"%CALLING PEOPLE+$

I've been watching Takeaway Show episodes for the last two hours or so while working on something for school.
AND I had my training, I'll probably start this week calling people! It was really nice, good atmosphere, cool people, I think I'll last here longer than four days :DD

Awwwww, look at this boy



I find him to be super cute :P

Hmmm maybe I do prefer Owen over Pat Pat?

Run Forrest run!


#65.1 - Final Fantasy - Pour Light is spent
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Can't believe I just said that, forgive me Mr. Wolf

Freja Beha, she's just lovely


Love that pink skirt thingy and the wet hair look
Shot by Craig McDean, via COÛTE QUE COÛTE

I didn't go to Crystal Castles so I need a replacement which is gonna be either We Were Promised Jetpacks, These New Puritans or New Young Pony Club, which one to choose??? can't go and see them all, perhaps two out of the three, but not all three, need to keep that 7600 euros a year in mind! :(

*%POLAROID GONE WRONG{}

Here's that bad polaroid picture I took last night. The microphone is in front of Owen's face but it really is him. At least I have a girl with nice golden locks in the picture. It doesn't look all that bad.



And another one I took last night. Next time I make sure I switch on the to make the image brighter option on the camera. But again, I actually quite like it even though for people who did not take the picture it's kind of difficult to see what it is :)

~#THIS LAMB SELLS F*CKING CONDOS_+

What an excellent night, I'm so glad I went. Owen Pallett aka Fanal Fantasy was magical. I was completely drawn into his performance. At first he said he was a bit sick and because during the first two songs it was hard hearing his vocals because the music was so loud I was afraid he would not sound 100% and would hold back a little. But soon it became clear that when Mr. Pallett feels slightly ill this doesn't necessarily mean this has an immediate negative effect on his voice. He sounded just as perfect as on the record or in my case on the mp3s ;) He referred to the light show several times cause it made him confused of where he was especially because he did not feel to well. But it must be said that the lighting was really good and in my opinion added a lot to the performance. I had never been in this venue before and was very surprised of how small it was. It made for a very intimate setting. Marissa Nadler and Nick Talbot of Gravenhurst were really good as well, but I'm not sure why they were supporting Pallett. Their music is much more moody and sad sounding than his. For some reason when I see Owen I always have to think about Patrick Wolf. Not sure why. Perhaps because they performed together and seem to be good friends. I took a polaroid picture of Owen, a really bad one :D It makes it appear I was standing really far away from him when that wasn't at all the case. But it was definitely too far away to take a clear polaroid picture of him. So next time I'm at a concert taking a polaroid picture I'll make sure I'm more at the front. I'll scan it tomorrow if I don't forget to. That was a really cool thing, by the way, 'cause this really was a not too much physical movement type of gig. No moshpit or wild dancing. I even kept my bag with me. So I could have quietly taken a lot of pictures although I did not take any other pictures than that polaroid. I just didn't want to disturb myself. I was enjoying it way too much. When you are able to see Final Fantasy go. He's just very relaxed and really is able to connect with the audience. He made several mistakes and when that happened he just laughed them off. He was being very casual about it and he should. It was one of the best gigs I've seen this year high up there with those gigs from Beirut, Franz Ferdinand and Metric which says a lot. I didn't expect I would like it THIS much. I definitely love him more right now. I was completely under his spell.

)(BEST VIDEO EVER%$

I was supposed to go to bed but then read the name Bishop Allen somewhere on my screen which wasn't the first time so I thought maybe they did a Takeaway Show which then could be my first real introduction to this band. I haven't found any yet, but I did find two by Final Fantasy which is Owen Pallett who plays the violin and his band, but in the Takeaway Show it's just him. I watched the two videos and then saw something on the right that caught my eye. In the middle of some French words I noticed the word Beirut. So I started to read the text and it said something about Owen singing on a song from The Flying Club Cup. This song is Cliquot. Thinking that every song on the album was sung by Zach Condon, Mr. Beirut himself, this caught me by surprise. So I started listening to the song and indeed, yes, this song is sung by Owen! Oh my. Never knew, never had a clue. But on the Last.fm page of the song there was this YouTube video of a girl doing a cover version of the song. So I went to check it out. Then I decided to watch a cover version of Nantes, another song by Beirut. And then another cover. This eventually led to a Daft Hands version of the song Nantes which is some guys writing lyrics on their fingers and then moving them whenever the words from the lyrics are heard in the song. Reading the comments this was not the original idea. The original idea came from someone else who did a Daft Hands version of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk, hence the name Daft Hands. I will post the video here and after posting it I will finally go to bed and sleep. But I just had to share this video 'cause it's f*cking amazing! Simple, yet brilliant. The end is just wow, so fast, I love the movements and the combinations of words making another word! Fun fun fun.




So this is the effect the internet most of the time has on me. One click leads to another and before I know it I find myself hours in front of the computer screen when I was supposed to be doing something else. It's a major distraction.