The Attic Door

The proverbial attic door leads where? to matters of the heart or the heart of the matter... to the industrial mind, wallowing in the rust of the misery in refrain.

The attic door leads here... where the harsh skies bleed white & perceptions blur. How you wish you could reverse, erase or rewind till...

The attic door leads home.

Twiggy Horizon

Pointy Horizon

Mixer

This is an ode to all the mixtapes I made...

Small Blue Things...

Two absolute apt & darling little ditties to warm up the icy sound-waves

Ida - The Blizzard of '78

Aboslute restrained blistering bouts of infectious indie sensibilities, a semi-epic clocking in at just above 7 minutes.

Fixing an eye on the hopeful/In a heartless room you'll be done soon
The snow is falling down/And the whole damn town is covered with white
It's obvious that trust is the catch and the magnet/ That could pull you through this braille night
Where nothing's free and you just can't see/How to sacrifice what you need to be

 Check out Ida on myspace

About the female voice of the band: Elizabeth Mitchell is an American singer, composer, and guitarist for the New York indie band Ida[1]. While a student at Brown University, Mitchell performed as a duo with fellow class of 1990 classmate Lisa Loeb, called Liz and Lisa. Mitchell sang backup on Lisa Loeb's first hit, "Stay (I Missed You)", which topped the charts from the soundtrack to Reality Bites.

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And ofcourse Suzanne Vega's return to brilliance, her re-interpretations of classic dwindling eclectic folk brilliance... for people who have understood the evolution of alternative and viable AND the kiddies out there discovering the joy of indie, give this dittie a spin and grab the record.

Suzanne Vega - Small Blue Thing 

I am cold against your skin
You are perfectly reflected
I am lost inside your pocket
I am lost against your fingers
I am falling down the stairs
I am skipping on the sidewalk
I am thrown against the sky
I am raining down in pieces
I am scattering like light…

From the official website www.suzannevega.com
Suzanne Vega reinterprets her best-loved songs in imaginative and intimate renderings The first of 4 CDs in Suzanne’s Close-Up Series. Vol. 1: Love Songs includes: "Marlene on the Wall," "Caramel," "Gypsy" and "Small Blue Thing."
"These are songs that I have written over the years and now re-recorded. I wanted to give you, the listener, a small sort of gift These are the songs I consider love songs, although they are also songs of attraction, flirtation, and confrontation. Thanks for listening."
With Love,
SUZANNE

The sepia toned longing...

Watching the whites come down...

Point Pleasant Beach, NJ,  is in the eye of a snow storm with blizzard warnings, mega-winter storm alerts & what not. Feh. What better time to lapse-slap the snow. around and what not... Watch this space for updates as the snow will surely pile up to supposed colossal amounts. Or go get a life...

 

  

  

 

The Invisible Eye

In a hole far away in a daydream of desperate indecision
In a war of a world gone mad growing all out of its precision
(dye corduroy - dirty street-lites)

S(K)now...

Delocations of the Dislocated

Possibly the most demented, devious and dark thoughts brood from the sunniest of days... like a head-gash off'a thick and dry tree bark with all its echoing glories of splinters and winters gone by. And the misery thus seeks company and finds a corner bar by the wayside. Or the Ark. Point Pleasant Beach is pretty but ain't that endearing.

Ali Azmat in Seattle

Ali Azmat in Concert

Grr

Time for Sweed-dish...

Whats up with Swedes and indie-pop brilliance? Jeebus

This band reminds me of the Magic Numbers with a more obvious raw indierawk crunchy folk-pop feel... numnums!

Consume... concur.

The Sweet Serenades - Balcony Cigarettes

The Sweet Serenades - On My Way
(reminds me of a much more poppier strokes?)

HIGHLY INFECTIOUS to ALL humans and most apes.

The Sweet Serenades - Coming Closer

"Open up the gates and just let it flow... oh... Come Closer..."

The Sweet Serenades - First Taste of Trouble

"Tell me baybeh where you been soo lawng?"

Quoting another site: "The Sweet Serenades was officially formed in Stockholm, Sweden 2002. The sound is mainly influenced by great songs, broken hearts, sexual frustration and musical acts as Tom Waits, Clap your hands say yeah, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, ACDC, Eddie Meduza, ABBA, The Technicolors, The Perishers, The Shins and many more. We call it Jungle Rock. Or testosterone Pop."

Official Site

Downthewholerecordhereonmegaupload thanks to zisuyan.