“Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It’s like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would normally have done, are like these ghosts everyone can see but pretends not to.”
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“I get out of bed, go over to the window, and look at the night sky and think about time that can never be regained. I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me.”
— Haruki Murakami
I think I’d have to say that my current ‘favorite band’ is The xx. I could listen to their music (& don’t auto-replace this next word with ‘figuratively’ because I really do mean it…) literally for hours on end. Unlike a lot of the music that creeps into our conciousness in this media-saturated world, I actually *do* remember the exact day I first heard their self-titled debut album
On Vinyl even!
I know personal preferences are always combined with so many other factors & circumstances that to try & truly understand them would be pointless, but I also realize that while we as individuals filter & experience this world around us in unique ways that make our customized, ‘personal’ reality just that — unique & personal, some Art seems to feel miraculously perfect to us, as if originating from within these walls we hide behind. Maybe that’s the meaning of love — to feel true sympathy & to be understood somehow.
Anyway, I love this music, for all the reasons.
What a weird alchemy that this band makes inside my head. I still haven’t worn out their sound…& in fact according to my ‘scrobbles’ from the last year they’re still atop my chart. It also helps that their live shows were among the best I’ve seen over the past few years…
The xx live in SF in April’17
The last album, I SEE YOU, was full of more great songs, but if pressed I’ll choose “I Dare You” & “On Hold” as my current faves.
…more later…
Cherry Blossoms over the Meguro River in Tokyo http://bit.ly/1sIfGpW #beauty
— matt adkins (@m_adkins) April 10, 2014
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Gustave Doré’s Splendid Illustrations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” (1884) http://bit.ly/1hmovkU
— matt adkins (@m_adkins) April 10, 2014
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