Pirate Ship Necklace - AscendingPeculiarity on Etsy
And so we have begun: Beach Week at NYLONVINYL. First up is this cute gold pendant of a clipper ship, complete with a little owl charm intently watching over its voyage. (And here's the honorary mention necklace for this entry, also nice but just a bit less photogenic.)
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Chris Koza - View From a Pier
Fans of Andrew Bird will probably enjoy this one. (If you do like it, here's a video of it performed live.) I recently found Koza on last.fm, and while I'm not in love with every single song he's ever done, I do think that his new album, Exit Pesce, is definitely worth a listen. Three of my favorites by him are from that CD, and they'll probably pop up on here in future entries if I can work them in.
My fourth favorite, this song, is from his earlier album Patterns. For some reason, the sound of it and the lyric about a bombing (Wait I'm awake I'm awake I'm awake/I can hear the bombs dropping/I thought I was dreaming) make me think of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five -- the descriptions of WWII and Dresden, and the character Billy Pilgrim unstuck and adrift in time, going to sleep an old man and waking up back in his past as a young P.O.W. It's a pretty song, in any case.
