monday morning music

i have not posted music in awhile. i hope you enjoy this one.

it's an odd one, but it grows.

(photo by nicol vasquez)

monday morning music

you get lost… but you won't know what's missing.

(everything makes me cry these days.)

xo. r

monday morning music

timothy wilson

i'll recall the time i was more alive

when i lose myself to words.

(did i die in your arms, or did i die alone?)

xo. r

monday morning music

monday morning music

if i was a deep bathtub would you sink down

to the bottom of my love?

hope you love this one…

(and a needing, to let go)

xo. r

monday morning music

there's a cloud in my head. (stay until the puppets, please. please.)

beautiful song. beautiful film. dark and rich with hints of jan svankmajer.

xo. r

monday morning music

you, the brightest one. you, the sweetest one.

monday morning music

have some more shara, she's fabulous and fearless and i would so much like to know her.

oh god, what would you do with me?

oh god, what's my responsibility?

important questions, and yet so often unasked.

even more rarely answered.

be brave, dear one.

(ps. bonus points for such a startling pierrot)

monday morning music

this song is exceptional. even more so with the addition of daughter.

it is a small wonder that these things exist, this sweet merging of musicians. (how i long to understand just how music is made.) but there is something greater in the fact that we can watch a concert happen across the world, at any time we like... a global sharing that is above and separate from the seemingly endless war & strife. it's a victory worth holding on to. 

xo. r

monday morning music

1st attempt at drowning by jess black

 lots of little honesties tucked between the wandering lyrics,

like plucking memories on a dark night.

we hurt the same, the same black and blue.

xo. r

monday morning music

making something together must be the most powerful feeling on the planet.

xo. r

monday morning music

o wonder!

how many goodly creatures are there here!

how beauteous mankind is! o brave new world,

that has such people in't.

(isn't it just the way that all the best words belong to shakespeare?)

enjoy my sweets.

xo. r

monday morning music

lullabies for grown ups.

xo. r

monday morning music

endless girl crush.

r

monday morning music

sounds just like summer, yes?

xo. r

monday morning music

brazos always reminds me of summer. (skinny arms and all.)

xo. r

monday morning music

( shucking free our deadened selves )

monday morning music

there is not a line in this song that is not weighted by sorrow. the kind you learn to live with and swallow every morning with your cup of coffee. there is a weariness in his voice. tired out by the truth, perhaps. sometimes honesty is a frail sound that lingers and grows. i think you will like it, this sad truth. (it's something like swimming at night, the endless deep.)

monday morning music

ahndraya parlato

words mean more than they did before.

monday morning music

it's not new. i didn't just discover it. but ye gods and little fishies, i will never get over this song. and yes, the video clinched my eternal love for fiona apple. 'cause i loved her before, but for this, i would declare it with a button or a bumper sticker or a string of zach galifianakis style dance moves. music will move you. perhaps not gracefully, or with any shred of dignity, but it will move you.

ears to monday.

r