Daily Inspiration: Hot Air Balloons

How cool is this?

Bright Young Thing

April first.

In June teNeues will release a book about Tim Walker. It will be filled with a vast amount of wonderful photographs he has taken throughout his career. Tim Walker is one of my favourite photographers so I'm obviously very excited about this book. Apparently Stern has also published a book with some of his work, so I'll try to hunt that one down first, eventhough it seems to be currently unavailable. Talking about books, friday I'll be visiting this huge bookfestival I might have talked about before. I have an enormous wishlist, I'd especially love to get my hands on some photography and art books there.

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I haven't bought a decent pair of shoes in a long time (and yes, long time is quite relative), so I reckoned it was time for some new footwear. I was actually looking for a nice pair of black gladiator sandals but since those seem to be virtually untraceable, I decided I could just as well look for shoes equally as cool. When I came across this pretty pair on asos.com I figured they would qualify for the job and ordered them right away.

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I'm going to end this post with one of my favourite songs ever, enjoy!

Nostalgia

There aren't a lot of songs that never lose their appeal, but Obstinate by Albert Hammond jr. certainly is one of them. It's the unpolished version of In Transit, a song that can be found on his album 'Yours to Keep'. Obstinate is part of a road movie made by the Strokes which is also called In Transit. If you like the Strokes you should watch it some time, it's on youtube and quite hilarious (hello ze Strokes!). Around the time I first discovered the movie I also went to see the Strokes perform in Amsterdam and this song will always remind me of that concert and the magnificent summer that followed. Ah those were the days <3

I'm no pair of dancing shoes

*trying really hard to ignore the cheesy title of the song*

I love Gavin deGraw's new song. No let me rephrase that, I love Gavin. His first album Chariot was and is genius. It's been in my cdplayer ever since I first discovered it back in 2005. It just doesn't get boring. In the summer of 2006 I went to see one of his shows. It was quite brilliant. And he's such a cool guy. Before the show started he came outside to talk to the people who were waiting to get in. That would include moi but I didn't know what to say and wisely decided to keep my mouth shut just to prevent myself from embarrassing myself. (I always try to keep my dignity, even when Fabrizio Moretti is hanging out of a window and waving) 'As expected' he took of his shirt during the show, I'm reforming a mental image as we speak, and threw it into the audience. My friend was the lucky bastard who caught it. She was kind enough to donate a thread of it to moi. And when I had to leave early to catch my train, she got him to sign my concertticket. How nice is that?
Anyway I can't wait for the new album to come out. And I hope it will be accompanied by a European tour. My thread and I would love to see him perform again. Oh and do click on the hyperlinks in this post, they're worth it.

Come and see the blinding

Daily Inspiration

Today's source of inspiration is the wonderful Kate Nash, whose music I've fallen madly in love with. Her songs are incredibly addictive and she's ridiculously cute. Last december I went to see her show at Melkweg in Amsterstam and it was one of the most terrific concerts I've ever been to. She was so full of energy and enthousiasm that night, it was simply fantastic!






other recommendations: we get on, merry happy, birds, the nicest thing, mariella & the skeleton song <3

Daily Inspiration

The Sony Bravia TV Commercial featuring the song Heartbeats by Jose Gonzales. Beautiful video and an even more beautiful song <3

Contagious

If you've ever taken the time to take a look at my blogger profile, no hard feelings if you haven't, you might have noticed that dance music isn't exactly well represented among my favourite bands/musicians. Given I'm not a big fan of the genre (and yes 'not a big fan' certainly is a euphemism) it isn't that surprising. What is surprising though, is the fact that I'm terribly addicted to the Alive 2007 remix of 'harder, better, faster, stronger'/'around the world' from Daft Punk. It's so bad, I'm actually affraid I might have contracted a form of acute danceitis. I suppose a steady dose of thirty remixes a day will help me fight this disease. And if it doesn't, at least I'll have kept myself entertained.

Not knowing whether or not this condition is contagious, I'm going to take the risk and share this piece of genius music with you.


Disclaimer
The author of this entry can not be held responsible for any harm caused by this ridiculously genius musicvideo. Watch/listen at your own risk.