[soundscape] solitary

[soundscape] weight

photo: ‘weight’ song: bon iver — “flume” [stream only] | buy “character — like a photograph — develops in darkness.” – yousuf karsh i was twenty one, living in colorado, platinum blonde. i was also heartbroken. i was dating a really wonderful person. a person i love to this day. i was in love with [...] [...]

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[soundscape] tangible

photo: ‘first dance’ song: edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros – “man on fire (little daylight remix)” [mp3] | web ‘one day i will find the right words and they will be simple.’ — jack kerouac when i had been 18 for two weeks, i decided i was moving from california to nashville. it was a [...] [...]

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[soundscape] when everything went exactly as you planned except nothing did.

photo: ‘a beautiful captivation’ song: the shivers – “beauty” [mp3] | web “all changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.” — anatole france one of my favorite things about being a grown [...] [...]

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[soundscape] a season of loss

photo: ‘something single and solitary and perfect’ song: ben howard – “promise” [stream only] (buy) ‘somewhere, something amazing is waiting to be known.’ – carl sagan my very first memory is from when i was three or four. i was with my family, we were outside and it must have been fourth of july because [...] [...]

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[soundscape] so much for so long

photo: ‘party crashers’ song: 13th floor elevators – “may the circle remain unbroken” [stream only] (buy) ‘we don’t see things as they are; we see them as we are.’ – anais nin pain is an amazing thing, really. obviously it’s terrible in a lot of ways; it’s difficult and it’s too close for comfort and [...] [...]

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[soundscape] found

photo: ‘particles’ song: cocorosie – “lemonade” [mp3] | web “it takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” – e.e. cummings it’s a funny thing. thinking about what exactly we’re made of [genetics, blood, sinew] and how those little particles play into the bigger picture of who we become. it’s an even funnier [...] [...]

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[soundscape] the sum of its parts

photo: ‘things without name’ song: the mekons – “where were you” [stream only] (buy) “we are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. i [...] [...]

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[soundscape] imperfect

photo: ‘condemn’ song: leonard cohen – “sisters of mercy” [stream only] (buy) ‘it began as a mistake.’ – bukowski it began as a mistake. i was driving down the street and there was this perfect, little woman. she had old, kind eyes. she looked weathered but peaceful. i had only a second to take the [...] [...]

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[soundscape] this is how i want to remember it.

photo: ‘requiem’ song: bishop allen – “flight 180″ [MP3] (buy) ‘now rushed into this brightness as if by a shutter that, once opened, can never be closed.’ billy collins i want to remember how the laughter danced off my tongue in molecules. i want to remember how the sunlight fell on your shoulders. i want [...] [...]

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