iamamiwhoami; kin

iamamiwhoami es uno de los descubrimientos que más me ha fascinado en los últimos años. Aunque su figura principal sea la cantante sueca Jonna Lee, llamarlo grupo musical sería incorrecto, pues es mucho más que eso: iamamiwhoami es un proyecto audiovisual formado por un conjunto de músicos, fotógrafos, cineastas, escritores y artistas en general. Sus creaciones son una maravilla, el conjunto de sonido e imagen forman siempre una simbiosis perfecta. Los paisajes naturales, simbolismos y elementos surrealistas son los componentes fundamentales que aparecen en todos sus vídeos. La fotografía y dirección de arte me fascinan especialmente. Todo está muy bien cuidado, hasta el más mínimo detalle. Para mí, iamamiwhoami es auténtica perfección audiovisual.

Hace ya un par de años que soy fan de ellos, pero hoy me he reencontrado con mi proyecto favorito: kin, su primer album audiovisual. En su día me encantó que todos los temas tuvieran su propio vídeo, y que todos los vídeos estuvieran unidos y formaran una narración, la cual iban mostrando por capítulos, publicando cada vídeo por separado, con un link directo al siguiente. Hoy me he encontrado con esta recopilación y me ha fascinado aun más verlo todo seguido, por eso he querido compartirlo por aquí, realmente es algo digno de experimentar. Así pues, espero que lo disfrutéis tanto como yo.

Stuck Here Again | L7

Me acabo de dar cuenta de que este tema de L7 describe muy bien mi vida actual... o quizá mi vida en general (hola, sí, voy a intentar volver por estos lares, a ver cuánto duro XD)



I'm good at feeling bad
I'm even better at feeling worse
Some would say life is a charm
But I'm convinced it is a curse

Yeah yeah, I'm stuck here again
I've learned to make bad situations my friend
It starts all over just when it should end
Yeah yeah, I'm stuck here again

Here comes that familiar pain again
I'm low down, I'm feeling ill
Yeah yeah, I'm stuck here again
Wish there's someone I could kill, yeah

Yeah yeah, I'm stuck here again
I've learned to make bad situations my friend
It starts all over just when it should end
Yeah yeah, I'm stuck here again

Here comes that familiar pain again
I'm low down, I'm feeling ill
Stuck here again
Wish there's someone I could kill, yeah

Yeah yeah, I'm stuck here again
I've learned to make bad situations my friend
It starts all over just when it should end
Yeah yeah, I'm stuck here again

Yeah yeah, I'm stuck here again
Yeah yeah, I'm stuck here again
It starts all over just when it should end
Yeah yeah, I'm stuck here again

Cut My Skin It Makes Me Human | The Gits

Cut my skin, it makes me human
Scorn your mind
Just feel the pain
Cuz it's what makes us human
It keeps us all the same

You lose your head on your chosen trip
The sight of your blood will lose your spit
And a broken heart will turn to sin
But when the wound is open
We're all the same

Cut my skin, it makes me human
Scorn your mind
Just feel the pain
When you're lookin at pain you're lookin at truth
Nothin like pain to make us all the same

I see you each day get up nine-to-five
You rush in a game of lies for need
But you never seem to recognize
You're no better or worse than me
I dare you once just to make it hurt
How many times can you race around
With the world running faster faster then...
I never expect to catch up

Cut my skin, it makes me human
Scorn your mind
Just feel the pain
When you're lookin at pain you're lookin at truth
Nothin like pain to make us all the same

Ahh yeah

Cut my skin, it makes me human
Scorn your mind
Just feel the pain
Cuz it's what makes us human
It keeps us all the same

You lose your head on your chosen trip
The sight of your blood will lose your spit
And a broken heart will turn to sin
But when the wound is open
You're all the fuckin same

Cut my skin it makes me human
Scorn your mind well just feel the blow
Cause when you're lookin at pain you're lookin at truth
Nothin like pain to keep us all the same

Cut my skin, it makes me human
Scorn your mind
Just feel the pain
Cuz it's what makes us human
It keeps us all the same

Every Day Is Exactly The Same | Nine Inch Nails

I believe I can see the future
Cause I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
But then again
That might have been a dream
I think I used to have a voice
Now I never make a sound
I just do what I've been told
I really don't want them to come around

 Oh, no

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

I can feel their eyes are watching
In case I lose myself again
Sometimes I think I'm happy here
Sometimes, yet I still pretend
I can't remember how this got started
But I can tell you exactly how it will end

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same

I'm writing on a little piece of paper
I'm hoping someday you might find
Well I'll hide it behind something
They won't look behind
I'm still inside here
A little bit comes bleeding through
I wish this could have been any other way
But I just don't know, I don't know what else I can do

Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same...

Destroying Angel | Sneaker Pimps

I know you know my head's not in this now
Nothing you could keep, so keep me down
Like the stones beneath the water that you walk on to be taller
And the hands you stuck together ‘cause you prayed you'd wait forever
Just another fragile angel heart
Falling down on lead wings torn apart

And the words beneath my skin
The ink that you put in
Destroying all the things you've left around
‘Cause an earthbound’s coming down
Come down, come down, come round

So what you have the nerve to call a friend
Is starved of all the sense to make amends
‘Cause I'm the glass you break to touch but you never want me much
Like the view across the water from your shoes, two feet smaller
I know it doesn't pay to be this hurt
Falling off the morning getting worse

And the words beneath my skin
The ink that you put in
Destroying all the things you’ve left around
‘Cause an earthbound’s coming down
Come down, come down, come round

‘Cause I’m down
I’m down
Yes I'm down
Help me, I'm down
Tell me, I'm down
I'm down

Luminol | Steven Wilson

Me encanta encontrarme de casualidad con maravillas musicales tan espléndidas como esta...



Here we all are born into a struggle
To come so far but end up returning to dust

Oxfam panache and tips his hat
(laces undone)
He has no truck with idle chat
(work to be done)
The songs he learned from scratched LPs
Stops in mid-flow to sip his tea

He strums the chords with less than grace
(songs we all know)
Each passing year etched on his face
(sun, rain or snow)
The words he sings are not his own
They speak of things he'll never know

Salt of the Earth | Lovedrug

Escuché esta canción en uno de los trailers de The Last of Us y me fascinó tanto que desde entonces la tengo puesta siempre en bucle XD



Oh like the salt of the earth
Each correction makes us stronger
Absconder in happiness, yeah

Voyage up my river
Full of tears it's yerking
Lookout now, doctor's unleashing

All this dangerous, this is dangerous
I can't hide your danger eye
I can't hide your death selection

One day I would've fallen so in love
One day I would've painted reds and greens of one who let me live long enough
But there's suits in love with their own poises
Hypocrites with no more voices
Corporate cowards with no more choices

This is dangerous, this is dangerous
I can't hide your danger eye
I can't hide your death selection

All is lost for us if heaven
All is lost for us if heaven fails
All is, all is, all is...

Bizarre Love Triangle | New Order

Every time I think of you
I feel shot right through with a bolt of blue
It's no problem of mine
But it's a problem I find
Living a life that I can't leave behind
But there's no sense in telling me
The wisdom of the fool won't set you free
But that's the way that it goes
And it's what nobody knows
well every day my confusion grows

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You say the words that I can't say

I feel fine and I feel good
I'm feeling like I never should
Whenever I get this way
I just don't know what to say
Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday
I'm not sure what this could mean
I don't think you're what you seem
I do admit to myself
That if I hurt someone else
Then I'll never see just what we're meant to be

Every time I see you falling
I get down on my knees and pray
I'm waiting for that final moment
You say the words that I can't say

Sugar | Bikini Kill

Oh baby, I want you
You're so fuckin big
You're so big and hard
You've got such a big cock
Push it in deeper, now
Oh deeper, harder
I'm almost cumming
I'm almost cumming

Oh woh woh woh
Sugar
I can almost reach mine now, now, now
Sugar

I'm a self-fulfilling porno queen, yeah
I mimic out your every fucking fantasy, yeah, yeah
And now, and now, in my head I'm on my knees
Oh baby
Why can't I ever get my sugar?

What are you afraid of?
Who are you afraid of?
What are you afraid of?
Who are you afraid of?

Oh woh woh woh
Sugar

I won't play girl to your boy no more
Sugar
I want mine right here right now, baby
Sugar
I can almost reach it now, now, now
Sugar

Shitlist | L7

When I get mad
And I get pissed
I grab my pen
And I write out a list
Of all the people
That won't be missed
You've made my shitlist

For all the ones
Who bum me out
Shitlist
For all the ones
Who fill my head with doubt
Shitlist
For all the squares who get me pissed
Shitlist
You've made my shitlist

Shitlist
Shitlist

When I get mad
And I get pissed
Shitlist
I grab my pen
And write out a list
Shitlist
Of all you assholes
Who won't be missed
Shitlist
You've made my shitlist

Shitlist
Shitlist

I'm Afraid of Americans | David Bowie (feat. NIN)

Acabo de descubrir que David Bowie hizo esta colaboración con Nine Inch Nails allá por el año 1997 y no se cómo no me había enterado hasta ahora, ¿en qué mundo vivo? XD

El caso es que tanto la canción como el vídeo son geniales. Ver a David Bowie siendo perseguido por Trent Reznor en las calles de Nueva York no tiene desperdicio alguno XDD



Jonny's in America
No tricks at the wheel

Nobody needs anyone
They don't even just pretend

Jonny's in America

I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't

I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't

I'm afraid of Americans 

Jonny's in America

Jonny wants a plane
Jonny wants to suck on a Coke
Jonny wants a woman
Jonny wants to think of a joke

Jonny's in America

I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't

I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't

I'm afraid of Americans 

Jonny's in America
Jonny looks up at the stars
Jonny combs his hair
And Jonny wants pussy in cars

Jonny's in America

I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't

I'm afraid of Americans
I'm afraid of the world
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't

I'm afraid of Americans 
I'm afraid of the words
I'm afraid I can't help it
I'm afraid I can't

I'm afraid of Americans

God is an American

3 de septiembre

Kathleen Hanna y Trent Reznor son posiblemente los dos músicos que más me han influido a lo largo de los años. La primera, una de las fundadoras del movimiento musical feminista de los años 90, el Riot Grrrl (sí, de ahí viene el "grrrl" del título de mi blog :P). El segundo, líder y razón de ser de la banda Nine inch Nails, cuya mente y música me parecen de lo más brillante que ha existido nunca en la escena musical de las últimas décadas. Ambos son los creadores responsables de dos de mis grupos más favoritos, Bikini Kill y Nine Inch Nails. Una andaba bastante parada en la música en general, y el otro hacía años que no hacía nada nuevo con su banda original, pero el caso es que ambos han vuelto ahora, renovándose musicalmente, y haciéndome la mujer más feliz del mundo <3

Katheen Hanna a la izquierda, Trent Reznor a la derecha.

Hey Joni | Sonic Youth

Hey Joni, put it all behind you
Hey Joni, now I've put it all behind me too
These times can't add up
Your life is such a mess
Forget the past, and just say yes

Tell me Joni, am I the one
To see you through?
In this broken town can you still jack in
And know what to do?
I remember our youth, our high ideals
I remember you were so uptight
That time in the trees, we broke that vice
We took some steps and now we can't think twice

Tell me Joni, am I right by you?
Tell me, how you're gonna lose this hard luck?
Hey Joni, when will all these dreams come true?
You'd better find a way to climb down off that truck

Shots ring out from the center of an empty field
Joni's in the tall grass
She's a beautiful mental jukebox
A sailboat explosion
A snap of electric whipcrack

She's not thinking about the future
She's not spinning her wheels
She doesn't think at all about the past
She's thinking long and hard
About that high wild sound
And wondering will it last?

Kick it

Hey Joni, put it all behind you
There's something turning, it's turning right to you
My head burns, but I know you'll speak the truth, hey!

Hey Joni, put it all behind you
Hey Joni, now I've put it all behind me too
Forget the future
These times are such a mess
Tune out the past, and just say yes

It's 1963
It's 1964
It's 1957
It's 1962

Put it all behind you
Now it's all behind you

Grasshopper | Ride

You're Not Here | Akira Yamaoka

Blue sky to forever
The green grass blows in the wind, dancing
It would be a much better sight with you, with me
If you hadn't met me, I'd be fine on my own, baby
Never felt so lonely, then you came along

So now what should I do,
I'm strung out, addicted to you
My body aches, now that you're gone
My supply fell trough

Gladly gave me everything you had and more
You craved my happiness
When you made me feel joy it made you smile
But now I feel your stress
Love was never meant to be such a crazy afair, no
And who has time for tears
Never thought I'd sit around and cry for your love
'Till now

Oh I feel your stress

Oh, who has time for tears?

Oh, my baby

I feel your stress

o | iamamiwhoami

I thought I felt a spark
Thought I saw a flame
When something changed in you
Who took the blame?

My plan was foolproof
As I became
A fortress of your heart

Love
The kind that kills and scars
And makes you kneel and crawl
To hell and back

The words that slit your throat
And make you think of love
As the new black
As what you lack

The sound of letting go
A side of you
That we all set aside
When the world was new

Under the full moon
Only endless rain
An absence of your heart

Love
The kind that kills and scars
And makes you kneel and crawl
To hell and back

The words that slit your throat
And make you think of love
As the new black
As what you lack

Sin | Nine Inch Nails

You give me the reason
You give me control
I gave you my Purity
My Purity you stole

Did you think I wouldn't recognize this compromise?
Am I just too stupid to realize?
Stale incense, old sweat
And lies, lies, lies

It comes down to this
Your kiss
Your fist
And your strain
It gets under my skin
Within
Take in
The extent of my sin

You give me the anger
You give me the nerve
Carry out my sentence
While I get what I deserve

I'm just an effigy to be disgraced
To be defaced
Your need for me has been replaced
And if I can't have everything well then just give me a taste

It comes down to this
Your kiss
Your fist
And your strain
It gets under my skin
Within
Take in
The extent of my sin

Miss World | Hole

I am the girl you know, can't look you in the eye
I am the girl you know, so sick I cannot try
And I am the one you want, can't look you in the eye
I am the girl, you know I lie, I lie and lie

I'm Miss World, somebody kill me
Kill me pills
No one cares, my friends
My friends

I'm Miss World, watch me break and watch me burn
No one is listening, my friends

Now I've made my bed, I'll lie in it
I've made my bed, I'll die in it
I've made my bed, I'll lie in it
I've made my bed, I'll die in it

Cute girls watch when I eat ether
Suck me under
Maybe forever, my friends

I've made my bed, I'll lie in it
I've made my bed, I'll die in it
I've made my bed, I'll lie in it
I've made my bed, I'll cry in it
I've made my bed, I'll lie in it
I've made my bed, I'll cry in it
I've made my bed, I'll die in it
I've made my bed, I'll lie in it
My friend
 

I am the girl you know, can't look you in the eye

Crónica: The Hives (BCN 2012)

Bueno, bueno, el pasado domingo 2 de diciembre tuve la suerte de asistir al concierto que The Hives dieron en la sala Razzmatazz de Barcelona, y tengo que decir que sin duda ha sido uno de los mejores a los que he ido nunca. El concierto formaba parte de la gira de su nuevo disco, 'Lex Hives', el cual salió al mercado durante el pasado mes de junio.

Una de las razones por las que son uno de mis grupos favoritos actuales es porque han sabido mantener su sonido, estilo y esencia inicial durante todos esos años que llevan activos, y este quinto album no es para nada una excepción, ya que sigue sonando igual de genial que los anteriores.

Crónica: Cruïlla Bcn 2012

Hace unos meses me enteré de que Iggy&The Stooges, uno de mis grupos favoritos que más deseaba ver en directo, venían de concierto a mi ciudad, Barcelona. Para acabarlo de mejorar, venían a un festival junto con los geniales Gogol Bordello y los míticos The Specials, y el precio del abono de los dos días que duraba el festival era solo de 40€. Por suerte en esos momentos podía permitirme el gasto, así que obviamente me lancé a comprar la entrada instantáneamente. Y joder, cuanto me alegro de haberlo hecho. ¡Los 40€ mejor invertidos de mi vida, sin duda!

Dicho festival era el Cruïlla Bcn, que lleva organizándose desde 2008, pero por alguna razón nunca antes había oído hablar de él. Y es una pena, porque me encanta su filosofía: Un festival para todo el mundo, sin targets, sin géneros, sin estilos, sólo música, sólo arte, una mezcla de culturas que puede disfrutar cualquier persona que quiera disfrutar de la buena música.

La verdad es que nunca antes había ido a un festival de música, ya que a pesar de que muchas veces han venido muchos grupos que me moría de ganas de ver en directo, el precio de las entradas siempre acababa siendo una pasada (de 80€ para arriba) y claro, nunca me lo podía permitir. Y si a ese gasto le sumamos el tener que moverte a otra ciudad, la estancia y todo lo demás... peor aun. Así que Cruïlla Bcn fue mi gran oportunidad, el precio era más que asequible, tenía lugar en mi propia ciudad y además tendría el placer de ver a la iguana en directo, ¿qué más podía pedir?