She Hangs Brightly

I found this album by Mazzy Star (1990) at a used record store after this. I have no choice but to use the term "wicked" for this one. She Hangs Brightly is like a mellow, shoe-gazing 90s Velvet Underground. Whenever I find a Mazzy Star CD, the slaes clerk and standers-by make sure to re-assert how awsome it is.

• Halah (video)
• Give You My Lovin'
• Be My Angel

Part of you pours out of me in these lines from time to time

If we look closely, it seems there may be fragments of Leonard Cohen lingering in Joni Mitchell's music. I read about it here. Who else could she be referring to in The Gallery?

Lady, please love me now,
I am dead, I am a saint, turn down your bed
I have no heart, that’s what you said
You said, I can be cruel
But let me be gentle with you

Maybe even A Case of You (my favourite)

Just before our love got lost you said
"I am as constant as a northern star"
And I said "constant in the darkness, where's that at?"
...
Oh I could drink a case of you
And I would still be on my feet

I thought I would also post this video I found of Joni on the Johnny Cash show singing
I Still Miss Someone

She was an unknown legend in her time

by iNeedChemicalX

She's been running half her life
The chrome and steel she rides
Colliding with the very air she breathes

You know it ain't easy
You've got to hold on
She was an unknown legend in her time
Now she's dressing two kids
Looking for a magic kiss
She gets the far-away look in her eyes.

• Unknown Legend - Neil Young
  

Rituals

"There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice--patched, retreaded and approved for the road."

- Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

• Happy Phantom - Tori Amos

Fleet Foxes

A new album I'm quite impressed with.
Lovely sixties-esque folk harmonies.

• White Winter Hymnal
• Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
  

Happy Birthday

To Annie.

With Annie gone,
whose eyes to compare
with the morning sun?
Not that I did compare,
But I do compare
Now that she's gone.

- Leonard Cohen

• Annie Dog - Smashing Pumpkins
• Heart of Glass - Blondie

I'm pretty sure Annie Dog is about a crack whore, but hey, it's a good song and it's the Pumpkins. So to balance it out is the glitteriest, most fun song ever. Have a smashing Birthday.

A New Year

By Gerald Fantone

“the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."
- Vladimir Nabokov

Happy New Year. I'm about ten behind.

• Jeff Buckley - New Year's Prayer