Last night, driving home, a hole opened up in the sky. I thought it would swallow me. I thought, at the very least, I would crash my car while staring into its luminous nothing.
(Once, we were lost in London's white canyons, walking in circles, the waving flags circumventing the void. (
One day, we will sit and sit and sit and sit. We will walk to the refrigerator and will stare into it. We will take out the plate, remove the plastic wrap, and eat the remaining slices of apples (alone).
I am overcome. I am having a hard time breathing.
) )
23 January 2013
19 January 2013
The Bottomless Pit at the Edge of this Trail: Best Recordings
It is hard to blog about music while listening to music, but here goes.
Most Meaningful Music
Probably more important than the "best of" list that follows, these songs and albums meant something to me in this year of our L0rd, 2012.
1. Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea I had some drinks when I first conceived this list, which is why this is first.
2. Burzum, "Dunkelhet" The Wisconsin landscape-view that is the bus ride from Oxford to London and back again urged me toward black metal--this song in particular, at full volume. Runner up: Darkthrone's A Blaze in the Northern Sky.
3. Bon Iver, Bon Iver, Bon Iver Winter in California means rain. And this.
4. WHY?, Elephant Eyelash I am drawn to this album when I am far from home. Once, while sleeping on floors in New Zealand, I listened to the first two songs from this album on repeat until I fell asleep night after night. This year, I used it to drown out the Farringdon street noise. I also quoted it's opening track on Instagram, which is a sentence that would not have made sense a year ago.
5. Cap'n Jazz, Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards In The Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over Drive home sing-along.
6. Morrissey, "Everyday is Like Sunday" See #1
7. Rites Of Spring, End on End In college, I stole this CD from my roommate. This past year, I found it on vinyl in a famous London record store. But even before that, I could not stop listening or stop looking up footage on the internet.
8. UNK, "Walk It Out" For some reason, this is constantly stuck in my head.
Best of 2012
In no order, these are new audio things that stood out to me in 2012.
1.Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 'Allelujah, Don't Bend! Ascend
2. Mount Eerie, Clear Moon/Ocean Roar
3. Swans, The Seer
4. Anatomy of Habit, II (When I typed this, I wrote "Anatomy of Hamlet")
5. El-P, Cancer For Cure
6. Kendrick Lamar, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
7. Die Antwoord, Ten$ion
8. Tig Notaro, Live/Professor Blastoff
Most Meaningful Music
Probably more important than the "best of" list that follows, these songs and albums meant something to me in this year of our L0rd, 2012.
1. Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea I had some drinks when I first conceived this list, which is why this is first.
2. Burzum, "Dunkelhet" The Wisconsin landscape-view that is the bus ride from Oxford to London and back again urged me toward black metal--this song in particular, at full volume. Runner up: Darkthrone's A Blaze in the Northern Sky.
3. Bon Iver, Bon Iver, Bon Iver Winter in California means rain. And this.
4. WHY?, Elephant Eyelash I am drawn to this album when I am far from home. Once, while sleeping on floors in New Zealand, I listened to the first two songs from this album on repeat until I fell asleep night after night. This year, I used it to drown out the Farringdon street noise. I also quoted it's opening track on Instagram, which is a sentence that would not have made sense a year ago.
5. Cap'n Jazz, Burritos, Inspiration Point, Fork Balloon Sports, Cards In The Spokes, Automatic Biographies, Kites, Kung Fu, Trophies, Banana Peels We've Slipped On and Egg Shells We've Tippy Toed Over Drive home sing-along.
6. Morrissey, "Everyday is Like Sunday" See #1
7. Rites Of Spring, End on End In college, I stole this CD from my roommate. This past year, I found it on vinyl in a famous London record store. But even before that, I could not stop listening or stop looking up footage on the internet.
8. UNK, "Walk It Out" For some reason, this is constantly stuck in my head.
Best of 2012
In no order, these are new audio things that stood out to me in 2012.
1.Godspeed You! Black Emperor, 'Allelujah, Don't Bend! Ascend
2. Mount Eerie, Clear Moon/Ocean Roar
3. Swans, The Seer
4. Anatomy of Habit, II (When I typed this, I wrote "Anatomy of Hamlet")
5. El-P, Cancer For Cure
6. Kendrick Lamar, Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City
7. Die Antwoord, Ten$ion
8. Tig Notaro, Live/Professor Blastoff
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