Collections of randomness + sharing is caring, day one

I tried on this sweatercoat at Anthropologie the other day and want it desperately. It is $168, but as it is my favorite color and I could hear my mother's voice in my head saying that I should spring for it, since it looked cute on me, the price probably will not stop me for long.

I peeked in Delany's Trouble on Triton and saw that it is part one of "Some Remarks on the Modular Calculus" and could barely contain my squee.

rm said two things in this post that I thought were well put. This about creative people made me say, "So true!":

Believe you me, no performs, no one creates because they are entirely well, but because they are trying to be.

And this about New York made me think, Wow, what a cool idea.

There is a line, I always think of, about New York, that was included in a theater review of a thing that was like a scavenger hunt all over the city involving people cast as angels: It looked, I thought, like a holy city. This is what I live with, living in New York. Every day. This notion that we will one day, instead of forgotten, be legend.

Speaking of New York, today (yesterday) was that day again. For once the weather didn't do a complete rewind, which...did not make it easier to not remember things I will never forget. But the late John M. Ford, I thought, captured a lot of that day pretty well in this piece.

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So I'm stealing the Sharing Is Caring meme from awils1, esteemed fellow OTW volunteer. The rules:

For one week, recommend/share:

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

So, music. There are literally several hundred songs I'd love to recommend, all for equally valid and varied reasons, but I'm going to try for two. Yikes.

The first is Imogen Heap's "Tidal," off her new album Ellipse. Heap is a self-taught composer who's well known as half of Frou Frou, though I think her solo work is even better. This song is just amazing, both in its sonic effects and in its lyrics and that the song encompasses all of them. I am not skillful at talking about music, but check the GameBoy sound effects at odd, opportune moments. Her voice is amazing too.

The second is "Monkey", by Low, a so-called 'slowcore' band from Duluth, Minnesota. Slowcore supposedly embraces minimal arrangements and slower tempos, both of which only apply to Low some of the time, but whatever. I'm also posting "Hatchet" off their album Drums and Guns, which is remarkable as a sustained meditation on violence, though the song itself is remarkably light-hearted and witty.

And because comparing it to "Hatchet" makes me smile, here's Metric's "Gimme Sympathy" off their album Fantasies, the only other song I know that goes on about the Beatles and the Stones.