What Are You Listening To Right Now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNWeGngQqOI#t=86

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmZMy2St2N8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fysBUxPFo9U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IImaTu0jXuo

Sleepthief - The Chauffeur (feat. Kirsty Hawkshaw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zob5O3nyqYI

There are moments in life which are so uniquely beautiful, yet so completely ordinary, they give you a sense of the wonder of your own impermanence.

For example, coming over the brow of the hill overlooking my village to be met with the early October sunset, a field of cows and late calves beside me, my two year old son snoring softly in the back after a happy afternoon and evening with his Daddy, while this played...

Sometimes I appreciate how lucky I am.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok3eQXu1sYU

"Il est tard. Je cherche mon autre chez-moi, et je prends un chemin que je ne connais pas:
Un petit sentier qui longe les usines et la ville entre-coupant par la forêt.
Je commence à peine à entrevoir la nature, lorsque tout d'un coup, la nuit tombe.
Je suis plongée dans un monde de silence, pourtant je n'ai pas peur.
Je m'endors quelques minutes, tout au plus, et quand je me réveille,
Le soleil est là et la forêt brille d'une lumière éclatante.

Je reconnais cette forêt. Ce n'est pas une forêt ordinaire, c'est une forêt de souvenirs.
Mes souvenirs. Cette rivière blanche et sonore, mon adolescence.
Ces grands arbres, les hommes que j'ai aimés. Ces oiseaux qui volent, au loin, mon père disparu.
Mes souvenirs ne sont plus des souvenirs.
Ils sont là, vivants, près de moi, ils dansent et m'enlacent, chantent et me sourient.

Je regarde mes mains. Je caresse mon visage, et j'ai 20 ans.
Et j'aime comme je n'ai jamais aimé."

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I just translated the spoken bits of this for the first time, and wow. It couldn't be more fitting:

"It is late. I am looking for my other home, taking an unfamiliar path: a small trail near the factories and the city, cutting through the forest. I can barely see nature when suddenly, night falls. I am engulfed by a world of silence, yet I am not afraid. I fall asleep for a few minutes at the most, and when I wake up, the sun is there and the forest is shining with a bright light.

I recognize this forest. It is not an ordinary forest, it is a forest of memories. My memories. The white and noisy river, my adolescence. The tall trees, the men I have loved. The birds in flight, and in the distance, my lost father.

My memories aren't memories anymore. They are there, with me, dancing and embracing, singing and smiling at me.
I look at my hands. I caress my face, and I am 20 years old. And I love like I have never loved before."

Gotta love synchronicity.

Assemblage 23 - Leave This All Behind