Darlingside: Clay and Cast Iron
“Clay and cast iron, rum-colored silver sunglasses
White gold, sapphire, and apricot soap
French leather purses and saris with painted-on flowers
The smell of old cedar and jasmine perfume”
Posts Tagged "music video"
Darlingside: 1979
I’m biased, given my like of this song (and the strange ritual I used to have, back in college). And I just enjoy the harmonies from this group, in nearly every song I hear from them.
Yeah
I’m reminded a lot of The Hood Internet, as well as teh work of Matthijs Vlot. I love this kind of stuff – it’s what the Internet is all about.
Darlingside: Extra Life
One of the songs that Darlingside performed (as an encore) was Extra Life. It’s funny because recently… I’ve been listening to this album more. But I’ve taken to skipping this song, so that I can get to the second track, Singularity.
Wild Rivers: Rolling Stone
“I’m the right taste to the wrong bite
I’m a lover mostly when the time is right
I’m my own rule, I’m a coward, I’m a fool
I’m a builder but I cannot tear apart”
Darlingside: Singularity
“To the west now it begins
In the sound waves in the wind
There is an echo going by me
Of the mountains caving in”
Toad the Wet Sprocket: Liars Everywhere
The album Pale, by Toad the Wet Sprocket, was a big album for me in my late teens. I think I came across it in the last year or so of high school, and it’s an album that definitely followed me to college.
More than that, it was an album that I had on literal repeat, during my graduate school years. When I was writing poems, I’d often just loop this album non-stop (CD in the PC computer days).
A Familiar Animation
There is a sadness and melancholy that emanates from both of these videos. Both of these videos evoke a sense of hurt and a sense of celebration, in equal measure. As does the act of sharing these videos, I think.
Matt Nathanson: Little Victories
What’s really weird/wild to me: I remember the specific day and time, where I learned about Matt Nathanson. This was back in 2005, and it was a neighbor of Justin’s in Ukrainian Village, Michelle R.
I remember hanging out with in her apartment, and we were listening to songs on her computer. I purchased an album of his soon after, and this song has been in my head ever since. I never did get into Nathanson’s music, but this one song in particular has stayed with me.
Why was Yunchan Lim’s Rachmaninoff 3rd Concerto So Impressive?
In this video, Ben Laude breaks down Lim’s performance and explores why it was such a big deal. I have to confess – I would be hard pressed to explain how one judges or evaluates the performance of a classical piece, and was intrigued.
Nouela: Black Hole Sun
It’s no secret, I’m a big fan of cover songs that are a slowed-down version of the original (Gary Jules’ cover of Mad World, Mary Lou Lord’s cover of Jump).
I found myself really into this slow and haunting cover of Black Hole Sun, by Nouela
Glen Phillips: Skeleton for School
“An adolescent creature,
consumed with how it seems,
and lost within the hunger for belonging.
Sleep my child,
the world is ever wanting.”
David Ford: You’ve Never Had It So Good
“I truly meant it at the start
Cross my cold and empty heart
I never thought that this would happen to me
I came with virtuous intentions
And offered honest interventions
And I believed it all so innocently”
Glen Phillips: Grief and Praise
“Though all that you love will be taken some day
By the angel of death or the servants of change
In a floodwater tide without rancor or rage
Sing loud while you’re able in grief and in praise”
William Fitzsimmons: Solsbury Hill
“I did not believe the information
Just had to trust imagination
My heart going ‘boom-boom-boom'”