some music, and also anderson cooper
Oh my god, internet. Apparently people ship Anderson Cooper with women. I mean, I always kind of knew that there would people who said things like, "OMG, Anderson and Erica have to have eight million babies!!!11" but I never knew they actually, you know, wrote RPF about it. I can't even deal with this. My brain can't handle it.
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Um. Anyway. Hi there, internet! I come bearing music.
I listened to my entire Dar Williams catalog (or nearly) on the way down to VA and then again on the way back up. It was really nice to hear some of her older stuff that I haven't listened to in awhile. I was surprised to find "When I Was a Boy" bringing tears to my eyes both times that it came up, so I thought I would share that, along with some other songs from her first two albums, including the "Traveling" triptych.
From The Honesty Room:
When I Was a Boy
when I was a boy, I scared the pants off of my mom,
climbed what I could climb upon
and I don't know how I survived,
I guess I knew the tricks that all boys knew.
and you can walk me home, but I was a boy, too.
You're Aging Well
why is it that as we grow older and stronger
the road signs point us adrift and make us afraid
saying "You never can win," "Watch your back," "Where's your husband?"
oh I don't like the signs that the signmakers made.
From Mortal City:
February
you know, I think Christmas was a long red glare,
shot up like a warning, we gave presents without cards,
and then the snow,
and then the snow came, we were always out shoveling,
and wed drop to sleep exhausted,
then we'd wake up, and it's snowing.
The Ocean
and the ones that can know you so well
are the ones that can swallow you whole.
I have a good and I have an evil,
I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing,
you are the welcoming back from the ocean.
And the "Traveling" triptych. The first two are from The Honesty Room and "Iowa" is from Mortal City:
Traveling Again (Traveling I)
yeah, but what about us? was it really that bad?
oh, it's hard to believe I want a highway roadstop
more than all the times we had, on little dirt roads.
what am I reaching for that's better than a hand to hold?
it really was about driving, not fame, not wealth,
not driving away from myself.
it's just myself drove away from me
and now I gotta get it back and it goes so fast, so I am traveling
again.
I Love, I Love (Traveling II)
but I am going to a far, far land
I know it sure as I've a past and a future.
with my maps on the table, you see, I have lost many things
so many I won't turn back.
Iowa (Traveling III)
once I had everything, I gave it up
for the shoulder of your driveway and the words I've never felt.
and so for you, I come this far across the tracks,
ten miles above the limit and with no seatbelt
and I'd do it again.
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Um. Anyway. Hi there, internet! I come bearing music.
I listened to my entire Dar Williams catalog (or nearly) on the way down to VA and then again on the way back up. It was really nice to hear some of her older stuff that I haven't listened to in awhile. I was surprised to find "When I Was a Boy" bringing tears to my eyes both times that it came up, so I thought I would share that, along with some other songs from her first two albums, including the "Traveling" triptych.
From The Honesty Room:
When I Was a Boy
when I was a boy, I scared the pants off of my mom,
climbed what I could climb upon
and I don't know how I survived,
I guess I knew the tricks that all boys knew.
and you can walk me home, but I was a boy, too.
You're Aging Well
why is it that as we grow older and stronger
the road signs point us adrift and make us afraid
saying "You never can win," "Watch your back," "Where's your husband?"
oh I don't like the signs that the signmakers made.
From Mortal City:
February
you know, I think Christmas was a long red glare,
shot up like a warning, we gave presents without cards,
and then the snow,
and then the snow came, we were always out shoveling,
and wed drop to sleep exhausted,
then we'd wake up, and it's snowing.
The Ocean
and the ones that can know you so well
are the ones that can swallow you whole.
I have a good and I have an evil,
I thought the ocean, the ocean thought nothing,
you are the welcoming back from the ocean.
And the "Traveling" triptych. The first two are from The Honesty Room and "Iowa" is from Mortal City:
Traveling Again (Traveling I)
yeah, but what about us? was it really that bad?
oh, it's hard to believe I want a highway roadstop
more than all the times we had, on little dirt roads.
what am I reaching for that's better than a hand to hold?
it really was about driving, not fame, not wealth,
not driving away from myself.
it's just myself drove away from me
and now I gotta get it back and it goes so fast, so I am traveling
again.
I Love, I Love (Traveling II)
but I am going to a far, far land
I know it sure as I've a past and a future.
with my maps on the table, you see, I have lost many things
so many I won't turn back.
Iowa (Traveling III)
once I had everything, I gave it up
for the shoulder of your driveway and the words I've never felt.
and so for you, I come this far across the tracks,
ten miles above the limit and with no seatbelt
and I'd do it again.