The Velvet Teen

The Velvet Teen

Elysium (2004)

one of the most beautiful albums i’ve ever listened to. musical, romantic, introspective. lost completely in itself.

as though speaking or hearing someone speak directly from a tittering, irrational heart having an emotional release

Clum Laude! (2006)

completely different energetically than Elysium but musical, refreshing, and invigorating. The guitars and drums in this make so happy. 333 is a wild ride, as is much of the album, Spin The Wink also ranks up high with me as the band touches back in with their romantic side.

Nouveau

nouveau

nou·veau /ˈno͞ovō,no͞oˈvō/: adjective, inf. new, modern, newly arrived, newly developed

Directly following ‘This is Me Now‘ comes ‘nouvaeu‘. I’m studying French again. When I was in third grade was when I first remember trying to learn. I took it again in middle school. I’ve always loved their music and culture. Movies like Amelie and Fantastic Planet were some of the first introductions to proper film making as a young adult after having an aversion to movie culture as a kid.

The romance inside of Je te lasserai des mots is palpable beyond the limits of the language barrier. You can feel the emotion in his call and behind the words.. whatever they may be.

LaLa’s

LaLa’s

LaLa was one of my nicknames as a kid. Given to me by my brother Dan when he was just learning to talk.

Lala is feels like a reoccurring childhood dream.

Tricky Taxi

Taxi’ by Tricky

ominous, haunting, sexy – I came across Taxi while watching ‘Whore’s Glory‘. A documentary on the the lives, needs, troubles, and hopes of prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh, and Mexico. The soundtrack also features CocoRosie

‘Canada’ By WHY? & Themselves

Canada’ By WHY? & Themselves

One October day in 2010 I decide to upload this to Youtube because I couldn’t find it anywhere else on the internet. I had also dug around and gathered some of the lyrics.

15 years later, on an YT account I’ve barely touched since my teenage days, it’s quiet picked up 15k views with dozens of thank you’s and even a of snobby-indie-music-sleuth side eye comment that I have yet to fully interpret. As they say, bad press is good press? I’m happy to till be listening, appreciating, and deciphering this song bit by bit years later.

Lyrics
The closest I've ever gotten to the lyrics: 

you want a man full of
more dangerous ways
you're guarding your ground (?), that i'm sure of
you're cutting your gold with grey
and you're showing your pinkest parts in my absence
and telling nine lies in the moonlight
and you're showing your pinkest parts in my absence

you slip on the yoke like it was a cute top
and drag a frozen lake full of fish and whatnot
across a living bed of flowers
and you leave it laying heavy on the bed of ours

do you see a cold floor in your future?
or do you sleep soundly when the sheets are sour?

you wanted a man, i showed up
and gave you a rib from my cage
that rib went bad, you let 'em all rot
replaced with tattooed snakes
may your bones turn to rope and go limp inside you
if you were burning me boy you'd get ice
may your bones turn to rope and go limp inside you

you slip on the yoke like it was a cute top
and drag a frozen lake full of fish and whatnot
across a living bed of flowers
and you leave it laying heavy on the bed of ours

i lit a match and watched it throw shadows
while you grew a hell on the top of our kingdoms

and you are
your father's daughter
and i am (i am)
no runner

study an affair and contemplate how a complicated train of events that ends in a final result of men's flesh becoming stairs