Playlist VII

My Skins playlist

1. And The Living Is Easy- Guts

2. Aht  Uh Mi Head- Shuggie Oats
3. Hope In the Air- Laura Marling
4. Fear and Resilience (Dangerous Mouse mix)-Pedro
5. Lady Belles-Timothy Victor

6. Shove it- Santogold
7. They Stay Down Deep-Giselle
8. Childhood-Beach House
9. Dragonfly- M. Craft
10. Glockenspiel song- Dog is Dead

11. Undertaker- The Moondoggies
12. Lions- Jonquil
13. We Can't Fly- Aeroplanes
14. Waiting for My chance to Come- Noah and The Whale
15. Good Times Gonna Come- Aqualung

R. I. P. Elizabeth Taylor

I wasn't a fan until I saw this movie:



A scene from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

I'll set you free

When They Say It Better Than We Do

Day 2


"I'm into people" - Franky Fitzgerald (Skins Series 5) On asked if she was a lesbian/bi sexual.

Franky Fitzgerald as played by Dakota Blue Richards

Everyday we stumble under the weight of labels. I don't want to deny their comforting and reassuring power but god I do congratulate and celebrate the all encompassing ones that Franky Fitzgerald (so brave) subscribes to. Skins does get a lot of things wrong (I refuse to acknowledge the Season 4 ending) but they got this so right that it makes up for a somewhat wishy washy season. Almost.

Playlist VI

Serpent Charmer- Iron & Wine
Civilian- Wye Oak
House By The Sea- Iron & Wine
We Can't Fly- Aeroplanes
In The Backseat- Arcade Fire
Fairytales &Firesides-Passenger
Peace Beneath the City- Iron & Wine
Undertaker-The Moondoggies
Fall Into Faith- Oliver Girdler
Lover of Mine- Beach House
Close Your Eyes- Micah P. Hinson

When they Say It Better Than We Do

Day 1

Sometimes there's so much crap on TV (which I watch anyway) that as I watch I can feel my brain getting smaller and smaller and smaller. Then there are these brief moments that a show will offer you that you relate to and it's so heartwarming to see your story somewhere (even if for a brief moment)that you forgive yourself for the all time you've wasted on all the crap, because you just found a big shiny jewel resting amongst it all. So I'm going to start a new list. (I know old lists are stagnating but don't worry they'll come back! I am if nothing foolishly optimistic about my own enthusiasm) So, in today's list of ' when they say it better than we do':


1. "You're the poem Liz" ( Jeff Parker to Liz Parker)


This line just blew me away. And see, it's not so much because of the characters or what's happening in their story. This moved me beyond its context. Liz doesn't even really respond when her father tells her this. She just sort of sits there and helps him organise his papers (or whatever he was doing). If it had been me, if I'd heard something like that from someone it would have just broken my heart and then healed it. There's just something so lovely in that line. I write a lot of poetry. But I always feel like all these are mere attempts at writing that one great poem. I want to be able to say that to someone. To say to, anyone really, a child, a lover, a friend, to say that you are not the inspiration but art itself, is just lovely.

Shiri Appleby

Every tongue that gets bit always has another word to say

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