Luis Soares's Blog, page 151

Being Boring

I came across a cache of old photos
and invitations to teenage parties
'Dress in white' one said with quotations
from someone's wife, a famous writer
in the nineteen-twenties
When you're young you find inspiration
in anyone who's ever gone
and opened up a closing door
She said we were never feeling bored

'cause we were never being boring
We had too much time to find for ourselves
and we were never being boring
We dressed up and fought then thought "make amends"
And we were never holding back or worried t...

Daughters of the SoHo Riots

A black/white video shot by Vincent Moon in 2005 in Paris, celebrating a wonderful song by his new-yorker friends THE NATIONAL, from their album 'Alligator' on Beggars Banquet Records.

 

I have your good clothes in the car

So cut your hair so no one knows

I have your dreams and your teeth marks

All my fingernails are painted

 

I'm here to take you now

 

You were right about the end

It didn't make a difference

Everything I can remember 

I remember wrong

 

How can anybody know 

How they got to...

No One Changes / The Rockaways

No One Changes / The Rockaways by Conor Oberst

"No One Changes" / Conor Oberst- piano and vocal

"The Rockaways" / Conor Oberst- guitar and vocal / Nathaniel Walcott- keyboard

 

Produced by Bryce Gonzales and Conor Oberst
Engineered by Bryce Gonzales
All songs by Conor Oberst (Bedrooms; Bedrooms and Spiders, BMI)
Mastered by Warren Sokol at United Recording Studio
Paintings by Jerry Kinney
Lay out by Autumn Seguin

Natasha Trethewey - After My Father

Right off I hear him singing, the strings
of his old guitar hemming the darkness
as before—late nights on the front porch—
the mountains across the valley blurred
to outline. We are at it again, father
and daughter, deep in our cups, rehearsing
the long years between us. In the distance
I hear the foghorn call of bullfrogs,
envoys from the river of lamentation
my father is determined to cross. Already
I know where this is headed: how many times
has the night turned toward regret? My father
saying, If onl...

Only You

THEOPHILUS LONDON "ONLY YOU" feat TAME IMPALA

Fukk Sleep

A$AP ROCKY - FUKK SLEEP FT. FKA TWIGS (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

PRODUCED BY OBJECT ANIMAL & O CREATIVE STUDIO
DIRECTED BY DIANA KUNST

Chase Twichell - The New Dark Ages

Thunderstorms stir me up—
the stillness right before

 

the first close tremor,
the pond shivering

 

at the height of summer,
the field full-blown, going to seed.

 

But this storm scares me.
A foreign climate occupies the land.

 

When nature was God, in my childhood,
I wasn't afraid. Snow buried the town,

 

the river flooded it,
lightning set the woods on fire.

 

In months the damage bandaged itself
with mosses and ferns.

 

This storm comes from another
world, here by mistake,

 

its rain blistering th...

Joel Meyerowitz - Cape Light

Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is a street photographer and portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the idea of color photography as serious art. In the early 1970s he taught photography at the Cooper Union in New York City.

His work is in the collections of the International Center of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, and New York Public Li...

Rosalía

Rosalía performs "De Aqui No Sales" and "Malamente" at the MTV 2018 European Music Awards in Bilbao.

Liniker e os Caramelows: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Oct. 29, 2018 | Felix Contreras -- Watching this performance is to witness a spell being cast, note-by-note. Liniker e os Caramelows (Liniker and the Caramelows) are from Brazil but steeped in the tradition of soul from here in the U.S. They started their turn behind the desk with the ballad "Calmô," a testament to the power of slow songs dripping with soulful emotion. It was a bold statement of just who they are as a band and what they stand for.

You have to go back to the co-mingling of ja...