lyrical fitness

over elkin avenue the helium balloon disappears into the sky. you give some money to a junkie; watch as the sunny day drifts by.
can't tell you why you said you loved me. and i kind of believed that. but these days, who knows what it means.
so we sat by the launderette with magazines and cigarettes; talked about a million other things.
these are the last words i'll say to you; these are the last words i'll say to you.
i never saw the world the way the city looks to me today. i never thought the end would come this way.
these are the last words i'll say to you; these are the last words i'll say to you.
last night i dreamt that somebody had tied and it was one of us. i did the biggest thing that i could, but that was not enough.
these are the last words i will say to you.

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currents

10. sleep tight - rollerskaters
9. i am you - coolrunnings
8. ready to start - arcade fire
7. turn off your phone; stay the night - the shagbots
6. nothing like you - frightened rabbit
5. daylight - matt & kim
4. radioactive - kings of leon
3. summer eyes - tyler lefebvre
2. knock on wood - seal/etta james/emma stone
1. good life - onerepublic

'... sometimes there's airplanes i can't jump out. sometimes there's bullshit that don't work out. we are god of stories, but please tell me: what there is to complain about? when you're happy like a fool, you let it take you over. when everything is out, you gotta take it in. oh, this has gotta be the good life. this has gotta be the good life. this could really be a good life, good life. i say, oh, got this feeling that you can't fight; the city is on fire tonight. this could really be a good life; a good, good life. hopelessly; i feel like there might be something that i'll miss. hopelessly; i feel like the window closes oh so quick. hopelessly; i'm taking a mental picture of you now. because hopelessly the hope we have is so much to feel good about....'

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lyrical fitness

lover, will you look at me now? i'm already dead to you, but i'm inclined to explain to you what i could not before.
whatever you didn't do, what you couldn't say i am sorry that the worst has arrived, for i deserve more for at least i deserve the respect of a kiss goodbye.
tell me, do you think of me now, as i think of you? for i could not have shaken the touch of your breath on my arm for it has stayed with me as an epitet.
i am sorry the worst has arrived, for i'm on the floor in the room where we made it our last touch of the night.
i walked, cause you walked but i won't get very far. sensation to what you said, but i'm not about to expect something more.
i would not have run off but i couldn't bear that it's me-- it's my fault. i should not be so lost but i've got nothing left to love.
love, will you look from me now. i'm already dead but i've come to explain why i left such a mess on the floor. for when you went away i went crazy. i was wild with the breast of a dog.
i ran through the night with the knife in my chest with the lust of your loveless life.
i walked, cause you walked but i probably won't get very far. sensation to what you said but i'm not about to expect something more.
i would not have run off but i couldn't bear that it's me-- it's my fault. i should not be so lost but i've got nothing left to love.
i walked, cause you walked.

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currents

10. mtv - the shagbots
9. conductor - we were promised jetpacks
8. everything, all at once - correatown
7. lawn knives - gobble gobble
6. eat sun, son - gobble gobble
5. i'm not miserable - frightened rabbit
4. turn off your phone, stay the night - the shagbots
3. ghost inside - broken bells
2. i walked - sufjan stevens
1. i like you so much better when you're naked - ida maria

'... all the clever things i should say to you they got stuck somewhere; stuck between me and you. oh i'm nervous i don't know what to do. light a cigarette, i only smoke when i'm with you. whoa! what the hell do i do this for? you're just another guy! okay, you're kinda sexy. but you're not really special but i won't mind if you take me home, come on take me home. i won't mind if you take off all your clothes, come on, take them off. because i like you so much better when you're naked, i like me so much better when you're naked. i like you so much better when you're naked...'

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currents

10. radioactive - kings of leon
9. you drive me wild - joan jett
8. everything, all at once - correatown
7. keep yourself warm - frightened rabbit
6. eat sun, son - GOBBLE GOBBLE
5. swim until you can't see land - frightened rabbit
4. daydreaming - dark dark dark
3. summer eyes - tyler lefebvre
2. i hate myself for loving you - joan jett
1. fun stuff - frightened rabbit


'... that there's nothing sadder than sad, sad sex and the bad, bad news is that i gave in to the ugly hand that first led me away from you. the fun stuff is not so fun without you...'

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do ya wanna touch?

the coolest people in the world offered me a chance in a lifetime.

totally got to meet joan jett. backstage at the aerosmith/joan jett tour. FUCKING MOST ROCKINEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE!

she's so WEE!

pictures/videos to follow when i get around to it. the concert was aaaaa-mazing, just so you know. joan still sounds just like she did twenty years ago. now that is how to be.

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faann, as in fan-ny

i realize i've already given a recommendation for september but if i could scream about this band from the rooftops, i would; megaphone in hand bastardizing the songs while i try to sing them with a (poorly done) scottish brogue.

i don't know what i'd do without BIRP. i think i'd still be listening to the suggestions i read about in rollingstone (nothing wrong with that BUT...).

frightened rabbit should be nominated for a grammy, a british mtv music award... fuck i'd give them a juno. they need to be recognized as brilliant GENIUSES. i think i've listened to 'swim until you can't see land' like ninety times in the last week. 'the wrestle' is amazing; the ochestration and the lyrics are married in this earnest, almost raw kind of way. the music is earnest. there's no pretentious autotune, nothing. AND I FUCKING LOVE IT ALL. love love love love love.

the scottish accent certainly helps this. i won't lie.
fyi... 'ungh' material. that accent is a heat guided missile to my lady bits. phew.

so my second recommendation for the month of september is frightened rabbit

if you're interested take a gander at these:

swim until you can't see land
keep yourself warm
the wrestle
set you free

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currents

10. lawn knives - gobble gobble
9. bone dry - a b & the sea
8. f*ck you - cee lo green
7. summer eyes - tyler lefebvre
6. i walked - sufjan stevens
5. daydreaming - dark dark dark
4. eat sun, son - gobble gobble
3. comme des enfants - coeur de pirate
2. borderline (madonna cover) - the flaming lips
1. swim until you can't see land - frightened rabbit

'... we salute the threshhold of the north sea of my mind and a nod to the boredom to face the tide and swim. i swim; oh swim. dip a toe in the ocean oh how it hardens and it numbs. the rest of me is the version of me to collapse into crumbs. and if i hadn't come now to the coast to disppear i may have died in a landslide of rocks and hopes and fears. so swim until you can't see land...'

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obsessive compulsive compulsions

so by now, if you're reading this, you've noticed that i like my electro-pop-dance-synth heavy music almost as much as i like breathing and walking.
i love, love, love the glitch mob, girl talk, tv on the radio, tobacco etc... you name an artist/band that has a synth in it, or snippets of old r&b songs, i've probably creamed over it.

well, maybe not all of them, but you catch my drift.

september's recommendation is definitely one of those bands that increases the heart rate and injects pure, unadulterated adrenaline into your veins: Edmonton Alberta, Canada's GOBBLE GOBBLE.

i'm dying inside at the fact he's from edmonton (bastard oilers! city of champions my aunt fanny!) but i can't deny that this boy/manchild has mad skills at making me wish i had a place to gently sway on a piece of cardboard on the sidewalk.

i first heard boring horror in the middle of the summer and from the second the song started i was pathetically hooked. i think i listened to boring horror like ninety times the first day-- the play count on itunes was ridiculous-- and even more the following day. i was a GOBBLE GOBBLE-ing it up, and i was fiending for more. the trusty internet is a difficult and fickle place to look, especially because he's like, from canada dude, so looking and finding his songs are nearly impossible (and i refuse to give into the machine that is itunes... i mean i buy stuff sometimes but sometimes, $0.99 is way too much for a shitty song).
thank god for BIRP, otherwise i would've missed out on the gem that is GOBBLE GOBBLE's cover of the infamous Pixie's song, where is my mind?

... way out in the water watch is swimmin'... oooooooooooooo

i like the Pixies. it's taken me years to like the pixies. now whenever i hear where is my mind i'm catapulted to my backyard where the infecitous dance anthem from a deadmonton dj first grabbed ahold of my heartstrings and pulled out my ears to truly give them an orgasmic experience. it's almost like his music is causing the pleasure receptors in my brain to fire off in accordance to the pulsing of the rhythm.

i wouldn't recommend his full-length album, 'neon graveyard' for the simple fact it's not half as good as his singles. but if you've got the chance to see this amazing artist live, i'd jump, give up a vital organ and step on my granny to pop and weave and jump about to rhythmic joy. i'm eagerly anticipating his show in calgary november 6th so i can fangirl and finally sway-- artistically-- on my cardboard.

if you're interested these are my top GOBBLE GOBBLE picks:

boring horror
where is my mind (pixie's blasphemy)
lawn knives
eat sun, son
end of days

find out more at:
last fm: GOBBLE GOBBLE
myspace: where hipsters unite (GOBBLE GOBBLE page)

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lyrical fitness

we salute at the threshold of the north sea, of my mind. and a nod to the boredom that drove me here to face the tide.
and to swim; i swim. oh swim.
dip a toe in the ocean; oh how it hardens and it numbs. the rest of me is a version of me, built to collapse into crumbs. and if i hadn't come down to the coast to disappear i may have died in a landslide of rocks and hopes and fears.
so swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land.
are you a man, or you a bag of sand?
swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land.
are you a man, or you a bag of sand?
up to my knees now: do i wait? do i dive? the sea has seen my like before though it's my first and perhaps, last time. let's call me a baptist; call this the drowning of the past. she's there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back.
so swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land.
are you a man, or you a bag of sand?
swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land.
are you a man, or you a bag of sand?
now the water's taller than me and the land is a marker line. all i am is a body adrift in water, salt and sky.
so swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land.
are you a man, or you a bag of sand?
swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land. swim until you can't see land.
are you a man, or you a bag of sand?

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currents

10. spill yer lungs - julie dolron
9. borderline (madonna cover) - the flaming lips
8. this is my time - lights on
7. conductor - we were promised jetpacks
6. paul blart and the death of art - herzog
5. where is my mind (pixies blasphemy) - GOBBLE GOBBLE
4. windstorm - school of seven bells
3. tiger - maximum balloon ft aku
2. swim until you can't see land - frightened rabbit
1. f*ck you! - cee lo green

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currents

10. the wrestle - frightened rabbit
9. avec mes mecs - humans
8. bad connection - eulogies
7. street trash - tobacco
6. relax - blake mcgrath
5. california paradise - the runaways
4. love is on the line - goodfellaz
3. psycho killer - talking heads
2. bear - antlers
1. get up girl! - the shagbots

'... GET UP GIRL DANCE WITH ME I WANT YOU CAN'T YOU SEE?...'

a/n: the bassist in this band, the shagbots? one word: lickable.

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