My lola gave us brains, courage, heart and whatever Dorothy asked for. Brains to be wise enough not to do wrong. Courage to do what we had to. Heart to temper the brains and courage with.
Home, I think. Dorothy asked for that.
Songs about heartache take a different meaning after a loss in the family.
It’s still the same song about longing, only a lot less trivial.
ghost town dj
I am blasting music at full volume near midnight: I’m filling empty spaces with sonics.
A million years ago, I wondered why this girl used to call me to ask me to pretend that I was a DJ taking music requests. She’d ask me to put the phone next to the speakers and she’d listen to whole songs silently.
I wondered why she bothered to call when she could’ve just as easily done the same thing with an actual radio station.
I guess the point was: filling empty spaces with someone you like.
Watch Charli XCX perform a new tune titled Dancing in the Dark for Yours Truly’s In My Room series. Love how her live performances focus on her voice rather than on the beats. (via)
Everything But The Girl - Cross My Heart
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Grimes - Oblivion
Here’s the video for Grimes’ “Oblivion,” from the avant-pop artist’s new album Visions. The clip was directed by Emily Kai Bock. The video features Ms. Boucher making new friends at a dirt bike rally, football game, burger shack and frat party along the way. You know, typical Grimes stuff…
Sending in a resignation letter is like ending a marriage. (If you’re married to your job.) Or quitting workahol. (If your job is like an addiction.)
I honestly can’t remember, I haven’t done this in a while.
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Resigning-as-divorce, last pay-as-alimony, and other, better metaphors that I can’t seem to come up with at the moment.
ckck:
Comeback Kid
Sleigh BellsExcited for their new album (which is out tomorrow)!
rainmusic
The Suburbs - Mr. Little Jeans
Arcade Fire’s album The Suburbs is a story about broken dreams when innocence was lost and the harsh realities of the real world have settled in. It’s a tragedy of our modern world, growing up thinking you are fulfilling the dream life when in reality you are just conforming to a state of mediocrity. Yet despite the gloom that we all go through we keep pushing though to be something more. All of Arcade Fire’s music has this overarching theme about retaining, no matter what or how futile it might be, to our childhood dreams. Here is Mr. Little Jeans lending her entrancing voice to further expose the truly haunting side of Arcade Fire’s lyrics. This is why cover songs are great, because they show us how dynamic the original song really is.
“In my dreams we’re still screaming.”
video: Chairlift - Party (Beyoncé cover)
Chairlift hook up with Kool A.D. from Das Racist to perform a stellar cover of Beyoncé’s Party for Triple J’s Like A Version. They make the song their own yet don’t lose the original laid-back sexy “let’s have a party shall we?”-vibe.
Chairlift capture the bubbly feeling of sudden infatuation with “I Belong in Your Arms”, our latest Best New Track.
humming in my head: ELECTRO ESPRESSO MIXTAPE by Cheekie Albay
Today, you have a ton to do.
Your apartment is an unbelievable mess. You haven’t gotten around to cleaning it since that new project at work had you working nights all week.
Last month’s laundry is still sitting in a sad heap in the corner of your bedroom. I’m not going to walk myself…
