Last two installments in one post, just so I can finish posting this mini-project before the end of the year. Forgive the cheat!
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 
Apologies for the frankly dreadful, obvious pun but you try coming up with a creative photograph after the busy weekend I had.
Besides, every time I’ve tried to think of a "Y" song lately I’ve had this in my head.
DOWNLOAD: The Young Playthings – Yr So Fit (For Me)
BUY: Who Invented Love?
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A half-assed final shot as circumstances got in the way – I’ve really enjoyed this little project though, and will be gutted to have to think up ideas for photographs again!
DOWNLOAD: Zuzu’s Petals – Cinderella’s Daydream
BUY: Kicking Our Own Asses: The Best of Zuzu’s Petals
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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
God, this was totally me post-weekend shenanigans.
X, as I’m sure you’ve suspected, doesn’t really give you masses of choice when it comes to bands. I do have a couple of songs by a Los Angeles punk band called "X", who featured (appropriately enough) on the soundtrack to the first X-Files movie. Unfortunately I can’t pull up either the lyrics to this song or a YouTube video, but this is from their 1997 reunion album Hey Zeus! as well as the soundtrack to Kalifornia, starring David Duchovny, which is why I have the song.
I can’t make out many of the lyrics to be honest, but I got an image of somebody waking up on top of a comic book with a hangover (?!) in my head for the one line I do know…
…and you can take the piss of the bottle of Glen’s all you want.
DOWNLOAD: X – Lettuce and Vodka
BUY: Hey Zeus!
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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
At this point in my project we were back in the Midlands for the weekend, visiting the in-laws. Jay’s father is in the process of selling up the incredible old house he has been running as a B&B with his wife. I loved this few-hundred year old original Jackfield tile floor, among the many little details I wasn’t able to capture properly as I wasn’t feeling inspired with the camera at the weekend.
DOWNLOAD: The Weakerthans – One Great City
BUY: Reconstruction Site
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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
So it’s a slightly more futuristic take on a "Walkman", but since I had been writing about my old favourite grrl bands at the time I decided "V" ought to be for Veruca Salt.
Oh, and the image editing was done with Poladroid.
DOWNLOAD: Veruca Salt – With David Bowie
BUY: Eight Arms to Hold You
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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
My American BFF (who, when I wrote this, I was going to be seeing in a month..!) commented the other day that the latter stages of this musical alphabet of ours are particularly difficult. In a way though, I think the lack of choice makes it easier… yes, I’ve already picked my "Z".
For "U", you get another one of my all-time favourite songs and a whole lotta love.
DOWNLOAD: Uncle Tupelo – Still Around
BUY: Still Feel Gone
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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
My friend Kaite used to say she had a line in this song for every one of her friends. See if you can guess which one was mine as you give it a listen.
[Behind the scenes exclusive: The chips with this Urban Decay poker set are full of lipgloss. Which would have been an amazing idea, had it not been left unopened and forgotten on my dressing table for what I suspect has been years. One of my stickier shots, certainly.]
DOWNLOAD: Thea Gilmore – This Girl Is Taking Bets
BUY: Rules for Jokers (Special Limited Edition)
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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
Oh, band. How many ways did you change my life? But I’m really not a rockstar anymore…
Behind the scenes: Jay had been rebuilding this guitar over the previous fortnight or something with such care, yet while I was posing I knocked a string off. He was alright with it though.
DOWNLOAD: Sleater-Kinney – You’re No Rock n Roll Fun
BUY: All Hands on the Bad One
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I had never heard of To Write Love On Her Arms, a non-profit movement dedicated to hope and help for people struggling with depression, self-injury, addiction and suicide, before last night. From the movement’s vision:
You need to know that rescue is possible, that freedom is possible, that God is still in the business of redemption. We’re seeing it happen. We’re seeing lives change as people get the help they need. People sitting across from a counselor for the first time. People stepping into treatment. In desperate moments, people calling a suicide hotline. We know that the first step to recovery is the hardest to take. We want to say here that it’s worth it, that your life is worth fighting for, that it’s possible to change.
As you may be aware, this is a cause very close to my heart and to the hearts of many of the people closest to me. Because some of us write love on our arms, and some of us tattoo cold roses on our wrists. It’s all a part of the same circle. It’s our own way of not forgetting. Not that that part is ever a struggle.
For F, K, P, L and for everybody else. I may not talk about this stuff much, but it’s not because I’m ashamed.
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
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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
Although this song is actually about Winona Ryder (allegedly), I wanted to go for a more literal take.
It makes sense that I love this song more than words can say.
DOWNLOAD: Paul Westerberg – Silent Film Star
BUY: Stereo
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ADMIN NOTE: I’m really busy with new job training this week, so blog posts will be (and have been) few and far between, sorry! x
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