I've been trying to think of something coherent to say about the new Animal Collective album, Merriweather Post Pavilion. It's difficult to write about because it feels uncategorisable and, for that very reason, challenging. It also feels really quite brilliant ( Read more... )

" The idea that we know what we want is palpably false. We've been suckled since birth on an endless elaboration of consumer fantasies, so that it is nearly hopeless for us to figure out what is our and what is the enchanter's suggestion.... Because when someone is whispering something in your ear, there is no way to think your own thoughts or feel ( Read more... )

Eye on the TV ( Read more... )

And finally it comes down to this; that I am searching simply for truth. And when I recognise truth, I hope to have the wisdom to live in that moment of truth. Truth in music; truth in nature; truth in spirit; truth in a life lived in simplicity; truth in and of life itself; truth in all things.

'Rather than Love, than Money, than Fame, give me ( Read more... )

Welcome to planet pod ( Read more... )

Sundown, sundown ( Read more... )

You’re pink you’re young you’re middle-class ( Read more... )

So we're expecting at least eight inches of snow overnight tonight. I know that probably doesn't seem like a lot to those of you that happen to live in the mid-west of the US. Or Iceland. But given that it took me two and a half hours to drive the 14 miles to my place of work when there was nought but a dandruff frosting of snow here around six ( Read more... )

Bruce Springsteen, Working On A Dream, 5/5

"To understand the romantic sweep and swaggering musical ambition that define Bruce Springsteen's first album of the Obama era, you have to go all the way back to an artifact of the Ford administration: 1975's Born to Run. In those days, Springsteen was driving the E Street Band without a seat belt, ( Read more... )

"It must be hard," said Laura, "not being alive ( Read more... )