So, I accidentally deleted my Tegan & Sara post, primarily because I am a dumb-ass!

Anyway, check you my friend’s new blog: He is La Geek Chic.

In the end, everything is a gag.

No burning issues to blog about, just this…

… Sometimes you gotta dance in a gas station.

So I got ‘(500) Days of Summer’ and I’ve watched it about 3 times in as many days.

The ultimate question that movie poses to me is not about love or fate, but worse… My top 5 Smiths songs. Fuck. Me. its hard to choose just 5… But here we go:

1. How Soon is Now - ‘I am human and I need to be loved’… Says it all.

2. Asleep - Simply, the connection with The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

3. Hand in Glove – ‘If people stare, then people stare, I really don’t know and I really don’t care’.

4. There is a Light That Never Goes Out - ‘I never never want to go home, because I haven’t got one, anymore’.

5. Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want – Reminds me of being a kid

So, there… Not so tough I guess.

I love this band. They make me daydream in black and white, 1950’s style.

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuC_JOIuVQI

Music’s the only thing keeping me warm at night..

1. Blitzkrieg Bop – The Ramones
2. Rebel Rebel – David Bowie
3. Victim of Circumstance – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
4. Story of My Life – Social Distortion
5. Breed – Nirvana
6. I Don’t Care – The Donnas
7. 12:51 – The Strokes
8. Mind Full of Daggers – Juliette and the Licks
9. Don’t Look Back Into the Sun – The Libertines
10. Mr Integrity – L7

This news made me do a little dance… WOOT!

My Jan 1st 2010 began with this song… A refreshing start to a New Year I think.

A much needed change of attitude arrived with the New Year and I’m feeling good about it.

Also, since we’re Joan Jett-in’ it up, check out this movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlCK8nJDvHg
I’m literally holding my breath until its released in March.

‘There’s something in the atmosphere that makes everything seem all exaggerated’

“Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”

Sometimes things get under my skin, its usually a song, a movie, a quote, a lyric or an image.

In this case its a book… ‘1984′. The sadness of it sort of hit me like a train and I’m still picking myself up off the ground.

(Apologies for the picture quality, my camera was set to shit all night.)

So, for three years I have waited to see Regina Spektor live and finally my chance came last night (4-12-09) at the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in London.

The show opened with Jenny Owen Youngs doing a 30mins set, which included all of my favourite songs of hers from both the new album (Transmitter Failure) and the previous one (Batten the Hatches).

She was great, full of energy and I was super impressed with her voice.

Anyway, Regina came on at about 9:15pm to a HUGE cheer which made me kinda proud of London. She was accompanied by a drummer, two cellists and two violinists.

I really couldn’t believe I was seeing Regina finally in the flesh (after three years of nothing but YouTube videos).

She is a particularly small lady and I was stunned by the power in her voice as she opened with ‘The Calculation’  followed by ‘Eet’, I don’t know what else I expected really.

She did a very generous set which included about 27 songs altogether (If I remembered them all correctly), which included songs from the new album ‘Far’ (The Calculation, Eet, Laughing With, Blue Lips, Two Birds, Machine, One More Time With Feeling, Human of the Year, The Wallet, Man of A Thousand Faces, Dance Anthem of the 80’s, Folding Chair and The Sword and the Pen).

Some from Begin to Hope, (Fidelity, On the Radio, Samson, Hotel Song, and That Time).

And Soviet Kitsch, (Ode to Divorce, Us, Apres Moi and Sailor Song). Other songs included; ‘Bobbing for Apples’ (with that beautiful guitar of hers), ‘Silly Eye Colour Generalizations’, ‘The Call’ (Narnia Song as my friend and I referred to it) and finally she closed the show with an awesome version of ‘Love, You’re a Whore’ after which she gracefully threw the microphone onto the floor in front of her and took a bow to thunderous cheers and applause from the sold out theatre.

She was wonderful, and delighted us with a few typical Regina moments such as forgetting the words to Samson half way through the song and shouting “Fuck! I fucked it up!” and quickly beginning again.

Another, rushing to the front of the stage when a man fainted and had to be lifted out of the crowd near the stage and tried to assist in his aid, and wishing him well… “Feel better mister”.

And whispering “I love you to” into the mic when ever someone shouted their affections for her over the crowd.

She played until 11pm (an hour over schedule) and she was utterly wonderful. I can’t say it enough. INCREDIBLE!

A night definitely worth a three year wait.