The Magician's Private Library

Please let your chakras be moved by Holly Miranda's newest album that came out yesterday.
Five tracks that were released on her EP "Sleep on Fire" have been revamped for this album along with a bunch of other new songs. One of my personal favourites is definitely "Canvas".

There's no place I want to wake up, but beside you. or Everytime I go to sleep I kick and scream and dream a little bit.
-Sleep on Fire, The Magician's Private Library

Unearthly sounds come together with more orchestra, more harmony and more treble.
This kind of music seems to either leave me sitting on my bed with my jaw on the floor staring into never-never-land or dancing around boneless in a full-body panty hose - most commonly used for lipo-massage, riding my space-heater.
Her voice is chilling and it just keeps getting chillier.

Alice for Annie

Annie Leibovitz shoots Natalia Vodianova!
A bunch of wonderful designers were commissioned to create their Alice in Wonderland in one costume.
These are only a few from the whole collection.
The designer of the dress Vodianova wears in each individual photo is IN the photo with her and the gown.
Even Karl Lagerfeld got in on it.
This, by the by, was not onset by any of this new movie shit.
(On that whole Johnny Depp idea, I really hope he doesn't ruin Lewis Carroll's infinitely dreamy, drug-ridden creation the way Jim Carrey wrecked the Series of Unfortunate Events.)
Sigh. Such a beautiful set. So much out-of-the-box collaboration and creativity.
It makes me want to watch Gwen Stefani's "What you waiting for?" video.
I guess a little more Cheshire Cat would've been nice though...

Melita Consuelo

Tip your waiters.

Dirrrty

AAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
So apparently Christina Aguilera has been jamming with Kathleen Hannah and the rest of the riot grrl group, Le Tigre!
Christina's new album will not only feature this punk-rock band that came about during *3rd wave feminism but also...
Santogold...
M.I.A....
Ladytron...
Goldfrapp...
and Sia!

I'm getting the jitters.
This is a totally new angle for Lady Marmalade.
This reminds me of Tiesto's new ablum, in his pairings with a bunch of artists that you'd never guess he would like Bloc Party, Nelly Furtado, Tegan and Sara and Emily Haines.

Anyways... I absolutely cannot wait for this album.

Arms Tonight

I fell in your arms tonight.
I fell hard in your arms tonight,
it was nice.
I died in your arms tonight.
I slipped through into the afterlife,
it was nice.
White lies in your arms tonight.
I lost sight in your arms tonight,
it was nice.
And hey, you, don't you think it's kinda cute
that I died right inside your arms tonight
that I'm fine even after I have died
because it was in your arms I died.
I cried in the afterlife
I cry hard because I have died,
and you're alive.
I try to escape afterlife.
I try hard to get back inside
your arms alive.

Seeing this live last night was absolutely phenomenal and put a smile on Surrey's face.
Giggling and jiggling my body with some other chicas.
Mmm.
Check out Mother Mother for those who haven't already.

The Best Place on Earth

Some things I heard the other night while downtown.
1. [Going up the escalator at a skytrain station with my little sister] and a guy who is going down the escalator yells 'Cleavage! Cleavage!' and him and his friend laugh hysterically.

2. [Three 20-ish blonde girls running up the stairs super excited, getting everyone riled up and] people randomly holler with Olympic excitement and then this guy says to his friend 'Yeahhhh!!! Woo! Gotta love the blonde girls!... As long as they put out!'

3. [In the crowd at a concert and] a 25-ish guy pushes his friend into my little sister and yells 'Yeah! Give it to her in the ass!'

4. [A very eccentric and sort of feminine-looking guy is sitting with his female friend and they are discussing some pins that they just purchased, quietly to each other and] as soon as they get off the train, these two guys started yelling 'Faggot mother fucker!' and continued guffawing as the train pulled away.

5. [After a mishap at a concert which caused many people to get trampled and the whole event to get called off, I was on the skytrain home and] I overheard a guy talking on his phone who was explaining the situation at the show as 'some bitch broke her leg and she was too fat to carry away'.

Coraline

I love Coraline so much.
Choose to be in a life that actually has problems that are accompanied by emotions both good and bad or;
a perfect life where all the candy and cakes are delicious and the eggs are always fresh and the gardens are ever-blooming and everyone adorns you with goodness and the mice are always dancing but you are basically a robot and everyone you love is a robot too and everything you feel is external.

Oldie but goodie

Not sure if anyone has ever seen this or not but I only came across it today and I really appreciated it.
Ellen just makes everyone smile all the time and she's absolutely like the rockin'-sha-boppin-cannon-awesome-bopper for ice-breaking.
And John McCain is just so awkward, it kills me.
(Sarah Palin actually wanted to work towards a federal ban against gay marriage.)
I think I'd feel like peeling my skin off and then doing a cannibal dance if I ever saw him (or Palin) anywhere in the world.
Anyways, watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7addd1-SY8&feature=related