Mr. Brightside

The Killers, Hot Fuss (Island, 2004).

Houve uma altura em que acreditei que os The Killers podiam vir a ser uma coisa interessante. São de Las Vegas, portanto pensei que entendiam melhor do que ninguém que todo aquele bling bling era só uma coisa divertida. Pareciam ter sentido de humor, ao roubar o nome aos New Order. Infelizmente, são uma merda. Fica o registo da morte de um sonho.

Adoro a Capsule Review da Entertainment Weekly:
''Somebody Told Me,'' three smashingly punchy minutes of garage pop so tightly wound that singer Brandon Flowers seems to be accusing his girl of cheating on him with another woman, is the song worth downloading. As for the rest, isn't it a little too early for a Strokes tribute band?

Teenage Kicks

The Undertones (Good Vibration, 1978).

Era a favorita de John Peel e ele era um homem que sabia coisas.

I Am One

The Smashing Pumpkins, Gish (Virgin, 1991).

Há uma razão para a forma como estes gajos infectaram tudo: quando eram bons, eles eram mesmo bons.

The Funeral

Band of Horses, Everything All The Time (Sub Pop, 2006).

Sobre este preciso momento:
Really too late to call, so we wait for
Morning to wake you; it's all we got

I Got My Night Off

The Legendary Tiger Man, Masquerade (Rastilho, 2007).

Às 5 da manhã proliferam os espaços vazios e esses são agradáveis.

Blood Makes The Grass Grow

Um ensaio fotográfico por Anthony Georgis.

via A Photography Blog.

"Partir, para ficar"

House of Jealous Lovers

The Rapture, Echoes (DFA, 2003).

Gosto da dança do gajo do badalo...

"As they defied an ultimatum from supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for an end to protests"

A backer of Mir Hossein Mousavi helps evacuate an injured riot-police officer during riots in Tehran on June 13, 2009. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images)

"And then came a shot."

via The Big Picture

Soft Shock

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, It's Blitz! (Interscope, 2009).

Still it's a shock, shock to your soft side
Summer moon, can't you shut eye
In my room, in your room

Uma oral daqui a um bocadinho

The self-educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. Often abounding with talent, but rarely with talent in its place, their native prodigality has to dread a plethora of genius and a delirium of wit; or else, hard but irregular students, rich in acquisition, they find how their huddled knowledge, like corn heaped in a granary, for want of ventilation and stirring, perishes in its own masses.

Isaac D’Israeli

Vou dormir.

Fillip

Muse, Showbiz (Warner Bros., 1999).

Nunca percebi o cruzamento que lhes faziam com os Radiohead, nem gosto das suas mais recentes incursões larger than life, mas se houver justiça neste mundo, Showbiz e Origin of Simmetry vão ficar para a história.

Real Tennis 02

Courts de Elliott Wilcox.

via but does it float

An Honest Mistake

The Bravery, The Bravery (Island, 2005).

Don't look at me that way
It was an honest mistake

Allergic

Placebo, Without You I'm Nothing (1998, Virgin).

Foi giro ser adolescente e gostar destes gajos. Hoje lembrei-me. Adiante.

A second and 34 years

"And it's problematic, because a lot of clients like to buy process and they think they are not getting their money's worth, like I solved it too fast. I mean, Michael Beirut told me to shut up in an initial meeting. I drew the Citibank logo, after we had the first meeting, on a napkin and walked out. You know, they had to merge "travelers" and "city", and travelers have an umbrella, and Citibank is a word, and the lower case thing of a "t" is an umbrella: you stick an arc on the top and you got it. It's a second. How can it be that you talk to somebody and it's done in a second? But it is done in a second. It is done in a second and 34 years, a second and every experience, and every movie and every thing of my life that's in my head."

Paula Scher da Pentagram, na hillmancurtis.

Lights

Editors, The Back Room (Kitchenware, 2005).

It keeps me awake but I don't mind

Só vale a pena o esforço por coisas que nos fazem esquecer o sono. Invistam nessas, compensa.

All the Days and Nights

Family Photos, 1999-2006 de Doug Dubois.

via Aperture Foundation