another lil song bb sweets ~ Happy Halloween

Dearly Beloved, I wrote you a song. No One's To Blame, do you see? It's going to be okay. xo

A conversation with my friend, Savannah Sanguino; 0:08 how we met and know each other; 1:30 her perspective on personal acceptance, finding themselves, and community; 5:45 fears around coming out and her experience navigating their own masculine energy and identity; 8:27 what Savannah calls her "discovery" phase, Hayley Kiyoko and "Lemonade Mouth." 10:58 "Honey" by Kehlani, self love, she/they pronouns, and how dating a girl became Savannah's version of coming out as gay. 13:34 Jhené Aiko, navigating change, and how Savannah relates to and is inspired by her; 15:40 the higher self and living for oneself, god stuff and the divine; 20:12 Savannah's deeply beautiful eyes and her prayer for me; 21:21 their own internal sense of certainty, blessings, and singing.

"Evil Does Not Exist," the piece of music by Eiko Ishibashi and the film by Ryusuke Hamaguchi; a related note on "I Saw the TV Glow," a film by Jane Schoenbrun; a carousel as a symbol for the concept of home or the true nature of our hearts.

Today my guest is Chad Murphy, an artist, musician, and associate professor at Oregon State University.  Chad and I talk about how we know each other (0:47), how Chad presents in the world in regard to gender (2:21), and the music that connected with him as a young person navigating the culture of the Mormon church. Chad talks about the Smashing Pumpkins (5:38), how he sees his dad, Dale (13:57), and Electoral College, the band he formed while attending college at Brigham Young University (16:19). Chad shares his thoughts on Billy Corgan (21:58), Cocteau Twins (24:35), and Sonic Youth (25:58), and we end the episode discussing "softness" and how it fits into each of our own sense of self (26:59).

Hi, I'm your host, Rose Bridge. We're gunna talk about music now. Xo

The first five seconds of the music video for the song "Movies" by Weyes Blood; a poem by Fiona Davidson entitled "Fire in Water;" a box as a metaphor for one's identity as, for example, a mother.

Moana (2016) and how being assigned female at birth left me feeling like Te Kā from the film; how the song "Know Who You Are" from the film describes my experience as a trans man.

"Us," Jordan Peele's film from 2019, a dark hallway of closed doors as a symbol for a person's human consciousness, and something else I learned from Anthony de Mello.

Arcane, the animated TV series (2021), life as a blizzard, and a quote from Anthony de Mello.