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BEST TRACKS OF 2017-ARTISTS LIST #88

THE CITY VIEW

New Hampshire based synth-pop act The City View offered up their introspective and emotionally versatile collection of tunes titled Half Asleep earlier this year. Here is their top ten tunes that made their year--2017!

1. The Vampyre-He Is Legend He Is Legend has been one of my favorite heavy bands for a while, and this song from their newest release has everything I like by them: sinister guitar, great lyrics, and lots of angst. 2. Livid, I'm Prime-Comeback Kid Released on their newest album, this fast and angry song is short and not so sweet.

3. Spice Up-Vintage Lee A new discovery for me this year, Boston artist Vintage Lee put out this catchy banger with awesome production from Tee-WaTT x M.Ali.

4. Somewhere Up There-Passion Pit Passion Pit is a big influence on The City View, and this song from their newest album immediately caught my attention the first time I heard it with the glitchy electronics and melodic touch.

5. Chanel-Frank Ocean I don't really know what to say about this song, other than that everything is great from the production to the lyrics to the vocal delivery.....

6. Fly On Your Wall-Angel Olsen I just love this song because of the haunting somber sound that reminds me of the first time I saw her perform, which was amazing!

7. Crazy-Slowriter This is another great electronic song that gets stuck in my head with clever lyrics and an interesting mood.

8. Boyfriend-Lissie I've always loved the way Lissie is able to seamlessly mix different sounds together, and "Boyfriend" is no different.

9. Wanna Be Tied-Bloom Waves This song by Bloom Waves has all the elements of their music I love; noisey shoegaze with beautiful melodies and lyrics that I can't help but really connect with.

10. Big Fish-Vince Staples I love the mood of this song with the water in the background, and Vince Staples delivers as always with his great lyrics and style.

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A celebration of the pause.

I can be an intensely goal-oriented person, and mostly this has served me well. I wrote a semi-autobiographical novella in part about resiliency, or at least that was the seed. You see, directly and indirectly I have heard all my life that for me, success was unlikely, that my success is a particular miracle, unexpected. So I wanted to explore how it is that I don’t feel particularly resilient at all. I wanted to put a character in a situation somewhat like mine and see just how she might come to save herself. It’s true I was a welfare kid, a victim of childhood abuse, an intensely shy child who suffered severe allergies for all of my pre-adult life. It’s also true that genetically I am predisposed to self-destruct through addictive behavior and that I have suffered anxiety as long as I can remember. My ability to set goals and work toward them has enabled me to manage anxiety without medication, to go from being unable to run at 24 years old to running my first marathon at 30, and to be a now National Boards Certified Teacher, 15 years of teaching experience behind me. I am a compulsive list maker and goal-setter. I can read through old journals and see that this pattern established itself early. But I’m not writing this blog as a celebration of goal-setting. I’m writing in celebration of the absence of moving toward a goal, a celebration of the pause, something I’ve come to appreciate these past few weeks. Certainly my lists and goals serve my writing. It is this tendency that has inspired me to wake up at 4 and 5 in the morning to write first each day, that allows me to add practices to my work that keep me moving forward, like keeping a writing journal on my desk and writing down short and long term goals. But what I’ve discovered in this early morning writing time is that in the writing itself, I am best served when I can let go of all goals and give myself up to the writing itself. When I try to write fast, when I try to finish a work before it is ready to be done, when I rush editing, I ruin the work. I’ve done this over and over again. Fortunately, I am a fan of Whitman’s insight about contradictions and I too believe I contain multitudes, thus am capable of writing slow, pausing to take walks or just stare out the window in spite of the anxious, goal-oriented me. Practices that strengthen my ability to pause include the writing itself, yoga and meditation, and time spent in nature. As I write this, I am thinking of this work we do as writers as a kind of dance where we are called to move through many aspects of ourselves to do our best work.

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Interested in hiring me as a coach to get you boosted with your writing goals?Find free resources and information here.Some past posts to keep you making time: Adjust your pace accordingly.It’s about the routine and how you shake up the routineThere are things you will have to give upSee it to achieve itWashing the dishesWrite slowlyA celebration of the pauseMonday, a run through the driving rainZen accidentGet out of your comfort zone

A celebration of the pause. was originally published on Make Time.