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Perfect for small, off-beat breaks in whatever playlist mood you're going for. The added bonus of eerie-sounding posh accents by older poets is always a treat. I recommend W.H. Auden's "The More Loving One" and anything by Virgina Woolf (OK, not a poet technically, but have you read The Waves? It's better than 80% of 'actual' poetry, really.)
Jan 22, 2024
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i just started reading the waves by Virginia Woolf and i made a playlist based on the general vibe the book gives off to me — not too specific it’s a one song flows into the next thing (not meant to be shuffled) and its meant to kind of be about slow sensory experiences
Jan 23, 2025
Anyone else make random spotifty playlists based on vibes/moment. This is my favorite thing to do.
Dec 23, 2024
digging this one back out lately - it's gloomy, dark, cozy, alternative, mostly 80s-90s, with a few modern inclusions. inspired by a chilly autumn evening. good for working, studying, contemplating, smoking a cigarette, walking. enjoy!!
featuring: lush, broadcast, cocteau twins, mazzy star, et al.
Oct 2, 2024
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It just rewires your brain to be a bit removed from the machine, a bit silly, taking a side-eye view of the world and your place at the fringe of productivity. I like this one from DJ Food with spliced-in bit of interviews with James.
Jan 22, 2024
A collection of essays about legends, real or fiction, who just couldn't be bothered to live within the matrix of their contemporary culture, actually written by someone who isn't secretly an agent for the status quo.
Jan 22, 2024
Anne Sexton is sadly, cruelly underrated. She was friends with Sylvia Plath and also chose to end her own life, so she often gets lumped into a kind of 'also ran' category of modern poetry. Like I said: a sad, cruel kind of underrated. Her 'Transformations' collection is a re-telling of classic and lesser known fairy tales with extra visceral spurts of blood, gutsy grins and verbally sweetened trauma. It's horrifying and tender, like a stranger offering you a damaged limb on the subway. (See image: a snippet from "The Maiden Without Hands".) There's an edition with a foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, but I haven't found that yet.
Feb 1, 2024