[soundscape] invisible

[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] 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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[soundscape] solitary

photo: ‘fledgling’ song: van morrison – “sweet thing” [stream only] (buy) ‘no one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.’ c.s. lewis time is very often suspended in my life. what i mean is that i very frequently am driving, or riding my bike, or whatever, and i experience this moment of complete [...] [...]

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[soundscape] weight

photo: ‘weight’ song: elton john – “bennie and the jets” [stream only] (buy) accept loss forever. – jack kerouac i was seventeen. i remember, somewhat tentatively, asking a friend what type of alcohol ‘booze’ was. i was wagering it was a kind of whiskey though willing to concede it was gin. a much wiser 18-year-old [...] [...]

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