Plus, you get a very silent minor-key piano intro, slow but accentized drumming and low organs – and Mark’s voice… Haunting. Never-ever try this song in the morning.

2. Queens of the Stone Age – Better Living Through Chemistry
This song will paralyze you right away, with the mindfucking opening guitar… One of the best song in terms of production and textures – everything is in the right place, from the little blinks of an electric piano to the effected vocals and the droning in the middle.

3. Radiohead – Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box
Probably my favourite Radiohead song, mainly because of the great bass-drum in the beginning. “After years of waiting, nothing came”, comes in Thom Yorke’s annoying voice, supported by various synths and stuff.
I have a funeralistic experience connected to this song. I was listening to it on my way to school. It was a dark, cloudy morning (mourning), rain pouring down from the sky and my gaze fell on an abandoned kids’ playground… Okay, this all sounds very hollywood-esque, but I nearly started to cry (:

4. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – She Made Me
Astonishing psychedelic piece. The trip sets of with undistinguishable children’s whispers, then music flows in… and you want to float away. Desperation takes over and the only exit you see is anything (drugs, hard cider) – but certainly not school or workplace.

5. The Magnetic Fields – I Die
If you’ve ever listened to this song, I’m sure you get my point. A beautiful string passage, a simple but outstanding song. Stephin Merritt growning things like “Having… forgotten… how… to cry… I die…” is not your best alarm tone.

Feel free to post your own lists!!

Don’t give a damn for money

Son of Frankeinstein
The Ghost of Frankeinstein
Frankeinstein Meets the Wolf Man

Three amazingly bad films. 69 rubels a piece. That’s amazingly cheap. Bela Lugosi is God.