a to z: steal my records;

I’m quite proud of what I’ve come up with on this little series of pictures, so I’m going to attempt a little bit of mp3 blogging/self-portrait crossover based around a current music-related sub-project within a project. Follow that if you will, or just download the songs and tell me I’m pretty

A couple of days before I took this photograph, I wrote in my blog:

"I’m lying on the floor, listening to records, the cool of the hard wood against my spine and the sound reverbrating through my huge, cushioned headphones. As I listen, I daydream: of deserts and telephone wires, wind and space and open-top cars, diners and sad-looking casinos shot on kodachrome film. I wish, not for the first time, that I could find some way to do this full-time and still make rent."

At the time I was writing about Richmond Fontaine, but there’s something so pure and so perfect about the warm sound of vinyl that I guard my still limited collection jealously.

I couldn’t not pick Ryan Adams for R. This is my favourite of his songs.

(Incidentally, I find it hysterical that my American BFF went for the same theme for R, but with a completely different artist!)

DOWNLOAD: Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker
BUY: Heartbreaker at Amazon.co.uk