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jennyowenyoungs: TWO BY TWO is the eighth song on AN UNWAVERING BAND OF LIGHT. This song was created after drum tracking for the album had already been completed. Dan wanted to write a couple more songs to have in the running for final album track list selection, but we wrote within the parameters of not being able to record any more drum kit. As a result there’s a lot of pots and pans and slinky percussion. I always think of this song as a serpent, the same way I think about Joni Mitchell’s “The Jungle Line.”  I wrote the chorus lyrics first: All you love commit to the ashAll you worked for gone in a flashYou can’t look forward while you’re looking back  …and originally worked on two sets of verses that each followed a different theme. Set 1 explored human volcano sacrifice, which has haunted me since I first saw it in an animated Garfield holiday special when I was 7 or 8. Set 2, which ultimately became the final lyrics, follows the grieving Orpheus down into Hades as he tries to recover the lost Eurydice.  When I was a kid my mom worked across the street from the county library and some days during summer break I’d just hang out there from 9 to 5, reading anything and everything. Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology got under my skin early and stayed for good.  +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bonus (if you are a mythology geek like me, or if you just happen to love beautiful things): A couple years back, my dear friend and eternal collaborator Dan Romer scored a short film, along with the film’s director Benh Zeitlin. The short, entitled Glory At Sea, echoes the Orpheus myth and in general is gorgeous and moving.  More recently Benh, Dan, and company completed a feature film called Beasts of the Southern Wild which has been winning mad awards at Sundance and Cannes, and will see official release June 29th.  Watch Glory At Sea on Vimeo. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hear/buy the album version: iTunes / bandcamp / CD & **NEW 2XLP VINYL** Hear/buy the acoustic version: bandcamp +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Once a week (or less than once a week, but never more than once a week) I will share a story about a song from the new album AN UNWAVERING BAND OF LIGHT here on Tumblr, until I run out of songs. Math suggests this will go on for a total of eleven weeks… but remember that time has no meaning here.  

jennyowenyoungs:

TWO BY TWO is the eighth song on AN UNWAVERING BAND OF LIGHT. This song was created after drum tracking for the album had already been completed. Dan wanted to write a couple more songs to have in the running for final album track list selection, but we wrote within the parameters of not being able to record any more drum kit. As a result there’s a lot of pots and pans and slinky percussion. I always think of this song as a serpent, the same way I think about Joni Mitchell’s “The Jungle Line.” 

I wrote the chorus lyrics first:

All you love commit to the ash
All you worked for gone in a flash
You can’t look forward while you’re looking back 

…and originally worked on two sets of verses that each followed a different theme. Set 1 explored human volcano sacrifice, which has haunted me since I first saw it in an animated Garfield holiday special when I was 7 or 8. Set 2, which ultimately became the final lyrics, follows the grieving Orpheus down into Hades as he tries to recover the lost Eurydice. 

When I was a kid my mom worked across the street from the county library and some days during summer break I’d just hang out there from 9 to 5, reading anything and everything. Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology got under my skin early and stayed for good. 

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Bonus (if you are a mythology geek like me, or if you just happen to love beautiful things):

A couple years back, my dear friend and eternal collaborator Dan Romer scored a short film, along with the film’s director Benh Zeitlin. The short, entitled Glory At Sea, echoes the Orpheus myth and in general is gorgeous and moving. 

More recently Benh, Dan, and company completed a feature film called Beasts of the Southern Wild which has been winning mad awards at Sundance and Cannes, and will see official release June 29th. 

Watch Glory At Sea on Vimeo.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Hear/buy the album version: iTunes / bandcamp / CD & **NEW 2XLP VINYL**

Hear/buy the acoustic version: bandcamp

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Once a week (or less than once a week, but never more than once a week) I will share a story about a song from the new album AN UNWAVERING BAND OF LIGHT here on Tumblr, until I run out of songs. Math suggests this will go on for a total of eleven weeks… but remember that time has no meaning here.  

newyorker: From the first time we step into an English class, we’re told that the rules matter, that they must be followed, that we must know when it’s appropriate to use a comma and what it means to employ the subjunctive mood. But do these things really matter? Outside of the classroom, what difference does it make if we write “who” instead of “whom” or say “good” instead of “well”? Ryan Bloom breaks down the language wars in his post, “Inescapably, You’re Judged by Your Language”: http://nyr.kr/M2IOWy

newyorker:

From the first time we step into an English class, we’re told that the rules matter, that they must be followed, that we must know when it’s appropriate to use a comma and what it means to employ the subjunctive mood. But do these things really matter? Outside of the classroom, what difference does it make if we write “who” instead of “whom” or say “good” instead of “well”?

Ryan Bloom breaks down the language wars in his post, “Inescapably, You’re Judged by Your Language”: http://nyr.kr/M2IOWy

newyorker:

A photographer for over sixty years, Roger Mayne is best known for his post-war studies of London neighborhoods. Click-through for a photo slideshow of a selection of his work, now on display at the Gitterman Gallery: http://nyr.kr/N7zq0u

nudityandnerdery:

lezgirl:

ohno789:

Cards Against Humanity is a party game for horrible people.

Unlike most of the party games you’ve played before, Cards Against Humanity is as despicable and awkward as you and your friends.

The game is simple. Each round, one player asks a question from a Black Card, and everyone else answers with their funniest White Card.



And it is distributed under a Creative Commons license, meaning it is not only free to play, but remixing, and changing the game are more than just encouraged.

The official hard copy has been sold out for a while now, but a PDF of all the cards, and instructions distributed by the creators for making your own deck can be found here.

You’re welcome, and enjoy!

OMG WORDS CANT EXPLAIN HOW MUCH I WANT THESE! :O

Since several people mentioned it to me, might as well reblog…

kateordie:

mylittlenestofvipers:

rahzzah:

I’d pay all my monies to read a story in this world

brain-food:

Denis Medri returns to take a look at the rogues of Gotham and more of Batman’s supporting. Catwoman, Joker, Poison Ivy and Bane join Batgirl, James Gordon and Alfred in round out this amazing collection of Rockabilly gothamites. It’s interesting to note that reimagining Catwoman for the 1950s brings her costume full circle, close to her original suit from the 1940s. 

I’ve commented/reblogged this almost every day this week. It’s insanely good.

I want this to be real

(via nudityandnerdery)