Top Five Vibes - 90s

I know nostalgia is a wonderful thing, so today’s top five vibes is about the 90s and all that was good about the decade and I’m not only talking grunge and Beavis and Butthead. Here it goes….

My So-Called Life.  I have expressed numerous times how much I love it. An institution. 

Those ‘empowering’ female musicians  – Bikini Kill (yes), TLC (double yes), Huggy Bear (angry), Alanis Morisette (I admit it…), Hole (totes!!) and let’s not forget this…..TUNE. 

Flannel never looked better. Nor did moodiness.

 Brad Renfro wasn’t yet completely fucked up (and dead). 

When the decade ended I was only 15 years old….oh beautiful teenage years. Sigh.  

Top Five Vibes – Drake

We all know I’m obsessed with Drake. He’s an amazing lyricist. His delivery is killer and I actually believe that he’s as sensitive and intelligent as his songs portray him to be. Maybe I’m naïve. Anyway, top five vibes about my fave Drake songs today.

Fireworks

“You could’a been the one but it wasn’t that serious. There was smoke in the air before that was me clearing it. That felt good, all and all I learned a lesson from it though - you never see it coming you just get to see it go. Yeah, I should have looked up at the sky at first
, now I can see it in her eyes; fireworks.”

Best I Ever Had

“Ha and you all ain't even have to ask twice. You can have my heart or we can share it like the last slice. Always felt like you was so accustomed to the fast life.”

Karaoke

“I know they say the first love is the sweetest, but the first cut is the deepest.”

Headlines

“I might be too strung out on compliments, overdosed on confidence, started not to give a fuck and stop fearing the consequence.”

 The Resistance

“What am I afraid of? This is supposed to be what dreams are made of, but people I don't have the time to hang with always look at me and say the same shit -
'You promised me you would never change.'”


The Basics (+ some music)

Hello blog-lovers (and non-blog lovers) recently I got a lot of shtick for my blog. And I’m not used to that, I’m only used to love. I mean who doesn’t love the Book of Linda?

So a few basics first.

If you don’t like my blog, don’t read it. Simples.

If you think my blog is ‘juvenile’, then stop being patronising and all grown-up, cause that’s boring.

If you think my blog is ‘not reserved enough’ and too ‘German’ and ‘outspoken’ then you’re a racist.

If you don’t think that music (and yes boys and relationships and affection and love) are worthy to be talked about in a blog, then I pity you. Cause those are some of the big topics in life. Not exclusively but extensively.

If your horizon is too small to understand the underlying issues of everything I talk about, then you need to activate your creative thinking and imagination.

And finally, yes I could write about how Kafka was commenting on the panopticonian society in ‘The Penal Colony’ or how Lord Rochester’s often-trivialised mock-poetry really was a thinly veiled attack on polity, sexuality and society, but you know what, I CHOOSE NOT TO! So please don’t go on about how my blog is not deep enough and how there’re more important topics to talk about. There might be but this is the Book of Linda after fucking all and not the BBC.

Grrr. Okay now that that’s out of the way, here are some great tunes I’m listening to at the moment. Enjoy.

PlayMe

Crush of the Week - Ryan Gosling

Doing a crush of the week post again today. It’s been a while and today I’m on the obvious choice. Ryan Gosling. I know he’s very good-looking and all that and usually I’m with the ugly oddballs, but even I cannot resist the Gosling magic. Especially not after a movie marathon that consisted of ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ followed by ‘Blue Valentine’ and then followed by ‘Drive’ a few days later in the cinema.

Don’t have a lot to say other than he’s got his heart on his sleeve. In tattoo form. Awww. And he really loves his dog. Awwww. And I like his style and his face.

 

Top Five Vibes - Movies

Hello blog-lovers. It's that time. Every Tuesday (or Wednesday or whenever I can find the time basically) I'm gonna do a regular 'Top Five Vibes' post. And yes I totes stole the idea from this amazeballs blog. The first Top Five Vibes is about my favourite films. From 'obsessed-all-time-favourite' first to 'really-really-like' last. Watch them all.

Celebrity Geek Gallery

I mean we all know I love geeks. I don’t know how many posts I have started with this very sentence. Several. For sure. But this time, it’s special, cause are not talking über-awkward socially apathetic nerds with woolen jumpers who love the develop websites in their spare time “for fun”, but geeks that have actually turned into bona-fide celebrities shedding the sheepskin shawl for ebullient bling. Or something like that, I just really wanted to use that alliteration. Soz.

Anyway, welcome to Linda’s Celebrity Geek Gallery. Enjoy. I did.

Eeeeeek. Avril. Ewwwww.

OMG.

Eminem. I still love you.

Shia LeBoeuf. Lost for words.

I mean I have always loved Drake. I love him more now.

222 Words.

I think it’s better to say something stupid in the spur of the moment and not regret saying it than to not say anything and feel stupid because of it. Does that make sense?

If he likes post-punk as much as he likes posting letters, you’re onto a winner.

I don’t give a shit if you can talk the talk as long as you can walk the walk. With me.

Top Tip. If you’re one of those rude people who sit down on the aisle seat of the bus with your bag on the
seat next to you, clearly indicating that you don’t want anyone sitting there, I will make a point of sitting right next to you.

Bus aisle sitters with seat baggage, get some manners!

Once you cross that line, you cannot go back. So cherish what you have and don’t always want more.

Once you cross that line, you might discover that that’s what you always wanted.

Life is a fine balancing act.

Like my mum says (and this is a terrible German-to-English translation) – a sparrow in your hand is better than a dove on your roof.

I think I’m too impatient for the ‘Long Game’. I think I’m more into the ‘Life’s-Too-Short-Game’.

This I couldn’t say it any better.

I love you and I hope you’re happy. 

What's My Type Again?

Oh boy, I just realised that my last THREE posts have been about music and not boys, what is the world coming to? Damn. But fear not my dearest readers, I’m back with a post about ‘types’ and why they don’t actually work. At least not for me and not in real life.

 

My type? Short story. I always have the same type. Skinny, pale, shy, introvert, slightly ill-looking, music-obsessed, arty indie boy, who probably suffers from Aspergers Syndrome and who I most probably (actually 100%) scare the shit out of with my loud mouth and loud personality.

But hey what can you do, eh? We all try and we all fail. But then I had an epiphany. Well sort of. My type is the most incompatible type of guy for me. My type is the exact opposite of me. I mean maybe it’s a protection mechanism but ultimately my ‘type’ also seems to be my most unsuitable type. I always fancy the kind of guy who least fancies me. Then I thought, is it the challenge, is it the rejection? But maybe it’s neither of them; maybe it just means that I should judge less on first looks and more on second thoughts. Sorry, cheesy sentence alert!

Anyway, I digress, what this post is supposed to be about is the realisation that types are superficial bullshit and that in reality anybody who’s got a face and a personality can become my type. It’s about who you can have a laugh with and who you can tell all your boring life stories to whilst feeling comfortable rather than who makes you so nervous that can only sneakily look at them and blush straight away when they catch you.

Instant attraction is easy, it’s like a thunderstorm, but a thunderstorm brings with it a lot of tension and force. Real feelings grow out of understanding all the little flaws, which takes time and effort, but rewards with trust and ultimately trust is more important than ‘type’. Word.

Flashguns - Passions of a Different Kind

Quite liking Flashguns at the moment. First fell in love with them when I heard debut single ‘Locarno’ which was equally tender and abrasive, bit Maccabees, bit marching band. Then came ‘Bells at Midnight’, which is a bona-fide indie hit and confirmed my belief that Flashguns have a knack for major melodies. 

Now the Brighton boys are finally releasing their full-length debut 'Passions Of A Different Kind' and the eponymous single is another euphoric pow-wow of big choruses and bigger chords. Not sure what to make of the video yet, but let’s sincerely hope singer Sam Felix Johnston’s passion is more than camping with the boys and walking the dog.

Anyway, Flashguns's debut is out on the 17^th October through Rough Trade. Enjoy!

P.S. Thanks to Ollie from TopButton Digital for sending me the album. Good stuff!

Waters - Out In The Light

After the demise of Port O’Brien last year, Van Pierszalowski moved to Oslo, Norway, before spending time visiting Alaska, California, and New York. Then he came up with WATERS. Good on him. Scruffy, rambunctious, catchy, loud, fragile, honest, playful, energetic and simply brilliant, his debut ‘Out In The Light’ already is one of my top albums of 2011. And we all know that I love making album lists. 

WATERS - Out In The Light ALBUM PROMO from WATERS on Vimeo.


Literally love every single song on the album, which you can stream here and I can highly recommend it! Boom.

Happy Songs.

Basically, on a day with a hangover from hell, this stuff guarantees to get me into happy zone. Enjoy (my terrible music taste).

Johnny Cash's To-Do-List

I believe Johnny Cash's To-Do-List tells you everything you need to know about men. Love especially 2. and 3. as well as 8. 

Art and Stuff.

Mathew Sawyer has got an exhibition going on at Rokeby Gallery. He's one talented dude. You can read about the show here, too.

Music Post

Some of this shit blows my mind right now.

Waters. Fucking love this. Boomtown. Come and see them on the 13^th September here. 

Massively hyped show, check this. 

  WATERS - For The One by cityslang

  

I know I am too late on this. I don’t care.

Port O'Brien – My Will Is Good

This is fresh. Best tune on the album.

Lil Wayne – Blunt Blowin

This is still one of the best. Like ever.

Yeasayer – O.N.E

The J-Word

Tavi wrote this thing for Rookie magazine and it's good. Read it.