WOMAN

It's hard to believe a month has passed since I ventured into these parts.  The dailies have consumed me with all that it can entail plus the likes of adopting a new kitten, re-homing said kitten, accepting the trials of anxiety, and dealing with a nasty pothole that attempted to eat my car which, I wryly joked, was singing this delightful Ministry song.



Ministry // Revenge // With Sympathy // 1983

Also, the world has gone utterly bonkers and I no longer recognize my country.

Currently, my listening tastes are soooo wildly disparate (fitting the schizoid climate in which we find ourselves), I'm not sure how to post about them.  So without much fanfare, here are just a few.



Angel Olsen // Woman // My Woman // 2016
A popular choice, for sure, but digging deeper into her third album, besides the poptastic Shut Up and Kiss Me track, you'll find several gems though it's this moody 7 minute opus that is really doing it for me. Contemplative perfection

I dare you to understand
What makes me a woman



Broadcast // Ominous Cloud // Haha Sound // 2003
There has yet to be a moment that Trish Keenan's beautiful voice doesn't make better.  This track is so very fitting right now.

I've got to get away
From this town, don't want to face
The ominous clouds

Be myself and learn to face 
The ominous clouds

PJ Harvey // This is Love // Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea // 2000

Because, Polly Jean.

I can't believe that life's so complex
When I just want to sit here and watch you undress

Ohhhh... look at that!  There's a theme here after all, funny how that works. xo 

The Words That Maketh Murder

Suburbs, bridal shower, kids, older ladies who want us to have kids.   This is how I spent my day, which for me is a recipe for Cranky Central.



But PJ Harvey's latest Let England Shake makes me feel a little better.  On Battleship Hill is also so epic and awesome.  Thanks Polly Jean I can always count on you. 

Yeah yeah yeah... Hating on the kids, suburbs and weddings I guess makes me a terrible person but c'mon!   How much oohing and aaahing do you have in your system?

[Disclaimer: I love my friends and for them I would move mountains.  In this case I am the mountain so for her...]

Whats It?

The weather this week is unbelievable.  After months and months of sweltering 100 degree sticky disgusting sauna heat, the temperature is now a comfortable even slightly chilly 75.  Everyone is so much more relaxed and cheerful.  Gone is the feeling that the blasted summer would last forever [though if you live here, you expect to have a sweaty Christmas].  I suppose in other parts of the world people are lamenting the rapid approach of wintry darkness but here, in the Groin of America, is when we all come out of our hiding holes and celebrate. 

So in honor of the Advent of Fall, last night I made my friend a mix cd.  Not of quietude and death but of blazing Let's Get Our Asses Outside And Do Things.  Even better, she's on the verge of falling in love and I can't think of a better season for love.  So we drove around blasting speakers, bopping around and generally making giddy fools of ourselves. 

This made in on there - Warning: Extremely silly.


And This.


And just a bit of grit. <3 <3 <3
Hot skin in the night
In the hour when the animals are born
And crimes of passion are committed
Take me to the morning light
Take me to your leader

Take me to the frozen north
Skating, falling
Falling down, down, down
Into icy water