Inner Ear

Sister Nancy - One, Two… - Bam Bam

{ for real for real }

Toots and The Maytals - Tough Time - Pressure Drop

{ home } { ska version }

{ measure twice }

Everything has the weight of importance so therefore nothing shall be discarded.  The is how she lives. This is how it breathes.  The crumbs from this morning didn’t make the cut this time because the ants came back.  It’s almost summer and she hasn’t finished spring cleaning. She never started.  She never has.  The possibility that it might be needed at a later date terrifies him.  He can’t recall the last time he threw something away and didn’t need it later on.  Forever has a sweet smell to him, and so does everything he hasn’t let go.  

Neil Young - On the Beach - For the Turnstiles

{ home }

{ over easy }

the trees whisper breezes, the breeze knows the secrets //  Persinette in the parsley patch  

The Be Good Tanyas - Blue Horse - Rain and Snow

{ HOME }

{ credit scores }

the fan has been on for three days set to low. white noise and early birds. early bird white noise. white birds and early noise.  handshakes to hugs, then hugs to handshakes. 

Anais Mitchell - Young Man in America - Young Man in America

{home} {interview} {tiny desk} {quick jam}

{secondhand}

His sweat know the routine. Same shit different day.  At least that is what he hears the others toss around when he asks them how they are doing.  But their jobs are easier, less of the back aching and more to the pretty smiles and because they are younger and educated and lazy they probably get several dollars more.  It doesn’t bother him much however. He doesn’t need to get paid for trimming his nails on the job.  The little time he has in between work and sleep allows for him to eat and do things like that. Mostly though he refers back to his checklist of things he hasn’t done and wishes he could.  He nurtures it with new ideas he gets from conversations with customers, the ones that talk with him that is.  The list, it only grows.  He thinks about how he’s missed birthdays, his mom’s, his dad’s, his best friend’s, his daughter’s, his wife’s, his son didn’t make it but the day is still marked on the calendar, but forgets.  He can’t even remember the last time he blew out some candles for his own. He probably couldn’t even blow out his own today from all the cigarettes he’s done smoked.  A brief pause at work to wipe the sweat, and then another call. 

Jolie Holland - Escondida - Damn Shame

{home} {tiny desk}

{ returns and exchanges }

Lucius - EP - Turn It Around

{home} {live is sometimes a little better} 

{ a different kind of new }

Radiation City - Cool Nightmare - Find It of Use

{ TLE }  { Home }  { Stream }  { Bandcamp } { Muxtape }

{ the wheels on the bus }

Conveniently placed, conveniently utilized, conveniently managed, conveniently worded, conveniently misheard, conveniently moved, conveniently timed, the convenience is endless and has not gone unnoticed. They toss their winks and throw back their drinks and conceal what they think. Round after round after round after round after round after round. It isn’t so hard to wake, it’s just hard to want to be awake he would say. The butter hasn’t completely melted, nor has the milk spoiled, but the house stills smells like the sink and the car needs an oil change because the spit that has dried on the window next to the bird shit and the bread that the mouse ate is all still there and because the round specks of rainbow that flanked the sun or maybe it was the scented soaps and crusty towels that all fell into place.  Her stomach hurts it turns no blinker no break lights nobody to tell her she’s got something in her teeth no reflections to confirm that either, but the brighter side is still with tomorrow and she can’t wait that long. The batteries died just as the record player spun on the static and the neighbors got home in time to have a shouting match and the matches got wet from the 45 minute hot shower.

Meshell Ndegeocello - Weather - Petite Mort

{ home }

{ overthinking }

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma - Do the Astral Plane

{ home } { interview } { soundcloud }

{ perimeters }

delays relays relax exact extract impact facts fiction suspicion couch cushion textures adventures lectures measures measurement cements implements incidents accidents relevance chance happenstance handstands backspins pushpins bellybutton lint drinks with peppermint for the losers and those that win doggy paddle swim beach tan skin waves and fins flippers flip flops night time gun shots cop shop pit stops for some hot two creams no sugar switch booger smile and lie lay stay stay late debate relate do math know your history equate shake shimmy gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme some of dat shimmy…. 

Jay Electronica - Exhibit C

{play it loud}

here’s to waking up late, i mean sleeping in, i mean staying up for suns, I mean puttin moons to bed, just trying to get more minutes. winters gone, spring cleaning, summer scheming, fall I fell I’m sure that I’ll be dreaming, but for now it’s hard to tell. For now let’s give it hell. For now let’s keep on the low so nobody can tell.