I’m absolutely in love with the beach as a storm is coming on.
It all just seems to turn so…..chaotic. There is something wildly cool about a dark sea thrashing about under a cloudy sky.
I always felt that if I had super-power, I wouldn’t immediately run out to the store and buy a costume.
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So I’ve been settling in to really start writing the first album for The Bright Young Things…..Which is quite an experience. Its the first time I’ve really been at the point where I have to create one complete and finished piece of art.
I want it to express where Im coming from…..all the music I’ve been into for the past seven years, the sounds I’m loving, the place my head is at right now.
But really, I just want to write a really good pop album.
Anyway, its really making me think…..Bringing on some shoegazing as it were.
Which is where the photo above comes in. I found it the other day…cannot remember when I took it. Probably on the way home from College one day.
I think its so important to always take the time to just focus on who you are, where you are and where you came from.
So thats what I’ll be doing this week. Really, Im happy where I am now. And that is so amazing to be able to say that without a shred of doubt.
I mean yeah, things havent been perfect lately. Far from it actually.
But this year is going to be good. No matter how hard it is, its going to be good.
The trick is, to get through the next few months intact first…….
Currently Listening To….
Anyone heard the Chae Hawk album?
Do you remember a time when everything seemed a lot less complicated?
Or do you have a time you look at, and just wish you could go to and everything would be ok?
For me, its when I look back at photos of me when I was little. All the clothes my brothers and I wore were so dorky but we really did just look like ourselves. We’re always smiling and laughing like maniacs, and you just know there was some insanely ridiculous joke going through our heads that only we would ever have got.
I’ll post some of the photos soon I guess.
Even if just for my brothers’ enjoyment!
It all makes you think though.
Makes you wonder when it all became so complicated.
No, this isnt a rant about times changing, its a question about me.
When did my life and the things I do become complicated?
Was there a moment when it was all so “ice block on sundays go down to the beach” EASY and then suddenly it got hard? Or was it gradual?
The old story is that you become an adult and you grow up…but thats not it.
How about anyone else? Was there a moment when you realized it wasnt all easy anymore?
MiTunes
Havent done this in a while.
So lets see what the last 3 songs played on my itunes are.
1. Set Your Goals: Goonies Never Say Die
2. Bad Brains: Riot Squad
3. All American Rejects: Gives You Hell (Bloody Beetroots Remix)
I’ve been listening to a lot of early hardcore of late.
Every now and then, I sort of give it a miss for a bit. When I come back to it, ‘tis like an old friend you didnt realize you missed, but once you realize it you just have to hang out more with them.
Or something like that.
Bad Brains really are one of my favourite bands of all time. I liked the latest album they did too, Build a Nation. Some great songs on there. Not quite I Against I, but still nice to hear.
And while I’m at it….
Just got back from a break in Melbourne last week.
This is the view from the 80th story of a very, very high building.
Keep your landscapes and rolling pastures, I never feel more at home than in the hustle and bustle of a living breathing city. The thousands of stories that walk past on the pavements, the sadness and happiness, the glamour and the dirt.
I love cities.
Melbourne is an amazing place, would love to move down there some time.
Who knows?
I’ve got a long list of places I want to live in for at least a little while.
Singapore, Melbourne, Moscow, London, New York.
Anyone else?
There is nothing more inspiring or moving than arriving in a city late at night and waking up the next morning to a whole new place full of amazing things to do and see, people to meet.
I love it.
