choose your fate wisely. will you choose the big love or will the big love choose you? you are forever marked by your choice of the big love. let big love wash over you like a series of eight embedded media clips.

play them all at once for maximum love. honestly, try it. you’ll thank me.

busy times here at faux pas hq. for an update, we turn now to digital correspondent and cell phone expert martin cooper. martin, are you there?

“Yes, thank you Gordon. As we hurtle forward like hard nuts further into the impossible abyss of the third millenium, my mind wanders. How is it that we got to this point? How was it I got to this point? Where am I and what am I doing here? Meanwhile, a phone rings, spreading its soothing tones across the vast aural landscape of the atmosphere in four dimensions. What is that sound? Is it a pigeon? Is it mommy calling? Or is it a ringtone by Faux Pas? It is all of these things, or one. It is CICADA. Whatever it is, it can be downloaded at toneshared.com, as an mp3 you can load on to your portable phone device. For free.

CICADA may or may not be a further sneak peek into the sound of the second Faux Pas album, which is rumored by hoodlums on the street to also contain “Changes”, “Coach” and other tracks starting with C.

Also Gordon, let me tell you - at toneshared.com, you’ll find ringtones from other bands that I like including Caribou, DJ Elefant Power, Jason Forrest, Leafcutter John, Lucas Abela (Justice Yeldham), Outputmessage, Tony Buck (The Necks) and Triosk. How Faux Pas got mixed up in this mess can only be answered by consulting the Oracle of Frobozz, deep in the heart of the seventeenth chamber of the Ninth Pit of Azuth’s Holy Fire. This has been Martin Cooper, reporting for all of mankind.”

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declan kelly

and yes, its a bit short notice, but tonight (in about an hour or two) you can catch me on the airwaves in melbourne, popping in for a chat on declan’s show against the arctic on 102.7FM rrr. i’ll be selecting a few tracks and talking a bit about my new ‘changes’ ep. rrr radio streams online here.

also, a big hello to anyone coming through the blog today who watched gotye guest program rage last night… its true, he was seen wearing a faux pas t-shirt, talking up this very blog, and guest programming a faux pas film clip. friends will be friends, right to the end! in order to extend the mutual back slapping, let me just say that it was possibly the best selection of clips i’ve seen someone program on rage. totally awesome!

lastly, here is patrick stewart. he makes me happy.

more music and rants later in the week…

37 degrees in november.
holy climate change, batman! the end is nigh.
no strenuous activity today.

today i discovered that 45:33 is a good album to listen to when you are sitting in a sweltering, stuffy room answering emails and writing blog posts. i’m totally psyched! if only i could lose weight via frenetic typing. meanwhile i maintain my james murphy physique. disco.

here are a few tracks that i am loving today, along with 45:33, in all this heat. i don’t know if these tracks are meant to heat you up or cool you off - the thom yorke remix is disco, not so far from lcd soundsystem, and disco is always hot. and cool. the oh astro is like… ahhhhhhh i’m delirious from the heat and so my memories of hot chip and lionel richie are blending into one glorious union. and ‘big love’ is… big love. we all need big love in these heady times. pass me a cold facewasher please mommy

MP3: Thom Yorke - The Eraser (Xxxchange mix)

MP3: Oh Astro - Hello Fuji Boy (download more here)

MP3: Fleetwood Mac - Big Love

i’m happy to announce that faux pas is triple j’s next chops featured artist for wednesday 14th november, as part of their oz music month. triple j is australia’s government-funded national youth radio network.

this means that at random points throughout the day you’ll be hearing my song “changes” on the triple j airwaves, and you’ll also be hearing short intros from me discussing my music and myself.

here’s a tasty excerpt - listen to me candidly discussing my mixed feelings about being selected as part of triple j’s next chops:

MP3: Faux Pas Next Chops interview

hear more at the faux pas next chops profile page.