(photo for "Cold Mountain")

this is how I want to live the rest of my life.

     -The Face

uncharted territory.

Well I've decided to take a break from my typical form to bring something to your attention:

"Dark was the Night"

Produced by Aaron and Bryce Dessner (of The National)

Executive Producer John Carlin (founder of Red Hot Organization)

32 tracks exclusively recorded this compilation with profits going to the Red Hot Organization-an international charity dedicated to raising funds and awareness for HIV and AIDS.

Track list:

     "THIS DISC"

1. "Knotty Pine" - Dirty Projectors + David Byrne

2. "Cello Song" - The Books featuring Jose Gonzalez

3. "Train Song" - Feist and Ben Gibbard

4. "Brackett, WI" - Bon Iver

5. "Deep Blue Sea" - Grizzly Bear

6. "So Far Around The Bend" - The National

7. "Tightrope" - Yeasayer

8. "Feeling Good" - My Brightest Diamond

9. "Dark Was The Night" - Kronos Quartet

10. "I Was Young When I Left Home" - Antony with Bryce Dessner

11. "Big Red Machine" - Justin Vernon + Aaron Dessner

12. "Sleepless" - The Decemberists

13. "Stolen Houses (Die)" - Iron & Wine

14. "Service Bell" - Grizzly Bear + Feist

15. "You Are The Blood" - Sufjan Stevens

     "THAT DISC"

1. "Well-Alright" - Spoon

2. "Lenin" - Arcade Fire

3. "Mimizan" - Beirut

4. "El Caporal" - My Morning Jacket

5. "Inspirational Information" - Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

6. "With A Girl Like You" - Dave Sitek

7. "Blood Pt. 2" - Buck 65 Remix (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Serengeti)

8. "Hey, Snow White" - The New Pornographers

9. "Gentle Hour" - Yo La Tengo

10. "Amazing Grace" - Cat Power + Dirty Delta Blues

11. " Happiness" - Riceboy Sleeps

12. "Another Saturday" - Stuart Murdoch

13. "The Giant of Illinois" - Andrew Bird

14. "Lua" - Conor Oberst with Gillian Welch

15. "When The Road Runs Out" - Blonde Redhead & Devastations

16. "Love Vs. Porn" - Kevin Drew

enjoy.

     -The Face

Growing Old.

Before enjoying my evening tea...

let me propose a question for us all.

How is it that people's hearts don't shatter as they watch an old man, whom can barely walk or hear, eat by himself at a fast food restaurant?

Everyone deserves this -

l'amore fou,
Teacup

Xavier here with the entertainment stuff for you. Got some time on your hands and don't know what to do with it? Well then you oughta listen.

For all of you bookworms out there:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

by Stephen Chbosky

I am not great with reviews but I'll do my best. The Perks.. in the form of a diary in a way, through a series of letters to an unknown person moderates the life of the freshmen teen, Charlie. Charlie explains his every day life through words and phrases that hit you with a strong feeling of nostalgia and can't help you from thinking on old memories you oddly remember but love in a certain way only you can explain. Charlie writes 

"I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have(...)I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with people even if they could have.  I need to know that these people exist."

Through the story we see how Charlie falls into place with people that accept him and who he feels he truly loves.

Movies for all film-watchers:

The United States of Leland

This independent film stars Ryan Gosling and Don Cheadle. Leland, a criminal for stabbing a retarded boy, narrates us on how sees world and the bits and pieces that have made him who he is. We learn his opinions on love, sadness, and how it effects our lives. Leland's lack of interest to what goes on around him shows his inability to physically express his emotions..but once he can bottle his feelings no more he does something that will change his life and lives around him forever. 

And a little music for all of you head-boppin' fools:

I made myself a mixtape, and I am here to share it.

Infinite - The Mixtape

The Smiths - Asleep

1. Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains
2. T-Pain - Chopped N Skrewed
3. The Jakes - Cough Syrup
4. The Flaming Lips - Ego Trippin’ At the Gates of Hell
5. Bon Iver - Flume
6. Frou Frou - Hear Me Out
7. The Fray - Heartless (Kanye West Cover)
8. Patrick Park - Here We Are
9. Joseph Arthur - Honey and the Moon
10. Something Corporate - Konstantine
11. Frou Frou - Let Go
12. Animal Collective - My Girls
13. The Shins - New Slang
14. Something Corporate - The Runaway
15. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
16. Right Away, Great Captain! - What a Pity
17. Ryan Adams - Wonderwall (Oasis Cover)
18. Sea Wolf - You’re a Wolf 
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You can download it here

.....That's all for today kids. 

- Xavier

rattle and hum.

musical score written (or drawn) by John Cage

"It's about the music...at least that's what you said it was going to be about."

think about it.

     -The Face