#a small death

[poprocklyrics]

Sometimes I feel like my memories never happened Could you remind me, take me back for a night?

Joey, Samantha Crain

[iamthecrime]

[i-need-happy-hour]

Equipment failure in Oakland led to a capella sing-a-long version of Stand By Me. Thank you to my neighbor who sent me this and credit to YouTube user mikeroten. ❤️❤️❤️

[poprocklyrics]

What's that silence inside me that expands into the dark? 

Holding to the Edge of Night, Samantha Crain

[arablit]

Mohammed Hasan Alwan's 'Ibn Arabi’s Small Death,' tr. William Hutchins, Makes National Book Award Longlist

Mohammed Hasan Alwan’s ‘Ibn Arabi’s Small Death,’ tr. William Hutchins, Makes National Book Award Longlist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 — Organizers today announced the 2022 longlist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. The ten titles on this year’s translated-literature longlist are from nine different languages. In addition to Arabic, there are books translated from Danish, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, and Spanish.  Prize organizers particularly noted that three of…

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[mikimeiko]

Albums I listened to in 2022

A Small Death - Samantha Crain (2021)

[linernotesandseasons]

       “Usually, with a near death experience (which I consider my chapter to be), people experience these poignant changes of seeing the world in a new way. For me, my nightly walks around Norman, Oklahoma, became my impassioned scenes. Streets that I’d walked down hundreds of times were suddenly the most splendid experiences. I remember the freedom and release I felt as a teenager with a new driver’s license on a late night drive on the dirt roads of Pottawatomie County, how that feeling had evaded me for so long in my callousing. This song follows my new appreciation of the quiet beauty of the night time theater of my town and the rediscovery of that liberation & loosening.

       “Holding To The Edge Of Night”   /   Samantha Crain

“What's that silence inside me that expands into the dark? With the traffic lights all changing for no one any more. The karaoke laughter tumbling out the door. My eyes well with contemplation of the pleasures I endure. Holding to the edge of night My deepest true desires interrupted with the dawn. A bar tab, a parking ticket pull me back down from beyond. I have searched for her in morning but she’s quiet & austere. And as the moon floats above her, she unfastens all the fear. Holding to the edge of night The smell of pine through the air vents, I know its it's there during the day. But as the sun sets around me it strips the other scents away. I am a legend of this land here; I am a keeper of this life. So when I die, however that is, I'll just say ‘evening was my prize.’ Holding to the edge of night...”

[mxdwn]

Album Review: Samantha Crain - A Small Death

https://music.mxdwn.com/2020/07/20/reviews/album-review-samantha-crain-a-small-death/