You blinked and closed your eyes

Dirty Projectors - No Intention
11.03.2009 @ The Aladdin Theater

Dirty Projectors - Cannibal Resource
11.03.2009 @ The Aladdin Theater

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Island, IS by Volcano Choir

Though you're thinking that you're leaving there too soon

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Sugar Mountain by Neil Young

Save up all the days

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Two Weeks by Grizzly Bear.

Days Are Just Drops In the River, To Be Lost Always

Drops in the River by the Fleet Foxes

Crown of leaves, high in the window on a gold morning
Young today, old as a railroad tomorrow
Days are just drops in the river, to be lost always
Only you
Only you, you know

Years ago, birds of a feather would arrive nightly
Gone you know, held to another like clutched ivy
On the shore, speak to the ocean and receive silence
Only you
Only you, you know

Here as the caves of my memory fade, I'll hold to the first one
I wouldn't turn to another you say, on the long night we've made
Let it go...

Let it go.

Speak to me slow my dear, no ghost of course in here
Pleased to be lonesome, quiet and clear, all is alone in here



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(Mount Hood on a sunshiny day! With Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier, and Mount Adams in the distance. Click on the photo. Seriously, do it!)

One April Day, We'll Go Miles Away

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Only one April day left...


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My little mouth, My winter lungs

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#50.2 - Sufjan Stevens (MusicNow) - The lakes of Canada
by lablogotheque

If you haven't already seen this, watch it. If you've already seen it, you should watch it again. It's really, really good.

And You Clutched Clinging Heels

Bon Iver - Beach Baby
(from the Blood Bank ep)

We Move Through Time, Like Salt Moves Through Wine

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hop a fence leave the street and wet my feet I'll find a swimming pool

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Banshee Beat by Animal Collective


Oh there'll be time, to get by, to get dry, after the swimming pool
Oh there'll be time, to just cry, i wonder why... it didn't work out
Oh there'll be time to fish fry, for letters by yours truly
Yours truly

Someone in my dictionary's up to no good I never find the very special words I should
the words they sting like a stump of old wasps
well i found new feelings at the feeling store

so I duck out and go down to find the swimming pool
hop a fence leave the street and wet my feet I'll find a swimming pool

And you can laugh a little
And you can laugh a little

All My Love Was Down In A Frozen Ground

Bon Iver - Re: Stacks from the Daytrotter Sessions
Bon Iver - Flume from Myspace Transmissions

They hurt really bad. But in a good way...
Go to both websites and download all eight songs. It's worth it.
I promise.


Little Bird, I Invite You, Build Your Nest.
Little Bird, I've Got Branches Above My Head.

Girl From The North Country

Bob Dylan - Girl From The North Country

The Past Does Not Exist... And It Never Will

I Want Wind To Blow

The Microphones - I Want Wind To Blow
The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2
(2007-06-20 The Department of Safety Anacortes, WA)

Here's a picture of a kitty... to make you feel good.

I Am Snow

The Microphones - I Am Snow

From "Little Bird Flies Into A Big Black Cloud"

For Once In My Life

Doug Martsch (Built to Spill) - Still Ill

The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

Flying Around The Houses At Night

Proving that, even something stupid, if said right, can be beautiful.
Or maybe, sometimes the words you choose don't matter...

Smog - Teenage Spaceship

You Were A Place I Had Come To Know

I have listened to this song a hundred times today.
Come By Storm by Laura Gibson.

Karma Police

Tonight, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States of America. That's been a highlight of a long year. A year that keeps going...



Tonight, Krystin's purse was stolen off of the back of her chair while we were waiting for Obama's acceptance speech. After getting a ride home from Sean, I squeezed through the kitty door in the back of our house and kicked in the door of the laundry room. (No house keys, no car keys.) Busting her open to the kitchen and, eventually, the outside world. We were back in business. After changing the deadbolt, we went back to the Red Flag and picked up our stranded Sube. As we left our house, I silently saluted our fallen iPod that had been in Krystin's purse, and put on my own. Midlake played. First, it was Van Occupanther. It's funny, or maybe not, but Krystin and I were talking about the "stuff" we lost and a line comes up in the song: "Let me not be too consumed with this world..." just as we were getting going. Then came Bandits, which says, "If you ever want to be overrun by bandits. To hand over all of your things and start over new. While we were out hunting for food, our house was being robbed. I caught an apple and she caught a fox. So I caught a rabbit, but she caught an ox. So upon our return we found everything gone, which for us was no loss. We started over...... with a rabbit. And an ox."
Pretty sweet timing, if I say so. Krystin wasn't so amused... but I cannot blame her. But still... what timing, Universe.

The thief must have been a Republican...




And by the way, have you seen my prize winning pumpkin from Halloween?


Unbeatable. (True story!)

O My Heart

The past three days, I have been obsessing over the new Mount Eerie record that just came out. Julie Doiron sings with him on the whole album. I admit, I have undying devotion to Phil Elverum. If nothing else, I am obsessive. You probably know that by now though, don't you? The Microphones, The Glow Pt. 2 is one of my favorite albums of all time. It fucks me up every time. I know that he hasn't produced anything as epic since then, but everything he has put out in between has solidified things for me.
The song O My Heart has affected me the most, so far. Towards the end, Phil and Julie sing: "O my heart, O there you are. I stopped hunting. I thought you would be as big as a whale." The last line really gets to me. How they sing "I thought you would be as big as a whale."
Just wait for it.

I take it pretty serious, I guess.
I can't help it.
I'm obsessed.....