1. Icarus by Bastille
2. Spark by Fitz and the Tantrums
3. Battles by Hudson Taylor
4. Don’t Own My Heart by Joe Windle
5. The Bell by Villagers
6. Playing for Keeps by Elle King
7. Lightning Bolt by Jake Bugg
8. Credit! by Thomas D’Arcy
9. Keep On Running by Andy Bull

This is actually part of a writing project—one that I am reluctantly admitting to working on. If anything, it is a distraction from still unresolved Eliot-Tessa-David story and ever-plotless A&B story. Maybe if I keep adding to my list of writing, I’ll finally finish something. Heh. 

Stream Unextrodinary Man by Animal Heart on Indie/Rock Playlist: January (2013) for free on Grooveshark.

This song is perfect for some interpretations of a ship I’ve been reading over the past couple days.

Drank too much in an old box car,
Stumbling out with a loaded heart.

Maybe I’ll try and turn you on,
With a bottle of jack and a country song,

Truth is this, I ain’t done,
Nobody else gonna spoil my fun…

Maybe I rolled the dice to long,
Maybe I got this wrong,
And now the money is gone….

Ohhh, maybe I’ll let you down,
Ohhh, and then I’ll come back around,
You gotta start with something,
Maybe it turns to nothing,
Ohhh, MAYBE MY TIME IS COMING…

I’m an UN-extraordinary man,
With an UN-extraordinary plan,
Gonna dig my heard outta the sand,
Cos I’m an UN-extraordinary man…

14 track album

I try to shake you off / but you ain’t letting go

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Seriously addicted to this song.

whoa-my-ninja:

preciouslezah:

EVOLUTION OF MUSIC by Pentatonix

11th Century
Salve Regina 

1600s
Canon in D - Pachelbel

1800s
Symphony No. 5 - Beethoven

1910s
Danny Boy - Frederic Weatherly 

1920s
Old Man River - Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II

1930s
Minnie the Moocher - Cab Calloway

1940s
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy - The Andrew Sisters

1950s
I Walk The Line - Johnny Cash
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens

1960s
Stand By Me - Ben E. King
Barbara Ann - Beach Boys 
I Want to Hold Your Hand - The Beatles
RESPECT - Aretha Franklin

1970s
ABC - Jackson 5
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

1980s
Celebration - Kool & The Gang
Don’t Stop Believin’ - Journey
Thriller - Michael Jackson

1990s
Can’t Touch This - MC Hammer
…Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
Say My Name - Destiny’s Child
I Want It That Way - The Backstreet Boys 

2000s
Hey Ya! - Outkast 
Drop it Like It’s Hot - Snoop Dogg
Crazy - Gnarls Barkley 
Hips Don’t Lie - Shakira
Single Ladies - Beyonce
I Kissed A Girl - Katy Perry
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
I Got a Feelin - Black Eyed Peas

2010s
Baby - Justin Bieber
We Found Love - Rihanna
Some Nights - Fun.
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye
Gangnam Style - Psy
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen

oh my god this is amazing seriously everyone watch this

(via tielan)

For those we love who’ve passed away
We hold you in our hearts today
Here’s to you and now we say
Cheers to all the yesterdays

[…]

One Two Three Four
Gather round and stomp the floor
And shout!
Hey Hey Hey we’re never gonna die
A toast! 
Hey Hey For love we stay and death defy
We’re gonna raise some hell tonight.

Close your eyes, child, this world will wash you up
And hold close what you believe
Open your mind, child, these wings will drag you up
And, hell, another round for me.

My current earworm. I’ve caught myself humming the chorus several times today and yesterday.

Blue on Black, Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Led Zeppelin took the blue print drawn up by traditional blues bands like The Rolling Stones and exaggerated everything to Olympian proportions. […] Consequently they needed a frontman who could match the ambiguous sexual presence of Jagger and magnify it accordingly. Robert Plant, with his mane of golden curls, prominent genital display and powerful, high-pitched rock scream, took over from Jagger as the new, improved rock frontman for the sexually ambiguous 1970s. 

[…]

While the “tight trousers” and “visual emphasis on chest hair and genitals” is undeniably masculine, what Frith and McRobbie fail to take into account is the gender ambiguity inherent in placing the masculine body on display. While rock frontmen like Robert Plant are undeniably marked as masculine, at the same time they are presented as objects of visual desire in a way more commonly associated with the feminine.1 Plant’s physicality on stage deliberately emphasises this almost feminine sexual allure. He is described by one male reviewer as “breathtakingly beautiful, rather like a choirboy possessed by the spirit of Gene Vincent,” while his movements are coded in feminine terms as moving “in curves with the emphasis on his hips” (Kent, 19).

[…]

Therefore the only way in which the genre could provide a coherent model of powerful masculinity was not to oppress women, with the intention of raising their own status, but to exclude women altogether. In his distinctive vocal style and ambiguous star image Robert Plant becomes a kind of drag king, expressing dominant masculinity and feminine desirability in one. Hard rock, as a genre, provided a musical reaction to the increased flexibility of gender roles in society, nullifying the threat of female involvement by creating a homo-social world in which men not only made the manliest men, but also the most feminine women.

The massive, and enduring, success of Led Zeppelin is no surprise when you consider the dual functions that they perform. At the same time as providing a model of masculinity more rampantly sexual than ever before, their music contains this sense of sexuality within the safe fantasy of a homo-social world, an all boys club where even the voice of women is produced and controlled by men.

That this successfully reflects the delicate balance of attraction and fear brought about by the burgeoning sexuality of their predominantly adolescent fanbase accounts for their success during the 1970s. That these same adolescents should continue to look to Zeppelin as a model of fully formed masculinity well into middle age not only reflects the undeniable quality of their music but also the continuing uncertainties surrounding contemporary masculine identities, and the constant struggle for reassurance.

I now really, really want some good meta on Dean, his musical preferences, and, possibly, his sexuality.

cinaed:

“Litany” by Dana Gioia

This is a litany of lost things,
a canon of possessions dispossessed,
a photograph, an old address, a key.
It is a list of words to memorize
or to forget–of amo, amas, amat,
the conjugations of a dead tongue
in which the final sentence has been spoken.

This…

One of my favorite poems. The musicality of the words is wonderful.