December 2009
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
The Beatles (110)
Beirut (37)
M. Ward (32)
Sufjan Stevens (26)
Andrew Bird (23)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-20) →
Andrew Bird (54)
Artie Shaw (25)
MGMT (22)
The Beatles (21)
The Kooks (18)
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I know I know I know
I drove home from my dad’s house last night, huffing and puffing through hot tears. I can still count the times I’ve cried, really cried, since September, and this was #4. Traffic lights and street lamps deflected into blobs of color, splintering off once through the drops of rain on my windshield, and twice through my watery eyes. When I got home, I crawled into my mother’s bed...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Brandi Carlile (56)
Sufjan Stevens (53)
Iron & Wine (38)
Arcade Fire (34)
The Shins (32)
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(I believe the world used to be romantic.)
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conversations I have had with my mom this week:
#1
Me: do you like my new coat? it has a removable hood. I can't decide if I like it.
Mom: you look like an ewok
#2
Mom: you must have had a pretty good day today.
Me: why do you say that?
Mom: you are singing.
Me: do I usually sing when I am happy?
Mom: yes.
Me: what do I do when I am not happy?
Mom: you want to buy Christmas trees.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Brandi Carlile (76)
Ryan Adams (68)
Eilen Jewell (54)
Alison Krauss & Union Station (29)
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals (29)
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Love Ain't No Train
The hour was late when I reluctantly stepped through the back door of my mother’s home to face the February cold and go back to my own house across town. When this particular door slams, the whole house shakes with it. I stood in the dim yellow porch light and watched my breath come out in clouds against the rotting cedar siding. A train whistled off in the distance, and I wondered if anyone...
I don’t get tired of Over the Rhine’s...
