Back To Scratch

I'm too excited that Charlotte Church is back with a brand new album, showcasing a new sound! Many look on in disdain over her one-hundred and eighty degree shift from 'The Voice of an Angel' to a feisty pop singer in 2005. Unfortunately, her first pop record, Tissues and Issues, didn't make as great of a transition in the US as it did in the UK, but I find myself still bopping to her songs! I have quite a nostalgic thought of that album, because the songs' Crazy Chick, Moodswings and the more provocative, Call My Name, were played incessantly as I made the very serious decision that I would live in London someday! It seems very 'ironic' that the year I've packed up and moved to Wales, Charlotte decided to come out with a brand new album!



I'm trying to fill my diary with different events and goings on in my new hub; I will highlight October 25th, as the day I will march down a great leviathan of a hill, to the HMV (which has been demolished in the US) to pick up her new Album. Mind you, I haven't actually purchased a whole album in almost ten years, but when you feel like an album will be special, one can't help but jump out on a whim and grab it. I think this bit of newness will have a more mature sound, and most likely speak to the emotional happenings arising in her life right now. After hearing a snippet of a new track called Snow, I know that this one will be one of my favorites. I love its mellow acoustic sound. Back to Scratch, the new song out, also has a nice mellow sound. It seems very playful, with very kind of charmy/chimey bits in there!

I'm also in love with the promotional photography! Its so whimsical. Classic beauty meets eccentric settings, and vintage records. 

Here is a behind the scenes look at Charlotte recording her new song, Snow, and also discussing the album:


Sources:  We Are the Pop Slags | Charlotte Church | Daily Mail |

My Dearest Fanny...

Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately and do all you can to console me in it--make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me--write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair. I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days--three such days with you I could fill with much more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.  

I've been waiting to see the movie, Bright Star, for ages. I actually was never a big fan of Keats, until I purchased the book of letters he wrote to his love, Fanny. His words debunk the whole notion that guys have no affinity to express their love to women through words. As I read, I wished I had a pen to underline every precious gem of vulnerability that I could soak out of it. What I love most about the love expressed in the past, is it seems to have taken more work, more time, more effort, and therefore the love seemed more idyllic. I know its possible to achieve now, its just figuring out whether we will leave behind our fast paces to actually know someone.

Jane Campion, director of Bright Star, put together this wonderful production scrapbook of the movie. Beautiful photographs, letters, sketches, and lovely little bits and bobbins to pilfer through. It's too lovely to miss.

 

The Meadow by Alexandre Desplat

{you can listen to this at my music

parser on the menu bar labelled

'Cacophony'}

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Bits and bobbins inspiring me now:

My Tumblr

Before I started using Tumblr, I just found it to be another superfluous blogging platform. 

Some of my good friends, Gabbie and Jen in particular, encouraged me to get on, and so I did.

Now, I just can't seem to ween myself away from it. Its like the moleskine of blogging platforms. I love that it separates everything into quotes, videos, text, audio, photographs. That seems to make each post significant. I also love that I don't feel the need to speak in paragraphs over there: just short and poetically.

with the lovely tumblr comes

Tumblr Audio Parser

This widget compiles all of your musical posts into this

kaleidoscopic symphony of a page. 

To hear my music picks, click on "Cacophony" in the menu bar!

I was privileged to have read a draft of the script and it affected me in such a personal way.

You all know I adore Rob, but Rob aside, this story is beautiful, 

its characters flawed and lovely. 

It's one of those stories that reminds me why I write.

{Another Remember Me related post coming in the near future.}

(picture photoshopped by me, wink wink!)

By Guy De Maupassant

It's absolutely one of those scandalous novels,

and yes, it has the obvious Rob affiliation.

But, it's surprisingly refreshing for classic literature. 

This translation is gorgeous. 

Some books, you read.

Others you read, and inhale, and speak aloud

and teach yourself how to write with it.

Day One-Your Favorite Song

{robert pattinson and emilie de ravin in the film Remember Me, March 2010}

at the moment

"When steel and concrete break

Beneath the steadly waves

Of fearless, hope and grace

In kindness, there is strength

Cuz we are not frightened anymore,

We stood up

We stood up

And there are two of us

Oh, there will be more

Oh, they'll show up

Oh, they'll show up

Yeah, they'll show up"

{We Stood Up} aFINEfrenzy

Gravity's Proud

"Roslyn" Bon Iver & St. Vincent

"Situations are critical..."

"Monsters"
Hurricane Bells