Valentine Without You Will Be Miserable At Best

Valentine without You will be Miserable at Best

She doesn’t laugh at My Jokes – Jonathan Richman

Cult of the Hopeless – The Notes

Lost Weekend – Art Brut

Hideous Accident – Just Joans

Benny and the Jets – TV Girl

Hymn for the Alcohol - Hefner

Goshen - Beirut

There All the Time without You – Kestrels

Another Bed – The Twilight Sad

Georgia - Yuck

Superglue – Everybody Was In The French Resistant… Now!

Sinking Hearts – The Organ

Heart in Your Heartbreak – The Pains of Being Pure At Heart

Misery – Veronica Falls

What Have You Done To My Heart? – The Bell Divers

Let’s Fall In Love and Run Away From Here - Ballboy

Maybe a bit late for this year... but if your looking for some baller hand-made valentines head over here

I Guess Things Happen That Way

“It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant.”

The subtle sadness of a childhood ebbing endlessly away lingers evoking melancholic nostalgia. Suddenly it seems the people you used to see everyday on the streets and in the parks are not there anymore, people change, friends drift apart and go separate ways where the road splits, some will never meet again and not feel a thing, others will remain eternally connected even if they no longer know where to find one another. Kermit the frog had it on lockdown: “Life is made up of meetings and partings. That is the way of it”. I don't like it, but i guess things happen that way.

Your Own Religion – TV Girl

In the Hearts of Men – First Aid Kit

The Peacock – Beirut

Holes – Mercury Rev

Guess Things Happen That Way – Johnny Cash

What Do We Do Now? – Just Joans

All My Friends (Are Dead) - Island Twins

Brothers – The War on Drugs

Dance Floor – The Apples in Stereo

Don’t See the Sorrow – Au Revoir Simone

Getting Over You – The Bats

Where Do The Nights Of Sleep Go To When They Do Not Come To Me? – Ballboy

Don’t Be a Stranger – Esiotrot

When We Were Still Friends – Herman Dune

December 1986 – Lucky Delucci

The Way It Is – Laura Cantrell

Hurricane to Heat Wave

One minute the wind and the rain are blowing a hurricane down the street, and you’ve resigned to the fact that summer, with its energy and warmth, is lost for yet another year, but suddenly… BOOM! From nowhere, the sun blasts out through the lifeless dull grey clouds clearing the skies and putting your sadness on hold for a while!

Hurricane to Heatwave:

Vashti Bunyan - Come Wind Come Rain
Au Revoir Simone - Hurricanes
Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern - Higginz vs Reardon
Veronica Falls - Misery
Half Man Half Biscuit - Little in the way of Sunshine
Voxtrot - Wrecking Force
Marissa Nadler - The Sun Always Reminds Me of You
Carter USM - Sunshine
Howling Bells - Setting Sun
The Primitives - (We've) Found a way to the Sun
Ladytron - Ninety Degrees
Plains - Heat

Free Comic Book Day

It's free comic book day so go get some free comics! I got 'The Amazing Spiderman', 'Green Lantern', 'The Tick', 'The Mighty Thor', plus a few more all for free!

So to celebrate getting stuff for free here's a superhero themed mix i just made.

Spoiler Alert! - Booster Gold
Hefner - Trouble Kid
Tullycraft - Superboy and Supergirl
Ladytron - Black Cat
Art Brut - DC Comic and Chocolate Milkshake
The B52's - Hero Worship
Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains
The Kinks - Superman
Yea Big + Kid Static - We've Built A Time Machine That Runs On Beats. We Shall Only Use It For Good

Deep Blue, in '97 I voted for you...

"Deep Blue, In ’97 I voted for you, As Sports Personality of the Year I thought at least, You’d get the Overseas ‘cos when all’s said and done you’re not like some of these Bad losers on Yahoo Chess"

Half Man Half Biscuit have just announced a long overdue return to Cardiff in the coming summer, scheduled for the 25th of August at the Cardiff Millennium Music Hall. The news sent me scampering back to the last release: 'CSI: Ambleside' with joy in my heart. I found out about the gig somewhat fortuitously, having stumbled upon this the other day (nice list but Bob Wilson Anchor Man has to be top of the league?) I decided to check the website and what do you know it’s been updated! With 6 fixtures announced a new album must surely be imminent?

Song For Today #4 - Beach! - Summertime

It's just great when you wake up and there's not a single cloud in the sky! The sun fills me with a great excited energy, I want to burst down every fork in every path that lays ahead at the same time, I want to go to the beach and look out at the sea, I want to climb mountains and look at the great views, go on bike rides with friends to anywhere, talk to lost eccentrics who no one takes notice of anymore because he doesn't have anything to say about the soaps on tv, but has forgotten more great stories than all of them together could ever live, and catch trains to far off mythical kingdoms!

http://thisisbeach.tumblr.com/

Countdown to Christmas

There’s nothing quite like snow covered mountain tops at Christmas, it’s the icing on top of the sweet, sweet cake that is serving up delicious lumps of disbelief amongst the lifeless couch potatoes, starving them of their daily fix of pathetic nothingness as the signal fails to reach the satellite dish.

Whilst people were “moaning at the snow because their cars wouldn’t go” I put together a Christmas mix cd, which contains mostly the same gems as every other year but with a few new sparkling snowflakes that have just reached me.

So go grab your hat and jumper that your granny just made you, go get your friends off the phone to sky, and kick up a fuss and have some fun! And don’t forget to put glitter and a keytar on your Christmas list, because theres no substitute for Glam at Christmas!

Countdown to Christmas!

A Winter Story – Symphonika
Countdown to Christmas – Glam Chops
Frosty the Snowman – The Ronettes
Pipers Piping – Lucky Delucci
Fairytale of New York – The Pogues ft Kirsty MacColl
Merry Christmas (I don’t want to fight tonight) – The Ramones
December Boy – The Loves
Abominable Snowman in the Supermarket – Jonathan Richman
Kiss you in the Snow – The School
Heavenly Christmas – A Smile and a Ribbon
Tyrannosaurus Rex for Christmas – The Lovely Eggs
Christmas Wrapping - Waitresses
I took some time for Christmas – Belle and Sebastian
I’d like you for Christmas – Julie London
Red Santa – Lucky Lucky Pigeons
Lonely this Christmas – Carter USM
What’s this? – Nightmare before Christmas
Christmas is Cancelled – The Long Blondes
Stop the Revelry – Shrag
It’s Clichéd to be Cynical at Christmas – Half Man Half Biscuit
Christmas Teardrops ‘Neath Mistletoe – Just Joans
Santa Claus is coming to town - Crystals
Lords Keep Leaping – Silence At Sea
The Christmas Song - Raveonettes
Run Rudolph Run – Chuck Berry
Hey Turkey – Turkey Basil