November 2010
19 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-28) →
The Innocence Mission (35)
Laura Marling (14)
Lykke Li (9)
Robyn (9)
John Coltrane (9)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-21) →
Robyn (41)
The Innocence Mission (16)
Lykke Li (16)
Georg Friedrich Händel (12)
The Cardigans (12)
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Sabbatical
I’m going on a social networking sabbatical. I’ll see y’all on the flip side.
The paths of least resistance fail to lead anywhere worth going.
Nocturnes
Hopelessness wakes me in the early hours of the morning just as I have plunged into deepest dreams. I lie awake staring up at what I wish were stars, but are instead specs of light that have wandered into the room, now reflected off myriad electronic devices that whir and whiz a monotone serenade, ode to Insomnia, op. 43.
merlin:
Dial “E” for Eleanor (by Merlin Mann)
Merlin makes being a father not only seem cool—a fact that I was already convinced of—but also kind of effortless.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-14) →
Local Natives (41)
Arcade Fire (35)
Hilary Hahn, Hugh Wolff & Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (32)
Breathe Owl Breathe (19)
Rosie Thomas (16)
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I do not feign knowledge of what goes into love. I simply wish to fall into it...
Closet
The sudden sun
Wrings life from the shadows,
Hides them in the sky closet
That has room to hold
All the lights.
Grandfather’s voice echoes
From burnt out bulbs
Hanging in the abyss,
Ringing in their ears,
Keeping flat mimics
In their place,
Until it’s time for trickery.
Antepasado
I will
Find in this moment
The hope of past generations like
So many baby gurgles
That tickled their memories
When every one of us
Was young.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-11-7) →
The Black Keys (34)
Gemma Hayes (20)
The Innocence Mission (19)
George Frideric Handel (16)
Nina Nastasia & Jim White (14)
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Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’
‘Because they aren’t true.’
‘Never?’...
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via loveyourchaos)
For all his prosaic power, I really have to disagree with Foer on this one. I think he’s confusing cold, hard facts with truth. The truest things, which is to say, those things that never pass out of being, never came into being, and always are, are...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-10-31) →
Arcade Fire (21)
Robyn (16)
Ladyhawke (13)
Sigur Rós (13)
Bela Kovacs (13)
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