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you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves

Mary Oliver - Wild Geese

Song you listened to most recently: I Don't Know Why I Like You But I Do by The Wombats, phone just moved onto Butchered Tongue by Hozier

Single most underrated band you listen to: Stornoway (obviously, as if my relentless posting about them wasn't the clue you needed)

Song that you listen to if you need a pick me up: Magnificent (She Says) by Elbow

Favourite and/or most listened to podcast: Elis James and John Robins (again that's an obvious one whoops) although I binged all of Midnight Burger lately and it's so good

Song lyric you'd rewind a song for (specifically because of the words): "Home's only a feeling you get in your mind, from the people you live and you travel beside" from Fuel Up by Stornoway or "my liver may be fucked but my heart is honest" from Things That Stop You Dreaming by Passenger, "how the mouth must be emplyed in every corner of itself" from Butchered tongue by Hozier

Song lyric you'd rewind a song for (specifically because of how it's sung): I have an entire doc compiling lyrics like this but the bit in Orange Juice by Noah Kahan where he sings "and filled you with anger", the bit in I Will Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab For Cutie where they sing "catholic school, as vicious as roman rule" and for Hozier songs, "Hold me like water or christ hold me like a knife" from Who We Are and "the first time that you kissed me I drank dry the river Lethe" from First Time.

Favourite album: Beachcomber's Windowsill by Stornoway has been my favourite for 15 years so I'd probably have to pick that, but Hozier, The Wombats, Maisie Peters and Death Cab For Cutie are all very very close behind.

Favourite album released in the last year: I'm cheating and picking one for 2025 and one for the last full year, so Oh! The Ocean by the Wombats for this year, Unreal Unearth: Unending for last year.

Food you're craving right now: I am craving literally no food and this is a PROBLEM, I'd eat a sorbet if I had some nearby though

Favourite type of weather: Warm in the sun but cool in the shade, enough breeze that you aren't too warm but not too cold if you're sitting still, t shirt and jeans ideally.

Ideal time to sleep and wake up: 2:30am and between 11:30 and 12:30

Dream job: I always say I'd like to be an academic with some pastoral role, which is true but ideally I'd do that most of the time and then an author the rest of the time.

Dream music collab: Stornoway and Hozier, this blog would be fucking incomprehensible.

One piece of advice for your past or future self: Just because an experience didn't go the way you wanted or expected, doesn't mean it wasn't worth it.

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song you most recently listened to: currently listening to “shrike (live at windmill lane studios)” by hozier, but “forget her” by jeff buckley was playing before this.

single most underrated band you listen to: i started listening to this band called breakup shoes in middle school & they’re pretty cool

songs that you listen to if you need a pick-me-up: “life is a highway” by rascal flatts and “drift away” by uncle kracker (both always remind me of being a little girl with my dad in his old truck).

favorite and/or most listened to podcast: so, i don’t really listen to podcasts… will take some recommendations, though!

song lyrics you’d rewind a song for (specifically because of the words): “i’m staring at my hands red ruddy skin, i don’t understand how did they betray me? what did i do? i never touched you how i wanted to” - “triple dog dare” by lucy dacus. that part just ALWAYS gets me.

“then when i met you, my virtues uncounted all of my goodness is goin’ with you now dragging along following your form hung like the pelt of some prey you had worn” - “shrike” by hozier. i replay this song over and over; it is so good, and i want it injected into my soul.

song lyric you’d rewind a song for (specifically because of how it’s sung): “if i was a blackthorn tree i’d wanna be felled by you held by you fuel the pyre of your enemies” - “nfwmb” by hozier because the way he sings it oh my GOD

favorite albums: “wasteland, baby!” - hozier, “historian” - lucy dacus), and “tusk” - fleetwood mac

favorite album released in the last year: “unreal unearth: unending” - hozier

food you’re craving right now: hmm mozeralla sticks

favorite type of weather: mid-50s, cloudy but still sunny, NO WIND!

ideal time to sleep: depends… usually 1 am to 9am.

dream job: elementary school teacher!!! i’m hoping to teach second or first grade once i graduate :))

dream music collab: HOZIER & LUCY DACUS!! soo not even a dream it’s a reality

one piece of advice for your past or future self: to my past self: girl, pls put down the bleach, your hair does not look good. LOL kidding!! but for real, advice: it’s okay to be weird!! someday, you’ll have friends who love you because of it :)