March 5, 2015

The swelling tide of responsibility and projects that need to be done is rolling towards me. I feel like I'm swimming happily (more or less) along at the beach and on the horizon a huge wave is forming. Not a tidal wave or anything, but one large enough that I'm probably going to be tossed around for a bit. I don't know yet how large it will be nor how easy to ride it out, etc... from here it looks like it's going to be a rough go. But you still have to just get through it.

As per usual, these are some songs that struck my fancy. Some old favorites, some newly discovered. Music helps get through those overwhelming waves.

Fake Empire - The National

Next Exit - Interpol
Breathe Me - Sia
Blood - The Middle East
Calgary - Bon Iver
The New - Interpol
To Go Home - M. Ward
Bloodstream - Stateless
Evil - Interpol
Flume - Bon Iver
Jezebel - Iron and Wine
Hallelujah - The Helio Sequence

February 4, 2015

Pressure mounting at the office. Trying to drown myself in the familiar melancholy of sad music. A pretty dismal winter, up until my Birthday in late January. Up until then, the normal struggle with rejection was winning pretty handily. Since then a handful of things, elucidated elsewhere, although probably never published, surprisingly point toward what is at least healthy if not strong relationship. I've been thinking through the dichotomy of little things such as I crave actually occurring, but still feeling like any happiness is sure to crumble, and that whatever happiness I try to experience is unearned and short lived. Ah well. Much to deep for me. But it slightly informs this sad strain of music and how that feels comfortable to me.

Also on pins and needles for the Firefly lineup to come out. Could be today, could be any day really. Really hoping for St Vincent, Metric, and of course Arcade Fire.



Always Gold - Radical Face
How To Fight Loneliness - Wilco
Learning - The National
Broadripple is Burning - Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
Love Vigilantes - Iron and Wine
Crown of Love - Arcade Fire
Michicant - Bon Iver
Gentle Hour - Yo Lo Tengo
Darkmatter - Andrew Bird
Shelter - The XX

October 13, 2014

I like ice cream a lot. I can eat ice cream about as fast as anyone I know. It is a talent / quirk / genetic predisposition. It is so tasty and creamy and rich, and sometimes gives you a headache. I've been listening to a log of EDM music lately, especially when I'm heads down working, concentrating on something else, Bass thumping in my brain and no need to concentrate. That's like ice cream - especially the headache part... It's tasty, It's enjoyable. but when you take in nothing but that for days on end after a while you start to get tired of it. I still like the lazy energy and catchy electro-sounds in EDM, I'll still enjoy it from time to time, but today I flipped over to a pandora channel spun from the National. As those first crunchy guitars, forlorn horns, and above all, lyrics with depth and meaning I realized again that this is more my speed / more of what it takes to keep my brain in the right place.

Here's a few songs, some new to me, some old favorites.



Take me to Church - Hozier
Satellite - Guster
Neigborhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire
For Emma - Bon Iver
Gospel - The National
Gone for Good - The Shins
Neighborhood #4 (Kettles) - Arcade Fire
Family Tree - TV on the Radio
1901 - Phoenix
We're Going to be Friends - White Stripes
Fiery Crash - Andrew Bird
Holocene - Bon Iver
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - The Flaming Lips
New Slang - The Shins
As Tall As Cliffs - Margot and the Nuclear So and So's




Plenty more to come in the days ahead.

July 28, 2014

More songs that caught my ear. Difficult to describe my mood of late. Pleased with successful completion of a project at work, sober and anxious about money problems, sad and rejection prone with some of the usual family dynamics.


Glory - Radical Face
Funeral - Band of Horses
The Girl - City And Colour
Comes and Goes (In Waves) - Greg Laswell
I Turn my Camera On - Spoon
Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 - The Flaming Lips
Burning - The Whitest Boy Alive
Your Protector - Fleet Foxes
Beach Baby - Bon Iver
Home - Edward Sharp and The Magnetic Zeroes
40 Day Dream - Edward Sharp and The Magnetic Zeroes


There are always more songs to hear and learn and enjoy.

January 31, 2012

More Cleanup, More songs, all terrific, just throwing them out there. Better late than never.

Cheerleader - St. Vincent

One for You and One for Me - Bright Eyes

Bubble - King Creosote and Jon Hopkins

Perth - Bon Iver

Rubber - Yuck

Civilian - Wye Oak

Country Clutter - Delorean

Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes

Belong - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Estate Sale Sign - Mountain Goats

Abducted - Cults