New music: End of Fashion

Some of the best finds in music is find when you just jumble and stumble around on the net for instance on Spotify. I started to listening to an album called Essential Bands in there, cause I saw it had a lot of my favorite bands, and among the ones I hadn't heard before "End of Fashion" turned up. The song on the CD was OK and excited me enough to go and listen to a whole album of them and see if I like the rest. In most cases one is let down in those cases, but as I rolled into the second song on the album "O Yeah" I was still bobbing along, though it sounds an awful lot as the classic "Where is my mind?" by The Pixies. The third song on the slef titled album "End of fashion" is the amazing rock song "The game" and suddenly I was no longer in classic newer American alternative rock but in British rock in the style of one of my other bands Maximo Park. Hard, tight to the point and almost punky. The forth song really opened my eyes... And made me really stop what I was doing and listen. I suddenly heard Jeff Buckley singing without Jeff Buckley. "Anymore" is a quite standard pop/rock ballad, but wow! Singer Justin Burford sounds like Jeff Buckley and Kelly Jones of Stereophonics all in the span of a few lines. That to me, is one amazing voice. I still have to listen to everything in the rest of the album and will try to come back with more later. Now, the rest of my room needs to be moved.. And oh yeah, it's Australian, btw.. That's why I got confused about weather it sounded English or American. Apparently they have released a second album too.. hm.. I get confused when things are not on Spotify, need to find it somewhere else then :)

(Link to the album on Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2AUu4arz88yY0bGU84KjfD )

Here is my absolute favorite so far:
The game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOIEcNouQOo


Unfortunately this is the only recording of Anymore I could find: and the quality is really very bad, but you can give it a try if you want to:




But here is "Oh Yeah" that also give you a little idea about the great voice and also how to rip off a Pixies song.. hehe
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/klneeqK8O1QPHqlYSU

End Of Fashion - O Yeah
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Great websites: LibraryThing.com - How to organize your books?

http://www.librarything.com

A friend of mine gave me this link after my blog about all my books earlier this week. It turns out to be an amazing site where you can add all your books and almost everything about them. There are wide opportunities to get to know other people that like the same books as you or keep in touch with old literature loving friends :)
You can add 200 books for free and you can choose yourself the price for an upgrade, though there is a fixed minimum price. More info here: http://www.librarything.com/upgrade.php
The whole site also seams very serious for some reason, I think it's the layout. I wish they could have made it a bit more cozy, but then again a neutral look will appeal to more people of all ages and backgrounds. Anyways.. Amazing site, I will add all my books there when I get them into their shelves!
Good night, I think it's supposed to be sun in Norway for the first time in a month or so tomorrow :)

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Friday Fun: Graham Norton with Basil the singing opera dog across the sea

This is one of the funniest things I have seen on TV ever. Kathrine Jenkins is a classical trained singer as you will understand and around 2.00 the part where dogs gets involved starts: You just have to see it yourself.. hehe.. She seams to have been very like correct and a bit uptight during the whole interview, so it's good that she actually livens up a bit in the end:) Basil, what an amazing dog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foYqEUL3L8k

Life: Moving all the books

I am looking forward to seeing all of there organized in their shelv:)

Sports: Benneteau beat Federer

Some moments in sport just thrill you and makes you cry of the miracle and brilliance. Roger Federer has been the miracle man in tennis the last year and beating anyone and anything. Now however a miracle has happened. This unbeatable wizard of tennis was beaten by number 42 in the world, a totally unknown Frenchman in no other place than Paris. And what a game... You don't beat Federer by easy balls and medium play. And as the game progresses you can see how Benneteau gets more and more excited and shocked and happy, and when he realizes he has won, he just sits there and cries. I am tired of the Federer over-confidence-style and I hope we see more of Benneteau in the future.

Here is a 6 min version of the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e670eOLIU78