And I don’t know,
Is this the part where you let go?
And tumbling out of a window
Is this the part where you find out I’m there for you?
Was just reminded how much I love this song - “Is This the Part Where You Let Go” by Hem - when I heard it on some car insurance commercial.
Goes to show you once again that you can find inspiration in unlikely places.
Was compiling a list of my all-time favorite songs, and had forgotten about this one from Damien Rice: “Lonelily”. When I lived in Atlanta, I used to drive around with this on repeat endlessly. Listened to it for the first time in years, and it still brings back every single emotion of longing and sadness and loneliness. And I still love it…
Hallelujah! While not a perfect version, it’s much better than the one I posted before, and sounds pretty similar to what they have on SiriusXMU (which I’m obsessed with.) FINALLY.
The new Sufjan Stevens album - The Age of Adz - is available for pre-order for a whopping $8. My recommendation: GET IT. You get two tracks just for being the first on top of your Sufjan game…while “Too Much” is (frankly) too much noise for me, the other track - “I Walked” - is hauntingly catchy. Somewhat of a departure from his earlier work, but I’ve been playing it on repeat this morning, which is usually only reserved for the brilliance of The National. (Speaking of, they’re releasing a special expanded edition of High Violet…and all was right with the world, amen.)
The new single from Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros frontman, Alex Ebert (that’s right, his name isn’t actually Edward Sharpe!) is AMAZING. I’ve heard it a few times on Sirius-XMU and have been trying to find the single anywhere. Only version I could track down is this one, a live little ditty, which I suppose will hold me over ‘til I get the full version. Though if anyone has it, let me know…
But at the beginning,
our story is done.
Because you were always,
always already gone.
- Always Already Gone, The Magnetic Fields
Perhaps I should be embarrassed about this.
I’m not.
First, the video is amazing, if by amazing you mean ‘really angry and abusive but OMFG Dominic Monaghan is the hottest abusive boyfriend EVER (and Megan Fox ain’t too shabby herself)’. So there’s that. I mean, hi…flames coming out of her hand? The house burning down? RIHANNA’S HOT PANTS? (Aside: today must be Aubrey girlcrush pseudo-lesbian day or something.)
Secondly, the hooks. I’m not a huge Eminem fan but hot DAMN, Rihanna + Eminem = musical tastiness. I can’t stop singing it. (Which is making things kind of weird here in LA right now, incidentally.)
Third, can we go back to Dominic Monaghan? Charlie, RIP. Le sigh.
The yet-unreleased song, You Were a Kindness, from The National. They performed this as part of their in-studio session with The Current, and I luckily found a version online. (You can download it here: http://drop.io/kqfh2uy) Give it a play, or a dozen. It’s magical.
I was in a fog, I didn’t notice everything
Was coming all apart inside of me
There wasn’t any way for anyone to settle in
You made a slow disaster out of me
There’s a radiant darkness upon us
But I don’t want you to worry
I was careful but nothing is harmless
Baby you’d better hurry
You were a kindness when I was a stranger
But I wouldn’t ask for what I didn’t need
Everything’s weird and we’re always in danger
Why would you shadow somebody like me?
It doesn’t work that way
Wanting not to want you won’t make it so
It doesn’t work that way
Don’t leave me here alone
I’ll do what I can to be a confident wreck
Can’t feel this way forever, I mean
There wasn’t any way for anyone to settle in
You made a slow disaster out of me
There’s a radiant darkness upon us
But I don’t want you to worry
I was careful but nothing is harmless
Baby you’d better hurry
You were a kindness when I was a stranger
But I wouldn’t ask for what I didn’t need
Everything’s weird and we’re always in danger
Why would you shadow somebody like me?
It doesn’t work that way
Wanting not to want you won’t make it so
It doesn’t work that way
Don’t leave me here alone
It doesn’t work that way
Wanting not to want you won’t make it so
It doesn’t work that way
Don’t leave me here alone
“You coulda a made a safer bet,
