The only reason why I want to be in love is so I can write really detailed beautiful texts. About love. really? yes, really. I’ve got (well we have got – but I’m not telling you yet what ‘we’ means) a very quiet, sweet project in the making. If we work hard, I reckon we [...]
November 23, 2009
I saw the work Fucking Hell by the Chapman Brothers in Venice this year. You can see a video here, it’s actually sort of terrifying. äh.Very well done, and obviously it brings their point across quite well, but being surrounded by huge glass cases with those meticulously-made figurines breaking into scenes of war was making [...]
November 23, 2009
to the sound of the Silversun Pickups, who were amazing tonight. They were friendly without being excessively talkative, Nikki – the bassist – was quiet, cute, and to die for. You could hear little of the keyboard and of the vocalist’s voice, especially from the back which was were I moved to towards the end, [...]
November 22, 2009
The guys over at WannaPlayVienna LOVE unsigned bands. The point of their event, taking place every third monday of the month at B72, is to give these bands some exposure. I’m not a huge fan of shows like this, because I’ve gone to a few (back in the day) and I’m sorry to say that [...]
November 22, 2009
the Fullframe Festival is organised at (ir)regular intervals by a small group of enthusiastic video-lovers. Lately it’s been taking place in an unusual place for a film screening: the planetarium. Alone the location (especially for a star-fanatic like me) makes it worth going to. The challenge in organising a festival there, even if the films [...]
November 21, 2009
These have been some busy days.. Working two jobs, all the extra, on-the-side unpaid stuff I do which is related to music and art AND, on top of everything else, university work – it’s a little exhausting. Also, I find it difficult to concentrate lately. My mind wanders. I’ve just finished designing a flyer for a [...]
November 17, 2009
I’ve written love notes to Jeff Buckley in here before, but I feel like on the day that would mark his 43rd Birthday (and a few days give or take, the 10th anniversary of our ‘encounter’) it’s more than justified to remember him and give myself a few minutes to reflect on how much this [...]
November 15, 2009
this song by Figure in Frame is so lovely. There’s something about it that reminds me of Cripple and the Starfish by Antony and the Johnsons. Maybe a slight hint of disturbed, dysfunctional love. And this video is the opposite of what the song makes me feel – it’s so absurd and a little bit [...]
November 13, 2009
So it’s been a couple of busy weeks here. With lots of new (secret!) projects starting, I’ve hardly had the time to sleep, let alone updating this lovely blog of mine. I haven’t even had the time to write this here: RIP EVERTON. Everton were a band that was somehow important for me. Sometimes you find yourself [...]
November 9, 2009
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an astronaut but also an author. In fact, before I had my dreams of becoming an author, I wanted to be a poet. I was obsessed with French 19th Century poets like Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine. When I was around 9 or 10 [...]
My name has five letters in it, and comes up in some Bright Eyes songs. I am (apparently) an artist, with too much time on her hands. Well, enough to blog (almost) daily. I am 1/4 (the smallest one, actually) of Lazy Acre Records; I also write & photograph for a local magazine based in Englaaand and make used to draw musically-inspired comics for a canadian mag (RIP Inscribed). Sometimes I can be quite cute. I used to still have a crush on Marty McFly; I like baking, overusing semi-colons, the smell of the sea, and thunderstorms.
I tend to be quite the busy bee, but if you make VERY sexy music and want me to listen and enjoy and possibly even (!!) write about it, shoot me a mail, baby. music(at)alicetragedy(dot)org
November 30, 2009