we were built by the living.
Now waaaaaaait I don’t think he’s such an asshole at all. I can completely relate to what he’s saying. Several years ago, he had a really great idea, and he started to go with it. And he made two albums. And then he realized that he had committed to something that would literally take up the rest of his career, and no artist wants to get stuck working on a single project for their entire life. Even if he worked at the outrageous rate of an album per year, that is fifty years. And at that speed, they would be total crap. I seriously don’t think he’s saying that it was a joke on his fans or anything, but more like the fact that he thought he could really do it was absurd. The questions he’s asking are valid. It really sounds like he’s having an existential crisis, which is something I appreciate more than if he just kept making progressively shittier music because he was tired of what he was doing. At least now his fans know what’s going on.
Anyone who creates anything can’t tell me they haven’t had this exact same dilema at least once in their lives.
To add to the plethora of good music going on right now.
predatorywaspobserver: “The Beach” by Dr. Dog
My dashboard is full of incredible music today.
theavant-gardeplaylist: Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s - A Children’s Crusade on Acid
I am diggin this M&tNS&S kick you’re on.
Also that acronym is all kinds of messed up.
Please help me get this project finished tonight. Please help me to stop wanting to curl into a little ball under my blankets and cry and cry and cry.
Yours,
This song haunts me. It hasn’t been released; the only place I’ve been able to find it is right here. Possibly my favorite Sufjan song.
[edit: if you caught this a few minutes ago, this is a better quality version.]
Ólafur Arnalds - Ræin
Is it possible to live in a song…
1. Ólafur Arnalds: Við Vorum Smá
2. The Æffect: Third Level of Existence, Pt. 2
3. Amiina: Glámur
4. Bosques de mi Mente: La Calle Solitaria
5. Final Fantasy: Learn to Keep Your Mouth Shut, Owen Pallet
6. Dana Hilliot: Following the Fox
7. Little Dragon: Twice
8. Secret Garden: When Darkness Falls (Ode to Kvasse)
9. Kjartan Sveinsson: Siðasto Bærinn
10. Foxhole: Stolen Book Collection
11. Sigur Rós: Jósep Tekur Fimmuna í Vinnuna
12. Tom Waits: Reeperbahn
13. Dustin O’Halloran: Opus #14
14. The Album Leaf (With Sigur Rós): Over the Pond
15. Luxury: Black Books
16. Yann Tiersen: L’Effondrement
17. Living With Hermits: The Stars Compete with the Fire-Drenched Skyline
18. The Clock Work Army: Walk in the Clouds
19. Yann Tiersen: Le Matin
20. Ólafur Arnalds: Lokaðu Augunum
The sound is dominated by piano and violin, but there are some different sounds as well. Most of the artists are foreign, mainly Icelandic or French. It’s sort of an eerie mix, made when I was going through my dystopia phase (hence the title - a line from TS Eliot’s The Wasteland), but it has an oddly calming effect on me.
Pandora + Scrobbling. This makes the internet perfect, everyone can go home now.
ienjoysweets:
Held to the past too aware of the pending
Chill as the dawn breaks and finds us up for sale.
Enter the fog another low road descending
Away from the cold lust, your house and summertime.
Yes. Yes.
theavant-gardeplaylist: Ben Folds/Regina Spektor - You Don’t Know Me (Rehearsal)
LOVE.
Whaaaaaat.
I want to be where he is.
Denison Witmer - Stations
I haven’t listened to Denison in a while. He’s so simple. It was hard to decide what to upload… Luckily you can listen to a lot of his music here, in very stripped down form. Mmm.
Menn Ársins - Augun Opnast
I really like this song. The rest of their music is alright, nothing exciting, but this is very nice.
