i exchanged several hours of inspiration for permanant pleasure.

in the form of air's new album, talkie walkie. the first track 'venus' is great.

decided not to spend money on the five films i wanted to watch and bought a cd instead.

ooooooooh.

i like it better than the album 'moon safari'

me and hui were in the car waiting for the family to finish dinner and we played the cd out loud with the bass beats in the first song thumping hauntingly and the next songs simply quiet etc etc. i've found someone else in the family to appreciate the same type of albums as me. then dad got into the car and he was like 'what kind of music is this?'

oooooohh.

Being the good Parisians of Waugh's estimation, Air load Talkie Walkie with images of moonbase love and alien encounters that neither mocks the comically misjudged visions of yellowed science fiction, nor longs for some utopian future. Air creates the alternate now, an environment that begs escapism without denying humanity. Talkie Walkie may mollify Air's overt Frenchness, but should in no way be deemed a sudden opening of the soul. In their insular way, Air have always been soul. They've simply grown more cosmopolitan, and not just in their solubility with vodka, Cointreau and cranberry.

-Brent DiCrescenzo, January 26th, 2004http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/a/air/talkie-walkie.shtml

and i also borrowed two of f s fitzgerald's books from the librray. doesn't really go with air. i'll prob read it with sandy forbes singing a nightningale sang in berkley square in th background.

it's rather lost in translation soundish. it complements the ost. makes me want to make a movie just to give these cool sounds a visual world to dwell in.

oooooohh.