Sfinxen's Last.fm Journal

Tribute to Arctic Monkeys and John Cooper Clarke

Fri, 11 May 2007 10:07:52 +0000

Arctic Monkeys:John Cooper Clarke should be proud :) you did good boys in that interview and that makes me like you more although my significant other doesn't like you. Now I understand why, cos he can't tell the difference between you and the Strokes and personally I am indifferent to the Strokes.

I've been listening to I Don't Wanna Be Nice

"a friend in need is a friend in debt, I don't wanna be nice..."

Arctic Monkeys had a fine teacher. A professor, proffet, poet of punk.

I hate asthma! I hate pneumonia... stop saying I got sick cos I'm vegan!!

Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:15:03 +0000

Yeah I know other asthmatics who are NOT vegan so... after not being diagnosed with asthma all these years, maybe they think I have it and was probably the reason all along for my subseptibility to being sick with pneumonia.. but never mind...

a rare appearance...

Tue, 2 Jan 2007 19:09:41 +0000

I was here for a second.. adding Bauhaus Burning From The Inside and old Eno Here Come the Warm Jetsto my iPod while looking at my e-post and looking at the myspace Luxuria page!!!!!!

I saw the myspace of a friend here and realized how on my wavelength he is because of his printing the words to the song Wrapped In Grey
on his myspace but he has deleted all bands so it means I can't comment on how wonderful his selection of these words are...

I recall this was the song I was painting to late at night several years ago; the whole album makes me think of when the 9-11 incident happened because that day I had gone though my newly arrived boxes from America (2 years late) sitting and singing to my baby son (then) these songs... and almost feeling a "profetic"... and that afternoon my husband came home and told me what happened... personal note, good thing I got my boxes the previous week!! (so selfish I am!)

stolen shuffle questions

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:28:27 +0000

1.) Why did you decide to take this quiz?
Track: Common Ground
Artist: Midnight Oil
Comments: "there must be some common ground" possibly correct.

2.) Where will/did you meet your husband/wife?
Track: Degenerated Heart
Artist: Belief System
Comments: I don't know what to think of that one

3.) Where will/did you "hug" your wife/husband for the first time?
Track: Under the sun
Artist: Buzzcocks
Comments: yes its true, there is nothing new under the sun either.. but it was an airport

4.) What is your secret dream?
Track: Tantalized
Artist: The Church
Comments: um, sometimes I wonder...but I loved the video for this song!!!

5.) What song will they be playing at the morgue when they'll perform your autopsy?
Track: a world to give away
Artist: Shelleydevoto
Comments: interesting

6.) Who will throw a party after you die?
Track: Fall in love with me
Artist: Japan
Comments: someone who fell in love with me?

7.) What song describes you when you're so drunk that you can't speak?
Track: Looking for a life to lose
Artist: The Bolshoi
Comments: if I ever got THAT drunk in my lifetime I think I would be looking for a life to lose!

8.) What will actually kill you?
Track: I've been losing you
Artist: a-ha
Comments: "putting the gun down on the bedside table, I must have realised it wasn't the rain that made a difference. I could have sworn it wasn't me, yet I did it all so coldly, almost gladly, plain for all to see..." my own mistakes?

9.) Who will be your slave?
Track: In Shreds
Artist: The Chameleons
Comments: me? if my life means nothing at all.

10.) What will you look like at the age of 80?
Track: Safety Chain Blues
Artist: Midnight Oil
Comments:"But I want to hold your precious head
I will not leave you nor pretend
I'm going to hold you to the end" I'm still "hot" ;)

11.) Where will you meet your arch enemy of life?
Track: Raison D'Etre
Artist: Buzzcocks
Comments: my arch enemy is my "friend" who is an awful lot of fun!

12.) Where did your parents 'create' you?
Track: Almost with You
Artist: The Church
Comments: ???

13.) What will happen to you tonight, after going to bed?
Track: Nostalgia
Artist: The Chameleons
Comments: "tommorow, remember yesterday.."

14.) What is the meaning of your life?
Track: Intrique In Tangiers
Artist: The Chameleons
Comments: there is much intrique everywhere..

15.) What will be the meaning of your death?
Track: Shy
Artist: Steve Barton
Comments: probably more about being "shy" of something..

16.) How many necrophiles will ravage your corpse?
Track: Home computer
Artist: Kraftwerk
Comments: I get it, they will ravage my "body of work" on my home computer..

17.) What do you hate the most?
Track: Seven Languages
Artist: Camper Van Beethoven
Comments: I get it, the song says to me always making excuses about things.. such as "I would come to visit you, but I can't find my car keys, and I can't find the right words to say---"

18.) What do you love the best?
Track: Wish I never loved you
Artist: Buzzcocks
Comments: to have someone love you so much that what you do doesn't matter.. right? that they themselves wish they never loved you..

19.) What makes you feel like jumping out the window?
Track: Concrete
Artist: Midnight Oil
Comments: "Go back wrong way you cannot stay you cannot live here Concrete you don't free my soul"..."No wild acres you can see, yearning to breathe Concrete you don't free my soul Blackened hands and heart of steel, No wish to consume, embellish, discard and expire"

20.) What do you think about bananas?
Track: Ghosts
Artist: Japan
Comments: I certainly don't get it..

21.) Where would you like to be now?
Track: Manchester Gmex (live show)
Artist: Pete Shelley
Comments: I guess I'm a little too late for Manchester

22.) Who would you like to have a tea-party with?
Track: Halo
Artist: Gary Numan
Comments: "does god have radio, do I, a halo?" I guess "with god"? whoever she is.

23.) How would you describe your childhood?
Track: Bullroarer
Artist: Midnight Oil
Comments: "Don't take the law into your own hands
Don't go looking for a fight"

24.) If you could do anything you want, what would it be?
Track: I'm not like everybody else
Artist: Camper Van Beethoven
Comments: show someone that I'm not like everybody else?

25.) Recent obsessions/existential problems?
Track: Fields of Mars
Artist: The Church
Comments: "all my life seems so far away..."
"I have to leave but I never seem to go away,
all my dreams seem so long ago..

26.) If they would make a movie about you, what would it be called?
Track: Looking Inwardly
Artist: The Chameleons
Comments: doesn't this seem too obvious?

27.) Where did the pigeons go?
Track: Cannot hide
Artist: a-ha
Comments: where I cannot hide?

28.) Are you a good stalker/rapist?
Track: Slave
Artist: Gary Numan
Comments: ha.. not good I guess.. just a slave

29.) What will your neighbour think of you when they find out that you have naked pictures of them?
Track: Too fast for you
Artist: The Church
Comments: ha ha ha ha..

30.) Who's for dinner tonight?
Track: Against The Past
Artist: Luxuria
Comments: good dinner, going against the past

31.) Who are you hiding in your cupboard tonight?
Track: Jezebel
Artist: Luxuria
Comments: as if!

32.) Who is your fashion ideal?
Track: Upside down
Artist: Magazine
Comments: turing fashion upside down sounds exactly what I've tried and failed to do..

33.) This halloween, you'll dress up as a ......???
Track: world that i see
Artist: Midnight Oil
Comments: Oh I get it, Peter Garrett or the world I see..

34.) Who would you like to keep in your pockets all the time?
Track: Goldfinger
Artist: Magazine
Comments: if only I had a goldfinger-type to have in my pocket (bribed...:)) heck just the money to bribe anyone would be nice

35.) If you'd won the lottery, what would you buy first?
Track: Celebrate
Artist: Simple Minds
Comments: (wow) I guess I'd buy a celibration.. something to celibrate I guess

36.) Are we there yet?
Track: I can't control myself
Artist: Buzzcocks
Comments: I guess not.. but I can't control myself...

37.) Em...any hard feelings for choosing our survey?
Track: My Favourite Drug
Artist: Translator
Comments: obviously not, in spite of its lengthy length

38.) What are your thoughts about the ppl who made this quiz?
Track: Tear it all away
Artist: The Church
Comments: well I didn't have time to make my own questions up, so why should I feel they should edit

Neighbours..wow!

Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:13:00 +0000

It seems that while my internet had problems I was assigned NEIGHBOURS-

I am seriously surprised who is NOT on my list!

I thought certainly StillOnFire and
Kattastic would be at least a small percentage there.. oh well.. I wonder what those match numbers mean anyway.. no one is over 30% or over the age of 27!!!!

I just had my 99th birthday (ok I do fib here.. I just turned 38)..

"den har är som jag är"

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:07:07 +0000

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My photos and such...

For the 10000th time.. randomness via the media player future telling orical

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:37:44 +0000

Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song titles that come up to answer each question.
NO CHEATING.

1. How does the world perceive me?
Song: "Concrete"
Artist:Midnight Oil
commentary: I would have thought more "marshmallow" only a vegan one-much more soft than hard.

2. Will I have a happy life?
Song:"Looking for a life to lose"
Artist:The Bolshoi

3. What do people really think of me?
Song:"TV Baby"
Artist:Magazine
commentary: "TV Baby, I don't know what to think..."

4. Do People secretly lust after me?
Song:"Mountain Energi"
Artist: The Fall
commentary:HUH?

5. How can I make myself happy?
Song:"Weddingcake Island"
Artist:Midnight Oil
commentary:Time to get away from getting away from it all...

6. What should I do with my life?
Song:"Rubbish"
Artist:Luxuria
commentary:"I give to you the rubbish of my love..."

7. Will I ever have (more) children?
Song:"So I Was There"
Artist:Shelleydevoto

8. What is good advice for me?
Song:"I've Been Expecting You"
Artist: Luxuria
commentary: "et in archadia ego.."

9. What do I think my current theme song is?
Song:"Libertine Angel"
Artist:Buzzcocks
commentary:"they told me the future, like they did in the past.."

10. What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Song:"Nostalgia"
Artist: The Chameleons
commentary:"there isn't time to stand still, we are constantly changing.."

11. What song will they play at my funeral?
Song:"Seven Languages"
Artist:Camper Van Beathoven
commentary:"and if I had just a little time, I would speak 7 langauges..."-that would be ironic.

12. What type of women/men do I like?
Song:"She's your lover now"
Artist:Luxuria
commentary:????

13. What is my day going to be like?
Song:"Low"
Artist:Coldplay
commentary:Honestly it was today..really.

14. Why am I here?
Song:"Inside Out"
Artist:The Chameleons

15. What will people remember me for?
Song:"Thirty Frames a second"
Artist:Simple Minds
commentary:Film? Video?

16. What song will be stuck in my head tomorrow?
Song:"She Divines Water"
Artist:Camper Van Beathoven

17. Are there people outside waiting to take me away?
Song:"White Skin Black Heart"
Artist:Midnight Oil
commentary:Oh no, damned rasists are coming to get me... not good.

18. What will this year be about?
Song:"Going Off"
Artist:Shelleydevoto
commentary:Absolutely correct for the first time..

No neighbours and no accurate discription of my listening habits..

Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:18:31 +0000

I'm not certain these things really do work, I listened to the music, I have 545 tracks and yet still.. what's happening, it's kind of annoying..

stolen from people on this lovely network

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 23:04:01 +0000

I should have used my Ipod :P.

Name your top ten artists:

1 Midnight Oil 84

2 Buzzcocks 46

3 The Chameleons 32

4 Translator 22

5 Japan 21

6 a-ha 17

6 Luxuria 17

8 Camper Van Beethoven 15

9 Shelleydevoto 12

10 The Church 9

How many times have you listened to number one? 84 since coming to lastFM.

Is this your favorite band? No, its one of them.

What got you into number one? A combination of appearances on Nightflight, and Thick of the night; including the album, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Why the hell have you listened to that so much? Because I've got alot of things to catch up on.

Favorite songs of number one: right now its Concrete, but "Sleep" is wonderful.

Something you think you’d thoroughly enjoy doing with the band? Talking to them.

Favorite memory of the artist? Peter Garrett dancing like a wild man and nearly setting the studio on fire singing, "Read About it"

How many times listened to number two? 46 (but I am NEW)

What got you into them? Pete Shelley's solo career.

What makes you like them so much? The words and music to the best songs in the world.

Favorite songs: I can't say I have just one.

Favorite memory of artist? Talking to them..

How many times have you listened to number three? 32

Would you pay thirty dollars to see them in concert? I've paid more to see number 2. I guess I could tell my husband to pay ;).

Whose your favourite member? Mark Burgess (the writer, singer, bassest)

Any fave songs/memories? Getting written back...

How many time listened to four? 22

Would you go fishing with them? with toy "fish" and magnetic lines...

Any particular emotions run through ya when ya listen? yes, nostalgia.

What songs you like best? Everywhere, Everything, Dark regions..

How many times have you listened to five? 21

What’s so intriguing about them? The "new romantic" mystique... and the fact that Duran Duran stole everything that made them so good from Japan.

Could you imagine them in a circus? no, but funny, I could image Duran Duran in a circus.

How many times for six? 17

How many 3’s in a <3333333 would you give them and why? Because they are "Aha", they certainly gave a wonderful interview, and there is something so empathic about them.

How many times for 7? 17

I hear 7 is a magical number, is this band magical? Actually Luxuria IS magical; this is Howard Devoto on a dare.. a brilliant way to see him.

How many times for eight? 15

How long have you liked this artist? For quite a few years, starting in the late 80's.. (but then again, I caught them at the tail end)
Everyone who loves this band hated "Key Lime Pie" for being too much of an attempt to be "conformist".
I never thought of them this way. I never thought it was an attempt to water down their eccentric inflences.

What are some songs you like/why? They did some brilliant covers, including but not limited to "Harmony in my head" and "I'm not like everybody else", but one of the best
songs they wrote was "Seven Languages"

Random fact you know about the band? They have an album called "Telephone Landslide Victory" or something like that.

Poor ten, how many times you listened to that? 9

Why have this as number ten, where is the loveeee? One very interesting and sometimes dark Austrailan Pop Band.

How long have you liked them? Since the invention of MTV...early 80's.

Likes/Dislikes of band? I think they are vegetarians, thats a plus, and they have Swedish wives.

What are the poor artists from 11-20?

11 The Fall
12 Gary Numan
13 Belief System
14 Kraftwerk
15 Magazine
16 Simple Minds
17 Siouxsie and the Banshees
18 The Bolshoi
19 Devo
20 Coldplay

Do you remember what you were listening to in the summer of 1996?

Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:20:30 +0000

Ok maybe its not a relivant question, but what about it? 15, 10 or 5 years ago- Depending upon your age, what were you listening to?

Spiral Scratch
Play
New York Dolls

All Set
I Love Mekons
Quartet
Low-Life

Trade Test Transmissions
Bill Nelson"Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam", "Chimera" "Confessions of a 4-Track Mind" "Chance encounters in the garden of light" and "Practically Wired"
Bill Nelson's Orchestra Arcana -"Optimism"
The Water Boys- "A Pagen Place"
Sisters of Mercy"Floodland"

And I'm really bored and have things to do so.. sorry I'm not done.