Made and Unmade and Kept Away.

I am happy for these days, so let us live them in that way.
I don't like the shame that comes in letting you know. Nor the uncaring distance I must otherwise show, for we survive by living in a cold armour. "I will never care". I'm broken too. I miss you even when you're here.
 - Everyone Anonymous

Little Stories told by a Lens

Sabino. A collection of photographs. One of those wonderful discoveries. You want to be one of the people in those photographs, you want to be in those stories. Whimsical like old photographs and that hazy veil cast across memories. Snapshots, fleeting moments, candid. Art. An art of our best moments.

See the whole gallery here:  http://sabino.tumblr.com/archive

Another happy note: Boy & Bear's EP With Emperor Antarctica came out today! After coming back from supporting Laura Marling all around Australia and England, and also Lisa Mitchell's Australian tour, they've got their own tour for us now too. http://www.myspace.com/boyandbearmusic Yay!

A Story of Times To Be

There is a house, a small house; the promise in its structure seen only by those who see what more there may be. Those two or three flew in, and lived within its rooms. 

There was a corner in a corridor, the reason for its vastness unknown, but there they placed an armchair and a lamp and that vacant place became warm.

Each had made a bed where they would sleep, but still would keep to rooms more common to all, for these three were linked by a likeness, and a genuine interest in each others company. 

Strewn about the place with untamed grace, all assortments of gathered and pillaged items lay; scarves and books, writings and instruments, pieces draped and placed and arranged with the aesthetic whims of scattered and inspired minds.

Outside, a small space for the grass to grow and insects to live, and for the air and the sunlight they lay a small table and chairs for sunny, cloudy, and breezy days.

And the heart of this place lay in the joy that each held in sharing the house with the others in the three, and welcoming within its walls those who they held dear.

There was a promise in these times, a vigour in the air, a restless stirring energy of hope and a freedom never lived before. They were youth, and this place let them be and grow.

Stuck In My Head

Washington

Boy & Bear

Teeth & Tongue

The Jezabels

I have to say I spend a lot of time searching triple j Unearthed, it's such a ridiculously good resource for Aussie musicians and music lovers, and you can download any of the music on there for free. Get on it! Here's a starting list for some of my favourite artists at the moment, not just out of Unearthed artists but out of all the music I listen to, these musicians are quality:

Washington - Clementine

Boy & Bear - Mexican Mavis

Teeth & Tongue - There Is A Lightness To My Bones

The Jezabels - Hurt Me

Big Scary - Apple Song

Gypsy And The Cat - Jona Vark

The Middle East - Blood 

Whoot Whoot

Hello there whoever you may be :)
So right now I'm meant to be in the midst of writing a compelling philosophy essay, instead I chose to create this blog after an exciting discussion with a dear friend in which a pact was made to each create a blog. I really don't like the word blog. 'Blog' shall henceforth be referred to as 'Lemon'. This was a vital point in the pact.

Ummmm really I spend a lot of my time endlessly google searching photos and people and bands and all manner of things, looking for anything that inspires me; there's something so energising, so..... fertile.. about that moment when inspiration hits you, and all of a sudden colours and words and ideas upon ideas are snowballing around in your mind, it becomes this tangible force that's utterly addictive and fleeting. I know I need it. Maybe that's why all this searching is my main procrastination tool when I need to be studying, it saves me momentarily from the suffocating dryness of formal education.

So I thought maybe I could share some of the things I find that inspire me, and bring some sort of point to the procrastination. Slowly I'll figure out how to use this form of technology, adding photos can't be that hard.... We shall see