Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Avalanche
I found another cover of this song which I will probably put up soon, but I wanted to post this one first because it includes all the words. Tonight, after three days of rain and the lumbering beast of heartbreak visible on the horizon, each line stings like a needle stitching up a wound.
you don’t love me quite so fiercely now
when you know that you are not sure
follow up
my new workout plan is to spend 30 minutes a day learning the dance for Call Your Girlfriend
one-sixteenth of me is real proud to be swedish right now
wearing scented deodorant for a day after two-plus years of unscented
das unheimlich
although, to be serious:
you’re right! No place should stay the same forever, and of course somewhere with a constantly shifting population will evolve. Maybe it wasn’t clear, but I don’t actually think New College was becoming a shithole. Sometimes when people are in poor moods and feeling a particular anxiety about something, they hyperbolize! And then they write about it on their personal blogs! Imagine that.
obviously if I hated it so much, I would have made the effort to transfer. But I’m nearly done there and all things considered had a very positive academic experience, so I’m looking forward to returning and working with my professors again and finishing what I started. I assume you’re an alum - you can’t really deny that the social environment of New College is extremely intense. A small, insular environment where pretty much everyone is involved in deeply rigorous studies at a pivotal period in their growth and development will foster extremely tight relationships. Sometimes they’re too tight. Going back for a final year and taking advanced classes with people who have known each other for most of their time there will make it hard for me to make friends! That’s just the way of social dynamics.
I’m going back to finish my degree. That’s my top priority. But cripes, I’m allowed to feel a little anxious about how I’m going to interact with people who are already close to each other but are strangers to me. It’s going to be weird to be in a place that I know very well around people I don’t know well at all.
Anyway, it’s not like I seek out current students’ blogs and when they talk about how much they love it there I leave anonymous comments telling them New College sucks and you suck and in my day we didn’t have dubstep at walls harrumph harrumph. I got jaded all on my own, I’m not going to make the effort to bring kids who are still rhapsodic about it down with me. Calm down.
Anonymous asked: New College is becoming a shithole? Oh please, that's what every embittered graduate says when their own incestuous in-crowd isn't there anymore. The school belongs to the students, and the students change after four or five years (usually). That's the healthiest and most natural thing in the world.
lol what did you get your degree in, Being a Jerk on the Internet Studies?
whenever I worry about the fact that I haven’t regularly spoken French in two years I pull up dubbed Disney songs. it’s comforting that I can still understand them and can identify the differences in translation.
ALSO can we talk about Disney rebranding Belle with green eyes? WHAT’S UP WITH THAT. when I was three I really needed a socially awkward, book-obsessed role model who had brown eyes. Belle delivered. don’t take that away from me.
re: last post/J. New and cat videos
here is a cat listening to Ys
"George Neal (Little Grizzly, Hares on the Mountain) and I walked into the office once to find Joanna Newsom sitting there. I had no idea who she was, but George knew all about her. We all started talking about cat videos, just funny online cat videos. She kept asking, ‘What are you talking about?’ So we all sat down and watched one of this cat that kept saying, ‘Oh, Don Piano’ and ‘Oh, Long Johnson,’ and we all thought it was the funniest thing. George Neal still can’t believe we sat around watching cat videos with Joanna Newsom."
Josh Baish, owner of Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios (via allerleirauhh)
