they tried to stay in from the cold and wind

Photo courtesy of clumsybird


My cat does not know me when we meet a block away from home, and I gather from his expression that I’m not supposed to know him, either.

- Guy Davenport in The Geography of the Imagination


Feist - Gatekeeper
Read a book by the fireside, drinking a nice warm cuppa while a light snow's going on outside. That's what this song is.

French Horn Rebellion - Broken Heart
Extremely cute and fun song/video which sees them doing random dance stuff, not helped by another random guy "jacking off" a mustard sauce bottle and subsequently with an extra tomato sauce bottle. Totally in the vein of the other video for the song Up All Night. Very preppish pop fun. I like the bandana, makes him look like some old school comic character.

Feist and Ben Gibbard - Train Song
Brilliant cover of Vashti Bunyan's classic. Ben Gibbard is frontman of The Postal Service and husband of Zooey Deschanel.

i should be floating but i'm weighted by thinking

Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky
An AC track on their latest EP "Fall Be Kind". Having released the critically acclaimed "Merriweather Post Pavillion" at the start of this year, it is only fitting that they end it with a bang. Not so much a bang per se, but you get what I mean. Amid all that cymbals and electronic, lies a flower waiting to bloom, or a caterpillar metamorphosising into a butterfly, waiting to emerge from it's cocoon. It's not abrupt, more gradual, as the electronica gives way to Panda Bear's vocals accompanied by a bass-y drumbeat. It's here, where the butterfly breaks free ready for it's first time at flight. A wonderful song, beautiful and evocative. It could have been on MPP or stood strong on it's own, but either way, it's a wonderful way for AC to end the year.

Asobi Seksu - Thursday

Asobi Seksu - Thursday (Acoustic)
I totally love this acoustic version.

It seems you lost your way
You've let it all fall apart
Nothing's left here but you
All you do is remind me
Now that we've lost our way
The rest can all fall apart
All I see here is you
All it does is remind me

Such bittersweet lyrics and sublime melodies, belted out by Yuki's beautiful voice.

French Horn Rebellion - Up All Night
This is so fun! The slight falsetto is fitting, keyboards (MGMT style) providing a light backdrop to a streetside video.