Music Addiction 101

So I have always been a massive music fan and lover and moments of the day barely go by without music playing, whether the radio, my ipod or itunes, music is always in the air.

But recently, my addiction has spread to the constant need to find new and interesting music and then after i have had a taste of the glorious sound, to share it along with everyone. So everyone can get a taste of the awesome tunage. :)

I am now on 8tracks and making many my mixes.
find me here...

fionac

and your life will change from the lovely music that will pour out the speakers. Even better than Gold Dust. haha.

South African Census 2011

How aware are you of the census taking place? Are you aware of what the census is about and why you are being counted and documented for the government, Please click and read the following link and promote the article as much as possible as the more traffic i get, the better chance i stand to win a journalism competition at my university.

http://www.upiu.com/politics/2011/10/24/Census-2011-count-me-in/UPIU-5421319508660
Thank you! 

Symmetry - are we living or are we dying?

Symmetry from Everynone on Vimeo.


I discovered this amazing video on Vimeo recently. It is amazing, the ties they draw between so many things are so true. Its fantastic really. The ending is amazing too. And it makes one think; are we living or are we slowly dying? The minute we hit the earth from our mother's womb we enter the rat race; not knowing when it will end and where the finish line will be. This past weekend has sadly being one filled with tragedy and death, not news we like receiving. and i say again, it makes one think the interesting thought of, "are we slowly dying or living?". Is living a state of mind and dying a physical state our bodies are moving through till we meet the end at whichever time or place. Obviously we are alive, we are breathing and thinking yet as we grow up, our bodies grow down, our minds gain knowledge yet slowly lose ground; we grow taller and stronger yet now we recover slower.

Life is a constant paradox. You gain some, you lose some; you build some, you break some; you learn some, you forget some, ad infinitum. this video captures it well though. how differences are really so alike. 

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks

Jonsi and his wonder power

Last year during my monthly ritual of downloading the months Indie/Rock playlist i came across Jonsi. http://jonsi.com/ He is an Icelandic artist who is originally part of a band called Sigur Ros. He is known for his use of a cello bow on guitar and his falsetto voice which he aptly uses in many of his songs.  Interesting fact: He is blind in his right eye. 


He released his first solo album in April 2010 and then followed that with a world tour. The top songs in the album being Go Do and Animal Arithmetic. The songs are a wonderful melodic concoction of English and Icelandic and the beats won't fail to carry you away in excitement and happiness. 


Jonsi - Animal Arithmetic Video

Jonsi - Around Us Soundclip

New Music. Oh the deliciousness of it.

I love it when you discover new undercover bands/people and they have delightful music that makes you smile at the fact that you found them and now they are yours. That's the thing with Indie music. The undercoverness of it all is so fantastic and makes you love the strange named bands with the even more peculiarly named songs even more. Today i discovered a mass of fantastic new artists. Check them out!

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1l278M/uwall.tv/

• Los Campesinos!
• The Hush Sound
• Cage The Elephant
• Silversun Pickups
• Telekenis! 
• The Morning Benders
• Surfer Blood
• Beach Fossils
• Sarah Blasko

love me like Devendra Banhart

i love this man and his quirky tunes. Another fantastic one is Lover. give him a listen! 

fantastic website...

So whilst standing in the Post Office line, one of my best friends who was kindly standing with me mentioned to me about this awesome website StumbleUpon. What it does is browses the web for you after you have chosen your particular interests and then finds websites/images/etc. on the Internet that it thinks you will like and probably wouldn't have found without its help. Its really a gem of an idea and i have spent endless time stumbling upon amazing art, websites, facts, information and videos. Go check it out and make an account! :)

One Day Trailer 2011 HD

it will change your life...

So last year whilst travelling to Greece i needed a book to read, because the thought of sitting on long ferry trips to islands with nothing to read killed me... So i when we landed in Athens i dashed to the book shop to see what i could find. There was a fair selection on display yet none appealed to me. There were countless soppy love stories, a couple of thrillers, millions of travel guides, a self-help book or two and the odd memoir. Then i saw One Day by David Nicholls. I had seen someone on the Tube reading it and had thought the cover looked interesting and the storyline sounded good too. So i decided i would buy that. Well it turned out to be the best buy ever. I will recommend the book to anyone and everyone, regardless of whether you like novels or love stories (it isn't a typical soppy woman's love story). I was absorbed and three hour long ferry trips felt like three minutes as i was transported into the world of the characters. So absorbing yet crushingly sad at points. Everyone who read it after be gave it the thumbs up. So if you are looking for a fantastic and gripping book, read that, it will change your life! :)

And to make it better, they are making a film, planned to be released in August in the States. Very exciting!

delight of the heart kind of song

So we all have that song, that feel-good song that puts a smile on your face from the first notes played and continue to make your heart happy as the song carries on playing. There is that song that makes you think, wow, all is well and content and delightful in my world right now, regardless of how awful you felt that morning or how bad your day seems to be going... And yes it sounds cheesy but its true. The song might change depending on your current selected genre of the day/week/month but that same feeling still floods through you when that song plays. I love that feeling. I can't help smile and think wonderful thoughts. Right now, that song for me is "Good Life" by One Republic. I don't really listen to One Republic, find them a bit too poppy for my liking (i prefer rock and indie and electro) but this song which was featured on the "One Day" trailer just made my day and i immediately downloaded it and it has been on repeat since. Maybe i love it so much as One Day is one of my favourite books and i'm excited to see the movie and so the happy feelings towards that are transferred in the feel-good vibes of the song, i don't know, whichever way we look at it, its a good happy song. Give it a listen and be happy. :)

Music from the Underworld

I love Angus & Julia Stone (A&J) and their music paints such lovely pictures in my mind. Which brings me to say that i am in love with most music that comes out of Australia. We would all love to say we love our own countries' music and that the rest of the best music comes from America and the UK. And yes, a lot of great music comes from those two fore mentioned countries but i think it goes without saying, undisputed and silent victors are the Aussie's when it comes to the music scene... Their take on Indie and Folk is fantastic and the tuneage that crops up from Down Under never ceases to steal my heart with the mellow tunes and hollow twangs and of course, the heartfelt lyrics. The rock and alternate scene is great their too and their appreciation for good music is on a high level. They have an array of great festivals and concerts showcasing unknowns and also popular indie and rock bands. Although they are infiltrated with other genres such as Hip-Hop, Rap, etc, they reign in the indie scene. Unbeknown to most of the world, apart from the groupies of course, so many artists come from there, the list is long and strong and you would be surprised to hear which vegemite-eating, thong-wearing artists are born and bred on the largest island.

I salute the Aussies and thank them muchly for their great music.

Ma bug peu d'amore

little melodies of wonder

I'm a playlist person; i make endless compilations with ridiculous titles, grouping my music into titbits of heaven for my ears. So in a recent escapade on making a playlist that pools all my self-pity songs for moments of wallowing i stumbled upon my podcasts... i haven't listened to those in ages and so my numbers were up. I decided to take the plunge and listen through some of the tuneage that had piled up through the numerous podcasts i had subscribed to. And my oh my they were amazing. Why in the name of all that is glorious had i not been delving through them more frequently? And this also made me think, i am South African and we have a large music scene, yet i am not really interested at all in the music produced here but rather in other places like Australia where fantastic indie music is made. So now my music library has gained a rather wonderful sets of songs, some favourites of which i am now going to tell you all about so you too can share in the joy that is indie music and other interesting tunes.

Yeasayer - I remember

Sparkadia - Talking like im falling down the stairs

Gossling - I was young

Thieving Irons - Babylon is burning

Black Whales - Rattle your bones

Sun Airway - Oh, Naoko

Pomegranates - Skull cakin'