December 2011
3 posts
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Hello Earth
Listening to Kate Bush because my soul interprets her as Christmas music. The unusual, bursting forth into the everyday. Partaking of our common language, but remixing it to say something deeper, stranger, and unexpected. The feel of a celebratory winter. Eons and immediacy both. Memory, faith, hope, love.
October 2009
2 posts
You are well-made.
Avalanche
Sometimes the most beautiful songs I can think of tell sad or imperfect stories. I think maybe this is because they contain transcendent lines — the belief, or hope, or desperate wish, for something really, truly good — and in that glimmer, a whole map of hope and wonder unfolds, before it’s crushed back under by the black wave, the madness of events as the speaker/writer has...
September 2009
20 posts
Sometimes This Small Thing is Enough
“I felt I’d only blinked my eyes, but when I opened them my girlfriend and a Mexican neighbor were working on me, doing everything they could to bring me back. The Mexican was saying, ‘There, he’s coming around now.’
“We lived in a tiny, dirty apartment. When I realized how long I’d been out and how close I’d come to leaving it forever, our little...
Out of This Place →
This sequence of images really delighted me (and the next-to-last photo almost brought me to tears). So I thought I’d share it. Scroll up to the top of the page for them and then just take them in, one at a time. I think you’ll be glad you did.
i carry your heart with me
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here...
“God has an incredibly high view of people. God believes that people can do...”
– Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis, “Dust.”
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Want to Hurry Home to You
When you wake up from sweet dreams, you want music to carry you on a honey-cloud further into the day. Here’s what did it for me:
Tegan and Sara, “I Know I Know I Know”
The National, “Slow Show”
The National, “Green Gloves”
Sufjan Stevens, “The Dress Looks Nice on You”
If you want to listen, go here. They should be near the top of the...
"I'll be Holding Her Hand 'Til It's Warm. Holding... →
Tori Amos' Introduction to Death: The High Cost of... →
I really needed to read this today. Like a lot of good art, it affects me strongly without me being able to take it to pieces and fully analyze each component. And that’s good.
(And yes, my favorite issue of the Sandman is #8, The Sound of Her Wings.)
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My Blip.fm Profile Page →
This’ll take you directly to my own blip.fm playlist. From there, whether or not you like what you hear, you’ll have learned a little more about me, and will be well set-up to start your own blip.fm. account. Internet music on demand, social networking, no fees, no downloads.