09 - Strangers Once United Against the Land

The Concept:  Feature a song a day for every day of the most magnificent season of Autumn.  The songs are ones that capture the thoughts/ideas/images/feelings of the season for me. 

It's my "Autumnal Playlist" if you will.

Like The Head and the Heart, today's artist was discovered by seeing an album on the shelf at Target.  A few years ago, early 2008, I was spending the weekend with some friends in St. Louis, MO.  They guys had gone out to the local Target for birthday cards or something.  While wandering the store I caught sight of CD cover hosting a girl with bright red hair wearing a bright yellow dress. 

I did the same thing as with Head and the Heart.  I sampled the album on line.  And the first song that really stood out to me was...

Today's Song:  "Rangers," by A Fine Frenzy's debut, One Cell in the Sea.

This song enchanted me.  Allison Sudol's voice is just ethereal.  And she is A Fine Frenzy.  That's not an opinion, but she is the artist.  This song is laced with allusions to fantasy stories.  And fantasy stories always feel the most real to me in Autumn.

I can't really share images that this song conjures up for me, because one of the first times I heard it was watching the music video.  That unfortunately has the effect of becoming my default imagery for songs.  I do love having this song play when I drive around through the hills and woods here in PA.

The song feels exploratory.  I get the feeling of a couple, or several companions who are on an adventure.  There are many people or ideas trying to tempt them off their innocent, or even childlike path.  Trying to bring them to 'real world.'

I think imagination is one of the greatest victims of the modern world.  We can realize things on TV shows and movies in ways we never have before...but a lot of it is remakes, reboots, rehash, and really bad.  Every body wants to try their hand at some well known character or story and most things that are new or unknown, get left by the wayside because there is an uncertainty to them.

I say, bring on the uncertain.

Take me on an adventure I've never been on.  Lead me down a path I don't know.  This song does that for me (even if my visuals have been compromised by the video.)  There is still a sense of mystery and wonder in it.  There is fine line between living in the real world and simply existing in it.  I don't want to live in a world where wonder, adventure, and mystery have no place.  I don't like saying things need to be "balanced," but we can live with dreams and wonder right alongside of reality.

Get outside the walls of your city.  Step outside the gates of your yard.  Dive into a book.  Explore the world literally or in literature.  And keep exploring.  Don't let the hunters catch you.  Don't want to be found.  Soak up life and live.

Some of my favorite lines from this song are from the second verse:

Further in and on we go
Sightless creatures tugging at our clothes
Cutting through the twilight, sword in hand
Strangers once united against the land

Check out Rangers by A Fine Frenzy, and get lost in your imagination.

-Jesse

08 - The Less I Give the More I Get Back

The Concept:  Feature a song a day for every day of the most magnificent season of Autumn.  The songs are ones that capture the thoughts/ideas/images/feelings of the season for me. 

It's my "Autumnal Playlist" if you will.
Today's song was one of those happy things I stumbled on because a friend posted a link on the facebook.  (Props to Nina Ferry!)  It was some time in February or March of 2012 when I saw her post/comment about this band called The Civil Wars.  I thought, "What a strange name for a band."  But I listened to the song (can't remember which, possibly the one I'm featuring today,) and just loved it.  It was another one of those that I sampled the album and downloaded the whole thing on the spot.

Song 08/Day 08

Today's Song:  "Poison & Wine," from The Civil Wars debut, Barton Hollow.

While the song entered my life in the damp, wet, and chilly months of late winter, it had me longing for Autumn.  Once again the instruments remind me of falling leaves and rain.  There is this steady, intermittent beat that feels like wiper-blades smacking hard across a windshield.

There is a mournful heart to this song.  Just the lyrics themselves bare the souls of the voices.

him:  You only know what I want you to
her:  I know everything you don't want me to

There is  a dichotomy to love that this song addresses so brutally and beautifully. 

him:  I wish you'd hold me when I turn my back
her:  the less I give, the more I get back

The feeling I get when I listen to this song is that of a love that needs to be fought for.  That there is this deep connection between the singers (their "voice" not the actual musicians,) that keep getting block by their own actions.  They want so badly to love each other that they are practically screaming it at each other so loudly that they can't hear the other person.

One of my favorite lines is:

I don't have a choice, but I'd still choose you

 There is something so beautifully committed about that line.  I know it's not about God, but I can't help but feel that's how God feels about us.  That while there is a choice, there is no questioning that his choice will always be for us.

There might be the ability to choose, but the choice will always be made the same way.

I hope to love in that way.  Not just in a relationship, but in life...period.

The final lyrics that really follow me are the words of the chorus,

I don't love you, but I always will

I know it's an enigma, confusing thought...but I love it.  Maybe it's the I don't love you (right now,) but I'm always going to choose you.  I don't know.  That's another reason I love this song.  It's not a clean get away.  It's messy and thick.  Just like life.

And life is worth living.

Enjoy!

So journey down to Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars on iTunes and check out Poison & Wine

-Jesse

07 - When All I Knew Was Steeped in Blackened Holes

The Concept:  Feature a song a day for every day of the most magnificent season of Autumn.  The songs are ones that capture the thoughts/ideas/images/feelings of the season for me. 

It's my "Autumnal Playlist" if you will.

Every so often I come across a song that just completely lifts my soul.  Today's song is the most recent.  It has a quite humble beginning, but works into a soaring ballad of triumph.  At least that is where it takes me.

This song makes me want to fly.

Song 07/Day 07

Today's Song:  "Below My Feet," from Mumford & Sons sophomore offering, Babel.

I don't think there is a song on the album that I don't like.  But on my first listen through of the whole thing, this song struck me.  And it has stuck.  Every time it comes up I just get this contented sigh, and feel that it's time to knuckle down and push on.

I can't say what the song is really about.  It's one of those songs that seem to have different meanings for each listener.  For me it somehow makes me think of the Prodigal Son.  And that story always makes me think of Autumn.  I cannot explain that one.

Just the thought of that son, out in the world realizing he made mistakes.  Then returning home.  The build up in the music is his heart pounding as he approaches his father's house.  The big swell on the final chorus is the father appearing and running to his son.

This story became very important to me about eight years ago.  It became personal in where I was in life.  I felt like the lost son, because frankly I was.  And it was my choices that took me there.  But I knew that God was there, waiting for me to get out of the pig pen and return to him.

The funny thing is about the time I was experiencing this, I also was watching a little show that had just started called, Lost.  Imagine that.  It wasn't until that series ended that I had a profound life revelation.  But that's a blog from a different day.

So the Prodigal Son makes me think of Autumn.  The time in my life I associate with that story, was in Autumn (as TV shows start in the Fall,) and now this song which deals with the "speaker" being lost.

But the part I love most about this song is the hopeful upswing of the chorus

Keep the earth below my feet
For all my sweat, my blood runs weak
Let me learn from where I have been
Well keep my eyes to serve, my hands to learn
Keep my eyes to serve, my hands to learn

Keeping the earth below his feet could take on a few meanings.  For me the two that stand out the most is that he wants to stay grounded in reality, or he wants to keep living.  Or a combination of both.  He wants to learn from where he's been, learn from mistakes/choices.  And offers his eyes to serve and hand to learn.  Eyes serve by keeping watch.  Looking out for something.  Hand learn, by doing.

That's where I take it anyway.  Rather, where it takes me.

On a completely different level, I could see this song used as a music video for a deep/thoughtful Superman story.  Perhaps "Man of Steel" will deliver that story next year.  That moment in the song that swells into the chorus seems so fitting for Clark taking off or embracing what he can do.

So take a swing by Mumford & Sons on iTunes to check out Below My Feet (and the rest of the album!)

-Jesse

06 - Just a Step Amongst the Stairs

So here's the idea.  Feature a song a day for every day of the most magnificent season of Autumn.  The songs are ones that capture the thoughts/ideas/images/feelings of the season for me.  It's my "Autumnal Playlist" if you will.

Today's song is a bit of a mood changer.  Especially considering the subject matter it brings to mind when I hear it.


 Song 06/Day 06

Today's Song:  "Overcome," off the album V, by the amazing band LĪVE.


Live had become one of my favorite bands a few years before V hit the market.  A lot of their music has that Autumnal feel to it.  Like most music I "discover," I come across it from movies/trailers/or tv.  I think this may be one of the earliest accounts of it.  I heard the song "Lightning Crashes," used on a trailer for the Sandra Bullock flick, "Hope Floats," in the spring of '98 (end of Freshman year at Evangel University.)  I don't think I ever saw the movie.  But it turned me onto this band that I soon found out was from my same county in PA.

Soon after I had raided the local used CD stores and picked up, "Throwing Copper," and "Secret Samadhi."  The latter would bring me to one of my all time favorite songs, which will appear on this list on October 8th.  The album V debuted on September 18th, 2001.

A week after 9/11.

This song struck me when I first heard it, and I connected it to the events.  I guess a lot of people felt that way.  Months later a music video of this song would air featuring footage of the aftermath.  It was powerful.  It cemented that event with this song in my mind.  I remember listening to it and it became like a prayer of sorts.  There were tears at times.

Music can be powerful and potent.  I think every person reacts differently.  For me this song will forever be mournful and in honor of those who died in the attacks, and those who worked tirelessly to save as many as they could.  It makes me long for the unity our nation had in the weeks following those horrible events.

I am particularly struck by the lyrics:

Beautiful drowning
This beautiful drowning
This holy water
This holy water, is in my lungs

I'll let the song speak for itself.

Day 06/Song 06 - Overcome by Live.

-jesse

05 - The Sunlight Really Shows Your Age

So here's the idea.  Feature a song a day for every day of the most magnificent season of Autumn.  The songs are ones that capture the thoughts/ideas/images/feelings of the season for me.  It's my "Autumnal Playlist" if you will.

As the opening of the BBC show "The Mighty Boosh," says:

Come with us now on a journey through time and space...

Come back with me to a time before time.  At least for me.  Because I wasn't born in 1971 when this song debuted.

Song 05/Day 05

Today's Song: the classic Rod Stewart track, "Maggie May," off the album Every Picture Tells a Story.

This song came onto my radar in early 2007 when I saw the movie, Lords of Dogtown.  In the last few scenes we see Heath Ledger's character, Skip Engblom, working on a surfboard as the guitar intro (called Henry) plays over a radio...leading into the full song that Skip starts to sing along with.  There was something in that scene and the way the song worked into it that just capped off that movie for me.  I don't remember details from it, as I've only watched it that one time, but that song/scene stuck with me.  I downloaded the song shortly after the movie was over.

I don't know exactly why this song makes me think of Autumn.  Perhaps because in the movie, set in California, it was sunny and warm (which means Summer to me) and the sound of that intro which reminds me of the Christmas Carol "Good King Wenceslas," so the song must merges from Summer to Winter and voilà, Autumn!

I know that isn't the best reason.  Then again the lyrics do say:

It's late September and I really should be back at school

So there.

There is something to it, a kind of driven aimlessness, that makes me think of wandering through the woods and camping.  You know, with something on a little grill and tents, and your friend who is "that guy" with his guitar trying to mimic the opening notes.  Food, folks, and fun!

Now, the song is not about any of the above.  There is little interpretation needed for what the song is really about.  So we'll just leave that alone.  There is a wandering spirit to this song, with the lyrics, instrumentation, and just overall feel.  I'm pretty sure I'm a wandering soul myself.  And that wanderlust takes hold more than ever in Autumn.  (If you haven't caught an unintentional theme in the previous posts...ie...traveling, journey, searches...well, it's there.)

So despite the heavier actual content of the lyrics of the song, it has a happy rambling drawl to it.  And that's what I feel now in this first week of the most blessed of seasons.  Not the heavy part, but the happy rambling drawl...although I don't know how one feels a 'drawl.'  Perhaps I should step away from the keyboard.  Slowly.

Take it or leave it, that's Day 05/Song 05 - Maggie May by Rod Stewart

enjoy!
-Jesse

04 - My Family Lives in a Different State

So here's the idea.  Feature a song a day for every day of the most magnificent season of Autumn.  The songs are ones that capture the thoughts/ideas/images/feelings of the season for me.  It's my "Autumnal Playlist" if you will.

 Today's choice was a hard one.  There are so many great songs out there.  I wanted to feature a Mumford & Sons song in celebration of their new album today, but decided to wait.  I was really feeling a few songs that would work.  I almost picked a few that were a bit more upbeat and celebratory in feeling.  In the end it was one that has a mournful hopefulness to it.

With out further ado (except to ado that there will be no more ado...)

Song 04/Day 04

Today's Song: "Rivers and Roads"
by The Head and the Heart from the album The Head and the Heart


My "discovery" of this album came sometime last year between October and Christmas I believe.  So, by default, most of the songs on it will make me think of Autumn.  For me, music tends to stick to the season/atmosphere I first heard it in.  Not always, but a lot of times.  If the atmosphere/season is in a bland nondescript mode...then the song/thing can find it's own legs.

For example:  When ever I eat pickles, I think "October."  I didn't know why for the longest time.  Then, last year my mom told me we would go to the Dillsburg, PA "Farmers Fair" in October, and I would have a pickle.  So...maybe my first memories of eating pickles was at this fair...in October. Hence my thinking that pickles taste like October.

Moving on.  Rivers and Roads was one of the tracks on this album that really struck me the first time listening to it.  It has such a subdued mellow opening, then abruptly starts to build.  The rest of the album is equally fantastic, and I'm sure there will be another song or two from The Head and the Heart in the rest of the 90 Songs.

I came across this band when I was in Target.  The cover art just kind of jumped out at me and said, "Hey!  This chick is hanging out with a dude in a sheep mask.  So...you'll want to take a listen to the tunes!"

So I did.  As I rarely purchase a physical CD anymore, I checked out iTunes when I got home.  Sure enough there was the interesting cover with the girl and sheep guy.  With in the first few samples I was sold.  Got the whole album.  A lot of the tunes are great for belting out when alone in my vehicle.  There is a folky rock vibe to their style.  I can say I haven't really heard anything else quite like them.  The instruments and vocals blend really well.  And the female singer has such a singular voice in today's music.

This particular song, while already an album favorite of mine, became more so this Spring.  When I finally got to watch the final season of Chuck (this show introduced me to a lot of good music) and got down to the final moment of the series, what song starts playing...yes...Rivers and Roads.  It was such an excellent choice for the scene it played over and behind...nigh perfection.

I won't spoil the show's ending, but if you ever get to watch it (the whole series, otherwise the impact of the finale won't be...impactful,)  I think you would agree.  It was quite pleasing to recognize a song I liked so much on a show I liked so much.  Especially since it was the last thing you heard on the show (besides closing credits.)

The reason it makes me think of Autumn, aside from having first heard it in Autumn, is the imagery the music and vocals make.  Not the lyrics exactly, but the soulful howls and starts and stops.  It's abrupt and choppy, but in the best possible ways. 

I'll spare you the scene it paints for me.  Take a listen and see what it paints for you.  Get caught up in it and get lost on some back roads as the leaves start to change.

Day 04/Song 04 - Rivers and Roads by The Head and the Heart

enjoy!

-Jesse

03 - But I Know It'll Have to Drown Me

So far I have not been disappointed one bit in what 2012 is bringing to the table for Autumn.  Saturday was nice.  Sunday was gorgeous.  Temps didn't break out of the 60's.  I'm loving it, and really enjoying doing this series on the blog.

So here's the idea.  Feature a song a day for every day of the most magnificent season of Autumn.  The songs are ones that capture the thoughts/ideas/images/feelings of the season for me.  It's my "Autumnal Playlist" if you will.

It's starting to go all Inception on me.  I listen to the song I choose on repeat as I write the post.  And I'm writing this the night before.  Or I have for this one and previous 2.  Then I get to live out the next day...thinking about this song...in Autumn.  It's kinda dream within a dream.  But that's a topic for another day.

Song 03/Day 03

Today's Song: "Heartlines"
by Florence + the Machine from the album Ceremonials

While I have no love for Facebook or The Social Network, I do have it to thank for introducing me to Florence + the Machine.  I don't know if it was an ad on the site, or if a friend had added them as a favorite.  But I saw the image of their first album Lungs in late May 2011.  So I checked it out, bought it.  Much to my surprise...their follow up album came out later that year.  I was already a fan so I just bought it outright.

Both albums continue to grow on me.  I'm sure there will be a few more of their tracks in this series.

"Heartlines," makes a departure from the first two songs I chose in several ways.  First off it features a female as lead vocals in the person of Florence Welch the eponymous Florence of the band name.  (Surprised myself, while not "knowing" the definition of eponymous, I used it correctly.  ish)  Second it begins with a great drum and harp intro.  (Or is it chimes?)  It does have a similarity in that it builds upon itself as it progresses.  Layer upon layer are brought in as Welch croons through the climax of the song.

This song is a bit more epic in feel from the previous entries on the list.  While "Weather to Fly," was reflective and hopeful.  "Fake Empire" carried a youthful disinterest in reality.  "Heartlines," feels more driven and desperate.

Your heart is the only place I call home
I cannot be returned

I like this song cause she seems to have made a choice to love this person, and knows they will choose her in time.  Now the song plays heavy on palmistry imagery.  I'm not a believer in that concept.  That is not what I like about this song.  It bears the concept of following your heart.  That following your heart is usually difficult and challenging.  Ultimately it is about love.

Throughout the song, the lyrics are encouraging someone to

Just keep following
The heartlines on your hand
Keep it up
I know you can 

It takes a different approach to most movies, and shows.  It suggests love is a journey.  That relationships don't simply exist because two people "hook up," at a party.  There is a beautiful messiness to them.

there’s fantasy, there’s fallacy, there’s tumbling stone
Echoes of a city that’s long overgrown

Dreams/hopes.  Lies/Untruths.  Broken foundations.  Perhaps they are just her wishes for who this person would be.  Maybe they are about what happened between them.  The song could really take on a lot of varied meanings.

When I listen to it, I see a woman encouraging the man she loves to keep looking for her.  As if she is trapped somewhere, or they are separated by huge distances, and she wants him to keep going.  To not give up looking for her, as she is not giving up on finding him.  Or maybe they haven't met yet.  And she's saying, "I'm out here, keep looking...I am looking for you."

To me that's what this is really about.  To keep going.  Keep searching.  Cause eventually you'll find what you're looking for.  Keep hoping and don't give up.

It kind of reminds me of the movie, "August Rush."

SPOILERS (click and drag over the blank section below.)

It connects in how the kid follows his heart, music...because he thinks it will take him to his parents.  The mom follows her heart, her son...that she thought died.  The father follows his, which is the mom...only he doesn't know she's a mom.  Following their hearts brings them all eventually to the same place and to each other.

This song feels Fallish to me partially because when I first heard it last Fall, and there is something in the feel and instruments that really take me to the season.  My mind plays images of a movie using this song, or a music video for it.  Lots of interesting stuff that would take this post on and on.

So, follow this link to Heartlines and enjoy Song 03/Day 03, by Florence + the Machine.

-Jesse

02 - And Why Wouldn't You Try

Previously on Lost...

Okay, no.  Here's the idea.  Feature a song a day for every day of the most magnificent season of Autumn.  The songs are ones that capture the thoughts/ideas/images/feelings of the season for me.  It's my "Autumnal Playlist" if you will.

Song 02/Day 02

Today's Song: "Weather to Fly"
by Elbow from the album Seldom Seen Kid

Most of the "new" music I come across is from TV Shows, Movies, Movie Trailers, or Commercials/Ads.  I cannot stand listening to the radio when I want to listen to music.  Because on my 15 minute drive to work I will hear 25 ads/jingles, 5 station promos, 2 DJs and an assistant, and possibly 2 full songs.

I got turned on to the band Elbow, back in 2008, because of the trailer for the movie Burn After Reading.  You know, that Cohen Brothers movie with George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand, that was just them messing with us...and not letting us know they were messing with us.

Anyway, the trailer for that movie used a bit of music that I absolutely loved.  It was this great guitar riff that played out over all the huge name actors in the film.  I looked it up, and the song was Grounds for Divorce, by Elbow.  I first thought it was some odd American band from out West.  Soon discovered they were actually British.  I found their stuff on iTunes...and bought all 4 albums (at the time) instantly.

I fell in love with their sound/style/lyrics.  The fourth album, Seldom Seen Kid carried Grounds which I played repeatedly until I thought I should give a listen to the rest of the album.  Markedly different in tone, Weather to Fly grabbed my attention almost immediately.

Like Fake Empire it starts out with piano and slowly builds as the song progresses.  In my mind it has a similar imagery effect as well.  I have a feeling a lot of these songs are going to carry images of road trips, journeys, or people going somewhere...or nowhere.

This time it's not a trip into the city.  It is a guy leaving a farm.  Walking down a gravel road past golden fields ready for harvest.  As he walks he slowly gains companions as they make their way into the wilderness and the mountains in the distance.

The song has nothing to really do with that...but it's the images I get from the sounds.  The song really deals with a couple.  At least I think it does.  It could probably go for a few different interpretations.

The couple is fairly recently gotten together.  Early days, as it were.  They are learning about each other individually and as a couple.  It's the montage scene in movies.  Only, somehow deeper in context and feeling.  It actually makes me think of a graphic novel I read recently called, 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, by Jamie S. Rich (writer) and Joelle Jones (artist.)

(I linked to Amazon, but if you can find a local Comic Shop who can get it for you...go that route and support your local Comic Store!)

My two favorite lines in the song (of which there are many) are:

So in looking to stray from the line
we decided instead
we should pull out the thread that was
stitching us into this tapestry vile,

It harkens me back to the old mythologies where there were the three hags weaving out the fate of the world on their loom.  This couple decided they didn't like where things were going so they cut their thread and broke loose from the plan.  It's all romantic and robust.

One of the other lines I like is:

We have the driver and time on our hands
One little room and the biggest of plans

Again, it plays to the idea of not being subject to the devices others have laid out for you.  At least that's my take on it.  The one little room, and the biggest of plans.  Man, I know that feeling.  Dreaming big despite the seemingly small surroundings.

The song just takes me out into the beginning of an adventure.  Be it setting off on a journey across the land or the journey of a new relationship.  It's got a mellow but emphatic "take life by the horns," feel to it.

So there it is.  Song 02/Day 02 - Weather to Fly by Elbow.

PS - this song taught me how to pronounce the word "row."  Not as in row your boat...but an argument...row.  Like "ow" but with an r.  Okay...I'm gone before I get all piratey.

-Jesse

01 - Stay Out Super Late Tonight, Picking Apples

So here it is.  Song 01/Day 01 of "90 Songs of Autumn."

Autumn/Fall is my favorite season of the year.  Especially here in Pennsylvania.  Of the places I've lived, nowhere else captures the nostalgia, magic, and mood that I experienced here in the Susquehanna Valley growing up.

So, this year I'm going to post a song for every day of the season.  While I can't anticipate where each day will go...I can try to relate my mood/response to the season through songs that I feel were made for the Fall.  At least to my ears.

Like movies and books, some songs just feel "in season," as the leaves start to turn and fall, the temps start dropping, and the sky darkens faster.  For me movies like the Harry Potter series work better on my imagination in this time of year.  Same with the books of the "Chronicles of Prydain."  Music works the same way for me.  It takes me to a feeling, a moment, or impression of a time.

Today, September 22nd, is the first day of Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere in 2012.  The weather is supposed to get into the high 70's, and bring thunderstorms late afternoon.  My kind of day, though a little on the warm side for my taste.

Today's song is:  "Fake Empire"
by The National from their album "Boxer"

The song itself starts of with a piano playing a four-over-three pattern with vocals by Matt Berninger.  The song gradually builds upon itself.  Increasing instrumentation, vocals, and overall feeling.

As I listen to just the feel and emotion of the song I get this image of someone driving from a remote country home into a sky-scraping metropolis.  The drive starts out on a winding country road where trees canopy the road with brightly colored red and yellow leaves.  Some dancing down to the ground against the dark almost black bark of the trees.

The road begins to level out the farther they drive and the trees thin out as they approach the steel-grey city.  Clouds roll in and rain starts to come down.  First just drops here and there, until the vehicle is awash in water and the wiper-blades are at a strong intermittent setting.  Wheels bounce and turn through water clogged streets as the driver navigates to their final destination.

The lyrics however paint a completely different image.  If you want to know what the band was really saying, feel free to look them up and find out.  "Fake Empire," lyrically paints a picture of a young couple or group of friends who don't want to deal with the reality of what's going on in their world.

Turn the light out say goodnight, no thinking for a little while
Let's not try to figure out everything at once 

There is a happy, intentional naïveté going on here.  They know there are things to deal with, but they just want to enjoy the night and each others company.  The last line of each verse ends with;

We're half awake in a fake empire

Half awake in a fake empire.   I love that.  It just has a very poetic feel.  I could ponder that idea for hours just staring out at some trees or a field or something.  But I digress.  This song brings back the nostalgic memories of hanging out with friends as the school year was still fresh and, for me, and excitement about the smell of damp bark, crisp mornings, and cold moons.

So, check out  "Fake Empire" and enjoy Fall!

** I was introduced to this song/band by the wonderful TV Show known as Chuck.  This song was used in Season 2, Episode 3 - "Chuck vs. The Break Up"  I didn't "discover" the song until I re-watched the series the Summer of 2012.

***Locations used on each post are where I was when I started listening to the song.


-Jesse

COMING SOON!

Coming Soon:

On September 22nd, 2012 - the Esoteric returns!

For the first 90 days straight there will be a post every single day.

So buckle up, and prepare for a ride through "90 Songs for Autumn!"