Heartbreaking

FaceTiming from L.A. Friday, son Benjamin appeared to be fighting back tears as he talked about the things in his adopted city that he had loved and lost in the past 72 hours or so.

Various restaurants, shops and museums; homes of close friends; “Christmas Tree Lane” in Altedena, where residents have been going whole hog with their holiday displays since 1920 . All of it gone.

The destruction is breathtaking: 12,000 buildings lost. The death toll at 11 and bound to rise. Big chunks of sunny LA. turned into what one reporter called a “hellscape.”

Meanwhile, Lord Huron guitarist Tom Renaud posted the above photo and message.

cordifragus -a -um “heart-breaking”   [cor “heart” + -fragus “-breaking”]   [cord- + -frago-] stems   [cordi- + -frago-] with Connecting Vowel i   [cordifrago-] new stem   [cordifragus] nominative singular

ῥηξικάρδιος -ον / rhexicardius -a -um “heart-breaking”   [ῥήγνυναι “to break” + καρδία “heart” + -ος adjectival suffix]   [ῥηγνυ- + καρδια- + -ο-] stems   [ῥηγ- + καρδια- + -ο-] common verb-stem of ῥηγνύναι and stems   [ῥηγσι- + καρδια- + -ο-] with Connecting Combination σι (cf. ῥίψασπις)   [ῥηξι- + καρδια- + -ο-] γσ becomes ξ   [ῥηξικαρδια- + -ο-] new stem and stem   [ῥηξικαρδι- + -ο-] α disappears before ο   [ῥηξικαρδιο-] new stem   [ῥηξικάρδιος] nominative singular   [rhexicardius] ῥηξικάρδιος Latinized

New Music: Emma Mae – Hollywood

Emma Mae is a Leicester-based indie pop singer songwriter who I first featured on the blog over the summer through her “b*tch pop” track When Paris Calls. Her latest is a heart-breaking ballad called Hollywood. (more…)

I will spend my time refining this poem I’ve made for you, I will make it so it reveals just how much I love you, I will choose my words, both: careful and endearing, I will make it so, if for you, my love.

I heard she penned a poem too, Simple yet magnetic, I bet she’s used her talent, The one, I’ve never once surpassed, Her words too remain careful and endearing, but better, at most.

So I crumple my poem, And label it a waste, I’ll never be enough if I always have to go against her.

An amazing song.