Keep Art Alive :: “Sarah’s Secret” :: Art by Jolene Lai Miss Misery :: Elliott Smith “Next door the TV’s flashing, blue frames on the wall, it’s a comedy of errors, you see, it’s about taking a fall. To vanish into oblivion, is easy to do, and I try to be, but you know me,…
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Before I met you :: Two tune Saturday
Keep Art Alive :: Art by Vincent Cacciotti “Worn me down to my knees, I did anything to please, but you can’t stop thinking about her.” Worn Me Down :: Rachael Yamagata To live in the shadow of someone else’s past love is one of the roughest roads to traverse upon when in a…
Read MoreI want to live where soul meets body :: Two tune Saturday
Keep Art Alive :: “Kappa” :: Art by Vincent Hui “If there’s no one beside you, when your soul embarks, then I’ll follow you into the dark.” I Will Follow You Into the Dark (live) :: Amanda Palmer I am not quite sure what my beliefs are in regards to souls, and where we end…
Read MoreMistaken for strangers :: Two-tune Saturday
Keep Art Alive :: “Lapin Douler” :: Art by Kelly Haigh “You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends, when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery citibank lights, arm and arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under. Oh, you wouldn’t want an angel watching over, surprise, surprise, they wouldn’t…
Read MoreI need you, I don’t need you :: Two Tune Saturday
Chelsea Hotel, No. 2 (live) :: Rufus Wainwright “I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel, you were talking so brave and so sweet, giving me head on the unmade bed, while the limousines wait in the street. Those were the reasons, and that was New York, we were running for the money and the…
Read MoreWhen you wrote it :: Two-tune Saturday
“And in your heart, you know it to be true, you know what you gotta do. They all depend on you, and you already know. Yeah, you already know how this will end.” How it Ends :: DeVotchKa Sometimes the weight of the world, of expectation, and of love, makes it all so hard to…
Read MoreI’m all lost in the supermarket :: Two-tune Saturday
“I took her to a supermarket, I don’t know why, but I had to start it somewhere, so it started here.” Common People :: Pulp There is something I find completely zen about supermarkets. Wandering up and down the aisles, pushing the cart in front of me, and slipping into some kind of zone where…
Read MoreI got a story to tell :: Two-tune Saturday
“At the times before that well, I was crazy. I saw the dark side of the moon, and the stars in the sky they never caught my eye. ‘Cause I ain’t never had nobody like you.” Never Had Nobody Like You :: M. Ward, featuring Zooey Deschanel When you decide to let yourself truly…
Read MoreBut most of all I wish it for myself :: Two-tune Saturday
“For you, there’ll be no more crying. For you, the sun will be shining. And, I feel that when I’m with you, I’m alright. I know it’s right.” Songbird (cover) :: Rosie Thomas Words, along with music, are the things that I most cling to in this world. They are my truest forms of expression,…
Read MoreShe sends her regards :: she’s lost control again :: Two-tune Saturday
Part of an original something I have been working on/re-working on/tucking away and taking back out again for a number of years. I vacillate between this, and a very different story, when I dive into the cliched “working on my novel(s)” mode, but often get caught in the spin cycle of self-editing, and self-loathing that…
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