This entire album, The Art of Forgetting, details Caroline Roseās break-up from their partner and the heartache that Rose experienced as a result. That heartache is especially felt in this KEXP performance that ends with Rose in tears, singing āYouāve got to get through this life somehow.ā
Jan 11, 2025
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This whole album is full of sparse and emotional piano-driven gems, which allows Spencer Krug's (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake) brittle poetry to really shine through.
This song is steeped in sadness, and to me really just epitomizes the full breakdown of love. The sort that not only destroys a relationship, but also eviscerates your image of self, but also how you interact with your physical reality, and necessitates some introspection and growth in order to pick up the pieces.
Love is sort of like light. It needs darkness in order to exist and be appreciated, and I don't think you can really appreciate the highs of the feeling until you've sunk to the depths of its absence. In fact, I think the absence is still love. Love can have a negative or a positive existence, but it's all love, and all part of celebrating the human experience.
(There's also a full-band version of this song that is equally good, but in a different ways)
Feb 14, 2024
idk why the bridge of this song resonates with me so much like i feel so much raw primal emotions and it just makes me want to scream because tHE MOON TURNED BLACK WHEN I LEFT YOU YOUR TSHIRT STILL ON MY BACK GOT LIFETIMES LEFT TO FORGET YOU I SHOULD'VE TURNED BACK BUT I WASTED IT ALL FOR NOTHING FOR A LIGHT THAT'LL NEVER LAST NOW I STAND AT YOUR FRONT DOOR HOPING THAT YOU'LL TAKE ME BACK idk its just so good i need them to release new music im literally going insane
Mar 26, 2025
yes, we all recognize āsomebody that I used to know,ā but not enough appreciation is given to this wonderful gem that sounds like youāre crying whilst riding a camel and wistfully smoking a ciggie. so much is going on in this song and itās powerful from both an emotional and compositional standpoint. the lyrics ālove aināt safe, you wonāt get hurt if you stay chasteā are so beautifully painful and I deeply appreciate music that can completely tear me apart with such eloquence.
Jan 23, 2024
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Iām not a parent and do not plan to be. Kids can wear me out fast with their high energy and noise level; it leaves me very over-stimulated. But itās pretty extreme when people say they āhate kidsā and I often feel itās a reflection of their childhood and beliefs around how kids āshould be.ā That they were expected to be quiet, obedient, and out of the way by their parents when they were little.
Itās fucking hard to be a kid. Youāre dealing with a rapidly-changing body and underdeveloped brain, managed by flawed adults who are enforcing boundaries that you do not understand. Itās confusing and hard to manage your feelings and honestly just a lot.
People are impatient with kids when theyāre brand new to the world and figuring it all out, and this is a time kids need a friend the most. Children can also be teachers to adults with how they are less habituated to the world. They teach us how to be free and open-hearted and silly and imaginative.
A good practice is to be kinder and gentler with kids. If that feels difficult, start with gentleness toward your inner child. Maybe thatās the child in your life that needs your attention and kindness most.
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I meant to post this yesterday. Absolutely beautiful morning for walk.
This morning is also beautiful but in a spring rain kind of way.
Mar 23, 2025
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Prescriptive gender is a prison. Rather than gender being a form of self-expression, gender is treated as a pass/fail test for how well you can conform to cultural expectations.
Since I was young, I remember feeling a great deal of pressure to conform to these expectations around what āmenā are meant to be. You like sports, cars, womanizing, aggression, and not having feelings. I felt so distant from this ideal. I was sensitive and shy, and I preferred spending my time being creative in some way
For a long time, I felt like I was failing at ābeing a man.ā In many ways I was! Because I didnāt need toĀ bea man. All I needed to be was myself.
Itās taken me a long time to separate myself from prescriptive gender, sharpening in on which aspects of masculine energy I identify with and which I donāt. Iām not done yet. Maybe I will never fully be. The self continues to evolve over time, and I suspect aspects of my gender will too.
Mar 15, 2025