my dog, the adventurer

bukowski, the thinker:

bukowski, the weary:

bukowski, the visionary:

he was clearly born into the wrong century, poor boy

World/Inferno Friendship Society

How fucking awesome is this band??? and how fucking hot is Jack Terricloth??? Goodness me… more on that once I’ve got an internet connection again, just needed to get this off my chest real quick…

top 10: songs to die for.

in this order:
Two Gallants – Threnody In Minor B
Jimi Hendrix – Burning Of The Midnight Lamp
Serj Tankian – Charades
Keith Caputo – Selfish
Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm
Frank Turner – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (originally by The Postal Service)
Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody
Coheed & Cambria – 2113
Archive – Finding It So Hard
Deftones – Minerva

goodness, it’s beautiful!

Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody

I’ve been roaming around
Always looking down at all I see
Painted faces, fill the places I cant reach

You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody

Someone like you, And all you know, And how you speak
Countless lovers under cover of the street

You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you

Off in the night, while you live it up, I’m off to sleep
Waging wars to shape the poet and the beat
I hope it’s gonna make you notice
I hope it’s gonna make you notice

Someone like me
Someone like me
Someone like me, somebody

Someone like you, somebody
Someone like you, somebody
Someone like you, somebody

I’ve been roaming around,
Always looking down at all I see

this song went straight from hearing it for the first time to my top 10 most beautiful songs of all times. few artists manage to create a tune so simple and yet so intense and deeply touching.

Goodbye favourite running gag of all times…

so Chinese Democracy is done and about to be released. i’m just listening to it and i must admit i’m NOT disappointed at all. i thought i’d be, i was convinced the album could never ever meet my expectations, having had to wait for it for so long. but god damn me, Mr Rose, i see what you did there. more on the record tomorrow, i’m too tired to catch a proper thought right now.

edit: well, it’s not exactly the “tomorrow” i was talking about but here’s more on the record anyway. it’s not much more, because having listened to it properly… it’s mediocre, really. it’s not bad, not at all, GNR records can hardly be bad. but it’s not as mind blowing as the euphoria of finally being able to listen to it made me believe.. i’ll give it another listen somewhen and try and review it properly… somewhen…

xD

this morning i woke up with Das Schützenfest by Faith No More bursting forth from my mouth (yes, i wake up singing a lot of times)… seriously, Das Schützenfest? can it get any more awesome? i don’t think so xD

you’re knobbly to me, yes you are…

i just came across this game on a last.fm forum. the rules were to take a song with the word “love” in the title and substitute it with the word “knob”. i expected it to be funny. just funny in a the-corners-of-my-mouth-might-twitch-from-time-to-time way. but here i am, having filtered my music library for all songs love, unable to stop laughing.
here are some examples:

I Never Knobbed A Man (The Way I Knob You) – Aretha Franklin
Got No Knob – The Kooks
Make You Feel My Knob – Bob Dylan
Knob Her Madly – The Doors
She Knobs Me Not – Faith No More
We’re Not Supposed To Be Knobbers – Adam Green
A Knob Worth Keeping – Frank Turner
Knobage (Knob That Knobage, Baby) – errr… Knobage
You’re Knobbly To Me – Lucky Jim
Knobbly Rita – The Beatles
Hate This And I’ll Knob You – Muse

some additions my buddy Chris came up with:
Let Me Put My Knob In You – AC/DC
I’m Gonna Knob You Too – Blondie
Arms Around Your Knob – Chris Cornell
Give My Knob To Rose – Johnny Cash
That’s Why I Knob Her – NOFX
Knob-Less – Paul Weller
Too Much Knob Will Kill You – Queen (oh, snap! xD)

and a more than honourable mention: Can You Feel The Knob Tonihgt? – Elton John

to be continued… xD

Frank Turner

i’m still looking for words to tell everyone how much i love this motherfucker. brilliant lyricist, one of the best i’ve ever come across and so down to earth. i’ll just go with quoting a friend, because he nailed it: “he(Frank Turner)’s exactly what music should be.”

just check him out, why don’t you

Two Gallants – a eulogy

i love this band.
i love those two guys and what they do. their music makes the pain stop, this latent pain of living. it makes my heart stop hurting and at the same time its beauty makes my heart hurt so bad i don’t know how much longer i can stand it. it’s like gazing at the sea – it makes you feel so free and so captivated, so big and so tiny at the same time.
i’ve been living in their world for a while now, and i don’t want to leave again. it’s where i belong, where people know and understand me, where it’s not a weakness to pity yourself from time to time but a necessity to get along with life. you have to fall down sometimes to enjoy and appreciate standing on your own two feet. Two Gallants seem to know that better than anyone else out there. their work is raw and unfiltered life, stories of loss and despair that are so fragile you want to pick them up with velvet gloves, yet so firm and solid you want to lean against them.
they’re one of those bands i know i’ll still be listening to when everything’s different from now. when i’m somewhere else, doing different things, decades from today.

i love this band.

this morning…

… i woke up singing the line “When our boots they hit the ground, they made a high and lonesome sound…” from the glorious High Lonesome by The Gaslight Anthem. nice