Dropping the ball, picking up the pace, losing face.

Updates and all things new coming soon!
It's been a busy these last couple of weeks. I've been filming and celebrating a birthday so now that I am dignified and old, I am sure I can clog your screens with my rubbish.

I look forward to it.

Blue Monday

Are you tired of being Monday's bitch? I know I am.. Anyway, I've put together a playlist to get you through the complete dick-taking that is the beginning of the week. Feel free to contribute.

• Money (That's What I Want) - The Flying Lizards
• Wake Up - Arcade Fire (Not funny, literal. Wake up, you bitch)
• I Didn't See It Coming - Belle & Sebastian
• I Wanna Be Your Dog - Iggy Pop & The Stooges
• Stockholm Syndrome - MUSE
• Satisfaction - Bjork and PJ Harvey
• Nantes - Beirut
• Cause = Time - Broken Social Scene
• Handle Me With Care - The Traveling Wilburys
• Six Different Ways - The Cure

The Price of Silence - 'A Hipster Note'

There are a lot of things you will read about on OWM before I bag out Thom Yorke. To me, Yorke is the orchestrator of my heart and the 'Pablo Honey' record aside, there is very little he could to to deter my love.
The Radiohead frontman has proved himself not only a worthy musician, but as an artist, entrepreneur, and all around fucking genius. This all comes with the territory of fronting one of the most innovative and influential bands in the world. From this you can tell I am probably one of the most annoying and pretentious Radiohead fans around and would just about sell myself to get my hands on anything Radiohead related, well until today.

This morning it was announced that Yorke alongside Mark Ronson and a couple of other people I don't care about, have teamed up with British Prime Minister David Cameron to record two minutes of silence. Yep, to record two minutes of silence and wait for it ... sell it as a single.. yep, still processing the perpetual wank of this notion? Me too.

The Single is appropriately titled 'Two Minute Silence' and will be released on November 7th to commemorate fallen soldiers on Remembrance Day. Yeah, it's for a good cause, blah blah blah, and maybe I'm a bad person for thinking this is ridiculous and wanky but I give to street artists occasionally so I'm not convinced of that. It's just that this is complete bullshit? I can see it now, my fellow Yorke fans sitting alone in their bedroom being 'sooooo post-modern' listening to their two minutes of silence. How about making us our new Radiohead record, Thom? How about that? I love you but really, you can only be so 'innovative' before landing yourself in a dickload of "YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS?".

And Aaron Diaz wanted to know if it was a cover or a remix of John Cage's 4'33"..

When God Programmed Rage

This past Saturday my literary idol Bret Easton Ellis programmed Rage -- it's moments like these that make me wish it were 1985 when he was announcing songs on MTV, you know when they played music.

The 'American Psycho' author recently visited our shores in August as a part of the Melbourne Writers Festival and promotion for the his most recent novel 'Imperial Bedrooms'. I won't turn a music blog into a book review however Ellis is known wildly as one of the more musically versed of the American literati. I was lucky to have met the genius when he visited Melbourne but will still do anything to get an insight into his twisted mind.

As predicted, Ellis made a playlist rich with popular culture but with enough taste to get by. We were treated to clips ranging from the appropriate Lady GaGa's 'Paparazzi' to huge dedications to the authors obvious influences like The National and Mr Elvis Costello.

So if you're a big reader of the books treat yourself to the essential Bret Easton Ellis Rage playlist here.

When you don't proof read your work

You try and tell people that The Pixies toured Greenday's 'Dookie'..

Human computer.

Top 15 Album Tours I'd Step Over My Own Mother For

So, I am always trolling the Internet for lists, I am a list kinda person, maybe I’ve read High Fidelity too many times or maybe I have too much time on my hands.. anyway, this morning I stumbled across Fasterlouder.com.au and their list for ‘Most Wanted Album Tour’. With a lot of major bands touring their prized records it’s becoming quite the trend. The first example I can think of is when Sonic Youth toured ‘Daydream Nation’ in its entirety back in 2007. No, I didn’t go. Yes, it still hurts me. But with The Pixies bringing ‘Dolittle’ to our shores earlier this year and Primal Scream about to bring us the spectacular ‘Screamadelica', the people are making demands!

Fasterlouder’s list is a mix of standard classics like The Boss’s ‘Born To Run’ and Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’ which came in at top spot. It got me thinking about my top 15 albums I’d like to see tour. Some are strange choices because I mean, some records would just tour better than the way they play alone in my bedroom so they may not be my favourite offering of said band but you know the rest.. here goes..

TV on the Radio – Dear Science

Radiohead – Hail to the Thief (Could you imagine '2+2=5' annnd 'There There')

Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde

Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights (hidden track included)

Broken Social Scene – You Forgot it in People

The National – Boxer

Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads

Arcade Fire - Funeral

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

Sonic Youth – Washing Machine (mainly for Diamond Sea playage only reason I chose this over Goo)

The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead

At The Drive-in – Relationship of Command

David Bowie – Low

Talking Heads – Little Creatures

What would your dream list consist of?

The National Add Extra Dates

I really don't remember when or how I first discovered The National, which is pretty unusual for me. However all I know is that sometime in 2008 the five piece made an irretrievable entrance into my regular playlist and to this day still impedes my Top 25 Most Played on iTunes.

The National are easily one of my favourite bands, they cater to everything my miserable soul could lust for musically. The songs are catchy in ways but to me it's this form of poetry that really speaks to every part of me. I'm trying my hardest not to sound like a pretentious dickbag but my affair with The National is all things sacred and romantic to me.

I was unlucky to have missed the 'Boxer' tour in 2008 when the Brooklyn based boys appeared at the annual January Sydney Festival. Picture me falling to my knees in a heaps of tears. Wasn't pretty. So I guess you can gauge my reaction to the Falls Music & Arts Festival line-up this year. EEP! I was the happiest miserable girl to have ever lived. Interpol AND The National. Yes, yes., yes please. For weeks I stalked both bands websites, tour pages and googled 'sideshows' and finally I secured tickets to both acts sideshows last week. I couldn't be happier.

It was always speculated that after the success of 'High Violet', The National would play more than one show on our shores, and after the first string of shows sold out more have now been announced. I think I will go to both.

'High Violet' is so perfect. A dramatic friend of mine even said he could only listen to it once as it was so heartbreakingly beautiful. He's a drama queen, I be playin' that shit all day everyday. If you haven't heard The National before, take a hard look at yourself in the mirror and then do something about it.

Friday 7th January - The Enmore, Sydney

Saturday 8th January - The Enmore, Sydney SOLD OUT

Sunday 9th January - Palais Theatre, Melbourne SOLDOUT

Monday 10th January - Palais Theatre, Melbourne