March 2010
16 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-28) →
Laura Veirs (71)
Basia Bulat (9)
Breathe Owl Breathe (8)
Johann Sebastian Bach (7)
Antonín Dvořák (2)
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To A Rich Inner Life
and the obliviousness of loneliness that it brings.
We're all stampeding buffalos
“And my stampeding buffalo
Stops in her tracks and watches the snow
Falling through the old oak tree
When you give your heart to me”
Laura Veirs’ album July Flame is every bit of amazing. Recently, I’ve been completely obsessed with the song When You Give Your Heart for its lyrical adeptness as much as its ability to communicate the beauty of a heart in love.
What...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-21) →
Johannes Brahms (20)
Camille Saint-Saëns (16)
Asobi Seksu (16)
Basia Bulat (16)
Wayne Newton (15)
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Inhaled
In our minds, and all those dreams composed on film and paper, loving is as simple as breathing. but around here, no one exhales.
andgoodbye:
aditir:
I used to really love to read and write and learn and somewhere along the way I stopped loving doing that in the same way. I used to read the back of cereal boxes and shampoo bottles as a kid because there was nothing else to read. I could read a novel a night and not in the light trashy novel kind of way but in the actually read things kind of way. And now I read blog...
Watch
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-14) →
Laura Veirs (44)
Teresa Cristina (16)
Florence + The Machine (16)
Bill Evans (10)
Sulkhan Tsintsadze (6)
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Making Something Good
I sometimes snicker cynically when I read the bits of lyrics from songs that people have posted. Not necessarily because I thing it’s a silly, adolescent activity, but rather because they provide little or no reasons for why they’re posting it. Context is everything when it comes to lyrics. With that said, you may be wondering why I posted the bit of lyrics from Laura Veirs’ song...
“Oh, I wanted to make something built to last,
A bottled ship with a golden mast...”
– Make Something Good by Laura Veirs
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7) →
Antonio Vivaldi (24)
Talib Kweli (18)
Alela Diane (11)
Wayne Newton (10)
Grizzly Bear (6)
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“The nearest I have to a rule is a Post-it on the wall in front of my desk saying...”
– Helen Simpson in response to the Guardian’s Ten Rules for Writing Fiction
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28) →
Basia Bulat (19)
Laura Veirs (13)
Alela Diane (11)
Sigur Rós (11)
Carina Round (10)
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