Feb 11, 2008
Still Life with Crown Fire

Often you’ll feel two things at once powerfully at odds as when one wants to spend all day in bed yet also jump up and buy a mop! How good it feels to make toast!
Oh, you’re young again, the film is running backwards. Look, water leaps out of the tub, blood crawls back into the cut, the secret’s licked out of the ear which accounts, in part, for the struggle.
Often in your search you’ll find you’re hiding something.
A warning hangs over the glistening compartments and the woman cries out like a harp because either the harp that’s inside her is being plucked or the harp that’s outside her is being dropped.
Please try to be careful. In these moments, scissors are particularly poignant.
- Dean Young.
The Elected – Greetings in Braille
(Me first / 2004)
Miracle Fortress – Next Train
(Five Roses / 2007)
Ola Podrida – Instead
(Ola Podrida / 2007)
The National – Green Gloves
(Boxer / 2007)
Julie Doiron – Faites de beaux rêves
(Désormais / 2004)
Orillia Opry – I Lied
(Lighthouse for Stagglers’ eyes / 2007)
Thao – Beat (Health, Life & Fire)
(We Brave Bee stings and All / 2008)
Made this playlist on Sunday morning with a cup of green tea in my hand and a slight migraine caused by lack of sleep and way too much tequila shots the night before. While normally I avoid listening to any type of music in this state, I found that listening to soft songs with ambiguous lyrics makes for a perfect excuse to spend a few more minutes in bed while trying to remember all those little things you lost and gained the night before.
Previous hangover: The unknown bird.






Thao again! She’s just awesome! Her voice is so unique and the song structures are really fun. Nice to see her in two posts in a row. Also, I think Amazon (of all places) has one of her songs as a free download right now. I just heard her from a track she’s got in the new PASTE magazine.
Hi! great playlist.. just a note though, I believe the band is Miracle “Fortress” :)
Thao is great, it took me about 20 listens to realize it’s a girl singing and not a boy. Such a lovely androgynous voice.
Joanne: Thanks! You’re right, I’m sorry I was really tired at the moment of writing and I didn’t doublecheck for mistakes. Editing as soon as I get home.
Wonderful. This is the type of delicate, beautiful playlist that would just crumble in your hands if you dared to try and maneuver it too roughly.
Great playlist, it fits perfectly to Sunday kind of mood. I’ve just discover Thao and love them too.
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