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pelle carlberg - i love you, you imbecile
casiotone for the painfully alone - young shields
yndi halda - dash + blast (i love how the violin's melody begins to sound like someone humming)

IT’S RAINING IN LOVE

I don’t know what it is,
But I distrust myself
When I start to like a girl
A lot.

It makes me nervous.
I don’t say the right things
Or perhaps I start
To examine,
Evaluate,
Compute
What I am saying.

If I say, “Do you think it’s going to rain?”
and she says, “I don’t know,”
I start thinking: Does she really like me?

In other words
I get a little creepy.

A friend of mine once said,
“It’s twenty times better to be friends
with someone
than it is to be in love with them.”

I think he’s right and besides,
its raining somewhere, programming flowers
and keeping snails happy.
That’s all taken care of.

BUT
if a girl likes me a lot
and starts getting real nervous
and suddenly begins asking me funny questions
and looks sad if I give the wrong answers
and she says things like,
“Do you think it’s going to rain?”
and I say, “It beats me,”
and she says, “Oh,”
and looks a little sad
at the clear blue California sky,
I think: Thank God, it’s you, baby, this time
Instead of me.

- Richard Brautigan

image by tiger lily

so, here i go again

dear you,

i've decided to cobble together something that resembles, in a vague way, a music blog again. i suppose though, that the label of "music blog" will be more than a little bit inaccurate. my own journal is really fragmented and, i guess, online, that's how i know how to write. i don't really think in terms of genres, band labels and managers, and i'll only put up things i like. so, since i won't have much more to say on the matter of the music itself, i'll also put up some pictures and poems and other things which are similar to the music i'm uploading.

since i don't know yet how much i'll say in the following posts, i'll say a little bit more here, as this already has more actual sentences than the rest of my online correspondance put together! in terms of music, i like to listen to rachmaninoff's piano concerto #2 when i do essays, arcade fire when i want to feel again, ambulance ltd when i want to nap, and pelle carlberg when i want to fall in love a little. i don't listen to music, read or write half as much as i'd like, but, beginning with this journal, i hope to change all of that.

hopefully this will be an interesting little read for you!

sophie xx

p.s. thank you to alex for inspiring me to start again