City eating, city living, city sleeping, city music, city crying, city dancing….
Up to my ears in urbanism and I think I’m loving every painful moment
of it. Been lost in the streets at night, been wandering, jabbering, willfully
digressing and now… waiting…waiting…
Let’s grow in the dark, shall we?

Lotus loves you all

1. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust
(Twice Upon a Time: The Singles, 1992)
2. The Drift – Invisible Cities
(Noumena, 2005)
3. Doves – Some Cities
(Some Cities, 2005)
4. Samuraj Cities – Saturday Night is Never Fair
(Cheap Deluxe, 2006)
5. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Smog in Cities
(Falling Through a Field, 2003)
6. The Radio Dept. – The City Limit
(Pulling Our Weight EP, 2005)
7. Róisín Murphy – Leaving the City
(Ruby Blue, 2005)
8. Kevin Shields - City Girl
(Lost In Translation OST, 2003)
9. Muddy Waters – Kansas City
(Windy City Blues, 2000)
10. PJ Harvey – The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore
(Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, 2000)
11. J Ralph – Kansas City Shuffle
(Lucky Number Slevin OST, 2006)

It’s this feeling I get walking down the sunlit hall, that thing that pricks my upper vena cava.
It’s that twitch in my facial muscles, the scent that makes my eye-lids heavy and my neurons fire up like fourth of July.
Le je ne sais quoi, qui me fait sourir et dancer avec tes cheveaux.

Music for sitting down on that warm bench over there…

1. José Gonzalez – Down the Line
(In Our Nature, 2007)
2. Angels of Light – Untitled Love Song
(How I Loved You, 2001)
3. Beach House – Master of None
(Beach House EP, 2006)
4. Bikerider – Moonracing
(Morning Macuba, 2002)
5. Cassandra Wilson – Hellhound on my Trail
(Blue Light ‘Til Dawn, 1993)
6. Emiliana Torrini – Lifesaver
(Fisherman’s Woman, 2005)
7. John Mayer – Kid A (Radiohead Cover)
(Bigger than my Body, 2003)
8. Jolie Holland – Darling Ukulele
(Escondida, 2004)

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You know about re-ocurring dreams? I usually have those, and they’re not exactly dreams per-se more like Nightmares. I’ve been having Nightmares ever since I was a small girl, I would sometimes wake up from a violent jerk in my sleep or wake up facing the wall standing up in bed (literally). I’ve always had this thing with Nightmares, I usually don’t have nice dreams, the ones where everything is magical and one has the ability to fly or talk to fish, no, not for me, most of the times I’m struggling to save my life. But when I’m not fighting off demons, in those rare moments when I’m not afraid, I actually sometimes dream of something beautiful. The reason why I bring up the re-ocurring dreams subject is because I’ve been having some re-ocurring dreams myself lately, but I don’t know if I could actually call them re-ocurring, because there’s always a different and ever-changing scenario, but the person in my dreams is always constant. The thing that always dazzles me about those dreams, are the colors, those beautiful warm, hazy colors, that mist that engulfs my sleeping eyes is just so lucious that it makes me want to forget of what I’m doing at the moment and just remember the Smell of the colors. Oh yes… smell… in my dreams my sense of smell is so keen it can even pick up the trace scent of colors, and the smell of skin is just so overwhelming that by just remembering that odour brings goose-bumps to my pale skin. Those dreams are the ones that make me a constant Daydreamer, I’m the kind of person you see in the classroom just looking out the window or just directly into the vast nothingness that is the blackboard, I think there’s nothing more dream-inspiring that blackboards, don’t you? They’re just something you can stare at, and I mean really stare at for a loooong long time and then *puff* three hours have gone past and it’s time for breakfast. But anyway, we’re all here for the music, and these song remind me of the hazy colors in my dreams.

1. Little Dragon – The Last
(Little Dragon, 2007)
2. Division S – Blue Canary
(Something To Drink 3,2003)
3. The Radio Dept.- Where the Damage Isn’t Already Done
(Where damage ins’t done EP, 2002)
4. Cibelle – Green Grass (Tom Waits cover)
(The Shine of Dried Electric Leaves, 2006)
5. Bat For Lashes - What´s a Girl to Do?
(Fur and Gold, 2007)
6. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Boxphones
(Falling Through a Field, 2003)

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I’m a Forest.
A land of swindling desires,
of rabid hopes and uncompromising love.
I’m a Forest.

001. I Monster – Who is She
(Neveroddoreven, 2003)
002. Amon Tobin – El Wraith
(Out From Out Where, 2002)
003. Air – Dirty Trip
(The Virgin Suicides OST, 2000)
004. Aphex Twin – Let My Fish Loose
(26 Mixes for Cash [1 of 2], 2003)
005. Clinic – If You Could Only Read Your Mind
(Visitations, 2006)
006. Cujo – Cat People
(Adventures In Foam, 1997)
007. Flying Lotus – Bad Actors
(1983,2006)
008. Flying Lotus – 1983
(1983,2006)
009. Mig – Concrete Jungle
(Dhikrayat, 2002)

NOTE: These tracks are my attempt to recreate the sounds that were playing through my head when pretending I was a Forest jaja! I actually got the idea of doing this small set (visual and musical) when listening to the new Interpol album Our Love The Admire and I misunderstood a line, I heard “I’m a Forest” when Paul actually says “I’m up for it”, but I think I like my version better. If I were a forest I’d like it to have sounds such as the ones on my short playlist… what sounds would you like for your forest?

1. Tokyo Police Club - Be Good
(A Lesson in Crime, 2007)
2. Small Sins – What Your Baby’s Been Doing
(Mood Swings, 2007)
3. The Ditty Bops – Growing Up Side Down
(Moon Over the Freeway,2006)
4. Folk Implosion – Natural One
(Kids OST, 1995)
5. Angels of Light – Untitled Love Song
(How I Loved You, 2001)
6. Nord Express - Tripleplay
(Loveland 1995-2005, 2007)
7. Blackball False, Truth! – Knives Chau Luvs LCD
(BFT Single, 2007)
8. Dustin OHalloran – Opus #17
(Marie Antoinette OST, 2006)

Note: I haven’t much to say, these days have been strange ones… but the music has kept me afloat, I’ve found joyous, colourful music, a nice change to the overwhelming amount of grey and depressing music I have on my iTunes. Fall is entering, my favorite time of the year, nothing soothes me more, than sepia toned music, but this playlist is a little upbeat, just perfect for these shiny sun ridden days I’ve experienced so far. Love to all.

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