Sobreviviendo sin sangre en mi cuerpo

DeVotchKa is a favorite lately. They are all sorts of wonderful.



DeVotchKa The Enemy Guns How It ends
DeVotchKa Such A Lovely Thing How It ends
DeVotchKa Dangling Feet Supermelodrama

Ferraby Lionheart

I'm not sure how I found out about this guy but his music is quite nice and charming. Also he has interesting cheek bones.

Ferraby Lionheart Small Planet Catch The Brass Ring
Ferraby Lionheart Vermont Avenue Catch The Brass Ring

This is heartwarming:

I did everything for you

By: ~tnoellebinns

Grizzly Bear He Hit Me (Friend EP)
Sufjan Stevens For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti (Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State)
Sufjan Stevens Sister Winter ( Peace: Vol. 5)

I'm gonna hackhackhack it apart!

By beatlebeetle

Three bands I like this week:

The Violent Femmes
They are good for starting off with. Whiney, fun, quirky. Something like that.

The Violent Femmes Confessions (The Violent Femmes)
The Violent Femmes Please Do Not Go (The Violent Femmes)

Incubus
I've loved this band since I was about 12 or 13 although that love has sort of tapered off the older I've gotten. I didn't buy their last CD Light Grenades because I just figured they were too popular and trying to sound like everyone else by this time. By now I'm going to give it a go. Also I put three love type of songs from three of their CDs that I thought were pretty awesome. In fact, Stellar was probably my favorite song for the longest time.

Incubus Oil And Water (Light Grenades)
Incubus Love Hurts (Light Grenades)
Incubus Here In My Room (A Crow Left Of The Murder)
Incubus Aqueous Transmission (Morning View)
Incubus Stellar (Make Yourself)

Owen
This guy is just special. Sure he sounds like a lot of other stuff, but when I saw him at a mewithoutYou concert playing guitar by himself it was a different story. He puts me in this mood that I can't describe. Like he's telling me a story that completely enthralls and involves me. He plays little ditties about breakups and such and they are nice and they put me in a special place.

Owen The Ghost Of What Should've Been (No Good For No One Now)

Oh when this life just gets so grating...

By theeos300400d

Sorry this is a buttload of music at once but I put off posting for a while so I figured it's acceptable.

This came to me in a wild rush of sadness and love and it offers some hope. And now I'm okayish:

"Find a friend and stay close and with a melting heart
Tell them whatever you're most ashamed of -
Our parents have made so many mistakes,
But may we forgive them and forgive ourselves."
-From The Sun & The Moon by mewithoutYou

mewithoutYou The Sun & The Moon (Brother, Sister)
Neutral Milk Hotel Song Against Sex (On Avery Island)
El Obo Crops (thank you for this one Paul)
Elf Power Never Believe (Walking With The Beggar Boys)
Patrick Wolf The Libertine (Wind in the Wires)
Lemon Jelly His Majesty King Raam `(Ky)
Guster Manifest Destiny (Ganging Up On The Sun)
Wolf Parade Modern World (Apologies To The Queen Mary)
The Beatles And I Love Her

Also this is incredibly exciting and melodious:


You know how seeing a song live makes it more real and beautiful and makes you pause to consider it when you didn't before? Yeah, that's what happened here:

I'm going to die of loneliness

Every song is about him today. I'm going to die of loneliness for sure. A weekend without him and I assume the worst and begin contemplating my escape. I thought maybe I'm shizophrenic and this Tom person was just a charachter derived from my mind. All those memories false, all that warmth, and growth, and closeness, and connection nonexistant. How can I be so attached to another person so much? It's beautiful and powerful for sure, yet so delicate.

An ode to the sadness and then rejoicing of this weekend. I can't believe I can be loved so well.

Devendra Banhart My Dearest Friend
(Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon - 2007)
LCD Soundsystem Someone Great
(Sound of Silver - 2007)
The Beatles In My Life
(Rubber Soul - 1965)
Devendra Banhart It's A Sight To Behold
(Rejoicing In The Hands - 2004)

I wouldn't have it any other way

I'm having a pretty interesting week. But who cares? Okay. On to the music.

Grizzly Bear Shift
Beirut Nantes
(The Flying Club Cup - 2007)
The Go! Team We Just Won't Be Defeated
(Thunder, Lightning, Strike - 2005)
Iron & Wine In Your Own Time
Margot & The Nuclear So And So's Barfight Revolution, Power Violence
(The Dust of Retreat - 2006)

I'm lazy

And these videos make me happy lots.

The Dandy Warhols - Good Morning


The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart


Animal Collective - Peacebone


The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

Themes!

Theme 1: College

In honor of my second week of colleging here's a dandy little song.

Animal Collective College
(Sung Tongs - 2004)

Theme 2: For/Of My Love

Like sisters and brothers we lean on each other
Like sweethearts carved on a headstone
Oh why even bother, it'll be here tomorrow
It's not worth it sleeping alone

And look at you and me still here together
There is no one knows you better
And we've come such a long long way
Let's put it off for one more day.

The Smashing Pumpkins Beautiful
(Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - 1995)
Grizzly Bear Plans
(Yellow House - 2006)
Air Sexy Boy
(Moon Safari - 1998)
DeVotchKa Til The End Of Time
(Little Miss Sunshine Soundtrack - 2006)
Explosions in the Sky Day Six
(The Rescue)
Four Tet You Were There With Me
(Everything Ecstatic - 2005)
The Dandy Warhols The Last High
(Welcome To The Monkey House - 2003)
Rachel's Forgiveness
(Selenography - 1999)
Butthole Surfers Pepper
(Electriclarryland - 1996)
The Thermals How We Know
(Fuckin A - 2004)
Skeleton Key The Barker Of The Dupes
(Obtanium - 2002)

Theme 3: Nice Things!

Cheesecake! Sea otters! New socks! Colorful lights! Colorful music! Drinking stuff when you're nearly dying of thirst! Unnatural colored hair! Raspberries(not the food kind)! Venom guitar picks! New guitar smell! Orange and yellow things! Not having to wake up! Singing along to Bohemian Like You! Groovin'! And most of all...Tommy!

I'm so sorry I'm so paranoid.

There's a new album coming out called Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon by Devendra Banhart. It's going to be available September 25th I believe. Therefore I am quite excited. Now listen to these new songs because they are groovy.

Devendra Banhart Seahorse
Devendra Banhart Rosa

Besides this development, I know I haven't updated this in a while and so a lot of songs of the week have gone by and maybe I have even tired of them by now. But nevertheless here are a few of them:

Ben Kweller Until I Die
Peter Bjorn and John Paris 2004
Sigur Ros Olsen Olsen
Queen Bicycle Race

The Snake The Cross The Crown

I recently saw this band for the second time playing with mewithoutYou in concert and I have to say they have gotten even better. Their music has a bit of a country feel to it with some rock and folk and it makes me happy lots lately so listen to it.



The Snake The Cross The Crown A Brief Intermission
The Snake The Cross The Crown Gypsy Melodies
The Snake The Cross The Crown Behold The River

A Recurring Feeling

Sufjan Stevens Vito's Ordination Song
(Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lake State - 2003)
Rachel's Last Things Last
(Systems/Layers - 2006)
Radiohead Morning Bell
(OK Computer - 1997)
Cul de Sac I Remember Nothing More
(Death of the Sun - 1995)
Metric Empty
(Live It Out - 2007)
Innocent Civilian What Is Right

To live, to learn, to love in the major key

Patrick Wolf and songs of the week.

And I know how you've hurt
And been dragged through the dirt
But come on get back up
It's the time to live

Video for The Magic Position:

Patrick Wolf A Boy Like Me
Patrick Wolf Tristan
Patrick Wolf The Magic Position

Freeform Five No More Conversation (Mylo Remix)
Queen I Want To Break Free
The Format Snails

I am a whore I do confess

But I put you on just like a wedding dress


by Sabrina Ward Harrison

Random mix of songs that have affected me lately. Mostly Wedding Dress. Look into it
Derek Webb Wedding Dress
The Go! Team Huddle Formation
Emiliana Torrini Sunny Road
The Police Roxanne
K-os Sunday Morning

Oh what am I to think

"...of what the writing of a thousand life times could not explain if all the forest trees were pens and all the oceans, ink?"

mewithoutYou The Dryness & The Rain
Ryan Adams Amy
Bright Eyes First Day Of My Life
Page France Jesus
Thao Nguyen Feet Asleep
The Strokes What Ever Happened

Lavender Diamond

Happy and pretty and catchy.



Lavender Diamond Here Comes One
Lavender Diamond You Broke My Heart
Lavender Diamond Like An Arrow

Three themes

Theme One: I want to be a hippy.

Across the Universe Fiona Apple (quite possibly better than the original version)
Heard Somebody Say Devendra Banhart
Insect Eyes Devendra Banhart
See Saw Devendra Banhart

Theme Two: Cilantro!

Smile Around The Face Four Tet

Theme Three: Loving is strange and hard.

Love And Some Verses Iron & Wine
Crown of Love The Arcade Fire
Untitled #4 Sigur Ros

I need sunshine.

I've had these songs playing constantly the past couple of weeks.

Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind Vashti Bunyan
Pictures of Trees Inlets
You Broke My Heart Lavender Diamond
The Soloist In The Living Room Cold War Kids
Skeleton Key Margot & The Nuclear So & So's
Garden Grove Sublime
I'll Believe In Anything Wolf Parade
I Can't Even Lift My Head Sufjan Stevens

If I should ever disappear
What would I come to?
What would I come to believe?

If I had seen your father
What would his face do?
What would his face do to me?

Oh, I can't even lift my head
To say a word
To say a word to you
I can't even recognize
What I did wrong
What I did wrong

Oh, I can't even lift my head
To say a word
To say a word

My Brightest Diamond

I saw this band way back in September playing before Sufjan Stevens with a sound that seemed perfectly suited for a dark starry Fox Theatre. It's quite dark and beautiful. Very much like Elysian Fields with the sultry sounding voices.

My Brightest Diamond - Feeling Good
My Brightest Diamond - Workhorse
My Brightest Diamond - We Were Sparkling
And for comparison purposes:
Elysian Fields - Live For The Touch

You're a stranger now unto me

Simon & Garfunkel - The Dangling Conversaton

'A' Bands And Some Others

The Boy Least Likely To - Be Gentle With Me
I just can't switch myself...off/When I want to so, I never do
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
Grizzly Bear - Easier
Sufjan Stevens - That Was The Worst Christmas Ever!
Silent night/Holy night/Silent night/Nothing feels right
Anathallo - Hanasak ajijjii
Animal Collective - Did You See The Words
Animal Collective - Prospect Hummer