Song of the Day: Black Lab - The Real You

Same comments as yesterday.  Continuing with this vibe.

 "Black Lab: The Real You (HQ+Lyrics)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31_4_EyM6Ag

Song of the Day: Black Lab - Say Goodbye

Why do so many Black Lab songs have so much meaning to me?  They touch my heart.  Sometimes they apply to my present, other times to past points in my life.  And undoubtedly will continue to speak to me and for me long into the future.

"Say Goodbye - Black Lab (Lyrics)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6ZNPKdcCsM

"If I can't say it, if I can't say goodbye, I know you never will."

Say ya to da UP, eh!

Finally some recognition.  Did you see Merriam-Webster's word of the day today?  It's "Yooper"!  :)
http://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/2014/07/22

Pasting from the Merriam-Webster web page:

July 22, 2014

Word of the Day

• Yooper
• 
• \YOO-per\

• DEFINITION
• 
  

noun

: a native or resident of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan — used as a nickname

• EXAMPLES
• 
  

The land of the Yoopers—the Upper Peninsula, or U.P.—is connected to Michigan's Lower Peninsula by means of the Mackinac Bridge. 

"Every Yooper I've ever met was an uncommonly unique character—a real salt-of-the-earth townie, skilled at mechanics, deer hunting, and/or ice fishing." — Kelly O, The Stranger, January 29, 2014 – February 4, 2014

• DID YOU KNOW?
• 
  

The word "Yooper" comes from the common nickname of Michigan's Upper Peninsula—the "U.P."—and the etymology requires the same follow-up question that a challenging joke does: "Get it?" If you're not there yet, try saying them both out loud: Yooper, U.P. Yoopers have been saying both out loud now for about 40 years, but it's only in recent years that those beyond the U.P. and its geographical neighbors have begun to encounter "Yooper" in use. Yoopers refer to people who live in the Lower Peninsula as "trolls" (they live "under" the Mackinac Bridge, after all), but that nickname is still at this point too regional for entry in our dictionaries.

Song of the Day: DIIV - Doused

Takes me back the late 80's or so.  Great mood in this song.

"DIIV - Doused (Lyrics Video)"
http://youtu.be/QWzBzLOYZOY

Song of the Day: Iron & Wine - Passing Afternoon

Here is one of the most delicate and deeply touching songs I've ever heard. 

"Iron & Wine - Passing Afternoon "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0dP7iZv9K0

Beautiful.  Seasons, time passing, great vibe to the song.  I want to pick out some particularly good lyrics, but they're all good.  Things that drift away like our endless, numbered days.  A baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone.

And the saddest part, thinking of the past you can't get back.  Maybe a person you can't get back.

But my hands remember hers, rolling 'round the shaded ferns
Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I'd never learned

There are names across the sea, only now I do believe
Sometimes, with the windows closed, she'll sit and think of me

When I listen to this, I can't just listen to it once or twice, I just repeat it for a while.  Let it soak in.

Complete lyrics:

There are times that walk from you like some pa*sing afternoon
Summer warmed the open window of her honeymoon
And she chose a yard to burn but the ground remembers her
Wooden spoons, her children stir her Bougainvillea blooms

There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days
Autumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she made
And she's chosen to believe in the hymns her mother sings
Sunday pulls its children from their piles of fallen leaves

There are sailing ships that pa*s all our bodies in the gra*s
Springtime calls her children 'till she let's them go at last
And she's chosen where to be, though she's lost her wedding ring
Somewhere near her misplaced jar of Bougainvillea seeds

There are things we can't recall, blind as night that finds us all
Winter tucks her children in, her fragile china dolls
But my hands remember hers, rolling 'round the shaded ferns
Naked arms, her secrets still like songs I'd never learned

There are names across the sea, only now I do believe
Sometimes, with the windows closed, she'll sit and think of me
But she'll mend his tattered clothes and they'll kiss as if they know
A baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone

Song of the Day: Amanda Palmer - I Will Follow You Into The Dark

One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

"Amanda Palmer - I Will Follow You Into The Dark (Death Cab For Cutie Cover) "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCbLJxcVCog



And the original, of course.  Also hauntingly beautiful.

"Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark +Lyrics "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDHY1D0tKRA

Calvin And Hobbes

Did you love reading Calvin and Hobbes (one of the four greatest comic strips in the history of the world) as a kid?  As an adult?  Always?

Did you ever wonder what happened to Calvin?

From Tickld:

"This Guy Just Changed The Way We See Calvin And Hobbes. Seriously."

 http://m.tickld.com/x/this-guy-just-changed-the-way-we-seecalvin-and-hobbes

Brings a tear to my eye.

P.S.  How do I even begin to pick an image to add to this blog post???  Just read the Calvin and Hobbes books.  All of them.