Patrick Tsai, an currently Tokyo-based American who is also a former part-photographer of his own love story, My Little Dead Dick (Restricted only to Flickr user), has never ever ever cease to inspire me. His photos are intimate, quirky and always give me this certain emotion of how people surrounding you, in every place you go, are part of this gigantic collaboration called: life. He’s simply brilliant.
Lately I’ve been tired of all the same old indie pop stuff that just seems to be recycled over and over but there is something about Lykke Li’s combination of wonderful pop hooks, the beautiful and airy minimal production, and the fragility that seeps into the vocals of this Swedish singer-songwriter. Youth Novels is Lykke Li’s debut full-length and a damn good one at that. The record was produced by none other than Bjorn Yttling (of Peter, Bjorn, & John) who (unsurprisingly) uses many of the same sonic textures he does on his own record and Lasse Marten (who produced Kelly Clarkson’s hit “Since U Been Gone”) so it doesn’t surprise me that it sounds both adventurous and sugar-coated. Lykke Li can sound sexy, vulnerable, or distantly cold depending on the song and all while I honestly wouldn’t have thought I’d like her much at all, but hey, what can you do?
I just got back from Phi Phi, Thailand. Again. I was traveling alone. Really spending great time there. I’m suppose to be broken-hearted, cause, you know. Yeah. But apparently no, I’m in love.