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More Administration
Just launched a new site for all of my music related posts: vagabondmusic.wordpress.com; hope the minimal readers I have at present will follow me there. To run a quick synopsis of the changes that have been made, all creative writing is now at textualkenosis.wordpress.com, music at the aforementioned site, and here is a list of what [...]
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Monthly Mix: June
Tom Waits: “Bottom of the World”
Fleet Foxes
: “Mykonos”
Zsammy: “Your Chest Is Not Moving”
She Keeps Bees: “Stutter”
Wolf Parade: “Shine A Light”
Carlos Knight (aka Richie Cunning): “Champion of My Heart”
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Tags: culture, Music
The Switch
This is purely an administrative post. If you friendly beasts happen to be looking for the creative writing page that was attached to noirnicole, it has moved to a new location at textualkenosis.wordpress.com. There will be a few changes to this site in the upcoming months and I hope you cultural connoissiers stay with me [...]
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Introduction: Wallpaper
As always, I try to bring you, the three whole people who actually read this thing, the latest in my musical obsessions. Blahg audience, this is Wallpaper. Wallpaper, this is an underprivileged blahg audience. Now that the formal introductions have been dispensed with, here is Wallpaper’s music video for their song T-Rex:
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Music of the Now, For the Future
It’s coming on summer. Oh, yes it is. I can feel the train a comin’, and it’s fueled by restless, pensive coal leaving in its wake a trail of thick black tempestuous melodies–veritable rays of lurid, soothing aches and jives. Which is not to say the lighter fare has entirely disappeared from the landscape. No, [...]
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Current Obsessions
Here’s a sampling of artists who have just crossed my path:
Here are some clips:
Melody Gardot: Sweet Memories
Paper Rival: You’re Right
AA Bondy: When I Was Young/American Hearts
Here is a sampling of my great musical loves:
Cat Power: He War
Nat King Cole: [...]
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La Nature (Miss Eve Fairfax): Rodin, Miss Fairfax, and the Pessimistic Amour-Propre of Progress
It is almost too easy to adopt the affectations of cynicism and disdain after years of interacting with others—other people, other places, other objects; the unadulterated drudgery of everyday existence infiltrates us too much not to register permanently. Yet this peculiarly human ability to allow the macro and micro elements of our surroundings to encrust [...]
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What we have in this city, in this life, is a series of doors. Each choice which leads to a door becomes the seed of a tree that branches outward and encases our personal interpretations of a city in individuated, uniquely variegated vines. The physical manifestations of these journeyed choices are sidewalks, and the ones [...]
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Music About Our Moment
This is a song by Simple Kid called “Average Man.” As a nation that seems to specialize in mediocrity, a ballad about the average seems to be an interesting dissection of identity. Highly underrated artist.
I love this man. This is a song by John Frusciante called “The [...]
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