We like baby-faced boys from Brighton

Such as, oh, the Kooks!

I don't know what it is about these boys, but they're absolutely adorable with their curly locks and pointy shoes. They sing with wide-eyed innocence about snogging on sofas and girls with large breasts.

Some people say Brighton is a place where you sit on the pier eating brightly- coloured candy floss all day. The Kooks only perpetuate that image. Especially frontman Luke Pritchard in this photo (at right, with straw hat), which also makes a strong case for the intentional wearing of a brown/black colour combination. Last but not least, knackered dress shoes purvey either resourcefulness ('Look what I happened across in the vintage shop/my grandfathers attic/the high school drama club wardrobe') or that you own nice things but can't part with them. Rrrrowr.

And they make the most crush-worthy music: cutesy and very cheeky, clean guitars, fun and poppy. Check out this video by French music blog La Blogotheque. They play Ooh La while walking through the streets. Christine can't get enough of it. One view and you'll probably be hooked as well.

The Indie-Rock Frontwoman

Maybe I'm just another hopelessly enamored indie boy, crushing on whomever the Gum tells me to, but I absolutely adore Jenny Lewis. When she isn't singing duets with puppets, Miss Lewis is fronting Rilo Kiley, releasing solo albums, and contributing to Postal Service songs. And when she's not doing those things, she's just being an Eazy-E kind of girl, telling Spin how much she misses N.W.A. and reminiscing about the times she was the only white girl at rap concerts.

To sum things up, I love the voice, I love the hair, and in this case, I love the shades. If I could be any hand puppet in the world, I'd be this one.

Unfortunately, I can only try to ignore her association with Conor Oberst.

Contrary to popular belief...

We have crushes on non-musicians.

The best example that I can think of this is The Mighty Boosh. We discovered this show last semester and pretty much haven't laughed as hard as we did while watching it since (ok thats a slight exaggeration).

Weird, but I found this picture of the two of them with The Horrors...

Kelly's crush has on red pants, mine is wearing Chuck Taylors (oh he looks awful here...sigh)

The show is about two zookeepers, Howard Moon and Vince Noir, who go on out of control adventures involving bears and mod-wolves and the like. But anyway, Kelly laid claim to Vince, Noel Felding, and I developed a crush on Howard, Julian Barratt. Noel is the hipstery one, very young British prototype, and Howard usually has very messy hair. I complain because usually on the show he looks terrible, this being part of his character, but in real life, I think he's quite dreamy.

I wanted to post because I discovered these two videos. One with them on their former sketch show,"(Un)natural Acts", and the secound being an interview with this horrible anchorwoman, but Julian just looks so cute and they make funny jokes.(She seems to think she's ALex Zane, but is not at all funny.)

Unnatural Acts: Police Sketch

- Julian is the back rubbing police officer and Noel is the man talking to the police chief. Its funny to see them so young, which such short hair. Noel looks especially different, mainly because we are used to seeing him in crazy outfits with fantastic hair.

The Mighty Boosh on Liquid TV

- I can't stand this woman, she totally lacks proper interviewing skills. Reguardless, this is how the two look now-a-days. Noel's hair is out of control as usual, and Julian is well... ahh, lovely. Lovely messy hair, lovely lovely smile.

Lastly, just for the hell of it...

The Mighty Boosh - Soup Song

Guess Who's Finally Here!

Yes, that's right. It's KD in the house. I put off joining the blog as potential employers were apt to view my other blogging and, of course in the nature of the internet, find everything else attached to my name. Such as, perhaps, this. But now I don't care. I didn't get the job (no don't feel bad because) I'm going to travel this summer and then... Who knows! But what this does mean is that there will be a whole new international aspect to OUR CRUSH LIST. And I'm well-excited for that.

Anyways here's a little crush food for (the meantime) thought:

Totally crushing on Tom Meighan. Not only is he the member of one of my favourite bands, but he fronts it with swagger, energy, sass, style, and loads of (earnest) smiles -- plus does windmills with his arms while singing!!

Honestly, one of the few frontmen nowadays with loads of stage presence! Bandmate Serge, guitarist/songwriter/voxist, is also well-worthy, but he's almost too attractive, like in a model type of way. I stand by my choice.

x kd