Saturday, May 28, 2016

Saturday Verse: "Practice" - Ellen Bryant Voigt

May 26th, 2016

PRACTICE 
To weep unbidden, to wake
at night in order to weep, to wait
for the whisker on the face of the clock
to twitch again, moving
the dumb day forward— 
is this merely practice?
Some believe in heaven,
some in rest. We'll float,
you said. Afterward
we'll float between two worlds— 
five bronze beetles
stacked like spoons in one
peony blossom, drugged by lust:
if I came back as a bird
I'd remember that— 
until everyone we love
is safe
is what you said.

                                                - Ellen Bryant Voigt

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Music for your Midweek: Procol Harum - "Too Much Between Us"

May 13, 2016


A lovely little song. That melody in the verses is a sweet thing:

Saturday, May 21, 2016

Saturday Verse: "A Cicada Shell" - Matsuo Basho

May 9th, 2016

A cicada shell;
it sang itself
     utterly away.

                            - Matuso Basho (translated by R.H. Blythe)

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Music for your Midweek: Gallant - "Weight in Gold"

This guy sang at The Depot a couple weeks ago. How can you resist this voice???



And on top of it all, he's just a real person. Gold indeed.

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Music for your Midweek: "Your Best American Girl" (Mitski cover) - Gretchen Devine

Well. Long time no sing. Here's a cover that took far too too much time for what ended up making the cut. Out of practice, but eager to keep trying:


And click here for the original. She's coming in July. Check her outttt.

Saturday, May 7, 2016

Saturday Verse: "Special Problems in Vocabulary" - Tony Hoagland


4-29-2016


SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN VOCABULARY 
There is no single particular noun
for the way a friendship,
stretched over time, grows thin,
then one day snaps with a popping sound. 
No verb for accidentally
breaking a thing
while trying to get it open
—a marriage, for example. 
No particular phrase for losing a book
in the middle of reading it,
and therefore never learning the end. 
There is no expression, in English, at least,
for avoiding the sight
of your own body in the mirror,
for disliking the touch 
of the afternoon sun,
for walking into the flatlands and dust
that stretch out before you
after your adventures are done. 
No adjective for gradually speaking less and less,
because you have stopped being able
to say the one thing that would
break your life loose from its grip. 
Certainly no name that one can imagine
for the aspen tree outside the kitchen window,
in spade-shaped leaves 
spinning on their stems,
working themselves into
a pale-green, vegetable blur. 
No word for waking up one morning
and looking around,
because the mysterious spirit 
that drives all things
seems to have returned
and is on your side again. 

                                             - Tony Hoagland 

Friday, May 6, 2016

May Mix: Sweeter than the now

I'm getting way better at selfies


Counting down the days till 2016 is over. Only 8 more months. Can I make it??? Here's a mix:



1. Neighborhood Watch - Mike Krol



2. I Hate The Weekend - Tacocat



3. The Season/Carry Me - Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals



4. Talk, Go - twig twig



5. Hadron Collider (Blood Orange Mix)  - Blood Orange & Nelly Furtado


Blood Orange x Nelly Furtado - Hadron Collider [Live at the Apollo Theater] from h2xo on Vimeo.

6. Goodbye Forever - My Brightest Diamond



7. Sweat - RY X



8. Bluebird - Beach House



9. Girls Just Want To Have Fun (feat. Emily Greene & Lucius) - Alex Niedt

*Click link above*

10. Fill In The Blank - Car Seat Headrest



11. Hey, Doreen - Lucius



12. And I Love Her - Kurt Cobain

https://open.spotify.com/embed/album/7LJpRP5NJ9RNJLsO2U3sMo

13. Mama, You Been On My Mind - Jeff Buckley



NOTES:
2. Fun fact. Since I've started working full time again, weekends are now my least favorite days. Every weekend is like new years eve, and they can never live up to the hype.
3. Break my heart Anderson .Paak. See him at Twilight
5. Can't find the track anymore, so hope you enjoy this lovely video and Nelly Furtado is a TRUE ARTIST you guys. She kills it.
4. "The then is always sweeter than the now" :(
6. My Brightest Diamond is too much. A true poet.
10. That's a pretty happy sad song if I ever heard one
12. Break my heart
13. And break my heart again

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Music for your Midweek: Radiohead - "Burn the Witch"

Everyone's talking about it. Check it out for yourself:


 Excited???