November 2008 Archives

Jamie T's music is like listening to a British Jason Mraz ... in bizarro world. He's your edgy acoustic guitar act, who takes your favorite type of music to a different kind of level.
Check out the music video below, which involves an apartment that doubles as a creepy funhouse, a scarier version of the guy who looks like the oompa loompa from Charlie and the Chocolate factory and perfect British teeth.

Nothing sums up down and depressed better than the image of someone stuck on the sofa, eyes latched on to the tube, hugging a tub of ice cream and wearing yesterday's jammies. I don't know what it is with sofas and TVs, but they almost always get bad press when it comes to the topic of depression. Love Is All's 'Turn the TV Off' doesn't help rid of that 'TV is negative' vibe - though I find it thoroughly amusing that somebody actually wrote a song about it. Amusing in a sense that it's true (yes, didn't your momma tell you that too much TV is evil?) - and not only that, somewhere in the song, the singer also comes to realization - 'I've got to pull myself together, there's got to be something so much better than this'. Now, where have I heard that before?

To those of you who's ever been depressed and got stuck for days just glued to the TV, this song will bring out all those fun memories in beautiful song form.

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I wish it was sunny outside instead of this mucky fall weather we're having. Nonetheless, it hasn't deterred me from thinking of nice lazy Sunday afternoons - where all you'll want to do is just sit back, relax, and do nothing. Lazy Sunday afternoons would be perfect with sunny weather and sipping on drinks outside the patio. Though, just nice and quiet would definitely do if you're listening to this song by The Bees.

Sky Holds the Sun, has only one line for it's lyrics - 'I want to hold you like the sky holds the sun' - repeated over and over, with a little variation once, but basically that's it.  With it's slow and steady rhythm, coupled with an arrangement that makes you think of Bacharach - it's the perfect lazy Sunday song. So yeah, I plan on sitting back and just relaxing today - you know, thinking of the sky holding the sun and how terribly poetic it is. Just perfect.

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I caught up with the rest of my life the past few days: I attended my sister's wedding, traveled across the country by plane (2 planes in fact) and discovered I might have Ménière's disease.

The wedding was an absolute blast. I hated the nauseating 8 hour plane flight, but seeing the smile on my sister's face was well worth it. When all was well and done and I reached safely home - I come down with a killer 1 week headache that left me nauseous as hell. A phone conversation with my mom, a doctor, and googling up symptoms, left me thinking I might have Ménière's disease, one of those fancy sounding illnesses that ain't too good. I thought, it might explain this really bad feeling of fullness in my right ear that I've had for days or that mysterious time when I almost passed out due to nausea when I was at that downtown shopping mall (at which I was promptly saved by the kindest and most helpful The Bay employee ever, Patricia, I never got the chance to fully thank you, please drop me a line if you read this) .  I  went to a walk-in clinic yesterday - with my Aussie doctor confirming, it might all be just the stress of travel and that all he can see is wax in my right ear. So here I am Q-tips in hand, ears all cleaned.

Before I totally lose my hearing, here's one song that I'd like to share to my newlywed sister. I know you guys dig Jack Johnson but I think you might like this song too.

The Guillemots' Made Up Love Song #43 - is just that. It's a love song that's presumably spontaneous - cause you know, love's like that. It's an unexplainable feeling that you suddenly get...and serendipitous as it is, it's really one of the best things that can come out of nowhere. I'll just let the song speak for itself.

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The guys from LaBlogotheque also made a take away show video of this band. It's a lovely way to see them live: #25.2 - Guillemots - Made Up Love Song #43