OTP Science Bros / Rec List
The personal likes of a music loving, book reading, film watching obsessive geek who spends way too much time watching TV and getting emotionally attached to fictional characters.
• A Song Of Ice & Fire • Alabama Shakes • The Avengers • Awake • Being Human • Ben Wyatt • Boyd Crowder • Breaking Bad • Bruce Banner • Chuck • Community • Cougar Town • The Dark Knight Rises • Doctor Who • Fables • Fringe • Game Of Thrones • Happy Endings • The Hobbit • Homeland • Iron & Wine • Jeremy Renner • Jesse Pinkman • Joss Whedon • Justified • Lincoln Lee • Locke and Key • Mark Ruffalo • Mission Impossible 4 • The Muppets • Parks & Recreation • Pearl Jam • PJ Harvey • Prometheus • Pulp • Scarlett Johansson • Sherlock • The Shield • Southland • Spartacus • Steve Rogers • The Strokes • Timothy Olyphant • Up All Night
Books of 2011 / Films of 2011
Song of the Day
And, those heavenly creatures
They call out
“We are too young to be troubled by this doubt”
Do you understand your heart now
Really understand your heart
It’s a rare, rare kind
That isn’t troubled by his own mind
A rare, rare kind
And, those heavenly creatures
They call out
“We are too young to be troubled by this doubt”
“We are too young to be troubled by this doubt”
Your Own Kind by Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
So there I was last night watching Jeremy Renner in Twelve and Holding and this really beautiful song was being played so thanks to the wonder of IMDB I found out it was by Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter. Two minutes later I have their Reckless Burning album download, five minutes later their 2011 record Marble Son.
24 hours later I am completely and utterly obsessed with this singer-songwriter. I find it fairly difficult to get into new music as I am pretty fussy but when I do find something that I can connect with I fall so damn hard.
Top 10 Albums of 2011
10 songs from my favourite records of the year
Beirut The Rip Tide
And knew you had it all along / An endless need for games / Don’t forget a candle’s fire / Is only just a flame
Song: A Candle’s Fire
Bright Eyes The People’s Key
Hold on tight beginner’s mind / The currents far too strong / It’ll carry you along / Till you’re just like everyone
British Sea Power - Valhalla Dancehall
I’m a big fan of the local library / I just read a book but that’s another story
Song: Who’s In Control?
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
I am ice and dust and light / I am sky and here / I can hear people / I think you are near me now / The world is so loud / Keep falling / I’ll find you
Song: Snowflakes
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
I’ve seen and done things I want to forget / I’ve seen soldiers fall like lumps of meat / Blown and shot out beyond belief / Arms and legs were in the trees
Song: The Words That Maketh Murder
Radiohead - The King Of Limbs
Good Morning, Mr. Magpie / How are we today? / And now you stole it, all the magic took my memories
Song: Morning Mr Magpie
The Features - Wilderness
Take every leaf from every tree / Take every blade of grass you see / Take every stone you think you’ll need / They’re yours to keep / My love
The Strokes - Angles
So we talk about ourselves in hell / To forget the love we never felt / All the old jokes that work so well / Universal truth was a moment’s lie
Song: Life Is Simple In The Moonlight
Wild Flag - Wild Flag
I’m a racehorse / Put your money on me / You can’t love no one / You don’t love no one / You put your love on me
Song: Racehorse
Bonus Album of the year
Everything you know so well / Is bound by hushed devotion / And in the shapes we used to be / I remember asking / Why mirror all that moves / To be soothe, yet still be lacking
Added very last minute as in the 29th December 2011 I want to make Marble Son by Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter my 11th choice because it is completely and utterly taking over my mind and soul and will continue to in the final days of 2011.
