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Contributors
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Edie Inspiration
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Midnight movies
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fall fashion
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Want to be a part of Edie?
Guess What! Maddie went to college! Of course this changes things a bit in terms of Edie, but we’re not giving up on the collaboration. Now with 400 miles working against us it’s much harder to bounce ideas off of each other. Hopefully in the next two months we can find a system that works for us and for Edie, but in the meantime we’ll focus on keeping our friendship strong. In other news, Edie has a staff now. We decided with Maddie off at college we should work on finding some new writers to fill our pages. We chose, for the most part, local girls who love Edie as much as we do, and can write what they know. Our new girls are: Faith Kindervag, Ailie Pankonien, and Erin Blatney, and our Edie writer veterans are: Ashleigh Heaton, and Divya Kumar. We feel sure you’ll love them.
IMPORTANT NEWS / Faith Kindervag
Divya Kumar
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One of the more recent, entirely undeveloped issue of our time is the slow decline of print media. This magazine is just one example of how far technology has come over the past 10 years and how it has affected the way we receive your news. This decline in print media is now bleeding into one of the most fundamental elements of our existence of human beings – books. Permanence Matters is one of the more predominant causes that support the campaign for books. Most books in publications these days are used with groundwood paper, a lower-quality paper that wouldn’t be the cause of so much distress if it wasn’t for the fact that groundwood paper prematurely ages and then causes deterioration. According to permanencematters.com, “Within two to three years after purchase and after only one reading, the pages of a book acquired as part of a reader’s long-term book collection may begin to show yellowing, tearing, dog-earring, wear and degradation.” This is, of course, a problem if you enjoy reading books. If you’d like to know more about ways you can help or more information on the subject, just go to: permanencematters.com.
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Krysia wasn’t the only model in this shoot! We also had Maddie’s cats: Pip (see above) and Darcy (see top right) on set. Since we did this shoot almost entirely in Maddie’s bedroom, they kept jumping up on the bed to play with Krysia.
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Krysia was delightful to work with. She had modeled for Megan before, but this shoot went even more smoothly than the first. During the covershoot we listened to Simon and Garfunkel albums and took a break to eat some “everything bagels�. We were trying to evoke the mood of staying in bed all day, using blue tones and comfy clothes.
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what does fall mean for you? CHRIS
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Fall is a fresh start. It’s clean and crisp, and generous. Fall is giving everything another chance.
In my life, fall means staring at pumpkins and naming them instead of carving them, being too cold on the walk to school, wondering where the hell summer went and why I signed up for such-and-such a class, parties, gold fields, and, as of right now, college applications.
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The Honey Trees released their first music video!
Remember Chloe Wojewoda?
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In between the second and third issue of Edie, Chloë Wojewoda (featured in Edie’s second issue) started selling her prints on etsy in order to raise money to go to SVA in 2011. Go buy one!
This darling duo Elvia and Hannah recently raised enough money to start the vintage inspired lingerie line they’ve always dreamed of. Be looking for their adorable designs this winter at: www.thelovedone.com
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8tracks.com
listography.com
Here at Edie we’re avid mix makers. Whether they’re birthday mixes or workout mixes, we couldn’t do without our mix fix. 8 Tracks is the perfect place to make mini mixes as soon as you get the urge.
Listography began as a book, and then became a website to store all the lists that would usually line your journals. True listmakers at heart, the Edie editors love this site. Just go to it, and watch your freetime disappear.
Faabric.com In the simplest terms possible: Faabric is the best thing to ever happen to online shopping. It makes something that was designed to make shopping easy, even easier. It’s a relatively new site, so be sure to fill it with all the things you put on your wishlist.
TheSelby.com The Selby is visual candy for the interior designer in us all. It showcases the homes of inspirational people all over the globe.
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stories.com
We’re in mad love with Green Kitchen Stories, and all of our readers who cook will agree. A charming hybrid of blog and cookbook, we can’t help but melt.
Shelfari.com When bookshelves line your walls, and you have to throw out books every year just to make room, what you really need is a Shelfari account. It keeps track of your books for you, and you can write reviews so you remember which ones to suggest to friends. But be warned, this site might inspire you to read even more than usual!
Postsecret.com We must admit, browsing Post Secret is one of our guilty pleasures. Post Secret provides an honesty that nothing else can match. It’s interesting to see what people will say when no one is watching over their shoulder. From outright hilarious secrets, to those that actually make you pretty depressed, we cannot get enough of Post Secret.
Check out these sites today!
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ter or spring or summer. They’re all too wonderful.
E: Your work seems to exude the same feeling as the transition between winter and spring, why is that? Do you see that comparison?
H: Hmm.. I never really thought about
E: Describe your average day. H: I wake up too early, walk to school
when the sun’s coming up, shrug my shoulders with my friends for a little while, bite my lip during Calculus, fall forward in Economics, talk too loudly in Art, go to whichever new club has sprung up during lunch, and finish classes with English. After school is either baking cakes with Ally for our Calculus teacher’s birthday, driving my mom around, walking near the creek, talking to my brother, or some other thing... and homework, too.
E: What’s your favorite season and why?
H: I love all seasons--I can’t just pick
one. However, I think I miss fall the most, because it’s pretty nonexistent where I live. There’s only a brief period of it when the leaves suddenly change color and start to fall, but it goes by too quickly for anyone to revel in it. Regardless, I don’t love it more than win-
it like that. I usually take photos all throughout the year, and try to find new places to shoot at so there’s more variety in my photos. And though there aren’t too many places near where I live that I find pretty, it doesn’t matter especially because nature is always changing. Most of the time I want a specific location that doesn’t exactly exist near me.. but somewhere always works. Even if the pictures don’t turn out as I predicted they would... well, sometimes that’s even better, and if not, I still grow.
E: How do you choose your models? H: I am lucky enough to know some
truly beautiful people. For that reason, I take pictures of my friends. It can be weird at times, but I feel like I know them better now because of the model-photographer relationship we share. I decide on who to photograph for certain shoots based on some kind of detail that works with the concept I’m going for--it might have something to do with the type of hair the person has, or their eyelashes, or how tall they are. At the end of the process, the photos I take usually mean more to me than they would otherwise because I’ve known the people in the photographs for 6+ years or so. I’ve grown up with them.
E: How long do your shoots take to prepare?
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es I just get an idea for a photo, grab some friends, and head out to an area for a couple of hours. Sometimes it’s like that, other times I happen to have my camera on a walk and take pictures.
E: Do you prefer film, if so, why? H: I completely do! It seems like I’m
parroting every other photographer by saying this, but to me film is really more magical than digital. Film looks like nostalgia. It is warm and it is thick with feeling. Digital is just sort of cut and dry, like it’s all about convenience, and not about capturing a moment. I don’t mean to devalue the work of digital photographers (some things they do blow me away), but there certainly is something about film that leaves a person a little breathless.
E: In regards to the digital revolution,
do you think it’s affected your opinion?
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tion has really affected my opinion.. I mean, it’s natural to steer away from things that are considered mainstream-in the flickr world I’ve been a bit afraid of balloons and swings for that reason-but in truth, I started out with film, so it’s what I know. I would love to work with digital eventually, but jobs are hard to come by here, and I don’t have the money for a good digital camera.
E: Have you ever been featured before?
H: I’ve been featured by a few people, but this is my first interview.
E: What’s your favorite photo of yours?
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H: My favorite photo is a polaroid
I took when I was thirteen (http:// www.flickr.com/photos/27324581@ N06/3003581487/). It was probably the first photograph of mine that I genuinely loved. I’m sure it’s a pretty uninteresting photograph to everyone else... but to me it represents everything that was happening in my life when I was thirteen. Everything was scrapes on your knees and running around the back field and waking up. I felt good and alive.
E: What advice do you have for aspiring photographers?
H: Inhale life and grow from that.
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dle school. I went to a summer art camp a few years back, and I really enjoyed print making and ceramics. I never really advanced in those mediums though.
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with the technical aspect of cameras and photography.
E: Which camera holds the most sentimental value for you?
S: The Polaroid SX-70 my grandpa gave me that belonged to my great-great aunt Norah.
E: What does film photography mean to you?
S: The epitome of honesty. As cheese as that sounds.
E: Where do you see yourself in 7 years?
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S: Seeing as I am in a completely different situation right now than what I thought I'd be in only 3 months ago, I have NO clue. I'm starting to realize what life is, and how it's terribly hard to plan anything.
E: How has photography shaped your life thus far?
S: I've met some really beautiful characters through photography, whether it be through flickr or someone stopping me in the street to comment on my cameras. I've
made some new friendships and thus have had the opportunity to experience new things.
E: If you could summarize your life in one photograph, what aspects would it include?
S: That's a loaded question if I've ever heard one. Well first off, it would have to be shot with portra film, the colors are rad. I wouldn't want the subject or content to be too overwhelming, something simple but yet not boring. My life is anything but boring. I also feel that the presence of water would be there too.
E: What’s the best way to start out in photography?
S: The best way to start out in photography is to realize that photography and photoshop are completely different.
E: When was the first time you felt proud of your photography and why?
S: I’d have to say it was when the photographers I really admired started to take notice of my work, you know, giving me feedback and compliments.
E: Who or what inspired you to take up photography?
S: I can't really pinpoint the exact inspiration. Boredom maybe? My dad? A little bit of everything probably.
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E: What do you hope to accomplish with your photographs?
S: I want to document moments that should never be forgotten. I want to create beauty out of the norm.
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From her whimsical woodland animals to her sweet cheeked pin-up girls, Sarah McNeil has as much subtle beauty as your favorite sundress.
E: Describe your favorite place. S: Falling asleep in the grass on a warm day.
E: Do you have a muse? If so, who?
S: I have had a few over the
years. They are the kind of people who I feel compelled to want to be around and they make my heart beat erratically. I guess everyone who I have ever met like that are still sort of my muses.
E: Why do you draw animals so frequently?
S: They make sense to draw, with
confusing expressions to which people project emotions onto, real but not real. I’m reading a book of essays called “Why Look at Animals” by John Berger at the moment, it explains everything.
E: What about your feminine aesthetic do you like?
S: I don’t particularly feel like I
have a very strong gender identity, but through my work making these really soft images I can kind of connect with something that otherwise is difficult for me to grasp. There are a few other things in there too, but that’s the basic idea.
E: Who are some of your creative role models?
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E: What's your favorite piece of art ever?
S: data.spectra by Ryoji Ikeda
was my favourite for years, last year I saw Stealth Distortion by Børre SÌthre as PS1 and I think that that is my new favourite. There is a real life unicorn in it.
E: Do you sell your artwork? S: Yeah, I work as an artist and illustrator and sell my art at shows and online. Some people get weird about selling their art, but for me, most of the joy of creating artwork in in getting the piece to what I think is the best I can do at that time. After that, I am ready to move on, and it is nice to think that someone will have it in their house.
E: Are you in school right now? If so, what are you majoring in?
S: I finished a degree in fine art a few years ago. It was ok. I might go back to uni next year and study creative writing and design if I can find some time.
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sculpture and more minimal light/ white on white based gallery exhibition sort of things, and maybe make comics in the future too, but other than that, yeah, just keep on with what I do now.
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I don’t plan to be a professional artist, but its presence in my life has always been a constant. I’ve always found there to be something calming about drawing, about the actual feeling of making something – so much so that the finished product is often secondary in my mind. The focus I achieve, where time and everything else seems to slip away, is perhaps my favorite part. Looking at Vija Celmins’ artwork, I feel like she would understand. Using a wide array of mediums, Celmins transcribes what she sees in photographs she chooses. Her subjects are from nature – starry night skies, intricate spider webs, and dense expanses of ocean – composed without reference point or horizon line. They fill the picture plane from corner to corner so that there is no one place to look. They are simple, and yet they have depth and elegance. Celmins seems to have an almost compulsive need to make these pieces. One painting, such as those from her Night Sky series, can take months, even a year, to complete. It’s as though the process and the meditation that arises from it is as important as the finished artwork. She has even continued to rework pieces after they’ve been shown in galleries, and has said when she dislikes the progress of a Night Sky painting, she’ll repaint
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it, creating layer upon layer of stars. Art is generally seen to be immensely personal. As an artist’s creation, it can often be an expression of his or her own unique thoughts and experiences. But think, too, about the physical act of creating a work of art. I think, for most, this is the appeal of art, and it can become an almost obsessive need. The smell of paint, hands smudged with pencil, or the smoothness of pen on paper can all be familiar, comforting elements of a process. It is an interaction between the artist and the artwork; a dialogue between the thoughts in one’s head, the marks on the canvas, and the physical act of making those marks. It becomes like a meditation, and for me, probably one of the only times I’m able to full focus on something in the moment. In the late 1970’s, Vija Celmins worked on To Fix the Image in Memory, in which she made bronze casts of rocks she had collected, then painted the copies to look as much like the originals as possible. They force the viewer to really see the rocks and their copies, to determine what is real and what is painted. She has described it as being “an invitation to look.” It’s an encouragement to participate in the process of seeing – in the meditative focus of creating a work of art.
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(CHRIS WILLIFORD) His Iconic style, and solid sense of self made Edie stray from it’s typical girly features, to show off our most recent artist obsession. Interviewer // Megan Cooper
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E: If you could have chosen the decade you were born in, which decade would you choose and why?
C: Probably the 60's, because everyone was weird. I wish it was socially acceptable to worship the sun.
E: Describe your artwork in three words
C: Wonky, wicked, juicy E: Tell us about your unique style, and how it developed.
C: My style is a stew of cartoons, hormones, and tradi-
tional techniques I've learned in high school.
E: What's your favorite thing about your artwork?
C: My favorite thing about my artwork is that it's bright and playful. I like to have a good time.
E: What would you change given the chance?
C: If I was given the chance to change anything about my art, it'd definitely be my craftsmanship. I want to develop as a painter so bad it hurts.
E: What is your most personal piece?
E: What are your favorite mediums? Why?
C: Prisma marker and ink pen are fast; they're my favorites for sketching. I'm also a fan of layering with oil pastels, 'cause it's like painting-but without a lot of the mess.
E: Who/what inspires you? C: Art festivals, Spongebob, lava lamps, Bradley Cooper, warpaint, zombies, etc.
E: Who is your dream collaborator?
C: Tim Biskup. I love his work to death. He seems like the coolest dude ever!
C: The most personal piece of artwork I've made is my selfportrait (inspired by Lord of the Flies). It basically represents a savage paranoia that lives inside me. (see right)
E: Where do you want to be artistically in ten years?
C: In 10 years, I'd love to have a steady career involving illustration or concept art. I'd also like to be an art teacher and live somewhere awesome like Austin or San Francisco.
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One of the best times I’ve had was the night I watching Princess Mononoke at midnight at the Inwood Theater in Dallas. I went with a group of my friends, people I knew appreciated the movie - one I love, by one of my favorite directors. Certainly, Hayao Miyazaki is well known, but I often find I can’t explain the appeal of his movies to most people I meet. This was a chance to see it on a big screen for the first time, amongst friends and an audience I could be confident would understand my feelings for it. The experience was special. For me, this is exactly what midnight movies are. Literally, they are movies shown in theaters at midnight, but beyond that they are a chance to experience well-loved, and usually off-kilter films with your favorite people. They’re often cult films - movies that, in some way, can come to define or connect a relatively small group of people. They can be little-known or massively popular, consistent only in their ability to strike a chord with the various incarnations of subculture. Quite often they’re the movies you think first to put on when you’re with your group of friends, the films that get quoted incessantly. These are the films that become midnight movies - films that have already been released, often years ago, screened one-time-only in theaters for the people who love them. They bring together a group of like-minded people to enjoy a movie together in an almost intimate way. It becomes a celebration of the film, whatever it may be, and by extension a celebration of the people who love it. Quite recently a friend introduced me to the film Suspiria for the first time. I loved it. It’s dreamy, stylish, and at the same time, gratuitously gory - alternately shocking, disturbing, and almost funny. The story follows American dance student Suzy as she begins class at a German dance school, and she quickly realizes the school is dangerous in some way, if not purely evil. The surrealism of Dario Argento’s film, tempered by the haunting score provided by Italian group Goblin, makes it more than a simple horror film, and the end product is bizarre, beautiful, and extremely fun to watch. In so many ways Suspiria exemplifies what have been known as midnight movies. It’s nightmarish and surreal, suffused with red light; as though it was always intended to be seen after hours. Despite its strange beauty, it can be at times ridiculous - characteristic of many midnight movies, and one of the qualities that can make them so fun to watch with friends in the first place. Many of the films shown as midnight movies have been deemed campy as a detractor from their value. But I believe their special ability to draw people, friends, together is valuable in itself.
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AN ARGUMENT
FOR READING
PHOTO BY // Sarah Nieman ARTICLE BY // Madeline Walters
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ne of the stranger things that I’ve noticed about college is the number of kiddos my age who have fallen prey to political apathy. Now, maybe it’s wrong of me to assume that everyone wants to be involved in politics as much as I do, but forgive me for thinking it’s wrong to not know what’s going on in your own country. My main issue with the crazy amount of apathy that’s going on in the U.S. today, specifically the young folk, is that this apathy bleeds into other important areas, such as literature. Hopefully you read the blurb earlier on in this issue on page 009 about Permanence Matters, a cause that supports and advertises the promotion of using permanent paper in the production of books. And while I am concerned for the future of books and newspapers and the like, I find my self more troubled by the increase the romantic novels girls are reading at our age. And not just any romantic novels – novels like Twilight and The Vampire Diaries. As a young lady who grew up with the classic, I find it hard to understand or even comprehend why women and men everywhere are wasting their time with novels that inspire as much thought as an infomercial. Personally, I feel that reading was invented in order for human beings, such as your lovely selves, to expand our minds and provide entertainment. While crappy romantic
novels do create massive amounts of entertainment, they find themselves completely lacking in the mind-expanding department. Why would you want to read something that causes to mental digression? I can’t see the appeal it in. And I can’t lie to you – there was a time in my life when I most definitely saw the point of romantic novels. What better to ease the pain of a large school load and or a fight with a parent than to escape to a world where everything good happens? And I do believe that some works with romantic themes should be read. Jane Austen is one my favorite authors of all time – a fact that has not changed since I was somewhere around eight years old. But Austen writes her novels in such a way that you can have your romance, but still expand your vocabulary. She also includes more underlying themes such as social critiques about her time period that help with the whole “literary merit” argument. All this to say that it would maybe be a good idea to include some works from the literature section of your local bookstore into your nightstand reading collection. Who knows, maybe you’ll be able to find a book that will replace Twilight in your heart.
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mix tape October// November
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"O Grande Amor"; by Stan Getz & João Gilberto
"Sending the Photographs"; by Julie Doiron
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There always seems to be a sad, almost chilled quality to Julie Doiron's music, making it perfect for cooler weather. The sparse instrumentation of "Sending the Photographs" imbues the feeling of the cloudy days of fall, tempered by the subtle warmth in her voice.
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Since high school I've always associated jazz with the ambiance of fall, and this jazz-bossa nova collaboration is no different. The light percussion of the song provides the perfect backdrop for the famous warmth of Getz's saxophone. By the time Gilberto's cool, relaxing voice comes in, I'm in love.
The structured jangle and confident lead guitar of Blood from a Stone has the power to pace my walk. And yet she seems to sing "Blood From a Stone"; by about misperception – of hiding oneself Hanne Hukkelberg from others, perhaps even defiantly reacting against the expectations of one’s nature.
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"The Moon"; by The Microphones
Every part of the Microphones’album The Glow Pt. II will always remind me of thundery evenings, cloudy afternoons, and crisp fall mornings. It's intimate, warm, and cozy, as though the songs themselves glow with an innate heat. There is weight in the almost chant-like repetition of "The Moon", and warmth in the buzz of the overdriven instrumentation, and yet the simplicity of sound contrasts with an overall feeling of anxiousness that echoes a need to find closure with the past and one's memories.
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"Guess Who" just sounds so soft, as though it exists amongst cloud. It seems to mix with the cool air of autumn, melting against the sound of fallen leaves. I love the feeling of the song – as though they are trying to reach out to someone they selflessly love and care for, to someone who does not yet know or appreciate it.
"Guess Who"; by The 5th Dimension
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Jens Lekman is one of my heroes. His songs are often wise and relateable, with lyrics that can be charmingly – and de"When my ceptively – simple. When My Dreams"; by Dreams is undeniably sad, Jens Lekman despite the up-tempo, almost swaggering beat and poppy, magical sounding samples, and his description of alienation and anxiousness, likened to that which occurs on the first day of school, is touchingly honest.
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music "Reflection Eternal"; by Nujabes
The recently deceased Jun Seba, a producer and DJ who recorded under the name Nujabes, was able to create an almost dreamlike style of hip hop all his own, by sampling jazz classics and collaborating with Japanese and American hip hop artists. Listening to his music, and particularly this song, always has an effect on me like drinking a cup of my favorite tea - I can almost literally feel a release of physical stress. It’s perfect to listen to on a cool night, driving with the windows down, or studying next to open windows on a rainy day.
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Brazilian artist Jorge Ben is known for his uniquely styled, samba and bossa nova-influenced music. In Magnólia, from his 1974 album A Tábua de Esmeralda, Ben’s voice seems to ooze cool. The orchestration acts as his disciples, while the twang of the guitar’s nylon strings is both melodic and percussive.
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"Get a Room"; by Jim O’Rourke
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Some nights, when I can"t sleep, my mind seems to circle endlessly, with different strands of thoughts firing against each other all at once. O'Rourke expresses this feeling perfectly through "Get a Room", doing so with a sense of bitterness, or perhaps the self-deprecating, comedic sadness one may find in a Charlie Kaufman film. The disjointed synchronization in the layers of piano and guitar, building up the climax, are the musical equivalent of insomnia.
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"Stick With Me Baby"; by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss The 2007 album Raising the Sand marks the somewhat surprising collaboration of Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant and bluegrass star Alison Krauss, and yet the result is somewhat magical. I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of their rendition of "Stick With Me Baby" – it’s soft and quiet, as though they’re whispering to one another underneath the covers with tenderness perhaps anyone in love can recognize.
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"You Fall" is a duet between Anderson and Phil Elvrum of The Microphones fame, and the lightness of their voices together gives the song a fragile quality, as though if they sang any harder it would crack. It is minimalist in its arrangement, and its softness imbues the feeling of a light mist on a cool, autumn morning.
The fuzz of the guitar in "2 Become 1" makes the song sound alive, perhaps organic. As Blau's distinctively dry, soulful voice repeatedly sings “all hardships sail away,” the microphone peaks, as though he's singing loud with the desire for it to be true. There's something cathartic and reassuring in the way he sings this, as though he truly "2 Become 1"; understands what I'm gothrough and is telling byKarl Blau ing me it’ll be all right.
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Tenniscoats is Japanese husband-andwife duo Saya and Takashi Ueno, and they often collaborate with other artists, this time appearing with Secai. I can’t honestly say what the lyrics are about, but it feels as though they’re teaching me a lesson. There is a blend of seriousness, beginning with the melodic bassline, and reassurance, all surrounded in spacious instrumenation like an ambient lullaby.
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Like any good college student, I am currently sitting on my grandparents couch trying desperately not to think about my boyfriend and the amount of homework I have yet to finish while I write this letter to you. But never fear! This letter contains neither the wanderings of my mind nor the ramblings of my heart. Nay! It contains nothing but the pure, unadulterated love I have for you: the one, the only, the magnificent J.K. Rowling.
Although it’s true I’m 18 years old, I have yet to pronounce your last name correctly. A fact that becomes only sadder when you realize that I started reading the Harry Potter series when I was in the first grade. But nevertheless, your silly English name could not keep me from disliking you as a person or the countless joys you have brought into my life through your world-renowned book series. I will go ahead and assume (although you know what they say about assuming) that you, beautiful lady, understand your excellent marvelousness, but if you will permit me, I now shall dive forth into my reverential lauding. It must first be noted that you are a goddess among women. Not because you wrote the best children’s series of all time, but because you did it with such a kind heart. While some authors become big-headed in
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their fame, you used yours, like the Bono of a woman you are, to help causes such as the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Comic Relief, a British charity that raises money through a telethon in order to help fight famine in Ethiopia. How sweet is that? But perhaps I’m biased. Not only is the Harry Potter series one of my favorite book collections of all time, I am currently in possession of a signed photo of you that you sent me while I was in the fourth grade in response to some fan mail that I wrote to you at the time. While I realize that your secretary or intern or whatever was most likely my real respondent, the fact that you cared enough about your young fans to reach out to them in a way other than your writing proves you are absolutely a woman who is worth your salt. If that’s not enough to convince you, think about this: your favorite musical group is The Smiths. I don’t know about your book, but in mine, ridiculously nice people who have great musical taste, the imagination capacities of seven year olds, and an absolute mastery of the English language deserve anything and everything. With all this being said (more or less), it is hopefully rather apparent as to why I believe you are such a lovely person. I hope you’re doing well dearest J.K. Hope to hear from you soon,
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