Woman and Child First

Stuff It I'll Do Music

Coffeeyogurt, highly favoured blogster, has invited us to add to her list of songs to help move a person towards exercising aka getting off the freaking couch. The original cry for sanity was put out by Merlot Mom, obviously a woman after my own heart... am thinking of now calling myself Chardonnay Sister as a tribute.

Anywho's, here's my humble contribution - a choice of songs I love to sit and watch whilst sipping a cold charddy. Oh! I mean whilst doing a yoga headstand.

September: Cry For You A newish song ( for old bags like me anyway)

The Cure: Close To You  Robbie Smith and his highly favoured voice (always liked the eye make up too- many have followed him!)

Aw... New Order was formed by ex Joy Division members after the suicide of Joy Divison's lead singer. One must always have a shade of dark whilst exercising. This is a great song:

Spike Jonze (Director of Being John Malkovich etc) is the choreographer here (and you can see the singer from Fatboy Slim at the end congratulating him/them).

I suggest using this one to end your routine. The song itself ends in complete anarchy and then your head explodes:

She Drew The Hallelujah

"It's, as I say, a desire to affirm my faith in life, not in some formal religious way but with enthusiasm, with emotion.... It's a rather joyous song." ~ Leonard Cohen.

My favourite song ever, sung by someone completely unknown to me and she's has nailed it entirely. Covered by scores of high cool artists, this song for me is best handled by a woman called Allison Crowe. I'll even overlook the fact she spells Alison wrong. This is tear-inducing:

 

For Col.

Fresh Visual Edibles

Saturday mornings are for wearing jammies and watching RAGE.

Ben, my favourite 10 year old drew my attention to this clip on Coldplay. Lashings of fun:

Ok back to bed for my mid morning snooze...Happy weekend!

Turn Up The Volume, Sucker.

Inspired by a love of Australian music and a post written by Theresa Lee Duncan.

Confessional: Apologies to Chrissie Amphlett.

It's true that I'm a big supporter of Australian music, films and art. It's because I live here and it represents my own experience oftentimes. It's also because I know how hard it's been for us to get an identity of our own.

You might say I was always like it. I like to give the impression I have been. But a deep secret within surfaced two weeks ago.

I never appreciated Christina Amphlett (Divinyls) all those years ago. Oh I had a passing interest, but I admit at the time if it came to girl/bands -it was the B52's for me.

Little did I realize, that we had a precious gem-girl in the form of Ms Amphlett.

Last week, I hit up youtube for some old clips and found her. The sexy, pissed-off, inyaface and funny Christina Amphlett. She of a greatness in stage performance: Bless that girl. She was very freaking good.

Oz bands still have to "proove" themselves, but it aint so bad now. The Divinyls really did have a lot to give, and damn they gave it, in an small and difficult local industry. More admirable now in hindsight. From 1984:

Photo of Christina from here, where she talks about her own experience of Multiple Sclerosis.

There's A Playfulness

"Cave has also relied heavily on an inner circle...Interestingly, given that he has lived overseas for best part of the last 30 years, they are mostly Australian.

'Australians are just better people,' he laughs. 'There is a particular attitude that Australians have. It comes out of the way they see the world. There's a playfulness.' "

Rolling Stone Australia Special Issue 687 2008/09

Holly From Sydney

Here's Holly Throsby, a lassie particularly influenced by Joni Mitchell. "Things between People". I do like Holly's way.

What Are Ya

I'm never coming out of my bedroom again. Tell the children! No wait - I can send them a message from my

                                                        new laptop.

 

I can feel an obsession coming on...Perhaps a small fridge and a dumb waiter for the dirty dishes. I have an ensuite, so hygiene is covered.

I really have nothing to post, I just wanted to show off. But this video does follow up my last post quite well: TISM (This Is Serious Mum), late of Melbourne, being irreverent again. The jolly thing about TISM is that in the 20 odd years they've been playing, no public audience has ever seen their faces. Clever...

Language warning.

Anger is an energy, May the road rise with you.

Cripes! This virus hangs on like a leech.

Here's a song.

By my favourite feral beauty, John Lydon.

A Broken Hallelujah

A Leonard Cohen song that endures the decades. Performed here by my beloved John Cale.