[Winter Woods]

Putting The Damage On - Tori Amos

the best friend you have [and] a railroad track

Tom Waits - Bottom of the World

"I'm handcuffed to the bishop
in the barber shop line
I'm lost at the bottom of the world"

the hardest thing to know

[Nutrition]

The hardest thing to know about yourself
is what you deserve -
and the hardest thing to do is to
never stop going, searching, and working
until you have it.

Rachel Yamagata - Quiet
Sinead O'Conner - Sacrifice (Elton John cover)
some things look better, baby, just passing through..

your love will be safe with me.

[untitled]


Bon Iver - Re:Stacks (@ The Troc, Philadelphia, 12/15/08)

This is not the sound of a new man
or a crispy realization
its the sound of the unlocking
and the lift away
your love will be safe with me.

does it take seeing everything as fleeting...

[Magni Face]

when you have lost everything you had,
you see that you have the most.

does it take seeing everything as fleeting
to meet that kind of peace?

The Books - Smells Like Content

Most of all, the world is a place where parts of wholes are described
within an overarching paradigm of clarity and accuracy.
The context in which makes possible an underlying
sense of the way it all fits together,
despite our collective tendency not to conceive of it as such..

The Books - A Little Longing Goes A Long Way

Yes and no are just distinguished by
distinction, so we choose the in-between.

The Books - Cello Song (Nick Drake)

You would seem so frail
In the cold of the night
When the armies of emotion
Go out to fight
But while the earth sinks to it's grave
You sail to the sky
On the crest of a wave

In my smile I search for you

[mad rush]

Put those pennies on my eyes.

Tim Buckley - Sing A Song For You

In my heart is where I long for you
In my smile I search for you
Each time you turn and run away I cry inside
My silly way, just too young to know any more

Bon Iver - For Emma (A Capella)

Go find another lover
to bring and.. string along
For all your lies
you're still very lovable

Hedwig and the Angry Inch - The Origin of Love

And there were three sexes then,
One that looked like two men
Glued up back to back,
Called the children of the sun.
And similar in shape and girth
Were the children of the earth.
They looked like two girls
Rolled up in one.
And the children of the moon
Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.
They were part sun, part earth
Part daughter, part son.

Would you rather

Would you rather say "I was his wife," or "I was the love of his life" ?

Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - As Tall As Cliffs*

No I can't talk to you
The way I've wanted to
I've been tellin' lies
But I'll tell you the truth

Darlin', I'm tired
And I should be leavin', leavin'
You know I'm tired
And I should be leavin'
Leavin' tonight

*Watch this vid! Well done!

In 24 hours I have learned...

In 24 hours I have learned that you're a reckless lover, and my love is absurd.

Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - Skeleton Key

I did a horrible thing to that girl
I bred my misery and drowned it her
and she got me high
I hardly noticed there were tears in her eyes

Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - Broadripple is Burning

Don't fucking move
'cause everything you thought you had will go to shit
we've got a lot
don't you dare forget that

I'm wasted, you can taste it
Don't look at me that way
I'll be hanging from a rope
I will haunt you like a ghost

The universe is shaped exactly like the earth

Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet
And the universe is shaped exactly like the earth
If you go straight long enough you'll end up where you were
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth

Everything that keeps me together is falling apart
I've got this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over

The Mountain Goats - Going to Georgia (live)
The most remarkable thing about coming home to you is the feeling of being in motion again:
its the most extraordinary thing in the world.

Hot Chip - Ready for the Floor*
Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it now
Say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it, say it now

* video!

You are not ill, and I'm not dead

Frightened Rabbit
1st Unitarian Church, Philadelphia
10/17/08

Frightened Rabbit - Modern Leper (acoustic)
And that is you in front of me
And you are back for even more of exactly the same
Well are you a masochist to love a modern leper on his last leg?

I love the way you dance..

[expanse]

Chris Garneau - Relief
I love the way you dance
we can work it all out

I didn't go to see the city
I went to see it around you

Nose to nose
eyes all closed
this is what i said
we never ever end.

Great Lake Swimmers - Moving Pictures, Silent Films
Oh wake me please when this is over
Oh when the ice has melted away
I will be the same but older
or maybe twice the bear
that I thought I was

Neutral Milk Hotel - Untitled
*instrumental

ahhhhhh bagpipes

The Eels - Animal
If I could love you
I'm sure I would
If I could hold you
And feel understood
I'd be there now
But I don't know how
'Cuz I am an animal

Then I was that ache

If a violin string can ache, then I was that ache.
- Nabakov [Lolita]

Andrew Bird - Yawny At The Apocalypse

The National - Fake Empire*
Turn the light out say goodnight
no thinking for a little while
lets not try to figure out everything at once
It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky

* great video

Time, it's a crooked bow

Andrew Bird - Armchairs
In time you need to learn, to love
The ebb just like the flow

Bauhaus - Crowds
and this i'll say to you. and hope that it gets through..

;)

Beirut - Nantes (La Blogothèque vid)
Well it's been a long time, long time now
Since I've seen you smile
And I'll gamble away my fright
And I'll gamble away my time
And in a year, a year or so
This will slip into the sea

This is cooling faster than I can

Tori Amos - Cooling (Sessions @ West 54th)
so then love walked up to like
said i know that you don't like me much..

Radiohead - Gagging Order (YouTube fanvid)
A couple more for breakfast
A little more for tea
Just to take the edge off
Just to take the edge off

Radiohead - Gagging Order (YouTube cover)*

*crazy good

Sunset Rubdown - Us Ones In Between
And in the darkness
I taught myself to hate.
But where were you, oh where were you?
And where the fuck did the sun go?

My Morning Jacket - Steam Engine
so! I do believe. none of this is physical
at least not to me
so, I do believe
that anywhere it goes
t's always with me..

.. and that's all we need

Tegan and Sara - I've Got You/Umbrella (live @ electric factory 10/03/08)*

* great show, great video. glad they played this song, in particular <3

Tegan and Sara - Call It Off (official video)
Maybe I would have been something you'd be good at
Maybe you would have been something I'd be good at

Tegan and Sara - Nineteen (animated fanvid)*
I felt you in my legs before I ever met you
And when I laid beside you for the first time I told you
"I feel you in my heart and I don't even know you"
And now we're saying bye

*christ, those drums @ 2:29..aahhhhh

Tegan and Sara - Dark Come Soon (Interface Sessions '07)
Everything I say, I say to me first
Everything I do, I do to me first

We are accidents, waiting, waiting, to happen

In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape
Broken branches trip me as I speak
Just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there
Just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there
Radiohead - There There [live acoustic]

Radiohead - Nude [live]
Now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
You've gone off the rails

Radiohead - Unravel [Bjork cover]
while you are away
my heart comes undone
slowly unravels
in a ball of yarn
the devil collects it
with a grin
our love
in a ball of yarn

he'll never return it

Radiohead - 4 Minute Warning
This is just a nightmare
Soon I'm going to wake up*

* awesome fanvid

how many goddamn words

does is take to get you to sleep?

Modest Mouse - Baby Blue Sedan
And I'm lonesome when you're around. And I'm never lonesome when I'm by myself. And I miss you when you're around.

The National - Wasp Nest
You’re all humming live wires under your killing clothes. Get over here, I wanna kiss your skinny throat. You’re a wasp nest, you’re a wasp nest..

REM - Strange Currencies
and I don't know what you mean to me. but I want to turn you on, turn you up, figure you out, want to take you on

Smashing Pumpkins - Muzzle
i fear that i am ordinary, just like everyone. to lie here and die among the sorrows, adrift among the days
for everything i ever said and everything i've ever done is gone and dead
as all things must surely have to end, and great loves will one day have to part
i know that i am meant for this world

Great Expectations [Score] - Kissing In The Rain
Instrumental


* more REM and SP filled blogs to come.

I'll Love You With All the Madness In My Soul

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive
Everybody's out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide
Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness
I'll love you with all the madness in my soul

Someday girl I don't know when we're gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go and we'll walk in the sun
But till then tramps like us baby we were born to run
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

Sea Wolf - Middle Distance Runner
So won't you run to me tonight? Tonight let's not talk about next summer, cause I'll only ever be a middle distance runner

Wolf Parade - You Are a Runner and I am My Father's Son
I'll draw three figures on your heart. One of them will be me as a boy, one of them will be me,
one of them will be me watching you run, watching you run, watching you run into the high noon sun

Sharon Olds, "Sex Without Love" [poem]

How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love?...

... they are like great runners: they know they are alone
with the road surface, the cold, the wind,
the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio
vascular health--just factors, like the partner
in the bed, and not the truth, which is the
single body alone in the universe
against its own best time.

Oh Yes

Oh Yes

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.

- Charles Bukowski

Send That Stuff On Down To Me

[Fine Young Gentlemen]

I just want to move the world
I just want to move the world
I just want to move the world
I just want to move

There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes, my beautiful world
There she goes again

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - There She Goes My Beautiful World


Xiu Xiu - I Luv the Valley

It took a long time until I came clean with myself

[girl]

I'd grown clean out of love with my lover
I still love her
loved her more when she used to be sober
And I was kinder
Modest Mouse - Bankrupt on Selling

Rachel Yamagata - Quiet (live)
It'll be just as quiet when i leave, as it was when I first got here
I don't expect anything, I don't expect anything to change when I leave.

If love is a poison cup, then drink it up

'Cause a sip or a spoonful won't do
Won't do nothing for you
Except mess you up

And I hope you know what this means
I'm gonna give you everything

M. Ward - Poison Cup
M. Ward - Vincent O'Brien (live)

Spooning

. . . because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.
Herman Melville; Moby Dick

You don't want to love--your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
D.H. Lawrence; Sons and Lovers

You're the shit

and I'm knee deep in it.

Frightened Rabbit - Backwards Walk

What Might Have Been Lost

The Wolves (Act II & II)
Bon Iver @ The Glasslands Gallery, Brooklyn
as found @ Pitchfork.tv

Full Show

I've been hallucinating you, babe

At the backs of other women...

Don't get me wrong, dear
In general I'm doing quite fine

Regina Spektor - Summer in the City (Lollapalooza '07)

Andrew Bird - Lull (Daytrotter Session)
animated by Lisa Barcy

So long, honey babe

Where i'm bound, I can't tell
Goodbye's too good a word, babe
So i'll just say fare thee well
I ain't saying you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice it's alright

Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

Let's waste time chasing cars around our heads

If I lay here, if I just lay here
Would you lie with me, and just forget the world?
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

Misc.

Beautiful feature on Bon Iver, with Justin Vernon, written by Sean Moeller @ Daytrotter.com
If you hang a dirty, stinky shirt or pair of pants in a closet for long enough, they don’t stink anymore.

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
Speak no feeling; no, I don't believe you. You don't care a bit. You don't care a bit

Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper (acoustic)
Well is that you in front of me? Coming back for even more of exactly the same. You must be a masochist to love a modern leper on his last leg.

J. Ralph - Thrift Shop Warrior [mp3]
J. Ralph - When She Dances [mp3]
J. Ralph.com

I am large, I contain multitudes

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself.
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

Everything In It's Right Place

Radiohead
Susquehanna Bank Center
Camden, NJ
08.12.08

Set list:

1. 15 Step
2. There There
3. Morning Bell
4. All I Need
5. The National Anthem
6. Videotape
7. Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
8. The Gloaming
9. Where I End And You Begin
10. Faust Arp
11. No Surprises
12. Jigsaw
13. The Bends
14. Idioteque
15. Climbing Up The Walls
16. Nude
17. Bodysnatchers

Encore 1

18. House of Cards
19. Lucky
20. Go Slowly
21. Just
22. Street Spirit

Encore 2

23. Reckoner
24. Planet Telex
25. Everything In Its Right Place

Radiohead - Idioteque (live)

Our Style's Fuckin' Posh Like Dave Beckham, Come On!

Fatboy Slim - Wonderful Night

If you stay in this moment so critical
Let the music change your brain stem’s chemicals
Make you feel like your spirit's invincible
Force centrifugal reaching up to your pinnacle now

He's Gonna Do Another Strip Tease

[Ain't too old to get it on]

Iggy Pop - Lust For Life (1977)
Tom Waits - I Don't Wanna Grow Up

Tom Waits & Iggy Pop - Coffee and Cigarettes

Houses Move and Houses Speak

if you take me there you'll get relief..

it's too much
too bright
too powerful

Radiohead - Last Flowers

You Thought You Took Away My Loneliness

but all you did was infringe upon my solitude.

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. [Antonio Porchia]

Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely (fan vid)

This Is Paralysed

Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)
1st Unitarian Church, Philadelphia
July 31, 2008






Bon Iver- re:stacks [mp3]
Bon Iver -The Wolves (Act I & II)
video directed by Matthew Amato
JAGJAGUWAR.com

I Said Remember This Is How It Should Be

Bon Iver - Skinny Love
1st Unitarian Church, Philadelphia
July 31, 2008

This was definitely the hottest show I've ever experienced. We swam in our sweat, and Justin thrived in it.

I only wish the sound on my camera was a bit better
and that I caught "re: Stacks" on video :/


Bon Iver - Blindsided
Bon Iver - For Emma

I'm not yr second, I'm not yr third

[saran wrapped]

You're just an empty cage, girl,
if you kill the bird.
[Tori Amos]

M. Ward - I'll Be Yr Bird [fan video]
i'll hide yr locket under the dirt..

Bright Eyes - We Are Nowhere and It's Now
did you forget that yellow bird?
how could you forget your yellow bird?

Poke at my Iris

i hate when i feel like this
but i never hated you.

[Poke - Frightened Rabbit]

Tom Waits - Fawn
Tom Waits - Hold On

All I Know is Your Blues Ain't Like My Blues

[feel me?]

I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
[Kahlil Gibran]


Snakes and Martyrs

everyone makes the same wave
at the same time
(like pebbles on water)
and we call all those interrupting lines
(sons and daughters)
a community
so lets join hands in song
blessed unity

but brother, i don't wanna know you
i don't even wanna know you
and sister, i don't wanna know you
i don't even wanna know you

but we're stuck
in this lovely mess
i hold you close and smile
fake, like they do way out west

so many medicines
for so many heads
i'd help you clean the skeletons
from under your bed but

i don't even know you
how could it be me that sends you?
darling, didn't your mama
tell you not to let no stranger bend you?
probably someone here that could
help to mend you
but it's not me
got my own anxiety

sadness isn't any way to explain
i know you're crying tonight
drunk and insane
it's as simple as the way

you wear your unpolished shoes
and your righteous grace
is a rainbow
but all i know is your blues
ain't like my blues
and why would they be?
if there's one commonality
it's that that feeling is mutual
given time, you'll see
you'll see

[TV on the Radio]

lover's spit

[choke on it]

i like it all that way.

"The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species. " [Leonardo da Vinci]

Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit
Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit [Redux] Fan Video