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- Somewhere with You
Kenny McChesney:
The sense of urgency and longing in this song is captivating. Crystalized
The XX: XX
Understated delivery of lyrics against a persistant bass line = me likey! (*****)Ready to Start
Arcade Fire: The Suburbs
Love the video for this; love the lyrics. Just loving it and the fact that they are from Montreal's even better! (*****)- Little Bribes
Death Cab for Cutie:
The chorus - love it - the imagery - love it. These guys. "...like a condiment. Tall in stature and exceptionally red." Seriously. - Magick
Ryan Adams & the Cardinals:
Rock out, baby! It's just a dang satisfying, slightly weird song.
Current picks
- Margaret Atwood: Year of the Flood
Disutopia, yes. Interesting portraits of women figuring out how to survive in said disutopia, yes. Mostly engaging, although some of the pseudo-religious bits were contrived and too long. (****) Malcolm Gladwell: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Just started...hoping this makes me smarter and/or proves my inflated sense of super dependable "intuition" (****)John Berendt: The City of Falling Angels
Not nearly as captivating as Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, but who wouldn't want to spend a little time in Venice? (***)Mary Lovell: The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
Reads like fiction - these gals are something else! Six sisters, lots of bizarre links to the up and coming fascists of their time. (****)
