63 Crayons - Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour - Rhino's

Yes! Non-stop rocking with this one. That clarinet is pretty amazing.

Poem

Starfish by Eleanor Lerman

This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who says, Last night, the channel was full of starfish. And you wonder, is this a message, finally, or just another day?

Courtesy of one of my favourite bloggers and a wonderful writer, Ann Leary. Love this.

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead

And now for something totally different. The video makes my head hurt but the song has some good groove to it.

"I Wish you Love" from Prime

I'm not usually one for YouTube montages of movies, but this one is lovely. Prime is one of my favourites and I stumbled across it a few years ago just when I needed it. It is a lovely story about how sometimes great love comes into one's life and it is only meant for a certain time and place; the message being that even when love ends it doesn't mean it wasn't real or good or that the experience was a failure.

every heart, every heart / to love will come

Leonard Cohen - Anthem

The birds they sang
at the break of day
Start again
I heard them say
Don't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
Ah the wars they will
be fought again
The holy dove
She will be caught again
bought and sold
and bought again
the dove is never free.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
We asked for signs
the signs were sent:
the birth betrayed
the marriage spent
Yeah the widowhood
of every government --
signs for all to see.
I can't run no more
with that lawless crowd
while the killers in high places
say their prayers out loud.
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
a thundercloud
and they're going to hear from me.
Ring the bells that still can ring ...
You can add up the parts
but you won't have the sum
You can strike up the march,
there is no drum
Every heart, every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.
That's how the light gets in.

illinois - alone again

my favourite song of the last two weeks.

the Decemberists - the hazards of love 1 - (2 of 17)

Gorgeous!