lucky stars in your eyes

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:39:57 GMT

people should have garage parties more often.

The Heart Is Confusing Above All Things

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:20:52 GMT

When I was 15 I bought my first perfume: a vial of The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by Yosh (looking back, I realize the hilarity in the fact that my first purchase managed to be from one of the most pretentious and pricey noses in the biz). Being a perfume virgin, believing perfume was simply about smelling nice so boys would like you, I didn't buy it for the notes or the nose. I was, at the time, simply a kid lost in books, swept up (like many others) with the magical, enigmatic dupe that was JT LeRoy.

When I smell Deceitful now, my nose tells me: figs, cheap olive oil, simple vanilla. My heart? Illicit firsts: cigarettes, booze, boys; rainy Montreal nights; teenage melancholy, loneliness. In spite of the perfume being nothing special, to me it remains special. In spite of smelling to others like ashtrays and baby oil, to me it remains my ultimate comfort scent; warm and comforting, like being curled up next to a fireplace on a cold day. This perfume speaks to me and says things always get better, the way 15-year-old-me never thought they would.

I'm 18 - I'm by no means a perfume expert. I know my Guerlain from my Lutens, my Tauer from my JAR, but I'm still just an 18 year old girl. I have a lot to learn.

Still, when I'm 80 years old, have amassed an enormous collection, and I've smelled all there is to smell, I think my musty vanilla-olive-oil concoction will still mean more to me than all my disgustingly expensive Parfums MDCI combined.

The heart is confusing above all things.

suicidal romantic - a kiss me, judas fanmix

Sat, 10 May 2008 23:34:52 GMT

Suicidal Romantic
a Kiss Me, Judas fanmix

RED EYES AND TEARS
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Red eyes and tears no more for you my love I fear
No more fear, no more fear I'm in love
Losing sensation for you my love I fear
No more fear, no more fear I'm in love

NEEDLE IN THE HAY
Elliott Smith

Your hand on his arm,
The hay stack charm around your neck
Strung out and thin
Calling some friend trying to cash some check
He's acting dumb
That's what youve come to expect
Needle in the hay

I WANNA BE YOUR DOG
Iggy Pop & the Stooges

Now I'm ready to close my eyes
And now I'm ready to close my mind
And now I'm ready to feel your hand
And lose my heart on the burning sands
And now I wanna be your dog

RAINBOW
Boris with Michio Kurihara

You are looking at a sky that is going to be shaken

SAD GIRL
Ten in the Swear Jar

I like my neighborhood
I like my gun
Drive in my little car
I am your girl and I will protect you

BIG BLACK MARIAH
Tom Waits

Well he's all boxed up on a red belle dame
Hunted Black Johnny with a blind man's cane
A yellow bullet with a rag out in the wind
An old blind tiger, got an old bell Jim
Here come the Big Black Mariah, here come the Big Black Mariah

YOU'RE A WOMAN, I'M A MACHINE
Death from Above 1979

Take what you want
My head is full
Take what you need
My price is good
You want it all
I've seen it once
I've seen it all

EVIL WAYS
Black Mountain

It ain't easy but you've got to change your evil ways

I WAS A LOVER
TV on the Radio

Ennui unbridled, let's talk to kill the time
how many styles did you cycle through before you were mine?
and it's been a while since we went wild and that's all fine
but we're sleepwalking through this trial
and it's really a crime it's really a crime it's really a crime
it's really criminal

We're just busy tempting, like fate's on the nod
running on empty, bourbon and god
it's been a while since we knew the way
and it's been even longer since our plastic priest class
had a goddamned thing to say

SAD GIRL (REPRISE)
Good for Cows

EAST HASTINGS
Godspeed You! Black Emperor

(+ Bonus Tracks)

Wow. Hardest fanmix ever. EVER. Of all time. This sucker is weird, I tell ya. (Why am I completely incapable of making a fanmix lacking either Xiu Xiu or XitSJ?) Still has the requisite canadian band(s), too.

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ilu, montréal

Wed, 07 May 2008 03:32:20 GMT

let's make babies, Montréal

this is not for you - a house of leaves fanmix

Mon, 05 May 2008 06:45:30 GMT

This Is Not for You
a House of Leaves fanmix

FRIEND OF THE NIGHT
Mogwai

THE CN TOWER BELONGS TO THE DEAD
Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett)

I could fill up a lake with all the things I didn't say
Had a good run anyway,
Had a good run anyway

From the top of the tower, radio buzz in our ears
We can see your house from here,
We can see your house from here

GOD MOVING OVER THE FACE OF THE OCEAN
Moby

SILENT SHOUT
The Knife

Wish I could speak in just one sweep
What you are and what you mean to me

I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I
Mogwai

POX
Xiu Xiu

Jesus is wondering
If even He can love you
This is where I live
A pox upon your house

TAPE HISS ORCHID
Deerhunter

DREAMS
TV on the Radio

You could have heel toed
To another place
You could have peeled slow
To a better face

SIGHT
Takeshi Kobayashi

WILD TIGERS I HAVE KNOWN
Emily White

Silence is a power and a tool
For you
For you

Yeah, yeah. I know. More Xiu Xiu, and Mogwai twice. I know.

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ilu chemainus

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:44:09 GMT

ilu salt spring island

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:45:17 GMT

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:03:40 GMT

A few (old and blurry) pics and a clip of Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett) at last year's Folk Fest.

Saw him quite a few times that weekend, couldn't find my camera until the last day. Boo.

gigant-icon Post

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:33:55 GMT

This is me attempting to add every icon of mine that I can find on my computer. There's a good two hundred billion or so. May take a while.

Samples:

Please comment with icon name if nabbed, yadda yadda
Credit is nice
Enjoy (hopefully)!

American Psycho
as1.

Blues Brothers
bb1.

But I'm a Cheerleader
bc1.

A Christmas Story
cs1.

Constantine
ct1.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
fl1.

Ginger Snaps:
gs1. gs2. gs3. gs4.
gs5. gs6. gs7. gs8.

The Grinch
tg1.

Half Nelson
hn1. hn2. hn3. hn4.

The L Word
lw1. lw2. lw3. lw4.

Little Miss Sunshine
lm1. lm2. lm3. lm4.
lm5. lm6. lm7. lm8.
lm9.

May
ma1.

The Royal Tenenbaums:
rt1. rt2. rt3. rt4.
rt5.

Shadowboxer:
sb1. sb2. sb3. sb4.
sb5.

Shaun of the Dead:
sd1.

Skins
sk1. sk2. sk3.

Spun:
sp1. sp2. sp3. sp4.
sp5. sp6. sp7. sp8.
sp9. sp10. sp11. sp12.

Vanilla Sky
vs1.

Other
ot1. ot2. ot3.

BY THE BYE, there's zero reasons why this lj-cut should not be working, so if it isn't, you're just as frustrated as I am.

ALMOST CLEAR - a Cassie fanmix

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:29:19 GMT

ALMOST CLEAR
a Cassie fanmix

CRAP KRAFT DINNER
Hot Chip

All the people I love are here
All the people I love can't hear
All the people I love are drunk
All the people I love are here

DRAMAMINE
Modest Mouse

Travelling, swallowing dramamine
Feeling spaced, breathing out listerine
I'd said what I'd said that I'd tell ya
And you'd killed the better part of me

POE POE
Xiu Xiu

Take your parents' credit card
Buy a bunch of crap that you don't need
And will never use
Mom and Dad are out of town
And they trust you implicitly

THE FUNERAL
Band of Horses

Really to late to call, so we wait for
Morning to wake you; it's all we got
To know me as hardly golden
Is to know me all wrong

CITIZENS OF TOMORROW
Tokyo Police Club

I have a microchip
Implanted in my heart

SATELLITE OF LOVE
Milla Jovovich

Satellite's gone
Way up to Mars
Soon it will be filled
With parking cars

I watched it for a little while
I love to watch things on TV

SHINE A LIGHT
Wolf Parade

And I don't sleep, I don't sleep
I don't sleep 'till it's light
Some folks float
Some are buried alive

SHAMPOO SUICIDE
Broken Social Scene

Put your teeth where you love to love
Drink some spit just to save your life
Bury parents in a moment's time

You hate it all but you still use shampoo

LAZY EYE
Silversun Pickups

I've been waiting
I've been waiting for this moment all my life
But it's not quite right

I've been waiting
I've been waiting in this silence all night long
It's just a matter of time

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Made - Greg Weeks

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:00:14 GMT