3 posts tagged “regina spektor”

Rather than assigning music to a particular person, place, or event, I have a more frequent tendency to seasonally associate my favorite songs. Beloved lyrics and harmonies pull together a resounding memento of particular atmospheric quality at their best moments, and despite how 'favorite' a song can be sometimes it just doesn't sound as good when played in the wrong season.

My growing collective of what I'd consider winter songs are tracks that are the most important to me. Winter is by far one of my most favorite times of year and the songs of the season I enjoy the most are ones that manage to color the quietude of stormy grays and snowy shadows outside. Here's just a sampling of songs I've managed to upload to my Vox, some new and some old.

The Repudiated Immortals - Of Montreal
Teardrop (Massive Attack Cover) - José González
20 Years of Snow - Regina Spektor
Wolves in the Garden - The Deadly Syndrome
In Space - Royksopp
On a Neck On a Spit - Grizzly Bear
Elephant Gun - Beirut

What are your winter songs?

Since revealing my inner-weakness for the Hapa variety when publicly endowing my womb to the future offspring of one Xavier, ee.en has been able to pinpoint all of my must-be Hapa crushes to come. This time, he really hit the nail on the head:

The past three meals I've had over the course of today and yesterday have all been soups.  Matzha ball.  Chicken udon.  Lentil vegetable.  This oncoming of soups indicates a fortuitous path in the universe.  At least, for me.

The weekend was filled with traveling and work.  Friday I went down to Trenton, NJ with Chico to take a quick visit to his family.  The rest of the weekend I cozied up in Brooklyn, finally gaining the creative momentum to begin work on my Media Studies senior project, which in its present form exists as almost four pages of graphic narrative.  I'm really excited about the work now that I've jumped into it, and reading Voxers' fascinating questionnaires certainly invigorated my thoughts.  So many, many, thanks again to those who contributed.

Meanwhile, the muses of Youtube videos and musical doncations from online friends have been exceedingly rich.  Backdropping my work was a wide-array of tv episodes, from the bizarre Tom Goes to the Mayor (the video above is from an episode with Michael Ian Black...the best secret handshake in the world) and Wonder Schowzen to the competitively comedic Kenny vs. Spenny.  Meanwhile, my friend Analog P. opened my ears to Boards of Canada and rg sent over Regina Spektor's 'anti-folk' album, which I've been listening to on repeat since I got it.

So things are good.  The bittersweet oncoming of parting ways with school in the next month is very apparent.  I don't think I've ever taken so many candid photos of Chico and I with my cellphone.  Just mini mementoes, tiny faces to carry around with me, wherever I may go beyond graduation.

So things are great.