How this term at college has made me feel: (Pic from tumblr somewhere.)
This whole concert the performance below is from made me fall in love with Cave's music all over again, and it actually made me cry...and it's not easy to get me to cry. Thi
And for something completely different:
Thanks to thesoulbreath, as always, for sharing such amazing videos!
As of next Thursday, it will be summer break for me, and you know what that means? MORE UPDATES!
P.S. I am obsessed with E. Neubauten now. I KNOW, complete 180 from how I used to be, but now I can't get enough of them. Blixa is a fucking genius.
Swamped (ha! SWAMPLAND!) with chemistry, so here are two pics. I can't recall where I got these, so if they are from your Tumblr or something, let me know and I will link to you. (Yes, I give things embarrassing file names...and forget to change them when I go to upload; whoops.)
Oh, and if you are a Blixa fan and don't have Seele Brennt bookmarked or blogrolled, get with it! Much thanks to them for helping this new E.N. fan succumb to the greatness that is Blixa.
If some of you didn't know, Nick is featured on a track from the new UNKLE EP (Only the Lonely). The song is called "Money and Run," and it's a pretty unique collaboration. It's not my usual style of music, but after falling in love with this song, I gotta say, I'm kinda liking UNKLE.
Anyway, check out this UNKLE performance of the song including a huge hologram of Mr. Cave. Yep. You read that right.
(thank you, jutkacsak, for finding this better-quality video for me!)
In other news...I FINALLY LOVE JUNKYARD. That's been the ONE album I've never fully succumbed to, and yesterday, the mood was right or something (listening to PiL beforehand may have helped). I. Love. It. It's like I have a different brain now or something. I thought it was white noise before, but now...totally loving it. Laura must be so proud of me.
Two things. First of all, by now, I'm assuming most of you know about Polly Borland's latest book, Smudge. If not, refer to my previous post. Anyway, I found a site with some photos from the opening of the Smudge showing at the Other Criteria gallery in London.
Nick and Polly Borland
CLICK HERE to view the photos from the opening. The next bit of news is that there is a rather dashing photo of Mr. Cave in the latest issue of The New York Times Style magazine. Apparently there are two covers, because mine has THIS AS MY COVER, so just know that it has the same picture of Nick inside that the Nick cover version does. The BETTER version (possibly the international version), features Nick himself on the cover looking very much like, well, himself. The inside photo of him is included in a series of male rockers, such as Iggy Pop, Dave Gahan, Lou Reed, and others, all wearing suits.
Get ready to be confused and amused...and possibly terrified.
Laura sent me an email containing the following bit of news. Said email was called, quite intriguingly, "WHAT THE NICK CAVE FUCKING HELL?!" Laura is very well-spoken, I assure you.
ANYWAY, photographer Polly Borland has a new book (out NOW!) entitled Smudge. This book contains a number of portraits of people in amorphous leotards/full body nylon/etc. Random ping pong balls are stuffed down their leotards, wigs are utilized to hide the identities of those posing, and it is just bizarre. Nick wrote the introduction to the book (which is VERY amusing and involves him once again talking about "rouged nipples" and just making the whole weird thing sound strangely sexy) AND...
Well, guess who posed for some of the pictures? THESE ARE ALL NICK.
This has been your "NICK CAVE WTF" of the year. LINK TO read about the book (though Amazon.co.uk is cheaper).
