I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning — Bright Eyes {spotify}

Something About Violins — Julie Sokolow

“To whom shall I tell my grief?”

The twilight of evening. Big flakes of wet snow are whirling lazily about the street lamps, which have just been lighted, and lying in a thin soft layer on roofs, horses’ backs, shoulders, caps. Iona Potapov, the sledge-driver, is all white like a ghost. He sits on the box without stirring, bent as double as the living body can be bent. If a regular snowdrift fell on him it seems as though even then he would not think it necessary to shake it off…. His little mare is white and motionless too. Her stillness, the angularity of her lines, and the stick-like straightness of her legs make her look like a halfpenny gingerbread horse. She is probably lost in thought. Anyone who has been torn away from the plough, from the familiar gray landscapes, and cast into this slough, full of monstrous lights, of unceasing uproar and hurrying people, is bound to think.

It is a long time since Iona and his nag have budged. They came out of the yard before dinnertime and not a single fare yet. But now the shades of evening are falling on the town. The pale light of the street lamps changes to a vivid color, and the bustle of the street grows noisier.

extract from “Misery” by Anton Checkov

The first lines of a nice short story, in case you want to read it: “Misery”, Anton Checkov

Also good, but the first is amazing.

Vincent Alvarez Video Part from Lenni Staringer on Vimeo.

Aurora — The Deer Tracks {spotify}

Disciples of California — The Skygreen Leopards {spotify}

Another band from Sweden and Labrador Records, The Radio Dept.. Lesser Matters is their debut album and it was released in 2003, I still think it’s their best record so far, even though it’s a tough choice. On the way is their third album, titled Clinging to a Scheme, is scheduled for release on April, so be aware.