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Oh that’s a bad pun, but they are good. Dr. Dog that is. And they are coming to Australia in December (playing the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney).

They do a pretty sweet cover of Architecture in Helsinki’s Heart it Races. It’s a bit hard to find it, being on a Polyvinyl AIH ep and all, but it’s currently on their MySpace and you can download it from spin.com

This is a live version of “We All Belong” – the sound’s not the greatest, but you might get the idea…

I really like this guy’s art, he’s blind but has worked out a way to paint.

University of North Texas (UNT) student John Bramblitt paints beautiful works of art in vivid colors, despite the fact that he’s been blind for years. [link]

I found his description of how the different colours of paint have different textures really beautiful. It is moot to say we take so much for granted, for the most part we need to do this because otherwise we’d just get overloaded. Still, it’s good to occassionally remind ourselves what we do ignore.

Also, I want the dog painting.

You can find and purchase his works from his website and Sightless Works – it also explains John’s process which is something that the video doesn’t really do.

It’s not a question of ability but of pure chuzpah (or insanity – same diff) and she’s got plenty.

Roisin Murphy’s video for “Let me Know” (via Mattbites):

I do like this version by the Clef Hangers (the video is set to Teen Titans for some reason?!).

Stupid catchy song. Which is a good excuse as any to find more pics of little red riding hoods!

So retro!

So classic

These two I think are brilliant! They’re both french… stupid talented french people.

I could marry the Internet – I have been searching for years for an obscure Israeli folk band called The High Windows (Trio) for years and years and the Internet has Finally Delivered.

The band’s members (in particular Arik Einstein ) were all well known in their native land, but they all went on to other things after just one album. I used to put their name into Google and all I would get would be pages in Hebrew that I couldn’t read, but now they have a Wikipedia entry and I could download the MP3s from Amazon if I were in the US.

I only know of them because their eponymous album formed the soundtrack of one of my all time favourite films – Shirat Ha’Sirena (English title was Talila – Song of the Siren) by Israeli director Eyton Fox (such a cool name). It’s set in the Gulf War but it stays away from that sort of politics. It has been described as an Isreali Bridget Jones but coming out in 1994, it predates Bridget by a year. In any case it was based on a novel of the same name by Irit Linur and is one of the most wonderfully romantic films ever produced. High praise, but true. It is much better than Bridget Jones, I think anyway and I did like it, and the main star, Dalit Kahan (as Talila Katz) is utterly charming.

Yalda k’tana (Little Girl) is truly one of the most beautiful songs ever written.

Fortunately, I discovered Israeli Music will send me a new edition of the album that appears to have more songs on it for US$21 (including postage to Australia)! YAY!

Kate Sylvester’s centerpiece item in her Wolf winter 2007 collection was a little red riding hood. Hers is super cool, but the one in my head (I WILL make it someday, I even wrote it on a list…) is a lot less full. I think it would also make a dishy raincoat with wellies!

While I was looking for the Lil’ Red Riding Hood clips, I also found this cute tee by Famous Forever, love the cut but it is not cheap (24.99 quid)…

The Bargain Queen posted up a nifty hooded red coat from DKNY. While I’d love a full fairytale hooded red wool cape (must add that to my to-make list!), what’s so nice about this is that it only hints at the storybook so remains perfectly respectable and ever so wearable. It’s the sort of thing that brightens not only your winter day but I’d hope, anyone else with imagination who might happen to chance upon you. Would definitely snatch it up if it were in my size and they would deliver to Australia.

The thought of hoods couldn’t help but remind me of the soooo wonderful Bonds hoodie ad (by The Campaign Palace) with Sarah O’Hare/Murdoch (can’t remember which she was when they made it) with Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs’ “Lil’ Red Riding Hood“.

The unadulterated song…

And a cover by Bowling for Soup set to anime!

And YouTuber Brooke’s really rather rather good version (she has a website):

Heard the Cody ChesnuTT song on the way home from work so it was in my head. The only way to get it out of there is to play it a million times on YouTube (at least that’s the theory). This is the censored version (it’s only one word that’s smudged out).

I can’t think of the number of times I’ve been replaying Feist or Regina Spektor so I had a quiet chuckle as I read one of the YouTube comments by bundaeggi on the 1234 video’s page.

My two-year-old daughter has made me watch this song six straight times now. I’ll never get it out of my head. But that’s still not the record; she made me listen to ‘She Looks to Me’ by the Chili Peppers 12 times in a row.

Yep, I’m just like a precocious two-year old…

Stupid Apple and their cool ads. The latest nano ad features Feist’s 1234. It is impossibly catchy and I’m always catching the end of it when someone decides to play it on the radio… will have to get the album.

Speaking of which it is somewhat reminiscent of Regina Spektor’s Fidelity.