Recently I have come to the unhappy realisation that my musical life has been terribly drab of late. I've barely been listening to new music, and I haven't been sharing at all (so, um, expect a musicyardsale post in the near future to assuage my guilt). So, to push myself back into the world of music, here are a few songs I've been loving recently.

i. annachie ( Read more... )

Being twenty is still something that gives me pause -- it reminds me of how I felt when we had just moved to this house, and certain things were in different places; when sitting at the computer I was in the same metaphysical place I had been before, but I would expect to look up and see a different room from the one I found myself in, and to be ( Read more... )

Clearly, I should always ask my flist for the shiny things they have lying about on their computers, because you lot always come up with the most beautiful things when I need cheering! Everyone should go look. I heart you guys. (Also, in said bundle of awesome links, Eva Ibbotson wrote an article for a save the library campaign. Be still my heart ( Read more... )

nghhh I have Tolkien meta and Prisoner of Azkaban The Movie meta and The Novel meta and I want to write it all and why do I feel so busy this is absurd. Of course, there is the whole thing where I have to write and compose or at least re-arrange a new song every day through Saturday, which I admit is thoroughly my own fault, and also it is good for ( Read more... )

HEY YOU GUYS NEW SWELL SEASON SONG. \o/

♫ in these arms - the swell season
maybe i was born to hold you in these arms
OH GLEN AND MAR I HAVE MISSED YOU SO. ♥

(New album Strict Joy due out 29 September!)

The most glorious mess of a thunderstorm just roared over the hills -- all blinding rain and howls of thunder and the thick scent of sweat and dust rising, expelled, from the earth. The sky's been green. I had to light all the candles I could and shrug into my white lace skirt (to go with, you know, my folkloretastic Vampires Beware t-shirt...), ( Read more... )

Today acquired the first bathing suit that I have owned and not disliked in many a year, just in time for July's holiday in Nova Scotia. (Good heavens, that's... really coming up now, isn't it? Need to collect a few more books. Mum got me a copy of Thomas Wharton's Salamander from PaperBackSwap, and it's coming soon; I am so happy. Salamander is ( Read more... )

How can anyone travel by aeroplane without shouting, my God, my God, what a miracle this is?

I love flying. As I only manage to board a plane every four years or so, I frequently forget this, but it's fantastic. I love airports, and strange people, and all of the weird compact convenience things that a plane requires (weird tiny bathrooms! tiny ( Read more... )

I've been accepted as a trial poster at musicyardsale and I'm really quite excited about it! All of you who aren't members already should go join. *nods* It's a very lovely friendly community with excitingly varied music recommendations -- and, you know, there will be me.

On the subject of music, the assign-a-letter meme was flittering around the f-list a while ( Read more... )

Some observations:

i. My father is kind of adorable. Also, his music taste is made of win. (My father's taste in music is primarily responsible for my taste in music, though we listen to quite a lot of entirely different things. My adoration of all kinds of alt folk and traditional folk music is all his doing, though. I grew up singing along to his ( Read more... )