Meet Me On The Equinox

I must admit to having not read the "Twilight" books, or seen the films. I'm slacking off a bit on the blockbuster magic/fantasy quota having still not seen the last Harry Potter film.

However, the new Twilight movie, "New Moon", features a rather astounding soundtrack with some great artists penning original songs for the film: Thom Yorke, Bon Iver & St. Vincent, OK GO, Grizzly Bear, and Editors, to name a few.

The first single is from one of my absolute favourite bands in the world, Death Cab for Cutie, who have created a beautiful, haunting song by the name of "Meet Me on the Equinox". The video for this song has just launched for all those lucky enough to be in a country which will allow you to view it! This song is on very high rotation today.

EDIT: Yay!

Rabbits and Sleepyheads

I had a little downtime today between projects, and got the chance to create these rabbits for a table display at a home wares store. The rabbits are about 250mm tall and are constructed out of card stock, cardboard and this awesome sticky-backed velour that I had purchased a few weeks ago without any particular project in mind. I printed a silhouette of a rabbit out and cut it to shape in the card stock and cardboard, and then wrapped the velour over the shape. I cut another copy out of the cardstock and stuck it to the back, just to neaten up where I had wrapped the velour around. A purple ribbon completed these cute little rabbits.



I also created some wrapped eggs out of purple tissue paper and thin black ribbon (which haven't been pictured as they were a very last minute project!) The rabbits and eggs will be paired with a black and white dinner set for an Easter-themed display and, I think, will look pretty cool with such a monochromatic scheme. When I delivered them, the manager mentioned that they were Cadbury colours, which I hadn't realised! I guess I was subconsciously thinking about chocolate all along!

In other news, I have not been able to stop listening to "Sleepyhead" by Passion Pit - quite the corker of a track! Its one those songs I'm sure will always bring back happy memories of sitting amid piles and piles of cut paper and glue tape, eating blue M&Ms* with the two loves of my life and feeling like I'm at the most productive and creative I've ever been. Bliss.

PS. I finally have gift certificates in my Etsy store! Yay!

* I have a blue tongue and blue teeth thanks to these little guys! Blue is the only colour I can't use for my display, so these are the only ones we can actually eat for the moment!

All I'm Sayin, Pretty Baby

Next on my wall-art shopping list:



"La La Love You Print 8.5 x 11 Light Aqua" by SparklePower. As a major Pixies fan, it's only a matter of when, not if, this will be gracing our walls.

Life in Technicolour

Another YouTube clip but I believe this is probably one of the better video clips I've seen in a while, for Coldplay's "Life in Technicolour" - very cute concept and really well executed:



Thankyou to my resident cool things finder.

Flume

The temperature is hitting 37 degrees Celcius here today, which is expected to continue over the next few days - yuck! Luckily, quite a busy day here to distract us - and a slice of Gossip Girl escapism over lunch with my sister Steph - although watching Manhattan's elite walking around in tailored jackets and scarfs makes me pine for winter.


We're off to see Justin Vernon (aka Bon Iver) tonight at the Forum, which is set to be quite the magical experience, even amid this heat. Ironically, "Bon Iver" is an Anglicization of the French "bon hiver" (good winter). A nice sentiment in the middle of an Australian summer.

Dark Was The Night

My new, most anticipated album of 2009 has to be "Dark Was The Night". I haven't been this excited about a line-up of musicians all giving their time and amazing skills to a great cause in quite a while:

"Dark Was The Night will be released on February 17th, 2009. Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National produced the album, and John Carlin, the founder of the Red Hot Organization was the executive producer. A total of 32 exclusive tracks have been recorded for the compilation. It will be available as a double cd/triple vinyl/download and will benefit the Red Hot Organization - an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS. Red Hot was founded on the premise that even without a cure, AIDS remains a preventable disease – and music is a great vehicle to raise money and awareness for it. This is the 20th year of Red Hot, and this is the 20th release!"

Just take a look at this list of contributors:
Andrew Bird
Antony + Bryce Dessner
Arcade Fire
Beach House
Beirut
Blonde Redhead + Devastations
Bon Iver
Bon Iver & Aaron Dessner
The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez
Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)
Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues
The Decemberists
Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
Kevin Drew
Feist + Ben Gibbard
Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear + Feist
Iron & Wine
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Kronos Quartet
Stuart Murdoch
My Brightest Diamond
My Morning Jacket
The National
The New Pornographers
Conor Oberst & Gillian Welch
Riceboy Sleeps
Dave Sitek (TV On The Radio)
Spoon
Sufjan Stevens
Yeasayer
Yo La Tengo

You can check out the album's MySpace page for a listen to a track a day. A definite highlight so far has been Feist & Ben Gibbard's unusual but oh-so-good pairing of vocals in "Train Song" (a Vashti Bunyan cover).

Never Had Nobody Like You

Whoops, missed a day of posting yesterday - it was a frantically busy day with little time for Internet-site reflection. I also went to my first Tupperware party, hosted by my friend Renate, which I feel is a rite of passage now that I'm married.... not really. We just had drinks and looked at plastic containers. I feel no more domestic than this time yesterday.



Anyhow, today I wanted to post about a new track my husband sent me the link to (that's right, we email in our own house) - the new M.Ward track, "Never Had Nobody Like You" available from Stereogum. It features She & Him's Zooey, which Stereogum theorizes is why this promo mp3 was released first off Matt Ward's upcoming album "Hold Time", as Zooey is much of an indie media darling and I guess it would draw all the right kind of attention. My love of Ms. Deschanel aside, this is a lovely track.

Listen to it here.