☆ New Songs & Songs on Repeat; Go home
November 2024
To Be Alone With You, Sufjan Stevens
You gave your body to the lonely
They took your clothes
You gave up a wife and a family
You gave your ghostTo be alone with me
To be alone with me
To be alone with me
You went up on a tree
In the Devil’s Territory, Sufjan Stevens
Kokou No Gadan (孤高の画壇), Kyojaku (虚弱)
In the car, driving to church.
October 2024
Taking, Alex G
(In the car with my sister.)
The Only Thing (Live), Sufjan Stevens
The Hidden River of My Life, Sufjan Stevens
I'm biker, yeah I'm a beaver, web-foot walker, trailblazing fever
このスピードの先へ, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
(I saw them in concert this month.)
Strange, Galaxie 500
Sarah, Alex G
September 2024
The Hidden River of My Life, Sufjan Stevens
Abuse has left me on my side
He Woke Me Up Again, Sufjan Stevens
ワールドイズユアーズ, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs
Kokou No Gadan (孤高の画壇), Kyojaku (虚弱)
August 2024
Jacksonville, Sufjan Stevens
I'm not afraid of the black man running
He's got it right, he's got a better life coming
I don't care what the captain said
I fold it right at the top of my head
...
I'm not afraid of Nichols Park
I ride the train and I ride it after dark
The Only Thing (Live), Sufjan Stevens
The Winner Is..., Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa
A Candle's Fire, Beirut
I heard this song for the first time on a walk where I saw a rainbow.
We're Gonna Make It, Mychael Danna and DeVotchKa
Jessica (Wave Remix), Dir En Grey
July 2024
Pancho and Lefty, Townes Van Zandt
She began to cry when you said goodbye
And sank into your dreams
...
The poets tell how Pancho fell
And Lefty's living in cheap hotel
...
He just did what he had to do
And now he's growing old
Postcards to Italy, Beirut; (Cried singing in the car)
Fleet Foxes: Live on Boston Harbor
(Mykonos, The Shrine / An Argument, Blue Ridge Mountains)
A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Sufjan Stevens
Hold to your gun, man
...
And so I go to hell, I wait for it
But someone's left me creased
And someone's left me creased
June 2024
からっぽのまにまに, ピノキオP
いつか 暖かな 春の陽射しも 忘れちまうから
震える君の 冷たくなった手を そっと握るの
少女A, ぽわぽわP
何番目でも 何番目でも
僕が僕であるために?
Kokou No Gadan (孤高の画壇), Kyojaku (虚弱)
(The full album, though my favorite track may be "Egoist" or "Affection")
May 2024
I've actually decided to stop listening to music completely for a bit because I feel inundated by constant noise and distraction. Everything is shattering into just noise, & not music, & I can no longer tell what it all means. Maybe I will listen to music again in June, when I am on the plane to Japan.
Nantes, Beirut
And in a year, a year or so
Come On! Feel the Illinoise!, Sufjan Stevens
Oh, God of Progress
Have you degraded or forgot us?
...
Are you writing from the heart?
Are you writing from the heart?
New Slang, The Shins
April 2024
I'm on Fire, Bruce Springsteen
Drawn to the Blood, Sufjan Stevens
I'm drawn to the blood
The flight of a one-winged dove
How? How did this happen?
How? How did this happen?
The strength of his arm
My lover caught me off guard
How? Head of a rabbit
How? Head of a rabbit
For my prayer has always been love
What did I do to deserve this?
Life on Mars?, David Bowie
Babooshka, Kate Bush
Just like his wife when she was beautiful
Kashka From Baghdad, Kate Bush
'Cause when all the alley-cats come out
I can hear music from Kashka's house
Holiday, Green Day
My grandma loved Green Day; I heard Boulevard of Broken Dreams playing on the car radio & it made me think of her.
Nothing to Declare, MGMT
Young Girl A, PowapowaP
ああ 遠い夢を追いかけてさ
早い 早い 早い 早い 早い
早い 早い 早い 早い 早い
早い 早い 早い 早い 追いつけないよ
Gretel, Alex G
I don’t wanna go back
Nobody’s gonna push me off track, uh huh
I see what they do
Good people got something to lose, uh huh
For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti, Sufjan Stevens
Even if I come back, even if I die
Is there some idea to replace my life?
Taking, Alex G
That’s how she found me this morning
Bundled my head in her arms
My Dear Giant, The Marshmallow Kisses
Runner, Alex G
March 2024
Drawn to the Blood, Sufjan Stevens
My Dear Giant, The Marshmallow Kisses
In a second you may come back and I may fall
I lost my papers missed the chances I owe you all
Runner, Alex G
They hit you with the rolled up magazine
Josephine's Shop, My Little Airport
But Josephine
You may think your pals cannot lose you
Probably they need you so much
More than they love you
So why don't you abandon them?
Let yourself be free
This world is bigger than
What we always believe in
So why don't you try to fade out
From your dream of dreams?
Try to take the other risks
Your life should not be like this
Into Eternity, Jens Lekman
I have a love
I have a love for this world
A kind of love that will break my heart
A kind of love that reconstructs and remodels the past
That adds a dryness to the dry August grass
That adds the sunshine to the magnifying glass
And makes me fight for something that just can't last
Mass Anesthesia, Mediavolo
So many cars, queuing in lines
Such a sight just fills my heart with awe
Silent sadness fills my heart
In vapors of gas
Hours slowly pass
Yet, people don’t seem to care at all
Such a sight just fills my heart with awe
They just heed the highway call
Bigmouth Strikes Again, The Smiths
とある一家の御茶会議, Kururingo
Call It What You Want, Foster the People
L'Hiver Indien, Baloji
