Playlist VII

My Skins playlist

1. And The Living Is Easy- Guts

2. Aht  Uh Mi Head- Shuggie Oats
3. Hope In the Air- Laura Marling
4. Fear and Resilience (Dangerous Mouse mix)-Pedro
5. Lady Belles-Timothy Victor

6. Shove it- Santogold
7. They Stay Down Deep-Giselle
8. Childhood-Beach House
9. Dragonfly- M. Craft
10. Glockenspiel song- Dog is Dead

11. Undertaker- The Moondoggies
12. Lions- Jonquil
13. We Can't Fly- Aeroplanes
14. Waiting for My chance to Come- Noah and The Whale
15. Good Times Gonna Come- Aqualung

R. I. P. Elizabeth Taylor

I wasn't a fan until I saw this movie:



A scene from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

I'll set you free

When They Say It Better Than We Do

Day 2


"I'm into people" - Franky Fitzgerald (Skins Series 5) On asked if she was a lesbian/bi sexual.

Franky Fitzgerald as played by Dakota Blue Richards

Everyday we stumble under the weight of labels. I don't want to deny their comforting and reassuring power but god I do congratulate and celebrate the all encompassing ones that Franky Fitzgerald (so brave) subscribes to. Skins does get a lot of things wrong (I refuse to acknowledge the Season 4 ending) but they got this so right that it makes up for a somewhat wishy washy season. Almost.

Playlist VI

Serpent Charmer- Iron & Wine
Civilian- Wye Oak
House By The Sea- Iron & Wine
We Can't Fly- Aeroplanes
In The Backseat- Arcade Fire
Fairytales &Firesides-Passenger
Peace Beneath the City- Iron & Wine
Undertaker-The Moondoggies
Fall Into Faith- Oliver Girdler
Lover of Mine- Beach House
Close Your Eyes- Micah P. Hinson

When they Say It Better Than We Do

Day 1

Sometimes there's so much crap on TV (which I watch anyway) that as I watch I can feel my brain getting smaller and smaller and smaller. Then there are these brief moments that a show will offer you that you relate to and it's so heartwarming to see your story somewhere (even if for a brief moment)that you forgive yourself for the all time you've wasted on all the crap, because you just found a big shiny jewel resting amongst it all. So I'm going to start a new list. (I know old lists are stagnating but don't worry they'll come back! I am if nothing foolishly optimistic about my own enthusiasm) So, in today's list of ' when they say it better than we do':


1. "You're the poem Liz" ( Jeff Parker to Liz Parker)


This line just blew me away. And see, it's not so much because of the characters or what's happening in their story. This moved me beyond its context. Liz doesn't even really respond when her father tells her this. She just sort of sits there and helps him organise his papers (or whatever he was doing). If it had been me, if I'd heard something like that from someone it would have just broken my heart and then healed it. There's just something so lovely in that line. I write a lot of poetry. But I always feel like all these are mere attempts at writing that one great poem. I want to be able to say that to someone. To say to, anyone really, a child, a lover, a friend, to say that you are not the inspiration but art itself, is just lovely.

Shiri Appleby

Every tongue that gets bit always has another word to say

Iron & Wine

Oh Glee!

Oh Glee! You are so so inconsistent. And yet oh so heartbreaking that I can forgive you for all the times I have pulled strands of my hair out because of you.

I watch a lot of TV and then I read a LOT about what I watch. I'm a geek like that. But anyway, I don't usually write about what I watch. I write a lot about the kind of music I like but somehow writing about the TV shows and movies I watch just hasn't happened.

Today however, as I watched the latest episode of Glee something about it just made me feel like writing. It was such a wildly inconsistent episode-with some things making sense and others just.. not. But it got me thinking further into why I watch it at all. A show like Glee can be so frustrating at times: It's a show with a popular format, it's got the ratings in its favour and it's also trying valiantly to do something new and fresh. It takes many many risks. But when it fails to do consistent story telling and bends to gimmicky plot contrivances I feel like hurling something at the screen. I really do.Because a show like Glee seems premised on a certain level of honesty or transparency with its audience so when it blatantly fails on its promise it's doubly disappointing. So at times like these I really do question why I bother with a show that isn't consistently satisfying.

Tonight I got  a little glimpse into one of the reasons why I watch this show when in last night's episode "Sexy" I watched Santana confess her love for Brittany. Did I think it was rushed? Yes. While I was watching Brittany talk about going and talking to someone about her and Santana wasn't I confused about how it didn't make sense that we did not know that Santana and Brittany have been hooking up all this time? And how Santana hasn't showed the slightest amount of jealousy or hurt (over Brittany and Artie) apart from that one time in the lovely Duets? Yes yes yes to overall confusion. But I think what helps me, what makes me rush home and download an episode of Glee is its ability to move me even while all these doubts are swirling around in my head. I cried, cried while watching Santana, Brittany and Gwyneth, sorry Holly ( Didn't even notice she was there. Should have just allowed Santana to sing it. ) sing Landslide. Not only is it one of my favouritest Stevie Nick's songs ever, but Naya Rivera just killed it. Not the song- but the confusion, the heartbreaking confusion and the realisation that arrives on her face as she sang the song. That moment when you realise that you love someone and you're overwhelmed by what it does to you. She just killed it. I always thought she did bitchy really well and it's so much fun to watch her do that but it's so good to see her be capable of so much more.

Naya Rivera

I wish there had been more of a build up. I do. But Glee has this ability to make you believe and be affected by the little pockets-these little moments(like the amazingly realistic conversation between Kurt and his Dad) it captures where it portrays very emotionally real situations. And I think just for that I will continue to watch this show. Oh and is it just me but are there more and more shows getting into that wonderful world of sexual fluidity and queerness? Or are these just the shows that I am watching?

Ezra Pound

Portrait D'Une Femme

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea,
London has swept about you this score years
And bright ships left you this or that in fee:
Ideas, old gossip, oddments of all things,
Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price.


Great minds have sought you—lacking someone else.
You have been second always. Tragical?
No. You preferred it to the usual thing:
One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
One average mind—with one thought less, each year.


Oh, you are patient, I have seen you sit
Hours, where something might have floated up.
And now you pay one. Yes, you richly pay.
You are a person of some interest, one comes to you
And takes strange gain away:


Trophies fished up; some curious suggestion:
Fact that leads nowhere; and a tale or two,
Pregnant with mandrakes, or with something else
That might prove useful and yet never proves,
That never fits a corner or shows use,


Or finds its hour upon the loom of days:
The tarnished, gaudy, wonderful old work;
Idols and ambergris and rare inlays,
These are your riches, your great store; and yet
For all this sea-hoard of deciduous things,


Strange woods half sodden, and new brighter stuff:
In the slow float of differing light and deep,
No! there is nothing! In the whole and all,
Nothing that's quite your own.
                     Yet this is you.

Courtesy another 'S'.

Maggie May

Everyone has a Maggie May.