ANGELS, MARY OLIVER

this poem so beautifully sums up the joy in remaining open, restless, and questioning. i like how, here, an angel is something we may or may not see, depending on how we’re choosing to look at the world. its existence isn’t reflective of an idea or a place or a person, but of a choice – conscious or not. there’s always time to come to definitive conclusions, to draw lines in the sand, to take a dividing stance. but there is never enough time to just wonder. to be content not knowing everything. that’s where life seems to really sweeten on the vine. we will always want more of that.

-liv

BREAKFAST: SUNRISE SUNSET, AUTHOR UNKNOWN

i don’t know who wrote this. it’s just something i found. there is no link. my sister has this framed on her wall above her kitchen table. when i first moved to brooklyn, i lived across the street from a cafe called Sunrise Sunset. this poem feels like the interim, the loss of concern for time as the days themselves get longer, the grueling making of peace with the life you are building, fights with the drain and stains in your clothes taking up the hours of your day, the luxury of boredom replaced with the grit of it, the shedding of excess replaced with dreams come true, beautiful and bleak at once. a portrait of the restlessness of late 20s spent in New York. a greeting to all that. i didn’t know i felt this until i did. just something i found.

- sum

LIV

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tracklist:

1. Sleepwalk - Santo & Johnny

2. Minnesota - Samia

3. Coverage - Maya Hawke

4. Linger - The Cranberries

5. You Are My face - Wilco

6. Somebody’s Speaking for Me - Benjamin Lazar Davis

7. Never as Tired as When I’m Waking Up - LCD Soundsystem

8. This Can’t Be Today - The Rain Parade

9. 1880 Or So - Television

10. You Said Something - PJ Harvey

11. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ - The Velvet Underground

12. Something - The Beatles

13. Fearless - Pink Floyd

SUM

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tracklist:

1. Blonde - Sunday (1994)

2. Intheskatepark - Squirrel Flower

3. GIRL ON TV - chloe moriondo

4. Loving - Land of Talk

5. Sin Triangle - Sidney Gish

6. Prospect Hummer - Animal Collective

7. Puppet - Dora Jar

8. Paces - feeble little horse

9. I’ll Still Destroy You - The National

10. Michael Keaton - Ruston Kelly

11. All I Do - Bully

12. Denial - Mannequin Pussy

13. D’Sheviled (Live) - Dark Meta Railroad

GRACE, JEFF BUCKLEY

this album is emotion, unbridled and honest. listening from end-to-end is truly a full experience, bursting at the seams with rich illustrations of memory, desire, freedom, love. it's built from paradoxes - a place where pounding guitars meet angelic vocals, euphoria collides with despair, strength is defined by tenderness. can you yell from the top of a mountain, but intimately? this album isn't afraid of wanting. and it isn't afraid of being afraid. a manifesto for the restless!

- liv

THE WEAKNESS, RUSTON KELLY

this is the restlessness of settling dust, of slowing breathing, the after letting go, sitting still, idle hands, what to do what to do what to do…the restlessness of the hunt for a truer freedom, haunting creativity bred from the boredom of solitude. his voice sounds like melting stained glass. the earnestness and humor here make up a beautiful record.

-sum

BADLANDS, TERRENCE MALIK

i’ll admit, it’s been a while since i’ve seen badlands. and yet its backdrop of sweltering heat, desolate landscapes, and cultural angst have long kicked up dust in my head. two forbidden lovers find each other in a dead-end town and fall into romanticizing their reality as they roadtrip, pursued by police, through the badlands of montana. their tumultuous journey burns with questions of freedom, virtue, existentialism. everything lingers, but nothing stays the same. nostalgia runs deep, like the film is digging itself up again and again with every scene.

- liv

FRANNY AND ZOOEY, J.D. SALINGER

the iconic portrayal of the quintessential laying-on-the-couch-by-the-fan-in-the-suffocating-summer-heat-lamenting-that-the-world-is-the-way-it-is feeling, you know the one i’m sure. there’s nothing quite as cathartic as observing a landscape of your generation and, with a confidant, classifying the insufferable, the superficial, the obtuse…in a stream of consciousness, determining the terms of “us” against “the world,” still too hot to sit up straight. a perfect read while waiting for your laundry to finish.

-sum