On a scale of 1 to 10, how excited are we about the season final of Lost? Around 9.4

* Cocoon - Take Off
'My friends all died in a plane crash
Well there is a God but he wants cash'

* Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Locke)
'Well my goodness gracious let me tell you the news
My head's been wet with the midnight dew
I've been down on bended knee talkin' to the man from Galilee
He spoke to me in the voice so sweet
I thought I heard the shuffle of the angel's feet
He called my name and my heart stood still
When he said, "John go do my will!" '

* The Decemberists - The Bagman's Gambit (Sayid)
'On the lam from the law, on the steps of the capitol
You shot a plainclothes cop on the ten o'clock
And I saw momentarily
They flashed a photograph, it couldn't be you
You'd been abused so horribly
But you were there in some anonymous room
And I recall that fall I was working for the government
And in a bathroom stall off the National Mall
How we kissed so sweetly
How could I refuse a favor or two?'

* Low - Walk Into the Sea
'And time is just a hunger
It bleeds us out to nothing
And when it finally takes us over I hope we’ll float away together
Yeah, time’s the great destroyer
Leaves every child a bastard
When it finally takes us over I hope we’ll float away together'

* Irving - If You Say Jump, I Will Say No (Hugo)
'Touch something to make you know that this is real
do you think it's that girl I used to love?
I never neeeded her then, how come I'm only needing her now?
But I know now that I am not my brain
And I can listen to the thoughts
And know that we are not the same'

* Sea Wolf - The Garden That You Planted (Sun)
'Cause everything around here's changed

But the garden that you planted remains'

* Sambassadeur - Kate (well, Kate)
'Underneath the surface, love's as cold and blue
And you're saying this town is not made for you
Starts getting closer, going through the night
No one can reach us when we're out of sight
Time's running faster, please let us through
Going in any direction will do
...
Tides don't last forever, don't you know?'

* The Automatic - Monster ("Smokey")
'What's that coming over the head, is it a monster?'

* Driveshaft - You All Everybody! (Charlie)

* Previously On Lost - Be My Constant (Desmond)

Feel free to share your thoughts on the grand finale!

(The story of) Sunrise/Sunset As a Frame of Mind

The State of Samuel - On a Sunny Day (Mutiny on Mercury, 2003)
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Grand Archives - A Setting Sun (Grand Archives, 2008)
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Bright Eyes - Sunrise Sunset (Fevers and Mirrors, 2000)

*sorry everybody I forgot to post the links before, so the mp3s didn't get on Hype Machine at all. Hopefully they will now.

Let's go sunwards!

Pathetic. Really pathetic. Our blog hasn't even had its 3-month anniversary and I'm already experiencing what I believe is called writer's block. It's not fair. I was supposed to have one of those man-that's-beautiful-I-wish-I-had-written-that sort of posts. I had an idea for it... Well, if you must know, I was gonna talk about my summers and how I feel they will be getting a lot warmer from now on because of the Occasional Flickers. But for the life of me I can't find anything remotely interesting to say about them. Which is really a shame, because they feel like the sunniest and sweetest of summer days hiding in the shadow of an old apple-tree; because they sound so fragile you really believe that they would melt and disappear altogether from this planet if ever a drop of rain should touch their skin; because they smell like sea-salt and they taste sparkly and yellow - real sunshine-yellow, not the ugly nicotine-yellow of autumn bands; because they come from Greece and really, have you ever heard of a good Greek band,let alone a good Twee Greek band that, to cap it all, is also signed to Cloudberry? Because of all these reasons it's a shame I had to pick today for my writer's block. What I'll do is I think I'll leave them for another time instead of offering them this excuse of a post. They don't deserve this. I should make a list of songs I've been listening to this week, stop whining and post some Santogold for the masses. There.

The Occasional Flickers - When the Skies Look So Gray*
The Occasional Flickers - Sunwards*

And speaking of... well... I could justify the song choice by saying its title is the name of a Greek island, but the truth is I just really really wanted to post this song.

Fleet Foxes - Mykonos (Sun Giant EP)

*If you don't enjoy twee don't bother with The Occasional Flickers