Lord help me -- I'm going through tattoo desire yet again, fueled by my post on music from a couple days ago ( Read more... )

This quote from Nick Cave from his lecture "The Secret Life of the Love Song" so perfectly sums up what I feel art should do. (Bold emphasis my own.)

All love songs must contain duende. For the love song is never truly happy. It must first embrace the potential for pain. Those songs that speak of love without having within in their lines an ache ( Read more... )

So, more Kate Bush lyrics. LOL. I'm sure you are all sick of my love for Kate Bush...but her lyrics have never spoken to me as much before this point in my life.

This song reminds me of my need to feel protected during my bad days, or when I feel worried, depressed or scared...

Well I said ( Read more... )

Although I believe I did this meme about 4 years ago, I was tagged by heartpause to do it again. I used Tori Amos song titles last time, so now I'm going to do it using someone else.

*Choose a singer/band/group.
*Answer using ONLY titles of songs by that singer/band/group.
*Tag 7 more people. Or not.Chosen musician: Kate Bush, since I've been relating to ( Read more... )

I feel like such an awful fan -- I had to go on Fark.com (of all places) to know this, but it's Kate Bush's 50th birthday!

I remember picking up a copy of Hounds Of Love at Borders when I was about fifteen years old, because I'd heard that she was a huge influence on Tori Amos and that many fans of Tori also loved Kate. When I first listened to ( Read more... )

I had a great conversation with Erika tonight about some of this post-college, quarter-life crisis stuff we're both going through right now. I recently admitted to myself that one of my problems is that I want to be a responsible, accomplished, successful adult, but part of me doesn't want to go through any of the hard work or struggling or ( Read more... )