you know that i could use somebody

you know that i could use someone like you. and all you know and how you speak. countless lovers undercover on the streets. you know that i could use somebody. i hope it's gonna make you notice someone like me.

bat for lashes - use somebody (lo fi)

photo: héctor pozuelo

under the weather

"I lose you in the subway. This trip, it's been long. Two flights, a train, and now this. Before this there was a wedding. I didn't know them, the wedding people. But they looked at me, standing next to you, and they said, I like you two, together. I looked at you then and I look at you now and I wonder if that's true. I kiss you, stand up, get off the train, wondering. You tell me you love me and I wonder.

You'll never tell me you love me, I'll never wonder if you do, again.

I always meet you in the fall. You're always gone by spring. Sometimes you don't know this until the winter. Sometimes you tell me you love me when it's over."

by meredith chamberlain

why? - berkeley by hearseback
why? - eskimo snow
why? - this blackest purse

it's not what you thought

what are the reasons for believing, believing. a body heads south. cause your mouth on my mouth, a fire i just can't put out. it's a fever i just can't stop what i start. apart from believing, it's the leaving. the leaving. my body heads west.

amy millan - lost compass

i'll hold you close under these skies

there's nothing going wrong in the city tonight.

rural alberta advantage - barnesyard

(more from the raa's september daytrotter session.)

photo: sandra croft

all these things about me you never can tell

this dream is in a telescope now.

the joy formidable - the greatest light is the greatest shade
the joy formidable - whirring
the joy formidable - austere

more songs free to download here. and don't miss the unofficial video for "austere," banned by youtube for its sexy times! kinda nsfw, but i watched it at work. shh.

photo via the joy formidable facebook

this is how our summer ends

elastica - nothing stays the same
wave machines - you say the stupidest things
new order - ceremony



photos: coquinete; hector pozuelo

back to school

"i got out of bed today, staring at a ghost."

check out this recording of kids singing wintersleep's "weighty ghost," from cbc radio 3's 2008 school of rock special. it is super catchy and sweet! at one point the teacher prompts the kids to do the "na na na" part. adorable! all i remember from grade-school music classes is fighting over who would get to play the triangle in kindergarten. "na na na" > the triangle.