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Great in a Storm

6 days ago
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So I was driving back to the city last evening through an approaching storm listening to this album again. Hadn't heard it in a long time and it was just the perfect thing to listen to with such an angry, ominous sky. I forgot what a great collection of songs it one is.

Quote of the Day

Jul 9, 2008
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"...the consumerism that used to only mildly annoy me now makes me want to do to all the world's handbag designers what Scarlett Johansson does to Tom Waits songs. We live in different times, shittier times."

--Daniel Holloway

When Good Quotes Come from Unexpected Places

Jul 6, 2008
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"And for as long as I will know him, I will never be certain if time is pulling him backward or beckoning ahead. A chronicler, a raconteur, ghost. A mago is Barlozzo. He will become my muse, this old man, my animatore, the soul of things for me."

Also

"How delicious it is to rest after such a day. To lay down blood and bones in a place, almost any place, where someone waits to hold what's young of you and what's old of you. What's just happened to you and that which has happened so long ago to you. All of you."

-- Marlena de Blasi

This has been such an awful year, and the awful train has certainly not stopped, but at least I've calmed down enough to be able to read again, and that is a good thing.

More silliness from the studio

Jun 26, 2008
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01 Goin Down Alone 6-25-08

Alison Kress

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Readin from a Script -- finally finished

Jun 4, 2008
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01 Readin from a Script 6-3-08

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Didn't quite come out how I wanted it to --- this is me singing with horrible allergies and my friend on guitars. You can write songs with a lake in your head, but it's a lot harder to finish them.

Straw Into Gold

May 28, 2008
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01 Straw Into Gold 5-27-08

Alison Kress

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This one came out kinda Christian. Need a real singer, though.

What I love right now

May 24, 2008
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Rosemary Brown

Cory Branan

Well, there's writing and then there's writing...it's purty.

When Rosemary moves and no matter how slow

hearts burst like dandelions, settle like snow....

and

And her heart is a star bright enough to brand

and briars grow wild where those wings scrape the land

and she gathers the planets in secret blue baskets

where I saw her washing the moon in the sound

a current, a blanket, a cross and a casket,

an angle a siren Rosemary Brown.

Other stuff I love --Delilah is so depressing but the music is just beautiful. And a fun new trial from the Lord of Dark Lounge....

05 Delilah

The Dresden Dolls

Check this

c. Infused

New One - Watergate

May 12, 2008

01 Watergate

Alison Kress

Listen at yr own risk lol.

Pa' Ti Papa 1928-2008

Apr 30, 2008
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Pa papa

Swoop

It's a black hawk

not a mechanical bird

it's the plumes of death plumped up

who voice the tenuous strands

of air until the pitch, the frequency

matches exactly that one soul

before it's snatched away so quick

stumbling from the sky like memory

into your open hands

Handsome Rob

Apr 25, 2008
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So as I'm driving my 5 year old wildly through traffic to get to daycare on time, cruising in the opposite lane to get around all the Williamson County wankers who cut through my neighborhood, he says "Handsome Rob Momma." I just love my new nickname.

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Ama Duende said:
Gracias mi hermana! xoxo read more
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Lilia said:
Great songs Ali!!! I have it at my desk at the office and you got my coworkwer interested!! They were... read more
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Scott said:
Oh God, my EARS! That makes Rod Stewart's cover of "Downtown Train" sound like sheer genius. read more
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Geology Byotch said:

[this is good]
Most people have horrible taste. And are stoopid. Which is why Britney Spears is rich. read more
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Ama Duende said:
Glad you liked it. I really did. read more
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