the essence of substance

crazy day today. crazy.
so i am just getting to the saturday post, and it’s almost sunday. but i’m not in a very expressive mood tonight, so no descriptions. just tracks. they’re all good though. just trust me.
here are the tracks i picked for the week of february 28-march 6, 2010
blue october – hate me
old and [...]

…the truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits…

with all the painting and hockey tournamenting and mess-making being done in my house today, i completely forgot that it was saturday and my weekly post was due. well, i suppose it is a self-imposed deadline, but nonetheless, it is one i would like to try to keep.  i had a list of five songs [...]

5 picks – feb 14 > 20

to be totally honest, many of the songs included in last weeks top 5, would be the same if i did a top five again this week. so instead, this is a listing of 5 great tracks i’ve come across this week (or before, but seem to have resurfaced this week). also, i have [...]

top 5 – feb 7 >13

so, i’m thinking i might start a weekly saturday post listing my top five songs from the week previous.  if you follow the blog, you know i am terrible at regular updating, but i am going to try to make this a regular thing.
so here we go: week of february 7 – 13, 2010
frightened rabbit [...]

five songs for a cold saturday in january

i listen to songs on repeat. sometimes albums, just over and over and over again. these are five that i have been living to recently.
the twilight sad – the room :: my favorite on an album filled with awesome.
check out this live performance of the song ::

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cold war kids – hang me up to [...]

townes van zandt – to live is to fly

Won’t say I love you babe, Won’t say I need you babe
But, I’m gonna get you babe, And I will not do you wrong
Livin’s mostly wastin’ time, I waste my share of mine
But it never feels too good, So let’s don’t take too long
You’re soft as glass, And I’m a gentle man
We got the sky to talk about, And the world [...]

stars – the xx

I can give it all on the first date
I don’t have to exist outside this place
And dear know that I can change
But if stars, shouldn’t shine by the very first time
Then dear it’s fine, so fine by me
‘Cos we can give it time, so much time with me
I can draw the line on the first [...]

yellow – coldplay

as a baby, nyree loved this song. it makes me think of her. and how special she is. and how much i love her.
she’s an awesome kid.

when she was only about seven or eight months old, this song was charting on muchmusic. and kevin watched muchmusic all the time. everytime the video would come [...]

not music, just for tonight

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won’t know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. [...]

otherside – red hot chili peppers

i sat and listened to this song on repeat a dozen times or more trying to pull out a specific memory that this, my favorite song in the whole wide world, stirred in me.
and without warning, while i’m sifting through all of the happiness this song evokes for me, a feeling that can [...]