Yeah this girl posted pictures of her Kings Of Leon tickets and was all "not long now" "i love them" "i'm so excited"

And all I can think is "shut up."

You knew them because of Sex On Fire. Which even Caleb considers to be a piece of shit.

And I know I'm an intensely indie stereotype but I knew them when no one knew them at all.

I don't think anyone understands the rage I felt when people started pretending like they knew their shit about the Kings.

You don't love sex on fire. You can't love sex on fire.

It can make you happy as fuck and remember that really fun time you danced around to it outside with your best friend in the summer time.

I know I'm really possessive. But fuck you. They're my favourite band and the only person that deserves to be graced by their presense is me, and people who actually love them.

I'm also exaggerating my feelings towards this alot.

I don't care.

Anyway. I'm seeing them tonight.

If I see one 13 year old in denim underwear, I'll cut them. In the neck. With the Stanley knife that I'll be carrying in my pocket.

I think I'm going crazy. I think that's what this is. I think I can't sit in my house for more than a day or two because I go utterly aggressive and insane.

This one time I read this article in Frankie:

"Sure, The Boosh, Kings Of Leon and MGMT are all over inhabited, and there are those who'll sit up in the back of their tavern screaming "I found them first" to anyone who will listen.

But the truth is, you're the captain of your ship and if you feel like its yours then no one can take that away from you."

I'll make a video.

This isn't how I feel at all.

You fuckers.

After breaking up with his girlfriend, moving out of his house with his lifelong friend, and joining a 12 step program for addiction, Alex Ebert spent a year sleeping on a blow-up mattress in a tiny apartment, disconnected from the world. This time alone left him to contemplate Edward Sharpe, his alter ego. “I don’t want to put too much weight on it, because in some ways it’s just a name that I came up with. But I guess if I look deeper, I do feel like I had lost my identity in general. I really didn't know what was going on or who I was anymore. Adopting another name helped me open up an avenue to get back.” Ebert developed Sharpe into a messiah figure, saying "He was sent down to Earth to kinda heal and save mankind, but he kept getting distracted by girls and falling in love."

One such girl was the singer Jade Castrinos, whom he saw sitting on an outdoor bench and immediately knew he needed to have a relationship with her. Their resultant affair formed the seeds of what would become Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros.

As I burn the black candle on the china saucer with my colored fairy lights, I turned on my iPod to just lay down and think.

"In the flowers" by Animal Collective - A song to have an out of body experience to.
So I play, and I look at the candle and I sit and wait for the most fantastical drop in music history. You turn it up loud and listen to it by yourself. "If I could just leave my body for a night." Then your heart drops and you have a musical orgasm of all sorts. The feeling I get in my heart cannot even compare to falling in love. Well, no. It's the same very feeling. I fell in love at 2:30. And you sing the lyrics with so much anticipation and love and you just want to dance and cry at the same time. This song is a song to live my life by. It changed my life. "And recognize nothings wrong" and nothing is ever wrong again because I could loose my body to this.

Another song with a heartcurling drop is "My body is a cage" featuring Peter Gabriel (originally by Arcade Fire, but this one is so much better.) The quiet start builds the eeriest soothingness I've ever had. I feel like a ghost. A real powerful ghost on my way to war or something. 2:27. I'm marching and I'm holding a badass sword and I feel like the evil emperor killed the love of my life and I'm off to assassin's creed stealth master the shit out of him and then leave my body and spend the rest of eternity with the one I love.

Kings of Leon made me attracted to people who get into fist fights. I just picture them in bar fights with each other, and over girls and stupid debates they had. Then afterwards they'll drink some more and apologise.

"You talkin' 'bout my baby? I could flip you upside down and I could mop this place."

"She's lovin' on the boy from the city. I'll be lovin' him under my shoe."

And they also made me think its okay to get knocked up. The song Knocked Up just makes being a pregnant teen sound actually wonderful. I just picture that scene from the Go Getter when Zooey and Lou are driving home and I want nothing more than that run away from the parents in a Coup De Ville.

"I don't care what no body says, we gonna have a baby..."
"I don't care what no body says, I'm gonna be her lover. Always mad and usually drunk but I love her like no other."

My rhyme ain't good just yet. My brain and tongue just met and they ain't friends so far, my words don't travel. Find a tangle in my hair, and tend to go nowhere. They grow back inside, right past my brain and eyes into my stomach juice where they don't serve much use, no healthy calories, nutrition values. And I absorb back in the words right through my skin and they sit there festering inside my bowels; the consonants and vowels - the consequence of sounds.

the other night with my friend we had a big big conversation
he was trying to prove me in many ways that we are animals
he said, "step back and look at me, can't you see that i'm a monkey?"
step back and look at me, can't you see that i'm a monkey?
i say "no no no, you look pretty good to me."
i say "no no no, you're not so hairy."

but he says i look like a monkey
but he says i look like a monkey
but he says i look like a monkey with a tail

but he also looked like a penguin
he also looked like a penguin
he also looked like a penguin with no tail

if you wanna be respected you have to prove that you're the stronger
and if you wanna be the stronger you have to stop trusting anyone
and if you're not trusting anyone you're going to end up with no friends
and if you end up with no friends you're gonna feel so lonely
and if you feel so lonely you're gonna seek for new friends
and if you find some new friends you're gonna think they are so great
and if you think they're so great in 2 minutes you'll give them everything
but they don't deserve it

oh my little soko, you have to stop being so naive
you should be wise and understand that life's a bitch
life's a bitch!

so now i wanna look like a tiger
i wanna look like a tiger
i wanna look like a tiger with a tail

but he said i look like a baby cat
he said i look like a baby cat
he said i look like a baby cat with a baby tail

but i wanna be like a tiger (white)
i wanna be like a tiger (white)
i wanna be like a tiger (white)

i wanna look like a tiger
i wanna look like a tiger
i wanna look like a tiger
i wanna look like a tiger with a tail

but he said i look like a baby cat
he said i look like a baby cat
he said i look like a baby cat with a baby tail

i wanna look like a tiger
i wanna look like a tiger
i wanna look like a tiger with a tail
with a tail

I hate seagulls and I hate being sick
I hate burning my finger on the toaster and I hate nits
I hate falling over
I hate grazing my knee
I hate picking up the scab a little bit too early
I hate getting toothache
I hate when it's a piss-take
I hate all the mistakes I make
I hate rude ignorant bastards
And I hate snobbery
I hate anyone, who if I was serving chips wouldn't talk to me

But

I have a friend, with whom I'd like to spend anytime I can find
With ... I like sleeping in your bed
I like knowin' what is goin' on inside your head
I like taking time and I like your mind
And I like when your hand is in mine
I like gettin' drunk on the tunes by the beach
I like pickin' strawberries
I like cream-teas
And I like reading ... ghost-stories
And my heart skips a beat everytime that we meet
It's been a while and now your smile is almost like a memory
But then you're back and I am fine 'cause you're with me
And I'm in love with you
And I can't find the words to make it sound unique
But honestly you make me strong
I can't believe I've found someone this kind
I hope we carry on
'cause you're so nice and I'm in love with you

If I am ever unhappy in my life, all I have to do is spend an hour listening to Regina Spektor and my life will automatically be better. She writes lyrics that I have no issue comparing to Shakespeare. Her music is always beautiful and her voice can make you laugh, cry or fall asleep in seconds. She reminds me of a time in my life when I was so happily naive and I want to talk to myself when I was like that. I was so so so full of ideals and innocence. I've changed and its really very scary. But Regina is still my favorite female artist and I'm still listening to her religiously.

This band of four sisters under the age of twenty could possibly be the best thing to come from Melbourne. I'm so jealously in love.

Here is a Kings of Leon song called Talihina Sky, it never really stood out to me that much.

But I downloaded the KOL B-side songs (along with a lot of other SHIT remixes) and I discovered this alternate recording of Talihina Sky, and I'm in love. I do realise why they chose the album version to be on the album though, because it just mixes better.

Hazards of Love by the Decemberists could potentially be my favourite album of all time.

Best party song at the moment!