OK actual last one.. Idina Menzel singing Creep by Radiohead, after giving a beautiful speech about how sometimes it’s hard for her to sing about being brave and empowered everyday. Sometimes it’s hard for her to sing uplifting songs when there’s days she can’t get out of bed. So this was her anti-empowerment song of the night.

“Pharrell’s gonna sing “Happy” for the rest of his life and then kill himself”

Susanne Sundfør - Delirious

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You won’t let go, you won’t give in Till every part of you is suffering It’s the strangest thing, deliberate Done with intent, without repent

There’s one thing I want to say, so I’ll be brave You were what I wanted I gave what I gave I’m not sorry I met you I’m not sorry it’s over I’m not sorry there’s nothing to save

chillest track on the album and still intense as hell

summer of darkness: a compilation for all your gothically romantic inclinations

The Year Without a Summer: In June 1816, incessant rainfall during that "wet, ungenial summer" forced Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, John Polidori, and friends to stay indoors at Villa Diodati overlooking Lake Geneva. Byron suggested the idea of writing ghost stories, taking inspiration from a collection of German horror stories, translated under the title Fantasmagoriana. As the storm continued to rage outside, Mary had the nightmare that would eventually give rise to her ghost story: Frankenstein; Lord Byron's was to be "A Fragment", which Polidori later used as inspiration for The Vampyre.

The Gambler - fun.

I swear when I grow up, I won’t just buy you a rose. I will buy the flower shop and you will never be lonely.

sound the bells | dessa

boys, sound the bells the sun rose from the west today I doubt we’ll see it set

oh, and boys, bear it well put all your paper maps away Mercator here can’t help

YOURS, VINCENT: a mix inspired by van gogh’s letters

"In reading books, as in looking at paintings, one must admire what is beautiful with assurance - without doubt, without hesitation." - Vincent van Gogh, Letter to Theo, early August, 1881

teach me how to feel; indietronica for the ages. [listen]

Such a pretty house And such a pretty garden No alarms and no surprises No alarms and no surprises No alarms and no surprises please

Robert Parker - Twin Peaks Theme (2015)

this song goes out to all of the blogs that are now deleted thanks to tumblr’s new auto-DMCA-filed audio post takedowns

EVERY RUSSIAN NOVEL EVER: for your reading pleasure. 

inspiration | listen

Puscifer // The Humbling River

Angel, angel, what have I done? I’ve faced the quakes, the wind, the fire. I’ve conquered country, crown, and throne. Why can’t I cross this river?