Never feeling fine

This video of Spoon covering the late, great Jay Reatard is cool. I hope people continue to remember him. And now Spoon can remembered as something other than the band from The O.C. ost. JUST KIDDING, I love Spoon.

A dress! Says Who? Calvin Klein!

Not that I don't appreciate the invites that people keep sending me for London Fashion Week, but it's not really my thing. However I will say that I'd fucking go nuts for this. I want so bad. Can someone lend me $900 for this? Calvin Klein are remaking THE dress from 'Clueless'. In the new Nylon South Korea fashion book which comes out later this year, I did a small interview about my fashion inspiration. 90% of which is ironically, the 90s. Brit-pop, grunge, and amazing teen comedies. Cher's dress is a classic piece of this era, along with Clarissa's floral Doc Marten's and Tia and Tamera's woven bucket hats. Take me back.

Barbra's Bonkers

I never listen to the radio, but yesterday I was in the car with no CDs so had to put it on. I started with XFM, but was quickly disturbed by an advert claiming that their listeners had voted The Killer's 'Mr. Brightside' as the 'best song of all time.' XFM will be the only reason that Ash are never forgotten.

So I switched over the Radio 1. As a person I don't mind Fearne Cotton. She's nice and not a total dick in real life. Yet somehow as a presenter she is annoying and patronising and it almost makes me miss Jo Wiley.

Anyway, she started raving about this new song by Duck Sauce who is made up of Armand Van Helden and A-Trak. It's called 'Barbra Streisand' and it is the exact same song as Dizzee Rascal's 'Bonkers'. Unshockingly, Armand Van Helden also produced 'Bonkers'. In a blog a while back I mentioned how Scouting For Girls had managed to release the same song 3 times and get away with it, and I think Armand has jumped on that bandwagon. C'mon guys formulae is for maths not music! See what I mean...

Cubism Dreams

I got the Local Natives album because of the hype. I didn't really listen to it. Shame on me. Caught them at Reading Festival and man do they kill it live. Absolutely blown away. Between the new Wavves record and Arcade Fire record I am finding hard to listen to anything else.

Meltdown

Blogspot keeps getting me to try and change my layout. NO THANKS.

Anyway, I'm falling really behind with updating everything I want to update about. Still haven't spoken about Barcelona or Glastonbury, and now I've just come back from Reading Festival. I'll get round to telling you how I cried my way through Blink 182's set soon enough.

For now, I simply must post the new video from Wavves for Post Acid. It's the best song on their King of the Beach record, but actually the entire album is pretty damn good. Video rules too, directed by Patrick O'Dell of Epicly Later'd fame. Rumour has it the alien in the video is actually skateboarding babe Spanky. You heard right by the way, the video contains aliens and skateboarding, and looks supsiciously like a reoccuring dream I used to have.

I bought the album with the new Arcade Fire album and got that hyper excited new music feeling that I haven't had in a long time, you know, where you look forward to journeys so you can just listen to your iPod. Perfect end to summer. Check it.