Today’s Playlist: Mother God

So today I’m feeling a bit mystical, a bit ascetic (they are so parallel), monk in the desert,  contemplative Elijah in his mountain getaway, curling up to talk to Mother God.  Like the writers curled in the caves in Borges’ The Immortal.

From the mouth of Gabriel: Sufjan Stevens

Genesis: Grimes

Kill Your Heroes: AWOLNATION

Vesuvius: Sufjan Stevens

Surgeon: St. Vincent (one of my new fave musicians!  I even copied her haircut…)

Cruel: St. Vincent

It’s a Fire: Portishead

The Cave: Mumford and Sons

Wake Up: Arcade Fire

All the Trees of the Field Will Clap their hands: Sufjan Stevens

Seven Swans: Sufjan Stevens

Shake It Out: Florence + the Machines

For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilante: Sufjan Stevens

Exit Music: Radiohead

Sigh No More: Mumford and Sons

We Are Nowhere and It’s Now: Bright Eyes

Poison Oak: Bright Eyes

Idioteque: Radiohead

How to Disappear Completely: Radiohead

What would you add to this list?  (And, wow, anyone know an easier way to load a playlist into a blog?)

Edith Södergran:

On foot my path wound through the solar systems

On foot
my path wound through the solar systems,
until at last I found my red robe’s first thread.
I already have a sense of who I am.
Somewhere in space my heart’s suspended,
sparks flowing from it, quavering the air,
reaching out to other speechless hearts.

Let me know what you think of this type of post!