Today I've hit shuffle on a specific playlist in my Spotify account, a playlist a friend challenged me and several other friends to make. A playlist to sum up who we are. This was 2019, and I was granted 15 songs with which to do this. I divided these 15 songs into five phases--Childhood, Adolescence, …
Rather the Ritual
When I sat down to write yesterday's post, I put on a record, Wild Alee by Talos, a fringe indie selection of swirly electronica that I bought in 2019, probably on one of my ritualized walks through Broad Ripple to Indy CD and Vinyl. I put on the record because I was trying to make …
Writing Out The Lyrics
When I was in high school, I used to spend hours with my headphones on, or in front of my boom box, starting and stopping songs so I could scrawl out the lyrics. Not surprisingly, the songs I'd choose to write out were ones I'd designated as particularly meaningful--they were songs I wanted to possess in …
A Summer Playlist
There are definitely songs that seem meant particularly for summer listening. The Postal Service's one-and-only album, Give Up, for example, is pretty much the perfect summer album, especially when you're in your late teens and full of Young Person Angst, as I was when it came out. That album is always going to feel right …
What You Feel Is What You Are
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP4qdefD2To Sarah asks: Do you still feel the same way as you used to when you listen to “Slide” from the Goo Goo Dolls? +++ This is a question about growing up---well---this answer is about growing up. In '97 I was almost 14 and starting high school; it was in the spring of that school …
Happy Stuff: Sylvan Esso
I LOVE THIS BAND. No pretense. No games. Just talent. Just passion. Just loving what they do. And one ugly sweater--but Amelia Meath is such a badass she'll wear it anyway because it's about the MUSIC. Respect, sister. *dance it out* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_QAwfzsObo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=224M5jVWpo4
