Okay, so last post was six days ago. I see.
News to report?
Recent purchases;
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey. $8.99
This is a great album, I essentially bought it for The Mercy Seat and Deanna, but I hadn't heard the other tracks, they're excellent! A good mix of happy and sad and joy and misery. I strongly advise the purchase of this album if you can find it as cheap as I did, it's probably my favourite Nick Cave album to play start to finish, I listened to it first while cutting a good chunk out of my Zelda, Twilight Princess game last Wednesday and it was epic.
4.5 thumbs up/5.
The Veils - Nux Vomica. $23.99
Normally I wouldn't pay that much for a CD, I mean I would nearly never pay that much but this is my top played album of the year so far, with about fourty plays on iTunes and a fair few more on my iPod, I felt that I owed it to The Veils and my conscience to pay whatever needed for it. It is an absolutely amazing CD that I wish I owned on vinyl. At least half of the songs are heavily influenced by The Bad Seeds and the other half are pretty upbeat and melodic post punk tunes that make you sing and/or dance. The standout track for me originally was 'Advice For Young Mothers To Be' but after listening for longer I'm currently favouring 'One Night On Earth' and 'Under The Falling Branches'. The singer, Finn Andrews is the son of former XTC keyboard player Barry Andrews.
4.9 thumbs up/5.
I'm currently reading the novel of He Died With a Felafel in His Hand, that was the basis for the film of the same name, I didn't expect that the book would be so different and I'm glad that it is. The book is made up of chapters of short stories about the writer's experiences with share houses and extravagant roomies throughout Australia. I'm only sixty pages in so far but it's easy to say that it's going to use the same formula the whole way through, but there's no doubts that it is a fucking good book, hilarious and easy to read. The film adapted parts of the short stories and mixed them up to make the plot they used, which is a very good thing, seeing as I still can't bring myself to read another fifty pages of the English novel High Fidelity after seeing John Cusack narrate the American film adaptation.*
So far, it's excellente and I'll post again when I'm finished.
Other than that I have nothing to report, I have to get back to doing homework...or just, start.
*By the by, I love that film.
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