August 2010
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“nothing is as eloquent as nothing”
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-david mitchell (cloud atlas)
file under: well said, now say less
“The room bubbles with sentences more spoken than listened to.”
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-david mitchell (cloud atlas)
file under: truth, concise edition
TEDxboston →
tedxboston.org
wait listed…d-d-d-damn.
(TED is rad, as i’m sure most of you know…)
TOR + sufjan = illinoize →
tormusic.net
turns out i hadn’t heard this yet. turns out it’s awesome.
turns out it makes me miss seeing sufjan for $8 at the 40 watt. is that guy ever going to record again? i mean, barring guest spots…
Let me hear you say oh-yay-er.
Listening to these tracks today made me miss old Sufjan circa “A Sun Came.” So good.
Yes, listening to rap makes me want to listen to super lo-fi beauty.
And walk in slow motion in a nice suit.
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(summer in 3/4 time)
listen to this, forever and ever. it’s a 3/4 time summer mixtape, and it’s glorious. and it was composed/cobbled by the equally glorious jens lekman.
track listing: Au Revoir Simone - Shadows (Jens Lekman’s remix) /// Barbara Mason - Oh How It Hurts /// Thomas Mapfumo - Madiro /// the Morning Benders - Excuses /// dialogue from Gregory’s Girl (1981) /// Chad & Jeremy - Everyone’s Gone To The Moon /// music and dialogue from Day Of The Locust (1975) /// Eggstone - Birds In Cages /// Pete Drake - Forever /// Armando Mantovani - Around the World /// dialogue from Puberty Blues (1981) /// Jane Morgan & the Troubadours - Fascination /// Armando Trovajoli - L’Amore Dice Ciao /// Sharon O’Neill - Puberty Blues /// Like A Sleepy Blue Ocean
stolen/borrowed from jens himself.
Make Me Stay
Gold Motel
gold motel - “make me stay”
cancel your plans for july 28th. we’re going to tt’s and seeing gold motel.
(thanks to scenesc for changing my life)
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