There's something inside you it's hard to explain

thanks to whole oats for this free download! whole oats has a ton of awesome downloads so click around =)



Nightcall (Breakot Remix) - Kavinsky

I'm giving you a night call to tell you how I feel
I want to drive you through the night and down the hills
I can tell you something you don't want to hear
I will show you where it's done, but have no fear

There's something inside you
It's hard to explain
They're talking about you, boy
But you're still the same

There's something inside you
It's hard to explain
They're talking about you, boy
But you're still the same

I'm giving you a night call to tell you how I feel
I want to drive you through the night and down the hills
I can tell you something you don't want to hear
I will show you where it's done, but have no fear

There's something inside you
It's hard to explain
They're talking about you, boy
But you're still the same

There's something inside you (There's something inside you)
It's hard to explain
They're talking about you, boy (Talking about you, boy)
But you're still the same

There's something inside you (There's something inside you)
It's hard to explain
They're talking about you, boy (Talking about you, boy)
But you're still the same

There's something inside you
It's hard to explain
They're talking about you, boy
But you're still the same

it's my birthday

watch out nyc!

your every move, i know it

i've been a fan of the golden filter for only a couple of months but they're really great. they have a light glittery sound that i really dig. i think i first heard them on kitsuné maison compilation 7 with favorite things but i could be mistaken
anyway, i think i am making this a freebies week so go download "hide me" from rcrdlbl!


Hide me - The Golden Filter

Body Paint, originally uploaded by posetopose.

Open your eyes
can you see me?
now just focus
on the ceiling
i want you
so slowly
your every move
i know it

, originally uploaded by Nikki Cohen.

hide me
now find me
hear me
you hear me
i can see
your focus
dont go blind
hide me

barely hanging on, originally uploaded by the five plus you and me.

open your eyes
can you see me?
now just focus
on the ceiling
i want you
so slowly
your every move
i know it

Two acrobatic girl toned in gold, originally uploaded by Dima Dmitrijev.

hide me
now find me
hear me
you hear me
i can see
your focus
dont go blind
hide me
hide me
hide me
hide me
hide me

Body Paint, originally uploaded by posetopose.

send me love and sun to boot

this one comes free from consequence of sound's 100th mixtape with a direct link to the download here. i've been delving into the world of music blogs the past couple of days and am extremely overwhelmed but then i found this and it makes me so happy

i have listened to voxtrot for a while now, mostly to "the start of something" but now they are disbanding! i literally just found out while writing this post cause i was gonna write how i love this song but then i saw they were coming to nyc so i was gonna write that i just got tickets to see them on friday, june 25th then i realized it's part of their disbanding tour. what the hell? they also play the 26th but that show sold out because, of course, it's their last show in any forseeable ever. ugh! so yea i got tickets for the 25th i'm gonna take someone awesome and we'll go experience voxtrot live for the first and last time. hope you check out this song and get concert tickets before it's too late! the band has a further explanation on their website which is worth reading.



Whiskey and water - Voxtrot

Please send me a sign
And set me up against the rain
Give me something I can trust
In all the drama and change

I followed a dream
And if a man has gone too far
Then let me live against my creed
And all the filth of it all

And I can drink
My whiskey and water and
Fix folly and peace
Cause there's a price you pay
To live this way
It's called a release

Please drop me a line
And send me love and sun to boot
Cause I am idle drunk unwell
Busy with nothing to do

This body is cold
I have to make the grade alone
Cause I have traveled far to find
I need a room of my own

Where I can
Bring color with fortune cause
She's something to be
She's spending Saturdays emphatic
With the SSP

And I am
Charged guilty as sin
Because it hurts me to know
That she is working so hard
But for the joy of stock control

But let me
Sing out to myself
And polish off these bottled cries
And send them down to solve your woe
Cos I'm not ready to die

But I
I'm ready to live
Can I make it out with pride
And play the left wing let down king
Fed up with something to hide

And I can
Run to you for cover and
We'll bury the dread
And when the time has come for leaving
I will love you instead

Oh won't you
Sing something in minor key
This stillness is bleak
I could be dreaming with the
Guilt we have for the working week

And in the
Warm arms of a stranger I'm
Too happy to lie
I know we've both been here before
Just please don't ask me why

And I have
Walked here with you close to me
But never alone
But won't you cling to me in nature key
You're the joy I've known
You're the joy I've known (repeated)
Lalalalalalala lalalala

east, west a new direction

i love this sound. free download at stereogum!
p.s. i'm turning 21 on saturday! yay!


Honeytrap - We Have Band

This sound don't break don't make me
This sound don't please don't make me
This sound don't break don't make me
This sound don't please don't make me
This sound don't break don't make me
This sound don't please don't make me

Switch on to the
Flashback tailor's talking
When you gonna see me?
This is a final warning
(This sound don't please don't make me)
Is it a calling
Or am I only dreaming?
Hits on the beat
Burns through in the morning
(This sound don't please don't make me)

This is, this is, this is a honey trap
This is, this is, this is a honey trap

The sandman sent me (it's only rain)
East, West a new direction (it's only rain)
(it's only rain)
He's on standby (it's only rain)
For your own protection (it's only rain)
(it's only rain)
Is it a warning
Or am I only dreaming?
Watch me see me (it's only rain)
Sandman does the talking (it's only rain)
(it's only rain)

This is, this is, this is a honey trap
This is, this is, this is a honey trap

NYC 365 Redux "Self Portrait in Elevator", originally uploaded by Bobby Plasencia.

This is
Your choice
It's time
Rejoice
Line up
Clap hands
Let's go
Here we stand
(Repeated x3)

This sound don't break don't make me
This sound don't please don't make me
This sound don't break don't make me
This sound don't please don't make me

This is, this is, this is a honey trap
This is, this is, this is a honey trap

This sound don't break don't make me
This sound don't please don't make me
This sound don't break don't make me
This sound don't please don't make me

This is (this is)
This is (your choice)
This is (It's time)
A honey trap (Rejoice)
This is (Line up)
This is (Clap Hands)
This is (Let's go)
A honey trap (Here we stand)

This sound don't break don't make me
This sound don't please don't make me
This sound don't break don't make me
This sound don't please don't make me

run to the lights of the city

i can download hundreds of unknowns and remixes from music blogs but at the end of the day i need my cut copy. i'm in a really weird place right now. hoping weird doesn't become dark but there are some academic issues weighing on me, per usual. it was easier when i had my laptop working with my 50 sticky note lists. i had such a long list of good words and phrases and then last night i called my friend crotchety and cantankerous and had nowhere to write it. i may go back to writing lists in my moleskine or even put them on here. *shrug*. i'm not saying i'm sad right now but the last time i failed a class it was really hard to find myself again. but then again, i've been through this before, i can do it again. and i have all these lists of fun things and exciting things forming in my head and in the margins of my sudoku book. the lists remind me i have so much fun stuff i could be doing. i've been home over a week now and haven't hung out with any friends. not a single one. i guess i'm punishing myself. aren't i always? i have this paper and it's 2 weeks overdue and grades are already in so there's really no point in me writing it but i'm not letting myself have fun until i write it and send it off with an apologetic email. the worst is that i really liked the class it was for and now ive probably failed it. i can be such an impulsive child when it comes to my schoolwork. hey, at least i know that and can try like hell to fix it. this adds to my list of reasons to change my life plan around and not attend law school. law school is for people who love to study. i just love to argue. i can't even think that far ahead. i'm taking it one hour at a time in my attempt to do this paper that won't count for anything anyway. hopefully at least the professor will see i cared so if/when i want to retake it he doesnt think i'm a complete goof-off... am i living in a "fantasy world" as my dad would call it? it's kinda sad how i can't talk to him anymore about academic stuff. i really could use his pushing but it leads to huge tension and he stresses himself out over my homework. i see no quick fixes here. all i know is when it comes to this end of semester bomb i feel ashamed. very ashamed. i wonder how i can redeem myself. perhaps an extended sobriety and/or a summer course. well, looks like i def need a summer course to make up credits, which will cut into my photo class plans at least financially if not also in scheduling. there are bugs EVERYWHERE in my room. i have a moth problem and i just killed a huge fly and while i was at school an ant colony invaded the bathroom and now has moved to my room. i keep myself very clean and my room very dirty. perhaps because i've always had cleaning ladies. i hate it i try to tell them not to come in my room. i feel like im living in a hotel often. all my personal things are hidden to declutter and nothing feels permanent so i try to make a nest where there may not be a place for everything but everything's in it's place and i don't find my external hard drive in my clothing closet like i did this week. i know this may sound really spoiled of me to complain about having someone clean my room but until it's forced on you, you don't know how uncomfortable it can be. i'll make my own bed for half their pay, how's that dad? once i deal with the ants. once i deal with this paper. and then i can take a deep breath and dive into my lists of projects. that is going to feel so amazing. motivation enough to work on it right now! i got my bowl of kashi and soy milk drizzled in honey and cut copy on repeat =)



Strangers in the Wind - Cut Copy

, originally uploaded by beaf.

These hands
Like strangers in the wind
These eyes
Float in the breeze
These hands
Like strangers in the wind
This voice
Calling to me
These hands
Like strangers in the wind
These eyes
Float in the breeze

, originally uploaded by ffîon.

Run to the lights of the city
These moments pass and we'll be there
(And she looks good)
Run to the lights of the city
(And she looks good)
This dance will last us forever
Forever

a shadow of my former self., originally uploaded by justinsdisgustin.

You could stay for what you came here for
A daze is what you're falling for
You could stay for what you came here for
A daze is what you're falling for
You could stay for what you came here for
A daze is what you're falling for
You could stay for what you came here for
A daze is what you're falling for

, originally uploaded by petite.nordique.

Run to the lights of the city
These moments pass and we'll be there
(And she looks good)
Run to the lights of the city
(And she looks good)
This dance will last us forever
Forever

This dance will last us forever
This dance will last us forever

look, originally uploaded by d.rimms.

but we like it when we're spinning

I heard this song back when Heligoland first came out. I even played it on my show. I didn't really listen to it until now, after it was on Gossip Girl. Of this, I am not proud. I'll chalk it up to recovering from a rough post-finals illness or something. Either way, I dig this. It's very Sneaker Pimps. And this video is cool although I'm told it's cut from the movie "The Fall" which is now something I clearly need to see.
p.s. I am glad to be home. I love New York.



Paradise Circus - Massive Attack

It's unfortunate that when we feel a storm,
We can roll ourselves over 'cause we're uncomfortable
Oh, where the devil makes us sin
But we like it when we're spinning in his grip.

Love is like a sin, my love
For the ones that feel it the most
Look at her with a eyes like a flame
She will love you like a fly will never love you, again

It's unfortunate that when we feel a storm,
We can roll ourselves over when we're uncomfortable
Oh, well the devil makes us sin
But we like it when we're spinning in his grip.

Love is like a sin, my love
For the one that feels it the most
Look at her with a smile like a flame
She will love you like a fly will never love you, again

You see me dancin', uh-huh!

THIS! oh and i've been awake 40 hours. still have like 12 hours to write 10 more pages and pack my room. happy repetitive tunes like this keep me going. also, i love the bugged-out video slash im lazy slash i should be doing work so imma let this one stand alone. yesssssss.

Tommy Sparks "She's Got Me Dancing" from Eric Wareheim on Vimeo.

She's got me dancing - Tommy Sparks

Hey! What do you know about the song and the dance in your mind
That boy is looking at you and he says that he knows your kind
I see you dancin' but you never ever mark your words
Hey! What do you know I think you've gotta do this up again

Have you ever, felt so lonely
In this cold, world so cold
Have you ever, felt so lonely

Chorus
She's got me dancin'
She's got me dancin'
She's got me dancin'
And she's always one step behind
(repeat)

Hey! You! I moved to the side
Just-a live to live a little East of your life
That ex got a bullet aside and she likes she did before
You see me dancin' but I never ever like to talk
Hey! what do we know I think we've done it to ourselves again

Have you ever, felt so lonely
In this cold, world so cold
Have you ever, felt so lonely

Chorus
She's got me dancin'
She's got me dancin'
She's got me dancin'
And she's always one step behind
(repeat)

Have you ever, felt so lonely
In this cold, world so cold
Have you ever, felt so lonely

Chorus
She's got me dancin'
She's got me dancin'
She's got me dancin'
And she's always one step behind
(repeat)

Midnight Conspiracy

I discovered Midnight Conspiracy a couple of weeks ago through some random/fortunate combo of last.fm and soundcloud. They're three DJs from Chicago and are on tour right now although they aren't coming to NYC =(. Seriously i am already planning a trip to chicago to see them. check their myspace for tour dates and venues. they have such a sexy sound and one of the most exciting mixtapes i've ever heard (play it below). i can't wait for more singles from their mix tape to be available for (FREE!) download on their soundcloud. I predict Midnight Conspiracy is going to be huge so it's time to become a fan now while they still reply to facebook wall posts (yay!). I think my favorite track out right now is their remix of Night By Night by Chromeo. Spread the word, feel the love. Keep checking their facebook etc. for new singles! I know I will =D

Chromeo - Night By Night (Midnight Conspiracy Remix) by Midnight Conspiracy

Midnight Conspiracy - Delorean Nites (Mix Tape) by Midnight Conspiracy

melody day where have you gone?

, originally uploaded by Jenna Westra.

Melody Day - Caribou

Melody day what have I done
Now our hearts are locked up tight again
And when I pray it's all begun
Then your smile it melts away again

Melody day where have you gone
And the hope I had is dying
And what we had has come undone
Then your smile it melts away again

Be gentle
Be gentle
Be gentle
Be gentle

deep sky objects, originally uploaded by d.rimms.

Melody day what have I done
Now our hearts are locked up tight again
And when I pray it's all begun
Then your smile it melts away again

Tell them
Tell them I always knew why
So long
So I would like to say goodbye

Be gentle
Be gentle
Be gentle
Be gentle

1953 Schwinn Wasp, originally uploaded by jewellannmoss.

Love, Dad

So today's lunch was a small can of Italian tuna, with pine nuts, red leaf lettuce and baby carrots, along with pane di sesame, followed by strawberries, raspberries, banana and vanilla ice cream, all washed down with sp and a Spanish sauvignon blanc, consumed in full sun in the courtyard, with all the air conditioners silent, and the Wall Street Journal.  Just missing you!
 
Love, Dad

on my future

today my professor aptly observed that i don't seem to want to be in school. he's right. i want to finish college so i can get on with my life but it's an uphill battle. not that i can't do the work, it's just i have so much else i want to be doing. i was looking at courses for the summer over at the international center of photography in nyc. at first my dad suggested i take a course at nyu so i dont have a 6 week gap between the end of school and a summer course but i have a bunch of things i want to do at my leisure. so my plan for july is now to take two courses at icp. i think i've decided on an introductory video workshop inspired by the same professor. he saw my blog and asked me if i ever made music videos and i had to say no but i loved my video classes in high school and i think it's time i turned the images in my head during songs into music videos. it's a very logical next step. this ties in to the other course i want to take which is on photographing musicians. it's the perfect mesh of all my interests, really. i've been thinking of dabbling in promotions in music and just need someone to consent to be my guinea pig for marketing strategies. if i can do a good job making a name for a band or artist, then i can really legitimize myself. i've always wanted my own business. when i was in the 9th grade i tried to start a greeting card company (although now i can't remember why) but let it flop because i wasn't really inspired. well, now i'm inspired. i'm even reconsidering my original plans of going to law school. i mean, cmon, i don't want more school i'm suffering enough doing liberal arts while i think i am already capable enough and passionate enough to be out in the real world making moves and being an adult. if i do this promotions thing i can reduce costs hugely by having my own photography and film skills. it's the perfect combo of art, music, math, and people. i can't wait to see how this all works out.

Comes raining from a hapless cloud

Slow Hands - Interpol

Yeah but nobody searches
Nobody cares somehow
When the loving that you've wasted
Comes raining from a hapless cloud
And I might stop and look upon your face
Disappear in the sweet, sweet gaze
See the living that surrounds me
Dissipate in a violet place

Can't you see what you've done to my heart
And soul?
This is a wasteland now

, originally uploaded by jordihuisman.

We spies
We slow hands
Put the weights all around yourself
We spies
Oh yeah we slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself now

I submit my incentive is romance
I watched the pole dance of the stars
We rejoice because the hurting is so painless
From the distance of passing cars
But I am married to your charms and grace
I just go crazy like the good old days
You make me want to pick up a guitar
And celebrate the myriad ways that I love you

selfportrait, originally uploaded by d.rimms.

Can you see what you've done to my heart
And soul?
This is a wasteland now

We spies
Yeah we slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself
We spies
Oh yeah we slow hands
Killer, for hire you know not yourself

We spies
We slow hands
You put the weights all around yourself
We spies
Oh yeah we slow hands
We retire like nobody else
We spies
Intimate slow hands killer
For hire you know not yourself
We spies
Intimate slow hands
You let the face slap around herself

NYC 365 "As 'twere the mirror up to nature", originally uploaded by Bobby Plasencia.

such a beautiful dream

Got this as a free download over at the urban outfitters blog and i super love it. it has the lo-fi vocal quality of a lot of artists i love but with an electropop background feel. overall, it's very sweet and happyifying =D



Plain Material - Memory Tapes

Suicide, ah
When you know
You mean well
But not if I have to offer

, originally uploaded by ffîon.

Give it back, ah
It's a joke you can sell
But I still have to laugh

It was a beautiful dream
It was such a beautiful dream
We heard the sound of her voice
Calling out high over the trees
And the clouds disappeared
It was a beautiful dream

Ghost Girl's Twin - Holga 135 - Double Exposure ~ San Antonio, originally uploaded by peterlfrench.

I been gone, ah
For so long
It's not right
I think I might have forgotten

But I just get so tired
Can't tell me if I'm always out
Or if I said goodbye

It was a beautiful dream
It was such a beautiful dream
We heard the sound of her voice
Calling out high over the trees
And the clouds disappeared
It was a beautiful dream

, originally uploaded by peterlfrench.

Give it back to me now
Give it back to me now
Give it back to me now

It was a beautiful dream
It was such a beautiful dream
We heard the sound of her voice
Calling out high over the trees
And the cloud disappeared
It was a beautiful dream

, originally uploaded by jewellannmoss.

shoegaze days

this is shoegaze so of course the lyrics are hard to make out and don't really matter. i've always liked some shoegaze without knowing what it was so hopefully i can expand my library now. it's so perfect for these hot days and rainy nights.

, originally uploaded by Nikki Cohen.

Only Shallow - My Bloody Valentine

Sleep
Like a pillow
Downward and
Where
She won't care
Anywhere

Soft
As a pillow
Touch her hair
Where
She won't dare
Somewhere

Sleep
Like a royal
Subject and
Think
That you grew
Stronger

., originally uploaded by øndun.

Sleep
Much better
She's not scared
Soft like there's silk
Everywhere

Sleep
Is a pillow
Come to there
Where she won't dare
Anywhere

Look in the mirror
She's not there
Where she won't care
Somewhere

Please Speak, originally uploaded by jewellannmoss.

my purpose

today this blog hit 1000 visitors and kept on going. i am so happy =D I think it's time to just reflect back on what this blog started as and became.

Sometimes a morning rings true as the title for a blog of me because i rarely experience mornings (except when at school but that doesnt feel like real life often). I am a night creature and during the summer when i can do my own thing i pretty much only see mornings when i havent slept all night. morning has always been disorienting for me. mornings mean i have to get out of my cocoon and tend to responsibilities or they mean i shouldve been asleep hours ago. every one is unique in the mixed feelings it gives me yet they are unavoidable. sometimes, though, when the weather is perfect and the homework is done and i can just lie outside and watch the sun rise, the feeling i've had is of the most glorious release. the world is my oyster and i want to spend my day creating. my life has sometimes had these euphoric mornings but usually i live at night when the day is already wasted so why not go out and explore?

If you look back at the first posts from July 2009, I was posting music and photos and random thoughts in a hodge podge collage of anything i didn't want to clutter my facebook with (after all, facebook isn't twitter and it's annoying when people post too much). That whole summer i was taking a photography course where i was shooting a roll (36 exposures) per day (black and white film) so i didn't use my phone for photos much and didn't use flickr at all. Over time, i had more fun with the grainy lo-res cell camera but then i had to go back to school and had less to shoot. the photos in my mind were not appearing before me in between classes and snow drifts in new england. that's when i started posting other people's photos from flickr with the music that was filling my head. I have always been insistent on accurate lyrics so i posted those with my music.

That is basically how my blog became what it is today. I don't really have an intention because it is basically my diary without details. a gallery of the songs i am listening to at the time of each post with the photos i think fit the music somehow. I am glad i have a place to post everything i find worthy of sharing. I know from my sitemeter that most people come for the music lyrics because a lot of this stuff isnt mainstream enough to have lyrics posted on the big search engines but you can't look at the lyrics without seeing the photography and, perhaps, my mood behind all that.

thank you for coming here and finding out a little more about what's important to me.
-Genevieve

take me to another place and time

first of all WOW i'm almost at one thousand blog hits! thank you so much for coming here it really means a lot to me that i can put the things that i love on display and people care enough to look.
secondly, i was really surprised that nobody online had a remotely decent copy of these lyrics i mean cmon this song is so good! i cant wait to see neon indian in concert this summer!
lastly, happy may! i'm turning 21 this month which means i can FINALLY go to every concert and event i want to go to! oh and i can drink. haha

flows over my body, originally uploaded by sensing-owls.

Psychic Chasms - Neon Indian

Mind waves pouring through
carry me four and two at a time
where all my thoughts are formed

Coloured haze slowly looms
piercing through like sulphur fumes
while I just contemplate signs

Distant looks from your face
take me to another place and time
where we were never found

Night drains just awake
in the end it's always trailing on
your thoughts were meant to drown