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Still Life with Crown Fire

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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 ElectedGreetings in Braille
(Me first / 2004)
Miracle FortressNext Train
(Five Roses / 2007)
Ola PodridaInstead
(Ola Podrida / 2007)
The NationalGreen Gloves
(Boxer / 2007)
Julie DoironFaites de beaux rêves
(Désormais / 2004)
Orillia OpryI Lied
(Lighthouse for Stagglers’ eyes / 2007)
ThaoBeat (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.

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Category: Bedroom playlist

6 Responses

  1. Bennett says:

    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.

  2. Joanne says:

    Hi! great playlist.. just a note though, I believe the band is Miracle “Fortress” :)

  3. Moka says:

    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.

  4. mch says:

    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.

  5. Zyllan says:

    Great playlist, it fits perfectly to Sunday kind of mood. I’ve just discover Thao and love them too.

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The song makes its imprint
in the air, making itself felt,
a felt world. Here, there,
the stunned silence

of knowing I will not remember
what I heard;

futures that will never happen,
a fluidity we cannot achieve
except as a child
creating possibility.

This is the untranslatable song
hidden in the earth.

-Untranslatable Song [1]