oh, what a beginner

It's a playlist I made, all shoegaze tracks bar the last one.
Excuse some really shocking mixing on the crossovers, ugh!

http://www.zshare.net/download/70415827e77d1b5d/

Listen, enjoy.

Track list:

Air France - Collapsing at your Doorstep
Atlas Sound - Quick Canal
Telefon Tel Aviv - The Birds
Saxon Shore - Tokyo 412am
M83 - We Own the Sky
Trembling Blue Stars - Sacred Music
CocoRosie - K-Hole
Deerhunter - Agoraphobia
Lou Reed - PerfectDay

I'm addicted to the Lou Reed at the moment, mainly as it makes me picture little Ewan McGregor falling into the floor boards.



p.s. Merry Christmas (belatedly)

this is very sad

but at the time is was SO FUN








and for the sake of retaining a sense of normality, comparatively..




.. it really is the holidays after all.

Herzog

In the midst of a routine of a 9am-3am working day, beavering away at various Adobe suite programs and pulling my hair out over UHU glue not sticking pieces of perspex together, this film was a beautiful respite.
Herzog narrates a wonderfully light hearted and funny, yet somewhat poignant (in a really unassuming way) documentary on the everyday life of Antarctica in his film 'Encounters at the End of the World'. Best shots involve a rock show with an audience of less than 5 on the roof of a hut, surrounded by a stunning landscape of white as well as a deranged single penguin, waddling wildly towards the mountains and away from its colony and the sea.

-Watch it.

truths?

Santayana-

"we do not merely live but act; we compose and play our chosen character, we wear the buskin of deliberation, we defend and idealize our passions, we encourage ourselves eloquently to be what we are, devoted or scornful or careless or austere; we soliloquize (before an imaginary audience) and we wrap ourselves gracefully in the mantle of our inalienable part. So draped, we solicit applause and expect to die amid a universal hush. We profess to live up to the fine sentiments we have uttered, as we try to believe in the religion we profess. The greater our difficulties the greater our zeal. Under our published principles and plighted language we must assiduously hide all the inequalities of our moods and conduct, and this without hypocrisy, since our deliberate character is more truly our self than in the flux of our involuntary dreams."

I'm not entirely sure if I should feel a bit lame for quoting all this-- but hey, in my utterly exhausted and slightly delirious state.. it was quite lovely to read it.


oh, p.s.:

I've always liked skies.

From the norm





To the torrential










All from my Flickr

Wow wow

Originally uploaded by Emir Ozsahin

I had to blog this.

-That'd be all.

Packing

So I'm moving away from home semi-permanently in 3 days and I haven't started packing. How long does it even take to pack everything you might need for the next 3 months or so? I'm clueless.

In other news I bought a Zenit the other day to replace my bust Olympus, though I do plan on replacing the body of my Olympus all the same-- I think the idea of using a Soviet camera kind of amused me.