[draft]

the xx is playing in manila tomorrow and i couldn't sleep, so here. it's really rusty, and my headphones are missing, so remind me to re-record vocals at a more decent time and situation. vocals are really bad, it's 2 am, haha. also, i threw in a mockery of a riff from st. vincent's song cruel somewhere in there

also, audio at the end is from episode 25 of commonplace books' welcome to night vale podcast.

V C R (The xx Cover)[draft]

this afternoon i came across some lyrics en español of caetano veloso's o leãozinho, which is originally in portuguese. i definitely can't sing anything in portuguese lest i butcher a pronúncia, which i probably will. i'm not saying my spanish is perfect (because it definitely isn't if you listen closely!), but i'd like to think it's a lot better than my portuguese (my knowledge of which is zero), so i went along with that. i heard about this song via beirut's cover, which is just as nice as the original.

apologies for the wobbly notes and the bad strumming and the dog outside

o leãozinho / el leoncito (feat. some dog outside)

Bruises (Chairlift Cover)

Afterward, the compromise.
Bodies resume their boundaries.
 
These legs, for instance, mine.
Your arms take you back in.
 
Spoons of our fingers, lips
admit their ownership.
 
The bedding yawns, a door
blows aimlessly ajar
 
and overhead, a plane
singsongs coming down.
 
Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when
 
the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self
 
lay lightly down, and slept.﻿

Maxine W. Kumin, After Love (1970)

Old-Fashioned Hat (Anaïs Mitchell cover) with "After Love" by Maxine Kumin

with an excerpt from max mclean's reading of the gospel of matthew (chapter 14)

2 B A W/ U (Sufjan Stevens Cover)

(covers because i'm too lazy to be original)

this started out as a joke.

it still is.

mishka and the mountain

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