Oh this heavy heart is missing you around

This following seemed like an apt thought to describe the current and upcoming post grad life.

Post title from from My Live, My Love by Family and Friends, a lovely band I saw in Chicago last weekend.

We aren't caught up in your love affair

Since I spend most of my day listening to music on Spotify in order to get through the work day, I have been discovering new music. 
Actually that's a lie, I've been listening to the same five songs on repeat all day. One of the songs is Royals by Lorde. 
Everything about this song, I love. The music, the lyrics, the video, the accent. Yeeeah.

This mystery only leads to doubt

Today I get the keys to my new apartment! It is so odd that this now empty apartment will contain some of my future and final memories of college.

Enough sentiment. This lovely apartment belongs to a textile designer who lives in Brooklyn. Look at that bookcase. 

Post title from Say it To Me Now by Glen Hansard from the movie Once.

There's certain things in life you cannot change

What a refreshing summer snack. The Forest Feast is great for simple healthy recipes. I hope you have a relaxing weekend :) I plan on tanning and not going to Lolla.

Post title is from Yamaha by Delta Spirit. My friend is awesome and got on the guest list for their concert, so I got to see them for free last night at Lincoln Hall. They were great, although I think they were saving their energy for Lolla. I absolutely love everything about Yamaha. I get obsessive about certain songs... Check out their music video for California. So Skins. So hipster ;)

I've been looking for a fight

To my four readers: I apologize for my sporadic posting. Two weeks ago I was all excited about posting every weekday to get it into my summer. Then I realized I had no internet. And then I also realized that posting at work is nearly impossible. Who knew one actually works during work? I am going to Milwaukee for the weekend, just for fun. So I leave this post with you in order to wish you a happy weekend :) And also because there is a cute guy in the coffee shop, and I needed an excuse to be here longer just to notice my surroundings...


I also find this picture beautiful. Dark skin and bright colors... so beautiful. Yes I understand that I am just posting something I pinned. But sometimes you are just out of fresh ideas.


Song title from The Riot's Gone by Santigold. I am obsessed this song. I have listened to it over 25 times this week. You think I'm joking.

You're seeing right through me anyway

This song is too great. I'm pretty sure I'm getting my roommate annoyed because I play it so much. But it's just so relatable. I'm excited to see them at NU Dillo Day! Just have to survive classes til then :)

Lovely music

This afternoon I was able to see Hilary Hahn perform at the CSO.  She played Mercy by Max Richter as part of her new project.  I was blown away!  Now I wish I could play the violin.  Actually on second thought, the cello would have to win.  Here is another piece by Max Richter called The Nature of Daylight.  Enjoy :)

Lazy Sunday

I love this video with the song Twenty Two Fourteen by The Album Leaf.  Perfect relaxing song for a Sunday afternoon :)

Woods

I'm up in the woods

I'm down on my mind
I'm building a still

to slow down the time. 

I love the song Woods by Bon Iver.  I have listened to it one too many times in the last week. It still amazes me that the song is only one paragraph.  Photography by Fenk.

In that dream moving slow through the morning

Beautiful songs and music videos by Fleet Foxes and The Head and the Heart.

Everybody seems to be staring in one direction

This is such a cool video and song.  The woman who made this taught my sister art at Wash U.  (Que Sera, Sera (Is Print Dead?) from ksup22 on Vimeo)

This is a song for anyone who can't get out of bed

Blue Skies by Noah and the Whale.  I love this song and this music video :)

what protects our hearts

Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?

Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts.

So it's fairly simple to cut right through the mess.

And to stop the muscle that makes us confess.

We are so fragile,

And our cracking bones make noise,

And we are just,

Breakable, breakable, breakable, girls and boys.

You fasten my seatbelt because it is the law.

In your two ton death trap I finally saw.

A piece of love in your face that bathed me in regret.

Then you drove me to places I'll never forget.

And we are so fragile,

And our cracking bones make noise,

And we are just,

Breakable, breakable, breakable girls and boys.

And we are so fragile,

And our our cracking bones make noise,

And we are just,

Breakable, breakable, breakable girls and boys. 

Breakable by Ingrid Michaelson, photo sources unknown

I don't have to exist outside this place

I can give it all on the first date
I don't have to exist outside this place

And dear know that I can change

But if stars, shouldn't shine

By the very first time

Then dear it's fine, so fine by me

'Cos we can give it time

So much time

With me

And I can draw the line on the first date

I'll let you cross it

Let you take every line I've got

When the time gets late

But if stars, shouldn't shine

By the very first time

Then dear it's fine, so fine by me

'Cos we can give it time

So much time

With me

If you want me

Let me know

Where do you wanna go

No need for talking

I already know

If you want me

Why go

Lyrics from "Stars" by The XX.

You'll never be what is in your heart

weep for yourself, my man, 

you'll never be what is in your heart
weep little lion man, 
you're not as brave as you were at the start

rate yourself and rape yourself, 

take all the courage you have left

wasted on fixing all the problems that you made in your own head

but it was not your fault but mine

and it was your heart on the line

i really fucked it up this time

didn't I, my dear?

tremble for yourself, my man, 

you know that you have seen this all before

tremble little lion man, 

you'll never settle any of your score

your grace is wasted in your face, 

your boldness stands alone among the wreck

learn from your mother or else spend your days biting your own neck

but it was not your fault but mine

and it was your heart on the line

i really fucked it up this time

didn't I, my dear?

Lyrics from "Little Lion Man" by Mumford & Sons.  Photo sources unknown.

All the burdens of peoples' pasts

Does it matter that I fall down
My wall down
When the border is inside or remained
Brings me back
Do you know the adversary
And carry
All the burdens of peoples' pasts

Takes me back against the everglades

Back against the out-of-state
This is the last place I go for now

It takes me back (back against the everglades)

It takes me back (back against the out-of-state)

This is the last place I go




The road can be stronger
The road can lay longer

"Damascus" by Sufjan Stevens, photography by Emma Louise.

Enchanted

I have listened to this video on repeat for the last 2 days.  I LOVE IT :)

Sufjan...

I am an idiot! Sufjan Stevens is going on tour (finally) and Chicago tickets are already sold out.  Who wouldn't want to hear "Chicago" live in Chicago?!  Silly, silly me for not buying them earlier.  Not to worry, I vow to see him live at least once before I die.  I really could listen to his songs for hours.  How can someone be so talented? and so darn beautiful too!  I take it as a personal honor that his most famous song is about a city I'll be moving to next month. Oh Sufjan!

Skeletons

Love my name
Love left dry

Frost or flame

Skeleton me

Fall asleep

Spin the sky

Skeleton me

Love, don't cry

Love, don't cry

Love, don't cry

Skeleton me

Skeleton me

Soon comes rain

Dry your eyes

Frost or flame

Skeleton me

Fall asleep

Spin the sky

Skeleton me 

Love, don't cry

Love, don't cry

Love, don't cry 

Skeleton me
Skeleton me 

Skeleton 

Skeletons by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the acoustic version is wonderful too.  Photos by Franchesca. 

The Lord God Bird

In the delta sun, down in Arkansas

It's the great god bird with its altar call

And the sewing machine, the industrial god

On the great bayou were they saw it fall

It's the great god bird down in Arkansas

And the hunters beware, or the fishers fall

And paradise might close from its safe flight flawed

It's the great god bird through it all

And the watchers beware, lest they see it fall

And paradise might laugh when at last it falls

And the sewing machine, the industrial god

It's the great god bird with it's altar call

Yes, it's the great god bird with its altar call

Yes, it's the great god bird through it all 

"The Lord God Bird" by Sufjan Stevens, one of my favorite songs. Beautiful photography by Anna Aden.