Song About Old Rollercoaster

Road maps as eyes I am alive and leaving.

[hhhtmcnerd]

[thecreatorsproject]

Enter ‘Spirited Away,’ 'Howl’s Moving Castle,’ and 'My Neighbor Totoro’ in VR http://ift.tt/1Nppbs1

[songabout-blog]

next Saturday

[lprnyc]

Inside the Trove of the Genre-Buster Arthur Russell

The composer’s archives, to be donated to the New York Public Library for the performing Arts, give a sense of the many music scenes he influenced.

[holysoul]

[markrichardson]

My Life as a Paperboy

Today I was walking my dog Stanley and I heard a mourning dove. It’s a very familiar sound from my childhood. 

Between the ages of 11 and 13, I delivered the Lansing State Journal in my neighborhood. In those days paper carriers were contractors and ran their own business. You had to buy the papers from the State Journal, and then you had to collect from the customers. If your collections were bad you could actually lose money. I opened my first checking account at this age so I could use it for buying papers for my route.

As a kid I thought they birds were called “morning doves” because I always heard their call in the morning. Often when I would be delivering papers, it would be right around dawn and I would be the only person on the streets, everything was dead quiet but I could hear the birds and that lonely sound. The sound suggests “An empty street at dawn” to me, and even now whenever I hear it, it takes me back to that place. I think of a bag of papers on my back and the sun is just coming up and I feel like the only person in the world. 

I would usually walk on my route or ride my bike, but on Sundays, and some holidays, like New Year’s Day, the papers would be too thick and heavy for me to carry, so my mother or father would drive me. They would insist on getting up extra early to drive to Dunkin’ Donuts to get coffee and donuts to drink and eat while i did my deliveries. If it was New Year’s Day, they might be hungover. 

In the winter in Michigan, it would be impossibly cold, and I can remember mornings where my face would feel like it was cracking it and it was dark and the world seemed like it was covered in ice. And I’d grab a stack of papers from the car and go down a street and back and then I’d return to see my father sitting in the front seat, the dome light of the car on, coffee in his hand, donut on the seat, and he would be reading the sports section carefully so that he could re-assemble the paper for my last customer. The heat would be blasting in the car and I’d warm up for a second and I was thinking I’d do anything just to be able to stay in there and go to sleep. But instead I grabbed a stack for the next street and stepped back out into the black and freezing morning. 

[thecreatorsproject]

Glimpse the Secret Life of Dogs in this Animated Short http://ift.tt/24fFgI4

[songabout-blog]

Henry Diltz

[entergodmode-deactivated2017071]

Claudia Cardinale feeds pasta to stray cats, Rome 1962

[kennedymagazine]

[vintage-musicians]

[indiephonyx]

Nassau / Wake The Dead extrait de l’EP “Hoss”, à paraître le 23 Juin prochain sur Fire Talk Records.

[the-out-door]

200 Words: DAVID FIRST

(In 200 Words, we highlight a new record we like a lot, via a 200-word review by Marc Masters and 200 words (or so) from the artist about whatever they choose. And sometimes we go extra-long on a record we extra-love…)

DAVID FIRST – Same Animal, Different Cages Vol. 1 LP (Fabrica)

Keep reading

[songabout-blog]

my old guitar teacher!

[aquariumdrunkard]

[landonspeers]

Keith Abrahamsson of Anthology Recordings for Urban Outfitters

landon speers ©

[songabout-blog]

this was a fun piece to work on with Landon!

[easysound]

Listen to Fruit Bats Absolute Loser via KEXP, OPB, KCSN and RSD Now!

“It’s the opening song to a stunning record, one that won’t leave your head (or your headphones) any time soon. Fruit Bats is back, and that’s a very good thing.” -OPB “ If you’ve loved the band, as so many already have, you’ll love this, and if you haven’t yet heard Fruit Bats, then Absolute Loser is a terrific place to start.” -KEXP

[pionears]

Plums - ‘Parking Lots’ 

Every quarter, subscription based record club ‘Singles Club’ sends its members a fresh batch of records, but on a more regular basis they invite their favourite labels in for a ‘Selects Mix’, where they pick their favourite artists. 

Issue #17, from Minneapolis’ ‘Forged Artifacts’ is a must listen, with this Plums track - a gorgeously daze-laced summer gem - being one of many standouts. 

singlesclub.fm