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So, the Mars Volta, the White Stripes, and Iggy Pop will be at the Big Day Out next year; guess I better fucking go then. Oh, if only 'tweren't so expensive!

In the spirit of good music, here's a couple of songs I've been playing, well, repetitively is a nice way of putting it, recently.

Billy Bragg - The Marching Song of the Covert Battalions
The lyrics and the way they're set to the music cracks my shit up, but I think what I love most is the way it quotes from When Johnny Comes Marching Home, which I know from singing "The ants go marching one by one" in school assemblies. Ah, primary school, how I miss thee.

Kanye West - Jesus Walks
So that Jarhead trailer I was nattering about? I tracked down the music from it--ok, so apparently this is was a big hit, but I don't listen to the rap music usually, so I was proud of myself. Anyway, this song is fucking awesome. I keep trying to call him Kyan, though. He'd probably put one of those caps in my ass for that.

White Stripes - There's No Home For You Here
I have been listening to Elephant like a LOT recently. There are a ton of great tracks on that album. Seven Nation Army and The Hardest Button to Button can be heard in the video section of their website (and they're both AWESOME videos too); here's another of my favourites.

I love music and I love talking about music. Well, theantimodel was talking about how she wasn't listening to many female artists; I've been thinking a bit about this as well recently as over the past couple years my tastes have changed such that the m/f ratio I am listening to has gone from say, 90/10 to 50/50. She asked for recs (incidentally I'd love some too), and, because this is a subject close to my heart and I have a tendency to go overboard I thought I'd post mine here. I've tried to limit the number of songs for each artist but comment if you'd like to hear more. Probably best to download one at a time, speedwise, as we don't have a very big pipe here; please tell me if you've any trouble.

( here begins the humongous music spam )
In a quirk of timing, the latest Big Issue has great article about music blogs (plug! plug!).

Edited Cat Power and Yeah Yeah Yeahs stuff 16/7/06 .

Lainy had a picspam. Well, I don't have as many hilarious cartoons as she does but seeing as I have tons of pictures I thought I would have one too. So here are some of my favourite pictures. Erm, divided into two parts because, well, there are a LOT. Also most of these I have resized smaller so if you want a bigger version, comment or email. Maaaaarginally worksafe.




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Featuring many people including the lotr cast, Angelina Jolie, the Beatles, Hard Core Logo, Brad Pitt, Kenneth Branagh, Paul Newman, Chris Meloni, Charolastras, SG-1, Michael Rosenbaum, John Cusack, Keira Knightly, Milla Jovovitch, Boondock Saints.