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Hark! Another Takeaway Show!

This time with Sufjan Stevens covering The Innocence Mission's Lakes of Canada.

Beautiful, I say. Let's all curl up beneath the bookcase next to the fire. Or if you're like me, the faux fireplace full of misplaced toys.

16. Sufjan Stevens: Lakes of Canada

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And in other, less musical news, let us all raise our glasses and drink to our health...

Chin chin!

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I want some France and Spain and Morocco and I want some chaos.

If you don't want to jump into a large body of water with your clothes on right this very second, well then I'm afraid there's nothing I can do.

Also, everyone in music videos has bangs.

"How does it feel to be unorginal?"

"It's not so bad once you get the hang of it."

15. Tokyo Police Club - Your English is Good

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It's been a Sweet Virginia kinda day.



gotta scrape that shit right of your shoooooooe...

14. Rolling Stones - Sweet Virginia

Speaking of Sweet Virginia, me thinks there is another baby in our future.

(Someday.)

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I've heard this song a hundred thousand times but it still makes me cry and watching Karen Peris perform it completely tips me over. I figured this song was appropriate given some of my latest posts and also because The Innocence Mission's Now the Day is Over has played softly on repeat pretty much every night since Fable's birth. Archer's too. (Me thinks that Peris' voice is the equivalent of sugarplums for the sleeping pysche.)

Also, I love these words:

Waiting at the airport on my suitcase,
a girl traveling from Spain became my sudden friend,
though I did not learn her name.
And when the subway dimmed
a stranger lit my way.
This is the brotherhood of man.

I was lucky enough to travel quite a bit during my single girl days and always the most memorable moments of my adventures were those spent with strangers between start and finish lines. At bus stops and airports, slumped across the benches of train stations in the middle of nowhere. Those were some of the only times I felt like regardless of politics or class or race or circumstance, we were all in this together. Because when the flight was cancelled and the train never came? We absolutely were.

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13. The Innocence Mission - Brotherhood of Man

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If you haven't already noticed, I'm a huge fan of La Blogotheque. It's my favorite website on the Internet for sure, features the greatest bands worldwide and does so with the kind of joie de vivre and timeless, quirky elegance that inspires happy thoughts and instills a sort of faith in humanity.

Music has always been performance based and yet, somehow the street musician has been lost at see. He gets stepped over with yesterday's news because he performs "for free" and therefor is seen by the majority as worthless.

Years ago I wrote a (quite unpublished) novel about a street musician and spent much of my single life researching street performers and wishing I were brave enough to join them. I don't think there is a more honest profession in all the world as the man or woman who sings for his or her supper - who plants sound and poetry in moments that might otherwise be mundane, exhausted, hopeless. La Blogotheque celebrates the moment that is music. The tripping, strumming, singing, patting, dancing, swaying, smiling, kicking, we're-all-in-this-life-together moment.

12. Andrew Bird - Spare-Ohs

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"what is life if, full of care

we have no time to stand and stare."

-W.H Davies

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Me thinks The Delgados were/are one of the most underrated bands of all time. It's too bad they closed shop in 2005. Bummer.

11. Coming in From the Cold by The Delgados

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Today is my ten-year anniversary living in Los Angeles, a city plagued by associations with fake boobs and cocaine cowboys, casting couches and Charles Bukowski, smog and deception. It's taken me many years to pull my head out of the masses' judgment and see this city with my own eyes.

And now? I can't stop staring.

Happy Anniversary, Los Angeles: mecca of dreamers, land of many signs and stories come true.

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10. Hooray for Hollywood: Performed by Frances Langford, Johnnie Davis, Dick Powell and Benny Goodman, circa 1937.

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My little brother introduced me to this band last year. Once upon a time it was me introducing him to music, burning him CDs, filling his ears with the sounds of my favorite bands. Lucky for me, the sibling has become the teacher.

Miss you, David. Love.

8. Okay: KaiserCartel

9. Oh No: KaiserCartel

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7. While You Were Sleeping: Elvis Perkins

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Favorite band of all time.

6. Wrapped up in Books: Belle and Sebastian

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I'm a sucker for snails. (And beautiful songs.)

5. Beneath the Rose: Micah P. Hinson

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4. On the Radio by: The Concretes (which reminds of this post among other things.)

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3. Let On by: The Ropes

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2. Nantes by: Beirut

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Ever since I started posting Fable Films, I've been asked to post more music-ish type things, including lists of favorite bands, songs, birthing mix tracks, etc, which makes me super happy you guys share my enthusiasm for music, even if I've fallen off the Band wagon, so to speak (my social life used to revolve around who was performing at The Wiltern that week. Sigh.)

So!

I've been thinking as a solution to being unable to write blog posts every day it might be fun to compile a 100 song mix tape, featuring some of my favorite artists and songs for the next one-hundred weeks. 

That's to say I'm still blogging by then.  Either/or, I hope you enjoy. 

1. Furr by: Blitzen Trapper

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