...Kings of Convenience and Damien Rice.
This partly has to do with the misery that comes with missing them performing in Singapore, and partly because they just seemed the perfect people to be listening to on a day like today. It wasn't a particularly spectacular day; in fact, it was kind of grey and wet, as these on-the-cusp winter/spring days usually are in Ann Arbor. But for some reason, being the only person on the bus at 6.45am and watching the day wake up, I was struck by how pretty this little town can be even with bare trees and cloudy skies. There's kind of a rugged beauty to it all, and an amazing sense of promise of what will be in just a couple of weeks...
The music was just a great accompaniment to these somewhat pensive sentiments- the gorgeously layered strings of KOC on the one hand, and the soulful, quiet heart of Damien Rice on the other, made my 20-minute trip to school one of the happiest ones I've had in a long while. The rain was less depressing, more refreshing; the bare trees less a sign of winter cold than spring's imminent coming; and even the morning mist felt less shroud-like than usual.
Try it for yourself one day: when things seems just that little blue, put on my friends Erlend, Eirik and Damien. You'll know what I mean... :)
Parallel Lines
What's the immaterial substance
That envelopes two
That one percieves as hunger
And the other as food
I wake in tangeled covers
To a sash of snow,
You dream in a cartoon garden
I could never know
- Kings of Convenience
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