It's that time of year again! Harkive has once again snuck up on us and given me a reason to resurrect my blog for the day. It's currently 00:36, and I've spent the past half an hour uploading photos to Flickr and listening to various Kate Bush songs. About ten minutes ago I changed to The B-52's and as I write this I'm currently bopping along to Roam, the third single from their 1989 album Cosmic Thing.
01:00 and I've ended up listening to Billy Idol. I think I need to go to bed.
Stayed up until 05:00 (it's 10:58 now) watching the last season of US Queer as Folk so naturally I've awoken with the frankly awful theme music stuck in my head. I have no idea what it is but let me tell you - it's bad. I did have plans to go back to London today but faced with 32 degree heat I've elected to stay at home and try not to expire from heat exhaustion. Expect lots of Christmas songs about winter and being cold later.
14:40 and I'm trying to decide what to have for lunch that involves minimal prep and cooking because I do not have time for that in this weather. It only feels right to include one of my current fave albums in today's listening, so I've stuck on Courtney Barnett's Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. It feels apt for my life at the moment since all I do since breaking up from uni for the summer several months back is sit around and think. I did so much sitting around not really doing anything that I forgot to get a ticket for her show at Somerset House last week - I'm still gutted.
For the first time in years my room is the coolest room in the house so I've escaped back upstairs after a bowl of noodles. It's now 16:00, and I'm still listening to Courtney Barnett. I've decided that her music is the perfect soundtrack for a sunny heatwave day. The bad thing about the summer is that I feel so inspired to create things (be they art or music) but I just can't be bothered to do anything. I like to have something to do whilst I listen to music but I can't think of anything to do today except have a nap.
With nothing better to do I ended up watching 13 Going on 30, 12 years after I watched the first 10 minutes of it before the on demand on our NTL box died (those were the days...). The soundtrack is fab and has made me really want to stick on a Talking Heads record and steal the t-shirt one of the characters was wearing. I've just put Veruca Salt on after hearing Lillix's What I Like About You in the film - a total blast from the past and possibly one of the best songs of 2003? Maybe that's going a bit too far but it's certainly a banger.
It's 21:43 and the day is drawing to a close. I couldn't do a day documenting the music I listen to without including at least one Sleater-Kinney album, and have decided to go for One Beat since I've had Combat Rock stuck in my head for the past hour. After The Woods it's probably my most listened to album of theirs. I recently bought the 33 1/3 Dig Me Out book but am yet to read it as I keep re-reading Carrie Brownstein's memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl (which I highly recommend).
As expected, I fell asleep sometime around 23:00 after listening to more Sleater-Kinney and watching a bunch of YouTube videos. This is a bit disappointing as I was hoping to get a few more hours of listening in before midnight but I do actually have things to do today (Wednesday) so maybe it's for the best.
