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Category archives for 'Song of the Day'
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World Enough and Time
Naturally, I have waited until the last day of the SOTD’s month of dialectics to implement some spiffy new HTML5, which makes it possible to listen on devices that don’t play well with Flash. (It’s a work in progress. Let me know about bugs in the comments.)
Yes, I know you don’t really care what the site is coded in, and, yes, it has indeed been a month since we embarked on this yin-yangy journey. Time’s wingèd chariot, et cetera, et cetera.
So, without further ado …
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Suum Cuique
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
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Faithless
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
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Out in the Starlight
I will love the light, for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness, for it shows me the stars.
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How I’ve Been
Today’s SOTD was sent to me by John, who says about our featured artist:
… they have all the gifts to be smug hipsters, but instead they’re playful and lovely.
I’d have to agree … and not only because they ♥ rock horns and marching band—let’s face it, who doesn’t?
In order to work around a certain video site’s no-embed rule for these, they’re kinda low-quality screen cap videos. If you want to listen to them in all their lo-fi mp3 glory, here ya go:
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Many thanks, John. When we get our new fancy-pants cheese for dinner decals, you’ll be the first to get one.
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Knockin ‘Em Down Like Seventh Grade
Probably okay for the immature and mature alike … if you don’t Google the lyrics, that is.
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Could Be Wrong
Okay, maybe I’m phoning it in at this point, but I will at least make it to one entire month of SOTD … so help me. Seriously, though, tell me when’s the last time you heard song number two? We’re talking seriously deep cut here. (Read: I’m expecting some props.)
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Out Sick
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I’ll Get Along
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A Case of the Mondays
For mature audiences only.
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It’s Later than It Seems
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The Sound of Thunder
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Onomatopoeia
For mature audiences only.
Hey, I’m no Tipper Gore. If you want to explain to your kid why someone might address a lover as “son,” be my guest.
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Can’t Live for Tomorrow
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Reign O’er Me
Being a fan of Lost is not required to appreciate today’s SOTD, but … my god … the humanity.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
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Your Favorite Song
The Great Song of the Day Experiment has been going on now for two weeks, and it’s been … well, exhausting. Let’s just say, my sideways self almost certainly is not a DJ in Los Angeles.
It’s been great fun, too, of course, and I hope you’re enjoying it—at least a little. For me, the best part’s been developing the habit of posting every day … something I’m hoping to maintain, even if/when my daily song posts peter out.
In the meantime, welcome to SOTD: Week Three and check back for a new post post—replete with big words and long-winded explanations of perfectly obvious things—later today or tomorrow.
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Shimmering and White
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One Drink Is Just Right
Two is too many. Three is too few.
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Your One Wild and Precious Life
Happy Beltane-slash-Walpurgisnacht-slash-May Day, fair reader.
To celebrate the “beginning of the pastoral summer season,” I offer both songs of the day and a poem of the day … one of my favorites … The Summer Day, by Mary Oliver:
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down—
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
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The Places You Will Be From
Just for you, a Friday night woohoo haiku.
electricity
brims and lingers, then yields to
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Name's Kirsten. I'm a splitter of hairs, a hillbilly, a rock horns devotee, an ellipses-lovin' fool, and queen of the conceptual jinx. I'm also a geek and the grateful human of littleblackdog. I do this and that and some of the other … up to and including writing this here blog.
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