Sydney. Australia. Tonight.
Where I’m about to spend the next 16 hours. Qantas. Dallas. Sydney bound. (at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW))
In case you forgot the awesomeness that is Wolf Parade and the doubly awesomeness that is their first album, Apologies to the Queen Mary, here is the above. Goddamn I love this song. It makes my heart a fist bomb of sunshine. At 2:05, when Spencer Krug starts singing “And I could take another hit for you” that thumping fist of sunshine starts thumping harder and when he gets to “look at the trees, look at my face, look at a place far away from here” that bomb in my chest explodes with the crashing of their guitars, I feel all light and wind and belief in whatever beauty is screaming on the other side of the hills.
Gregory Porter.
Listening to this man sing makes me feel like the downward spiral I find the world right now to be inside of will be pulled out of. Like we’ll finally have not only the collective realization that all the bullshit is so infinitesimal but also surmountable and we’ll do just that. Like I walked into a church that, finally, was the one everyone us found ourselves sitting inside of.
Watch the video of Mr Porter performing “Be Good (Lion’s Song)” here. With Chip Crawford on piano. Courtesy of nprmusic, found via thirteen.
(via nprmusic)
The videos portion of the Write Bloody Publishing submissions are up (or at least a good number of them). Check out the videos of this year’s batch of finalists here on Youtube. As the Youtube search may not reveal all of them, be sure to check out the full list of folks here.
And check out the sampling of the upcoming fall titles by clicking the pic below.
Photo of Write Bloody books from Kayla
Tonight I’ll be reading at Powell’s, at their SE Hawthorne branch. Powell’s is one of my favorite places in the world and I am super excited to be reading at my former neighborhood bookstore. If you’ve already come to one of my previous Portland readings, you should still come out–every one of my PDX readings will have had a different feel and largely different batch of poems to share. I have a new book out called Songs From Under The River, which collects some of my more popular poems from over the years, along with unheard ones and new pieces. I’ll be sharing work from that book. Come on out, it should be good time tonight.
