The songs I can't stop listening to 2/22/13

1. Speck Mountain - "Backsliding"
2. Parenthetical Girls - "Four Words"
3. The Everly Brothers - "All I Have To Do Is Dream"
4. Bad English - "When I See You Smile"
5. MEN - "Double Dare Ya" (Bikini Kill cover)
6. Cowboy Junkies - "You're Missing" (Bruce Springsteen cover)
7. Brubekk - "Earthshaker"
8. Parenthetical Girls - "Young Eucharists"
9. Beck - "Profanity Prayers"

The MEN song is a shitty live recording, but one of the most "worth it" things on the list. Also, the Cowboy Junkies.

My guy's got a wandering eye...

bless we with breath lest we forget
what you said
to loose this noise in my head
for that in flesh unto death
might we seamlessly blend
and should I pass away
I pray a tape be lain upon my grave
and these sweet remains may play that melody
to say what's left between these knees with ease


Whenever I want you
All I have to do is dream...

Yay, power ballads.

Dare ya to do what you want
Dare ya to be who you will
Dare ya to cry right outloud
"You get so emotional, baby"

Double dare ya, double dare ya, double dare ya
Girl-fuckin'-friend, yeah...

Everything is everything
But you're missing

Some kind of funky mash-up of some sort. Quite fun.

all the slender soft and supplicant
sacraments I've sinned against
as if in which I might relive
your sanguine skin or sins therein
put prides and tithes aside if you must
but faith has nothing left for us
in stolen moments such as this
by which I have placed my trust but
grace has no such place for us anymore

Who's gonna answer profanity prayers?

The songs I can't stop listening to 2/8/13

This post is a few days late, due to life is insane. A toast to normalcy, then. Here is my soundtrack for one of the most fucked-up weeks of my entire life.

1. Blind Melon - "Car Seat (God's Presents)
2. Kanye West - "Through The Wire"
3. Miguel Migs - "Surrender"
4. Tiësto (feat. Kay) - "Work Hard Play Hard"
5. Janis Joplin - "Ball And Chain"
6. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi (ft. Norah Jones) - "Black"
7. John Mayer - "Kid A" (Radiohead cover)
8. Kang - "Terian Gulabi Buliyan"
9. Jack's Mannequin - "Into The Airwaves"

The songs I can't stop listening to 2/1/13

1. The Golden Filter - "Shake"
2. The War On Drugs - "Buenos Aires Beach"
3. Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra - "The Bed Song"
4. John Tavener: Eternal Memory For Solo Cello And Strings - "With Great Peace And Serenity" (Steven Isserlis, cello)
5. Damien Jurado - "Go First"
6. Lotus Plaza - "Dusty Rhodes"
7. Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside - "Poison Milk"
8. The Dodos - "Fables"

Shake the rutting tree
Stamp the hallowed ground
Searching our way home...


When your highs were cutting through my lows...

"The Bed Song" is one of the most beautiful things Amanda has ever done. Read Neil Gaiman's words about the song here.

Soothing.

Are you all right?
You're making me nervous with how much you leave me here.
Is it a sign?
I don't feel like ever getting well.

If there comes a day when I must go
Would you come with me
So we won't be alone
We won't be alone
If we got out quick and closed the door
Would you come with me
We'd leave before they know
We'd leave before they know

Just a great blues song about a girl who has a run-in with a guy who screwed her over, so she killed him and she doesn't feel guilty, the end.

I don't want to go in the fire, I just want to stay in my home
I don't want to hear all the liars, I just want to be with my own