oh but dear
I recently downloaded Songza for my iOS devices, which is something along the lines of Pandora except that you pick from various themed playlists rather than just having the playlist generate from a suggested artist, and most importantly, unlike Pandora it works in Canada. I haven't listened to it very long but I've made one good discovery so far, Purity Ring. Here's the song I heard, "Obedear", on the Songza playlist Haunted House (ghostly electronica):
I'm even more into the sounds behind their b-side "Lofticries". Listen to the first thirty seconds-ish to hear the best of it:
I could listen to that first bit on loop for like thirty minutes without getting sick of it, I think.
The lyrics of "Obedear" are just vague, but those of "Lofticries" are quite unsettling. The lyricist takes all of her lyrics from her journals, so that was reassuring that it can't be describing anything THAT horrific in real life. Plus I think having read a few interviews, that the lyricist is of the kind who enjoys using language to obfuscate and suggest something horrible in the mind beyond the horror possible in explicit descriptions of terrors. [What I at first thought the song was about.]It seemed to me at first that the lyrics were about children dying from being raped/tortured ("bead-weighted chests", "trembling thighs"), and disassociating ("you must be hovering over yourself/watching us drip on each others sides").
Honestly I would rather listen to an instrumental or vocable (no lyrics) version. But the music is still good.
I don't think I know anyone who likes this kind of dream pop/dark wave/electronica though? Like Venus Hum, Joy Electric, Pristina, etc. I know my husband doesn't like it at all, and I don't think I've ever had a friend who enjoyed it... maybe I'm just forgetting someone though. That's part of the reason why I'm not really as up on it as I could be, even though it's really my favorite genre. I don't know all the terminology about dubstep, dark wave, future pop, etc etc etc, because what use is terminology if you're not discussing it with anyone? I just know what I like.
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I got both toddlers down for a nap at the same time!!! I am a genius.
Little Boy's father is going on vacation so we won't have him at all until after Canadian Thanksgiving. I'm going to miss him, but I think I would also like to take this time to get Pippa squared back away with her sleep and her pottying. She's regressed somewhat in both and I think it's because of insecurity about having LB around (such that she's trying to get more one-on-one time at night), plus my own divided attention meaning that I'm missing her signals in pottying.
For dinner, I'm going to make some kind of lentil collard ricotta brown rice pesto thingamabobber tonight. I'm not going off of any one recipe, more like ten. My vague idea is to cook onions, garlic, collards, tomatoes and lentils with some Indian spices and then serve over brown rice with a spoonful of ricotta and a drizzle of pesto on top. I'll try to keep track of what I do so that I can share it if it works.
It's finally started raining after seemingly weeks and weeks of no rain here. I would like to apologize to all Vancouverites because clearly the sky was waiting to rain until a day after I watered the garden for the first time in weeks (yeah, I know).
I yanked out the lettuces which had all gone to seed, and my cucumber plant is dead, but everything else seems either ok or done for the season anyway. I still have green tomatoes and I'm wondering if they're going to ripen before the weather gets too cold. Maybe I should just pick them and make fried green tomatoes.
I'm even more into the sounds behind their b-side "Lofticries". Listen to the first thirty seconds-ish to hear the best of it:
I could listen to that first bit on loop for like thirty minutes without getting sick of it, I think.
The lyrics of "Obedear" are just vague, but those of "Lofticries" are quite unsettling. The lyricist takes all of her lyrics from her journals, so that was reassuring that it can't be describing anything THAT horrific in real life. Plus I think having read a few interviews, that the lyricist is of the kind who enjoys using language to obfuscate and suggest something horrible in the mind beyond the horror possible in explicit descriptions of terrors. [What I at first thought the song was about.]It seemed to me at first that the lyrics were about children dying from being raped/tortured ("bead-weighted chests", "trembling thighs"), and disassociating ("you must be hovering over yourself/watching us drip on each others sides").
Honestly I would rather listen to an instrumental or vocable (no lyrics) version. But the music is still good.
I don't think I know anyone who likes this kind of dream pop/dark wave/electronica though? Like Venus Hum, Joy Electric, Pristina, etc. I know my husband doesn't like it at all, and I don't think I've ever had a friend who enjoyed it... maybe I'm just forgetting someone though. That's part of the reason why I'm not really as up on it as I could be, even though it's really my favorite genre. I don't know all the terminology about dubstep, dark wave, future pop, etc etc etc, because what use is terminology if you're not discussing it with anyone? I just know what I like.
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I got both toddlers down for a nap at the same time!!! I am a genius.
Little Boy's father is going on vacation so we won't have him at all until after Canadian Thanksgiving. I'm going to miss him, but I think I would also like to take this time to get Pippa squared back away with her sleep and her pottying. She's regressed somewhat in both and I think it's because of insecurity about having LB around (such that she's trying to get more one-on-one time at night), plus my own divided attention meaning that I'm missing her signals in pottying.
For dinner, I'm going to make some kind of lentil collard ricotta brown rice pesto thingamabobber tonight. I'm not going off of any one recipe, more like ten. My vague idea is to cook onions, garlic, collards, tomatoes and lentils with some Indian spices and then serve over brown rice with a spoonful of ricotta and a drizzle of pesto on top. I'll try to keep track of what I do so that I can share it if it works.
It's finally started raining after seemingly weeks and weeks of no rain here. I would like to apologize to all Vancouverites because clearly the sky was waiting to rain until a day after I watered the garden for the first time in weeks (yeah, I know).
I yanked out the lettuces which had all gone to seed, and my cucumber plant is dead, but everything else seems either ok or done for the season anyway. I still have green tomatoes and I'm wondering if they're going to ripen before the weather gets too cold. Maybe I should just pick them and make fried green tomatoes.