December 2009
23 posts
The Top 20 Records of 2009
2009 has been a time of great transition for Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands. For starters, I shut down the whole thing completely in April, after more than four years of continuous music blogging. In hindsight, that was probably a mistake (or, deleting all the old posts was, at least) - but a mistake worth making. Because, finally, I got some time off. And that made me realize that I...
I Want You to Keep Everything - These United States
(live, acoustic)
People Playing Songs I Love: "After You've Gone"
Now won’t you listen honey, while I say, How could you tell me that you’re goin’ away? Don’t say that we must part, Don’t break your baby’s heart
You know I’ve loved you for these many years, Loved you night and day… Oh! honey baby, can’t you see my tears? Listen while I say:
After you’ve gone, and left me...
words and music
In the City of Light - Larry Levis
The last thing my father did for me Was map a way: he died, & so Made death possible. If he could do it, I Will also, someday, be so honored. Once, At night, I walked through the lit streets Of New York, from the Gramercy Park Hotel Up Lexington & at that hour, alone, I stopped hearing traffic, voices, the racket Of spring wind lifting a newspaper...