Heartsink by Blood Red Shoes.
(Northern) Africa awaits. Not quite the best “ready to travel song,” but it’ll suffice.
dokital
It's just another draw bridge, whoop-dee-doo.
For Wes.
Infinite Snow by Monolake
The song oozes with cold tension. Also, it looks just like the cover outside my window.
Now That I Miss Her by Elefant
It was late the other night, and nostalgia seemed like a good idea. A few minutes with Way Back Web lead me to a blog of mine from 2002/2003. Even back then, I was suggesting music. So here’s a song from an album I recommended back in July 2003. I had totally forgotten about this band and didn’t even have the music anymore. I enjoy it after all this time, though it is hard to determine if I enjoy it because of the nostalgia or because of the actual music.
Tiny Spiders by the Soft Moon
This coming to you thanks to Fauxpop. It’s an intense, pounding goth song. What could be better?
Futile Devices by Sufjan Stevens
There are longer songs from this album, but I think this one captures the dour vibe of this album quite well. Some truly lovely words in these two minutes. The album also has cathartic moments, particularly at the end. Worth a listen.
Not only is our government highly decentralized, but our politics appear to be approaching gridlock, in which neither political party either raises taxes significantly nor cut public spending significantly nor even resist new spending programs.
- Richard Posner
Home is nice.
King Night by Salem
All credit to Pitchfork on this one. Epic.
That fact combined with the observation that America’s titanic military budget is larger than the military budgets of China, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Japan, Saudia Arabia, Italy, South Korea, Brazil, Canada, and Australia combined is more than enough to suggest to common sense that there’s room here to cut a bit of fat.
But not so fast! According to AEI’s Arthur Brooks, Heritage’s Ed Feulner, and the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, any attempt to shrink the big government of garrisons and guns will “make the world a more dangerous place, and … impoverish our future.”
…This is bogus.
(Source: economist.com)
