random associations -- special thanks to the best art tumblr page B-sides

Blue Balls
Sam Francis- 1961
Painting

Storm Fugue
Stephen Hutchings- 2012
Oil and charcoal on canvas

Just checked-- still my favourite song of 2014/early 2015... questionable video though--- I would have done a better job.

"Fingertips in the fountain
Fondle liquid gold
Ice on the horizon
The skyline folding in
Nothing is beginning
Edges falling off themselves
And the water is draining
Off the continental shelf"

Ian William Craig- A Turn of Breath (album)

I want to make a 44 minute long music video set to this album- it is so impossibly beautiful. For now I'll settle to listening to it on loop as I try to remember how to write academic prose.

 

Angel Olsen- Stars

I'd like to once again profess my love for Angel Olsen's "new" album (Feb. 2014). The latest song I'm falling all over my self for is "Stars". I was going to simply attach an album version of the song, but YouTube offered up this gold:



One of the things that I like about this track is Olsen's stream of consciousness/fearless lyrics.

I wish I had the voice of everything.
I wish I had the voice of everything.
To scream the animals, to scream the earth.
To screams the stars out of our universe.

Olsen's guttural, twangy, searching vocals climb and fall and make you believe her unbelievable words. These words are expressions of things that we can't usually express- they sound like colours a painter would use, unleashed when nothing else seems to make sense or satisfy. And this video is great because Olsen delivers all this pain and frustration and exhilaration with a stoic stare. Just look at her eyes.

Angel Olsen- Forgiven/Forgotten

Ricky Eat Acid- let's go outside

The Weather Station- Don't Understand

Theesatisfaction- Recognition