Blog: The Wattled Smoky Honeyeater

I promised myself I wouldn't post twice in one day. In defense, hat last post was before midnight . Now it's after midnight. so back off. -------- Monday Night: Ferrer: hey will, i'm in town tonight. what are you doing Me: i'm swamped and i was going to bed im really tired Ferrer: oh okay man i'll talk to you later Me: sorry, night. [...]

1991 Toyota Corolla, 2005 8 x 10 Silver Gelatin Print Six Organs of Admittance - "Eighth Cognition/All You've Left" The sky couldn't decide To cry or to smile? Showing it's bright, burning yellow teeth Between hints of melancholy precipitation Weaving that continuous three-lane braid, the coffee-stained the left-lanes, the gas-guzzled, Down the omnipresent asphalt, [...]

(would credit the artist, if I knew) Exploding Hearts – "I'm a Pretender" Obviously, fuck Hallmark romance. Give me romance that feels like this sounds – like bondage pants with candy-stuffed pockets, like thorny roses clutched in bruised-knuckle hands. And babe, we're on the boulevard, and it's summertime, and you got yr combat boots, and I do too, and check it – I got an amphetamine spring in my step for you!! buy (one of my favorite albums) -------------------- [...]

CANADA CONT• >>> In all my few years at school, living so close / (so far?) to / (away from) Montreal, seeing its sign on the 87, I never did have the balls to make that left turn onto its entrance. Maybe next year. (I always say that.) I hope I do. I went to Montreal once before, but I lost all of my money to the "World's Third Largest Casino" and numerous contact strip sessions. Anyways, a friend recommended MGMT to me today. Now, I may [...]

Bocce- Again Again Again Again (continuing with the Canada theme) We all took a trip to Montreal for the weekend. Two cars full of excited people took 87 North through the Adirondacks pushing our way into new territory. It was this past fall that we went. We got there in the early evening, opened our doors, put on sweaters, smelled the Quebec [...]

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A.A. Bondy – "Black Rain, Black Rain" I'd like you to meet my brother. You know, there are innumerable songs out there that state, flat-out, You're not alone, and sometimes, the sentiment is enough. Hey, Song, you're right! What was I thinking, feeling so lonesome? Usually, it takes more than words, more than mellifluous tones. It takes a song like this, a song so full-blooded and spine-tingling – he sings, just slightly trembling, and I feel it, and I can't mistake it. And brother, I'm wrecked. And I wonder what [...]

The birds have returned. Returned from where? It's a good question.. I've never given too much thought about the migratory patterns of geese vs. sparrows or bluejays, but it is true that the smaller birds always seem to be chirping in the trees overhead long before the warmer spring wave brings the ducks to the pond in the woods by my mother's house. Staring out at the woods bordering my backyard, I couldn't help but hear the high-pitched call of dozens of birds in the foreground [...]

Just came back from Paris a little while ago. Beautiful city, delicious food. The entire time I was there, I couldn't get this song out of my head. I recommend it with a cigarette or a banquette. Or both, actually.

(thanks, Alyssa ) Drive-By Truckers – "Two Daughters and a Beautiful Wife" Sarah: Anne! Oh my God. I just heard about Jack. Anne: I know, I found out last night. It's so terrible. Sarah: And he'd been getting better, he was making so much progress… Anne: Yes, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, does it? Sarah: And those girls. My God. Have you talked to Lucy yet? Anne: Me and some of the gals went by earlier. She's gonna have some trouble with the bills of course, so we're [...]

Lykke Li - "Tonight" Mouth goes: Hey!... Head goes: Wow. She's the prettiest flapper I've ever seen. So! It's been awhile! Just say it, just say – "You know what I've been meaning to ask you, for a really long time now? If you're into me at all, because I'm… well, I don't know if I'm shy or introverted, necessarily… Oh, just working; reading a lot… I was almost to the [...]

J.J.I. café, the tiny, Tibetan restaurant in North India was filled with travelers and tourists alike, smoking hand-rolled cigarettes and drinking a wide assortment of hot drinks. I sat with friends by the window, listening to the obscure French music playing overhead, glancing out the window every so often at the mountains that rose high above the sea of prayer flags that flew atop every home, hostel, and shop in McLeod Ganj . This particular morning we were trying to plan a trip to Nepal when Nima, the owner of the J.J.I. came up to our table [...]

"The Fucking Mountains" by The Unrealiable Narrator Traveling through what I imagine Western Canada to be like- which is based off an antique print of a Lake Louise Tourism Poster my friend has in his bathroom, and my weekend spent in Montreal, we pass crystal clear, tectonic rift-deep lakes, and yes, they're wedged between mountain after mountain. These mountains are so overwhelming as you make your way toward BC (Vancouver recently voted best city to live in ), that you feel an extreme [...]

Album cover courtesy of Okayplayer.com When I found out Erykah Badu has a new album entitled New AmErykah being released this month, I got so excited I think I posted the YouTube link to the video of her new single "Honey" on any Facebook wall or away message I could think of. It's the only song I've heard off the album so far, but if I know anything about Ms. Badu is that she never ceases to amaze [...]

By now, you've heard of Bon Iver . And maybe you've heard about the cabin in Wisconsin, the whole backstory. But if you haven't actually heard him, you're missing the important parts: the atmosphere, the songs, that gorgeously rough-hewn falsetto. Frankly, there's a reason it's called the backstory, a reason why they say it's the story behind the album – the music's at the forefront, so it better be good. And it is. It seems to me the album succeeds largely 'cause Justin Vernon knows what to do with his voice. On "Blindsided", [...]

Recently, the awesome website, Take Away Shows (see link) posted two videos with Animal Collective as their featured artists. This matters. I told a friend a month or so ago that if they weren't the most influential band of the decade, I would give him permission to kick my ass (on a purposefully undisclosed future date). The cohesion of their band and the sound they create is evident in the grassroots publications, if you will, of their most recent work (see once again the Take Away Show Link). But one doesn't even need to look to the new year to [...]

Hey all. I'm starting a new blog to capture ideas and musings and to have a place to write them down. Kind of like Harry Potter and the Pensieve (spelling) that Dumbledore has. Except you can read it. And I promise not to keep you emerged in the silvery solid/liquid/gas/plasma ether for too long. I am going to try to focus mostly on music, but i also plan to talk about film, ideas, you know, those kinds of things. Also, I don't care about grammar that much. -Clay