"Out on the road when your only friend is a traveler's song..."

Be Kind by Devendra Banhart
Traveler's Song by Fruit Bats
Details of the War by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Say Hello by Rosie Thomas
Father and Son by Cat Stevens
Hollow and Bold by Marla Hansen
Tables and Chairs by Andrew Bird
(Antichrist Television Blues) by The Arcade Fire
Flim by The Bad Plus
Let's Go Bowling by Camera Obscura
The Crane Wife 3 by The Decemberists
The Lakes of Canada by The Innocence Mission
Resurrection Fern by Iron and Wine
Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell

I made this mix during a competition my friend Catie Ramage and I got into. We still haven't decided who has won yet.

On another note...

I love this photograph right there. The combination of that last Joni Mitchell song and looking at it makes me...sad? Maybe. Or happy. Funny how I'm not sure which...

"Tears and fears and feelin' proud,
to say "I love you" right out loud,
dreams and schemes and surface crowds,
I've looked at life that way.
but now old friends are acting strange
they shake their heads, they say I've changed,
well somethin's lost, but somethin's gained
in livin' everyday
I've looked at life from both sides now
from win and lose
and still somehow
it's life's illusions
I recall
I really don't know life...at all." - Joni Mitchell

i like listening to these:

How My Heart Behaves by Feist
Silent Life by Fruit Bats
Track 5 (I forget what it's called--shame on me!) by The Innocence Mission
Broken Chair by Jim Guthrie
Bridges and Balloons (Joanna Newsom cover) by The Decemberists
Grapevine Fires by Death Cab for Cutie
Hey Mama Wolf by Devendra Banhart
Are You Lonely? by Denison Witmer
Seaweed by Fruit Bats
Free Man in Paris by Joni Mitchell
Heartbeats by Jose Gonzalez
Bandits by Midlake (<--this one seems to make it into nearly every one of my mixes)

Sometimes I delight in the way my notes look...

I wrote this during Old Testament class:

Sunshine lay across my paper,
Caress my brow
with your blinding light
lifeless beauty
has not been touched by you

if Death were to have me,
I should close my eyes
my last waking moments
Amidst a wet field
seeping through my stupid clothes

I will join the the Dead,
the dead of the trees
and slowly sink
Gladness will fill my body
from my lips to my fingertips

Appreciating the naturality,
the light flickering,
shattering through the leaves,
the Living
in my imaginative--
my native mind.




....oh my, I am so easily distracted. Lyrics run through my brain in multitudes, and i start to actually think. i have to take advantage of those moments though. ha!

hello, first-post-in-months. welcome back to life.