By the time Juliana Hatfield had reached her mid-20s, she’d become the poster girl for ’90s indie rock. She was looked upon as the thinking person’s alternative to the riot-grrrl phenomenon, and the future seemed rosy. Hatfield had formed revered combo the Blake Babies, launched a red-hot solo career, played bass on the breakthrough Lemonheads album and gained national attention when she told Interview magazine she was still a virgin and wasn’t too worried about it. The backlash from those without much of an attention span was inevitable. In the ensuing years, Hatfield has honed her art and produced a wealth of stirring, self-confident albums. Peace & Love, out next week on her Ye Olde label, is an utterly sincere revelation that proves well worth the wait. Hatfield will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our exclusive excerpt from her 2008 memoir and our brand new Q&A with her.
Hatfield: I first heard this song in the Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall movie The Big Sleep. There’s a scene in which Bacall is casually singing it in a roomful of people at a sophisticated house party. I’ve since found two recorded versions of the song—one by Ella Fitzgerald, one by Anita O’Day—and I’ve been listening to them nonstop. The song is just so infectious and cheeky, it makes me giddy. I bounce around my apartment singing, “She’s a real sad tomato/She’s a busted valentine,” and feeling really good about life. I haven’t been able to find a recorded version of Bacall singing this song. Does such a thing exist? Her version remains, in my memory, the best. Was it the thrill of hearing the song for the first time? Bacall is not known for her singing (and as fas as I know, it might not even be her voice singing in the film; she may have been lipsynching to someone else’s singing), but she sang it so cool in the movie. And she was so beautiful in that dress. Video after the jump.
By the time Juliana Hatfield had reached her mid-20s, she’d become the poster girl for ’90s indie rock. She was looked upon as the thinking person’s alternative to the riot-grrrl phenomenon, and the future seemed rosy. Hatfield had formed revered combo the Blake Babies, launched a red-hot solo career, played bass on the breakthrough Lemonheads album and gained national attention when she told Interview magazine she was still a virgin and wasn’t too worried about it. The backlash from those without much of an attention span was inevitable. In the ensuing years, Hatfield has honed her art and produced a wealth of stirring, self-confident albums. Peace & Love, out next week on her Ye Olde label, is an utterly sincere revelation that proves well worth the wait. Hatfield will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our exclusive excerpt from her 2008 memoir and our brand new Q&A with her.
Hatfield: When I hooked up my analog-to-digital TV converter box a few months ago, I found that I was able to receive a few channels that my rabbit ears had not ever accessed. One of these channels is RTV (the Retro Television Network), which airs The Rockford Files every weeknight at 10. I remember watching it some as a child in the 1970s, but I am enjoying it much much more as an adult. (It’s not really a show for kids; it moves kind of slowly, and the main characters are not very flashy.) My newfound love for The Rockford Files (and for RTV in general) is partly nostalgia (for my childhood, for the ’70s), but part of it is the fact that Jim Rockford, the self-employed private detective (“$200 a day, plus expenses”), is such a great creation. I love that he lives in a run-down trailer in the parking lot of a restaurant by the ocean in Malibu. (How is it even possible that a person can live in a trailer in a parking lot in Malibu? Today, with real estate the way it is, that would not be believable. Today, the likes of Jim Rockford—anyone who is anything other than super-rich—would not be able to afford to live anywhere near Malibu, dilapidated trailer or not.) I love the chummy, sweet relationship Rockford has with his dad, whom he calls “Rocky,” as everyone else does. I love that he keeps his gun in the cookie jar and wears polyester wash-and-wear slacks that do not flatter his chubby bum. (This was before people worked out, before TV stars had to be all fit and muscly and healthy and botoxed and facelifted and perfect and inaccessible and unrealistic and cookie-cutter boring.) Rockford smokes and eats dollar tacos and drives without a seatbelt. He’s a straight shooter, taking everything as it comes. He’s always getting jumped by bad guys, but he never gets really angry; mostly he sighs a lot, grumbles a bit and gets on with it. I like him. Video after the jump.
By the time Juliana Hatfield had reached her mid-20s, she’d become the poster girl for ’90s indie rock. She was looked upon as the thinking person’s alternative to the riot-grrrl phenomenon, and the future seemed rosy. Hatfield had formed revered combo the Blake Babies, launched a red-hot solo career, played bass on the breakthrough Lemonheads album and gained national attention when she told Interview magazine she was still a virgin and wasn’t too worried about it. The backlash from those without much of an attention span was inevitable. In the ensuing years, Hatfield has honed her art and produced a wealth of stirring, self-confident albums. Peace & Love, out next week on her Ye Olde label, is an utterly sincere revelation that proves well worth the wait. Hatfield will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our exclusive excerpt from her 2008 memoir and our brand new Q&A with her.
Hatfield: I have a lot of animal-printed stuff. Mostly I am drawn to a leopard/cheetah-type of pattern in various shades of tan/brown/black/gold/cream; wild-animal-fur colors. I have an animal-print car-seat cover, an animal-print jacket, animal-print gloves, two animal-print bags (one cotton, one fake fur), an animal-print suitcase, an animal-print winter hat, a pair of animal-print shoes, two animal-print dresses, and I am seriously considering purchasing an animal-print lampshade that I’ve got my eye on. You have to be careful not to wear more than one animal-printed thing at once. Otherwise you might look ridiculous. Sometimes I ask myself, “Why? Why all this fake fur in my life?” I think I might be trying in some way to get in touch with my inner wild-animal, which is, sadly, kind of repressed most of the time.
By the time Juliana Hatfield had reached her mid-20s, she’d become the poster girl for ’90s indie rock. She was looked upon as the thinking person’s alternative to the riot-grrrl phenomenon, and the future seemed rosy. Hatfield had formed revered combo the Blake Babies, launched a red-hot solo career, played bass on the breakthrough Lemonheads album and gained national attention when she told Interview magazine she was still a virgin and wasn’t too worried about it. The backlash from those without much of an attention span was inevitable. In the ensuing years, Hatfield has honed her art and produced a wealth of stirring, self-confident albums. Peace & Love, out next week on her Ye Olde label, is an utterly sincere revelation that proves well worth the wait. Hatfield will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our exclusive excerpt from her 2008 memoir and our brand new Q&A with her.
Hatfield: The Animal Planet TV channel airs Puppy Bowl each year around Super Bowl time. It’s a very simple concept, but it’s brilliant: A bunch of puppies are let loose together with toys in a miniature (puppy-sized) indoor model football stadium. Cameras track the dogs’ hilarious haphazard movements while color commentary—the play-by-play—runs throughout in voiceover by a very official-sounding sportscaster. When a dog runs across the end zone line with a toy football in his mouth, it is declared a “touchdown,” and a canned audience roars and cheers. When a puppy relieves himself on the field, it is called “foul.” Puppies run around and around, playing and jumping and skidding and wrestling, and it’s endlessly entertaining. I could sit and watch this for hours and never get bored. Who doesn’t love puppies? Video after the jump.
By the time Juliana Hatfield had reached her mid-20s, she’d become the poster girl for ’90s indie rock. She was looked upon as the thinking person’s alternative to the riot-grrrl phenomenon, and the future seemed rosy. Hatfield had formed revered combo the Blake Babies, launched a red-hot solo career, played bass on the breakthrough Lemonheads album and gained national attention when she told Interview magazine she was still a virgin and wasn’t too worried about it. The backlash from those without much of an attention span was inevitable. In the ensuing years, Hatfield has honed her art and produced a wealth of stirring, self-confident albums. Peace & Love, out next week on her Ye Olde label, is an utterly sincere revelation that proves well worth the wait. Hatfield will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our exclusive excerpt from her 2008 memoir.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Neil: Here are some people and some bands that make Cardiff a good place to be.
People Shape Records: Home of the awesome Attack + Defend, Them Squirrels, Evils, Fredrick Stanley Star and Islet, who will be making waves this year. Businessman Records: Look here for Little My, Gindrinker, Sweet Baboo and more. Turnstile Music: Split between Cardiff and London. That counts, right? Girls, Swanton Bombs, Perfume Genius, Video Nasties and Islet.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Tom:Pro Evolution Soccer just takes up too much of my time for me not to mention it. I know the FIFA vs. Pro Evo debate rages on (well, in some circles), but there’s not really space here to convince you all why FIFA’s poo. Anyway, I digress … This particular mode in the game (I think it’s called “Be A Pro” in FIFA) is the ultimate in egotistic escapism. You pick a position, then craft a little pixelated 17-year-old version of yourself (obviously, he somehow ends up being a chiseled-jawed hunk) and control this one individual through his career to retirement. It’s way harder than the standard mode and places emphasis on things like timing runs and relying on your CGI teammates to pick you out. You start off like a gammy-legged Jason Lee, but because it’s so tough, every goal and every near miss is so much more exciting. Besides, you soon improve, and before long, you’re getting to frolic in the Barcelona changing rooms playing “hide the soap” with a CGI Zlatan Ibrahimović. By the way, I am aware that phrases like “relying on your CGI teammates” would suggest I lead a rather lonely existence, but … actually, I have no defense. I do have a girlfriend, though. Honest. Not a CGI one, either. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Kim: When I was younger, my mum would drag me around local towns and villages on a weekend to rummage through charity shops for hidden treasures in dusty corners. Although at the time I didn’t really embrace/enjoy the whole experience, since the age of about 14, I have fully made up for it. I spend all of my money in charity shops. I only really remember places I’ve been by the sort of charity shops that they have. Worse than that, I tend to rate the worthiness of a charity according to how amazing their shops are. Bad person. I love the feeling of searching frantically for nothing in particular and then finding this “thing” that I instantly love and adore. I become this kind of searching machine, faster than Google, when I go charity-shop shopping. I see things and instantly get this feeling of, “Oh my god, if I don’t buy this now, I may never get the chance again.” This is quickly followed by, “I can’t actually imagine my life without this bag/jumper/brooch/lamp/book/belt.” I love this hobby of mine, and although some/most people may consider it an unhealthy addiction, it is my favourite way to spend my spare time. Since joining the band, I have tried my best to visit as many charity shops—in as many places we visit—as possible, but I am always wary that I won’t be able to find my way back to a venue. Perhaps I should learn to read a map better before our touring begins again. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Harriet: Lately, I seem to have become more aware of the presence of Jeanette Winterson. I’d known vaguely about her as a teenager, having read and enjoyed Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit as part of a degree module. These days, however, she holds for me a comforting presence in the regular diet of online media that I consume. She has a website crammed with writing for all kinds of format, from journalism to fiction to poetry to online posts. Winterson can always be relied on to have something interesting, moving and relevant to say about most things, and it is great to have somebody to rely on for that. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Ollie: I’ve always liked the outdoors. Growing up in the country means that I went on a lot of walks. I enjoy getting out into the countryside, climbing some hills and just admiring the view. Though Britain is a small country, you can be on your own within 30 minutes of leaving a big city. You can spend a whole day walking and not see anyone. My girlfriend lives in Scotland, so I’m getting to see even more parts of the country. Recently we went to Kinlochleven and went ice climbing. We drove up through Glen Coe, which was covered in snow. It was so beautiful. With the band, I’ve visited more exotic places, but there is nothing quite like the countryside of the U.K. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Ellen: I bloody love musicals. There is a wonderful kind of escapism within the melodramatic concerto of people singing about every single feeling they find themselves experiencing. I think life should be like this. Anyhow, this Victor Hugo novel brought to life has everything you would want in a classical musical. Les Misérables has politics, love, religion, rebellion and French prostitution. The songs are goose-bump-inducing, and seeing it live makes you feel lazy (live orchestra with a gong!) and in awe at the sets and costumes and meticulous detail they have stretched to for your viewing pleasure. I find myself listening to the songs out of context when we are on tour, and I love it. I think I know all the words. I do know all the words. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Gareth:Frank Sidebottom is a musician who came to prominence in the U.K. in the 1980s. Born in Timperley (near Altrincham) in the ’50s, he toured extensively around the U.K., initially with his Oh Blimey Big Band, performing original songs, many about Timperley, as well as his own takes on classics by revered British bands such as the Beatles and Queen. As his reputation grew, Frank became a regular on British television, hosting his own Frank Sidebottom’s Fantastic Shed Show and appearing as a guest on popular quiz shows, all the while still living with his mother, still in his childhood home, with her none the wiser as to how successful her first born was. All the time remaining a loyal and regular supporter of his local football team, Altrincham FC. Perhaps what made these achievements all the more incredible was the fact that Frank’s head is made of papier-mâché. I think Frank Sidebottom is a very British phenomenon. I’ve shown him to American friends before and never got the reaction I hoped for. When I toured with the band Parenthetical Girls in the U.K., as we drove into Manchester, I thought I could impress my friend Zac (a huge Anglophile and Fall fan) by playing Sidebottom’s version of the Fall’s “Hit The North.” (This video is all the more unbelievable because that’s Starsky & Hutch’s David Soul playing keyboard and Paul Ryder of the Happy Mondays on bass.) It was met with confusion, nobody really quite sure of what was going on. I couldn’t even tell you what it is I love about Frank so much, but I can listen to his albums and genuinely enjoy them without a hint of irony. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Neil: The Potato Waffle Breakfast Stack is the perfect breakfast for those looking for something quick and healthy in the morning. Although I sometimes treat myself to a bowl of oatmeal, I normally kick off my day with this delicious meal of baked beans, potato waffles, bacon and an egg.
The ingredients Half a tin of baked beans
2 potato waffles
2/3 rashers of quality bacon
1 free-range egg
Salt and pepper
A 10-step guide to perfecting this morning classic 1. Wash your hands.
2. Assemble necessary ingredients.
3. Place waffles under the grill on a medium heat. They normally take about eight-10 minutes to cook. Turn after four minutes, and cook until crisp.
4. Fry or grill the bacon. I fry it until it’s cooked through, then I crisp it in the grill.
5. Heat the beans. This can be done in the microwave or on the hob. They take about three minutes.
6. Be ready now to plate your food in this order: beans, waffle, bacon, waffle and, finally, the egg.
7. Fry the egg. I normally cook my eggs over easy. (The egg, of course, can be cooked to your preference.)
8. Plate up.
9. Add your favourite condiment(s), and enjoy with a glass of orange juice.
10. Leave the mess for your housemates/family/friends to clean.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Kim: For Christmas, my younger sister bought me the book Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism. Girldrive was an idea thought up by two young women who road-tripped across America trying to find out what issues women today care about. As well as creating this beautiful book crammed full of amazing photographs with their findings, there is also a blog that is regularly updated that I have been following for a couple of months. Updated with issues that piss co-author Nona Willis Aronowitz off, this blog and book are hugely insightful and focus on feminism and activism that’s current and relevant. How refreshing. The Girldrive blog has become a crucial pit stop during my daily trawl of the Internet, and Girldrive is a really lovely book to own. I really, really recommend it. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Harriet: A book lover’s paradise. Hay-on-Wye might be a bustling tourist trap with fancy clothes shops at every corner and a fair sprinkling of genteel cafes—and this may or may not be your idea of a good time—but to me, Hay-on-Wye is one of the only places that seems magical in that old childhood way. At New Year last year, we found ourselves drinking prosecco at 2 a.m. in a beautiful Georgian house, which belonged to an artistic taxidermy enthusiast. She had converted her home into a temporary bar for this special evening, and everywhere, deer’s antlers were festooned with fairylights and fresh flowers. It had its very own 15-foot WickerMan garden, and yes, it would have been scary if everybody and everything there wasn’t so completely lovely. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Ollie: We’ve always had the SundayObserver in my family’s house. As well as reading the sport, I always read Nigel Slater’s food column. He’s been writing it for about 20 years now. He has several books, which are great reads. He is so enthusiastic about food. How he writes is as if he was writing a novel. His writing is so descriptive, and it just makes you salivate when reading it. His cooking is always simple but so effective that if you cook it, it always come out how it should and is really tasty. In my opinion, he is the best food writer in the U.K. I wish that when I write my food reviews that I can write like him. His autobiography, Toast, has done the rounds of the band. Everyone should read it, even if you are a fussy eater. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Ellen: When it comes to art, I am ignorant. I have an amazing ability to forget the names, movements and styles of 80 percent of the artwork I see, even if I rather admire it. It is a non-transferrable skill, and it does not get me far in life. However, it does mean the art pieces I do remember are all the more impressive. They must have some kind of je ne sais quoi to them for the indentation to remain in my psyche. Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden Of Earthly Delights is one of those pieces. It is held at the wonderful-yet-humongous Prado in Milan (an art gallery we visited last year whilst on tour), and this triptych depicts the stages of creation. (Although apparently that is up for debate.) The left panel shows Adam and Eve hanging out with God, the middle panel has some kind of giant orgy scene, and the right is a horrifically disturbing vision of hell. The central panel is filled up with writhing bodies, and the right panel contains strange creatures torturing said writhing bodies about five minutes after the orgy finished. It’s intricate in its detail and symbolism, and the more you gaze upon, the more you realize how disturbing and fascinating a piece it is. Take home message? Don’t have sexy fun unless you want to be punished for all eternity by bird monsters. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Tom:This is the only podcast I regularly listen to, and whenever we’re on tour abroad, the low, sensual mumbling of these men in my ear provides much comfort. The realm of football punditry—and, indeed, football itself—can feel like a bleak, depressing place at times, but this podcast fills me with much hope as it almost single-handedly snatches back the reputation of football analysis from the Luddite grip of the likes of pretty-but-dim Jamie Redknapp or the curb-crawlin’ David Pleat. Here, on Football Weekly, James Richardson, Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Wilson and friends provide insightful analysis into the game from around the world. It gets geeky, but never poe-faced, and is always entertaining. In fact, often it just sounds like a bunch of men dicking around in a recording studio. And that’s what I like listening to in my spare time. Sometimes I even find myself wishing that these people were my friends. And sometimes it feels like they already are. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with them.
Gareth: British writer B. S. Johnson has probably influenced me as a person—and my approach to writing lyrics—more than any single album or band has. When he took his own life in November 1973, he left behind a string of consistently captivating novels, poems and plays, which—to my mind, to this day—have never received the recognition they deserve. BSJ valued honesty over anything else, to an extent that many couldn’t understand. The bedrock of all his work—and he believed all good work—was truth. “Telling stories is telling lies,” he wrote, and to many, his slightly avant approach to writing was anathema to his character. He was a traditional, football-loving, working-class man who throughout his writing career strived for technical innovation and experimentation. Albert Angelo came with holes cut in the pages to allow the reader to see what happens later on in the story. The Unfortunates was a loose-leaf novel of 27 sections, 25 of which could be read in any order the reader chooses. In House Mother Normal, he retells the same series of events 10 times, with each coming from a more infirm mind than the previous. He was a renegade and a pioneer. And now when I write, I tell the truth. Because if I’m not telling people my truthful thoughts in my lyrics, then I don’t know what I’m telling people—or why they’d want to listen. Anything less than the truth doesn’t seem fair. Video after the jump.
As evidenced by both their music and exclamatory band name, the seven members of Cardiff, Wales’ Los Campesinos! are excitable boys and girls. The group’s third album, Romance Is Boring (Arts & Crafts), is an energetic, all-hands-on-deck dash through the pantheon of sharp indie pop and sloppy post-punk, gathering steam from Bright Eyes’ sense of emotional catharsis and Art Brut’s wry take on modern love. Try to gather all the influences brought to bear on Romance Is Boring by LC!’s seven-member army, however, and we’d be here all day. MAGNET spoke to songwriter Tom Campesinos! and guitarist Neil Campesinos!—all members (Tom, Neil, Ellen, Gareth, Harriet, Ollie and Kim) have taken the band’s surname—about the new album. Los Campesinos! will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips: These three American Folk Blues Festival DVDs, along with The Johnny Cash Show and the old Playboy After Dark series, were staples on our tour bus. In volume three, you will see a gentleman play harmonica with his nose—amazing! Video after the jump.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips: I miss digging big holes in my back yard and making a mud-pie bakery. I realize that dirt and I have been at odds since 1994, when I was in the third Die Hard movie, and crew members were required to throw dirt on me take after take in one scene. It took me a couple of days to get the dirt out of my hair because it had attached itself to the hair gel they had put on me. Good dirt is hard to find, and it is great to feed plant dirt with used tea leaves, vegetable and fruit scraps when you can. Video after the jump.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips: My grandfather had a cabin out near Joshua Tree, Calif., where I spent time when I was a little girl. There were characters out there like George Van Tassel and his wife, who told my grandfather that aliens had given them the plans to build a machine that would give humans eternal youth. They were always asking for donations because the aliens kept updating the design of the machine. Video after the jump.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips:Takashimaya Tea Box Restaurant is one of the best places to have your cookies and tea. It’s a tea room in the basement of the Japanese store in New York. They also serve one of my favorite sandwiches: thinly sliced chicken with wasabi mayonnaise on toast.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips:Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto De Aranjuez conjures up the desert landscape every time I hear it. I love the earthiness of the classical guitar with the orchestra. Andrés Segovia will always be my favorite classical guitar player. There may be more technical or facile or speedy players, but his playing is soulful and warm. I saw one of his concerts before he died. After the sixth or seventh encore, it looked like he was tired of walking on and off stage, and he said, “It’s a stick. It’s just a stick I run my fingers up and down.” Video after the jump.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips: Chris Burden dug three large trenches in one corner of the Museum Of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, exposing the dirt and rock underneath the modern museum floor. Underneath the posturing and pretense of the art world, underneath our amazing ability to create art, these trenches looked like beautiful altars where one could contemplate spirituality, sensuality, art or dirt! Video after the jump.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips: This quaint, old building in the Hollywood Hills was part of my childhood. It is good for the soul to go up to the Griffith Observatory and look down on the city—if, after living in Los Angeles, you still have one. Video after the jump.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips:Genmaicha is Japanese green tea with popcorn in it—delicious! Luckily, Yoku Moku cookies are individually wrapped and tiny. Otherwise, it would be too easy to eat a box of them. Video after the jump.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips: Electronic beats and noises are cute, funny and perfect. In the hands of some, they can groove, but I love the imperfect, lopsided, sexy, human drummers. There is tone and grease and mess when you hear great ones. Jim Keltner (pictured left), one of my favorites, can snap his fingers and play a piece of paper that grooves as hard as a machine. Carla Azar (pictured right), the drummer in Autolux, wears dresses and has the tiniest arms, but she is an amazingly powerful and versatile musician. Jay Bellerose creates massive bass tones with his giant kick drums. Video after the jump.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips: I think Gordon Matta-Clark was arrested for cutting big shapes out of condemned buildings. There are some recordings I’d like to cut some holes in … but that’s not the only reason I like his amazing work. I have often wished I could arrange for the roof of a club or theater to open up while I’m singing to let the sky in. There are books of his building sculptures and pieces of them that have shown up at museums. He had an amazing ability to see art and beauty in unlikely places. Video after the jump.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips: California’s 17-Mile Drive is one of the most beautiful and mysterious places. The only problem is there is a lot of golf around here. Maybe you like golf. I once met Mary Morse, whose dad developed the Pebble Beach Golf Links. I loved hearing her talk about running around the beach when she was a little girl. Ignore the golf and visit the rocks where a lone gentleman built a little hut to live in. Video after the jump.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
Phillips: I am secretly married to Il Buco in New York City. This is very difficult, because I don’t live in New York City, but it is worth it. I have never been married to a restaurant before, and I plan to make this one last. Don’t tell Wikipedia. Video after the jump.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with her.
It’s not as much of a journey from religious music to Jerry Lee Lewis and the Die Hard movie franchise as you might think. For someone who began her recording career as a Christian artist, Sam Phillips has had a very secular professional life. Born Leslie Ann Phillips in 1962, she cut her last album of religious music, produced by future husband T Bone Burnett, in 1987. (Phillips and Burnett divorced in 2004.) Phillips then jumped ship to the Virgin label in 1989 and began recording albums of thoughtful-yet-stirring music to document her new life as Sam Phillips. Critics’ fave Fan Dance, her 2001 debut record for Nonesuch Records, featured lovely string arrangements by the legendary Van Dyke Parks. Phillips is currently in the middle of a year-long multimedia project called Long Play and also has a tune placed in Oscar-contending film Crazy Heart with Jeff Bridges. In addition, Phillips will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.
Regrets—Art Alexakis has had more than a few. And he’s had his share of losing, too. But the Everclear frontman has always done it his way. While far too many of his ’90s Pacific Northwest brethren (Kurt Cobain, Layne Staley, Andrew Wood, et al) ended up six feet under, Alexakis has been a survivor, enduring arrests, attempted suicide, drug abuse, divorce, depression, bankruptcy and much more. Despite being dubbed Nirvana lite by music critics, Everclear soldiered on, becoming a platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated, hit-making band, and Alexakis used this success to champion causes close to his heart. The revolving-door group’s latest release, In A Different Light (429), is a collection of (mostly) older Everclear songs reinterpreted in a stripped-down manner. Alexakis is guest editing magnetmagazine.com all this week. Read our Q&A with him.
Alexakis: Nothing in my life excites me like rock ‘n’ roll. It’s better than all the drugs and a lot of the sex I have had. My mom used to tell this story about when I was a toddler. The family took a trip up to northern California to go camping and I was sitting between my mom and my dad in the front seat of the Buick (no car seats yet!) and “Wipe Out” came on and I started dancing so hard that I almost made my dad crash. When they turned it off, I freaked out so bad that they put the song back on and had to pull over until the song was over. I will be playing loud rock ‘n’ roll until the day I die.
By the time Juliana Hatfield had reached her mid-20s, she’d become the poster girl for ’90s indie rock. She was looked upon as the thinking person’s alternative to the riot-grrrl phenomenon, and the future seemed rosy. Hatfield had formed revered combo the Blake Babies, launched a red-hot solo career, played bass on the breakthrough Lemonheads album and gained national attention when she told Interview magazine she was still a virgin and wasn’t too worried about it. The backlash from those without much of an attention span was inevitable. In the ensuing years, Hatfield has honed her art and produced a wealth of stirring, self-confident albums. Peace & Love, out next week on her Ye Olde label, is an utterly sincere revelation that proves well worth the wait. Hatfield will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our exclusive excerpt from her 2008 memoir and our brand new Q&A with her.
Hatfield: I first heard this song in the Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall movie The Big Sleep. There’s a scene in which Bacall is casually singing it in a roomful of people at a sophisticated house party. I’ve since found two recorded versions of the song—one by Ella Fitzgerald, one by Anita O’Day—and I’ve been listening to them nonstop. The song is just so infectious and cheeky, it makes me giddy. I bounce around my apartment singing, “She’s a real sad tomato/She’s a busted valentine,” and feeling really good about life. I haven’t been able to find a recorded version of Bacall singing this song. Does such a thing exist? Her version remains, in my memory, the best. Was it the thrill of hearing the song for the first time? Bacall is not known for her singing (and as fas as I know, it might not even be her voice singing in the film; she may have been lipsynching to someone else’s singing), but she sang it so cool in the movie. And she was so beautiful in that dress. Video after the jump.
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Neil: The Potato Waffle Breakfast Stack is the perfect breakfast for those looking for something quick and healthy in the morning. Although I sometimes treat myself to a bowl of oatmeal, I normally kick off my day with this delicious meal of baked beans, potato waffles, bacon and an egg.
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Ellen: When it comes to art, I am ignorant. I have an amazing ability to forget the names, movements and styles of 80 percent of the artwork I see, even if I rather admire it. It is a non-transferrable skill, and it does not get me far in life. However, it does mean the art pieces I do remember are all the more impressive. They must have some kind of je ne sais quoi to them for the indentation to remain in my psyche. 
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