I want Rock and Roll

I haven't been here for a while have I?

. France being shredded in half an hour by Australia. Not cos I hate France or anything, just cos that is friggin' impressive
. England beating Australia (!!!)
. Chris Ashton's try
. Scotland beating South Africa
. Watching the All Blacks play
. Brian O'Driscoll and Tommy Bowe
. SNOW
. the gloves my mum knitted for me and basically all my friends
. SEEING ARCADE FIRE TOMORROW
. going to my first live rugby international in Wales
. Jared Padalecki's smile. A litle bit of me squees every time I see it :D
. Supernatural. Don't judge :P
. Supernatural Sunday with Amelia
. the possibility going to New Zealand (!!!)
. the possibility of visiting my friend in Portugal at Easter
. The Hobbit getting the green light
. Good Woman by Cat Power
. I have stolen songs from God - Gould's Book of Fish
. United States of Pop 2009. Again, not cos I particularly like any of those songs, but because its really well done
. Seeing Dara O'Briain and the Return of the King live
. keyblackfox
. my friends manageing to get £135 for my birthday so I could buy an iPod. :D

[stolen from my lj post to quiet_thrills]

I have stolen songs from God.

Half Light

Our heads are just houses
Without enough windows
You say you hear human voices
But they're only echos

Only echos

Arcade Fire - Half Light I

You Know I Would

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from Marc Johns

From Another Night

Night falls, the walls of the city speaks of people who are not from here, who are from elsewhere, from another night.

photo from revivify on flickr

Sur le Fil

I made two mixtapes, on after the other, for a friend and recieved these texts, one after each mixtape;

. I'm listening to my mixed tape (well cd since tapes have disappeared). It's awesome, I love it thankyou x
. I'm only on track 2 n already i love ya caroline. Can imagine u n Olivia in the kitchen to this

<3

Svefn-g-englar

"Music is well said to be the speech of angels;
in fact, nothing among the utterences allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinate."
Thomas Carlyle

In These Stones Horizons Sing

I cannot get over how amazing that phrase is.

The Dream That I Have...

...it's always the same

. the old couple who fell asleep on each others shoulders on the night bus home
. the couple running for the bus, him in his socks and her wearing his too-big shoes, carrying her heels
. finding the Hookah Lounge again
. the pretty man with good hair (but questionable taste in clothes) at the Hookah Lounge
. the Hookah Lounge playing Damon Albarn's Closet Romantic
. War by Emmy the Great
. Stay Where You Are by Ambulance Ltd
. Cirque do Soleil's VAREKAI and everything about it
. the Wales Millennium Centre: in these stones horizons sing
. Elbow
. Brian O'Driscoll (he turns up here a lot, but I love him a lot so it figures really)
. how well Scotland played this weekend (they should have won)
. "this is a very lively game. very touchy feely, seems 2 be alot of unnecessary rolling around n leg groping tho long after the balls gone"
. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
. Donnie Darko
. the foot of snow we got over Christmas (really late but I forgot)
. OH MY GOD NO DISTANCE LEFT TO RUN
. buying an atlas \o/
. at the top is stopping by your place of work and acting like I haven't dremt of you and I and marriage in an orange grove
. Brick Lane
. slowly getting my flatmate into rugby
. Shahrukh Khan on Johnathan Ross

[stolen from my post to quiet_thrills]

Epic Song

I’m not in France
I’m not in love but I’m not unhappy

I’m not being smart
I’m not forgiving

I’m not without thought but I’m not with stupid
Although the shirt claims otherwise

I’m not the wearer of a showy watch
I’m not often wrong if I guess the time

I’m not the same as I thought I was
I’m not a tea pot

I’m not the boss of work
In fact I’m none
Of the cafeteria staff you saw

[there is a possiblilty that the lyrics here are wrong]

It Bears Repeating...

I bloody love this song:

How dare the Premier ignore my invitations?
He'll have to go
So, too, the bunch he luncheons with
It's second on my list of things to do

At the top, I'm stopping by
Your place of work and acting like
I haven't dreamed of you and I
And marriage in an orange grove
You are the only thing in any room you're ever in
I'm stubborn, selfish and too old.

I sat you down and told you how
the truest love that's ever found
Is for oneself
You pulled apart my theory
With a weary and disinterested sigh

So yes I guess I'm asking you
To back a horse that's good for glue
And nothing else
But find a man that's truer than,
Find a man that needs you more than I

Sit with me a while
And let me listen to you talk about
your dreams and your obsessions
I'll be quiet and confessional
The violets explode inside me
when I meet your eyes
Then I'm spinning and I'm diving
Like a cloud of starlings

Darling is this love?

[Elbow - Starlings]