Thinking Outloud is a collection of songs curated by Kate intended to be played in the background as both unobtrusive soundscapes and inspirational moments. These songs were originally selected in 2015. Nuvole bianche - Ludovico Einaudi Youth - Daughter Silver - Bonobo Bombtrack feat. DJ Manhunt - Jazz Against The Machine Hihache - Lafayette Afro Rock Band Life - Ludovico Einaudi Hunger of the Pine - alt-J Retrograde - James Blake Breezeblocks - alt-J

We have all the time in the world ... Just not right now.

1. Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
2. Fresno - Uma Musica
3. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
4. LCD Soundsystem - New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down
5. Caeteno Veloso, Gilberto Gil - Back in Bahia
6. Above & Beyond & Justine Suissa 'Naked' [Above & Beyond Club Mix]
7. Magnetic Fields - Three-Way
8. Los Hermanos - Último Romance
9. Magnetic Fields - Nun's Litany
10. Ernest Ranglin - Undecided

It was there - and back again.Things haven't really let up yet.

1. River - Ibeyi
2. Goda tungl - Samaris
3. Jelita (Feat. Liyana Fizi) - Kyoto Protocol
4. Flipside - Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
5. Summer - Raf Riley, Etta Bond, Avelino
6. Rivers in Your Mouth - Ben Howard
7. Singapore - Tom Waits
8. Pace Myself - Wen
9. To the East - Electrelane
10. Gooey (Gilligan Moss Remix) - Glass Animals
11. Ghetto Organ - Jackie Mittoo
12. Camilla - Swaai Boys
13. Bird Calls #2 - Rudresh Mahanthappa
14. Fanfare - Magic City Hippies
15. Funky So-and-So - Sugarman Three & Co.
16. Source - Fever the Ghost
17. Ghostwriter - RJd2
18. Two Brothers - Hanni El Khatib
19. Superstylin' - Groove Armada
20. Montreal - Roosevelt
21. Ominous Cloud - Broadcast
22. Ice Cream and Bonus Miles - DJ Phono, Solomun
23. Zombie - Fela Kuti
24. Corporate Butcher (Solomun Remix) - Tiefschwarz, Mama
25. Sonsick - San Fermin
26. Spicy Ice Cream - Way Yes
27. Bullet - Kill J
28. Purple Noise - Boris Brejcha
29. Hourglass - Rodrigo Amarante
30. Vhf - Uncle Skeleton
31. The Bird - Kathryn Joseph
32. Long Way Down - Hidden Charms
33. Moonwalk Away - Goldfish
34. Trouble is Real - Huckleberry
35. Really Love - Body Language
36. Just Can't Win - Lee Fields & The Expressions
37. You - Gidge

Image: From Tod

aways we go!

1. At the Bottom of Everything - Bright Eyes
2. Bad Boy Good Man - Tape Five
3. Light Bright Love Letters - Dfalt
4. Gray Eyed Bird - Slow Machete
5. Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
6. Smile Big, Child - The Silver State
7. Breadwinner - Bea
8. Have Some Fun - Speak + Spell, Tosca
9. Madison - Ricky Eat Acid
10. Grown Up Blues - Charilift
11. Avila - The Dylan Group
12. Timothy - Tennis
13. Paradise Girls - Deerhoof
14. Disco Compilation - Serafine Steer
15. Not the Only One - 16 Bit Lolitas
16. Lean On (feat. M0 & DJ Snake) - Major Lazer
17. Stay In - tomemitsu
18. Violet - The Coup
19. Bad Situations - Tanlines
20. Orange Afternoon - Chappo
21. Forgiveness - MADE IN HEIGHTS
22. E2mtro - Gift of Gab

packing and unpacking and packing and unpacking, supreme court decisions, conferences in St. Louis and tornado warning alarms, indescribable dinners at Tibetan cafes that still exist, moving Kate to PGH from BKLYN, packing and unpacking and packing and unpacking...

1. The Day the Listeners Came - DJ Frane
2. Top of the World - Legs
3. Cat Food  - Aesop Rock
4. Dance Hall Music - The Murder City Devils
5. Double Flute - Monster Rally & RUMTUM
6. Tangerine Girl - Asther Roth
7. Tongues - Joywave, KOPPS
8. Up on the Sun - Meat Puppets
9. Next Levels - King Geedorah
10. Oasis (The Legend of Nathaniel Thorne) - Golden Dawn Arkestra
11. Un Dia - Juana Molina
12. Gypsy Song - Kera & The Lesbians
13. Police Brutality (Scene) - Mr. Lif
14. Gun Fight - Mr. Lif, Metro
15. Open Eye Signal - Jon Hopkins
16. Paper Knife - Yppah
17. Quantum Leap - John Maus
18. Broke and Hungry - Hop Wilson
19. Die a Happy Man - Tuka
20. Nervous Tension - Lemon Jelly
21. See My Boat (Clas Tuuth Remix)  - Rozi Plain
22. Like and Animal - Cymbals
23. La Noche Que Murio Chicago - Banda Macho
24. Hegira Emigre - Of Montreal
25. Coat of Shellac - Ava Luna
26. Mystery - Boxed In
27. Motion Sickness - Hot Chip
28. Ginger - Mr. Twin Sister
29. The Rosetta Barrage - Shark Quest
30. Gangsta - tUnE-yArDs
31. Meadow Neck - Helvetia
32. Black Hills - Gardens & Villa
33. Flight - Hidden Orchestra

This comes from k8face - who, lovingly, listened to me complain for nigh on umpteen weeks about my job and still felt it was a good thing I was doing. Also, that I am an idealist. Which is, I agree, about the end goal, and not the process. (Even more notably, this is the month of the move...)

1. What's He Building In There - Tom Waits
2. Revenge of a Nerd - Metaform
3. Can't Kill Us - The Glitch Mob
4. Jupiter Shift - The Crystal Method
5. Dark Doo Wop - MS MR
6. Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites - Skirllex
7. Major Tom (Vollig Lesgelost) - Peter Schilling
8. Staring at the Sun - The Offspring
9. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
10. Got it - Marian Hill
11. Outta Here - Lettuce, Neal Evans, Fred Wesley
12. Life On Mars - Seu Jorge
13. Film Burn - Yppah, Anomie Belle
14. Medusa - GEMS
15. Hunger of the Pine - alt-J
16. Gretchen Ross - Michael Andrews
17. The Stranger - Lord Huron
18. Shut Up and Dance - Walk the Moon
19. Let Me In - Grouplove
20. Your Hand in Mine - Explosions in the Sky
21. Space Oddity (2009 Remastered Version) - David Bowie

image from: Nature in my blood

Into every life...

I was once trying describe the reasons that a person, in an abject state, may use to hold on to life. By which I mean those little things that become important in the dark of night, that compel in the moment of pain, that consume and focus the mind away from despair.

There are some that are obvious, to surmount pain you make an itemized list, the next entry, the one after that. You focus on the immediate struggle not the impossible goal. When I started to describe tasking one's self to survive the winter by focusing on seeing one last spring I started to cry.

1. Hard Believer - Fink
2. The Depths - Frankie Rose
3. Before the Words - My Brightest Diamond
4. Daughters - Wild Beasts
5. Way with Silence - Vogue Dots
6. The Windfall (Maddlisnky Remix) - Hidden Orchestra
7. Prayer in C - Lilly Wood and the Prick
8. Beatcity - Still Corners
9. Love is to Die - Warpaint
10. Love on Division - Alagoas
11. All of Us - Painted Palms
12. Simple Creatures - Botany
13. Ain't Me - Armand Margjeka
14. Perpetually - Daedelus
15. Magic Step - Sam Prekop
16. Cut the Reins - Tommy Guerrero
17. High Road - Cults
18. Wait for the Summer - Yessayer
19. Where is all the Money Going - Cody Chesnutt
20. Sleep in the Park - Solange
21. Coming Home - Leon Bridges
22. Bye Bye - Destroyer
23. Friends - Solomun
24. Dance of the Diaper Fairy - Per Störby Jutbring

---image: Not Ditmas Park, But Real Close

"... like a little paper boat in the wind..."

1. Mahk Jchi (Heartbeat Drum Song) - Robbie Robertson & Red Road Ensemble
2. Mermaid's Wedding Dance - Mo Coulson, Chris Conway
3. Just Like Heaven - The Watson Twins
4. Me caí - Pacifika
5. Ain't No Sunshine - The Watson Twins
6. Give It Up - Lee Dorsey
7. Helix - Justice
8. Deeper into You - Johnny Hazzard
9. Karagyraa (v) - Hunn-huur-Tu
10. The Forgotten People - Thievery Corporation
11. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Indigo Girls
12. Bones - Little Big Town
13. Ain't No Grave - Crooked Still
14. Lullaby - Dixie Chicks
15. The Golden State - John Doe
16. Two - Ryan Adams
17. Hold On - Tom Waits
18. The Bookhouse Boys (Instrumental) - Twin Peaks Soundtrack
19. Peyote Healing - Robbie Robertson, Verdell Primeaux, Johnny Mike
20. Shake and Fingerpop - Junior Walker

I lost a few months there.

So it goes.

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1. Little Man - Little Dragon
2. Q.U.E.E.N (feat. Erykah Badu) - Janelle Monáe
3. Bizarre - Perera Elsewhere
4. Cuidad Del Swing - Flowering Inferno
5. Pressure - My Brightest Diamond
6. Swagger - Beats Antique
7. Never Catch Me - (feat. Kendrick Lamar) - Flying Lotus
8. The Code - Devin Townsend, Ché Aimee Dorval
9. Notes - Christian Löffler
10. Red Eyes - The War on Drugs
11. I Like the Things About Me - Mavis Staples
12. No One is Lost - Stars
13. Shepards Pie - The Underbelly
14. Got Love - Thundamentals, Solo
15. Make a Sentence - Rachel Dadd
16. Perfect Stranger - Grace Weber
17. Midnight on the Run - BoomBox
18. Fight the Power - Public Enemy
19. No Restricted Signs - The Golden Gate Quartet
20. Pompeii - Bastille
21. Make it Up - The Blow
22. Bury Our Friends - Sleater-Kinney
23. Without a Clue - The 1978ers (yU & Slimkat
24. Saint of Impossible Causes - Joseph Arthur
25. Walk Us UPTOWN - Elvis Costello and the
26. The Old Gold Shoe - Lambchop
27. Working Too Hard - The Nerves
28. Waiting - Alice Boman
29. My God Called Me This Morning - The Fairfield Four
30. Tell it to the Volcano - Miniature Tigers
31. Make Me Lovely - Laura Mvula
32. The Sea Is Rising - Bliss n Eso
33. I Do Believe My Time Is Coming - Bo Molasses
34. Linctus - Aim
35. Talking Union - Pete Seeger
36. Own Appeal - Oddisee
37. BTSTU (Edit) - Jai Paul
38. Drown - Marika Hackman

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"But data we shall have of round worlds and spindle-shaped world, and world shaped like a wheel; worldes like titanic pruning hooks; worlds linked together by streaming filaments; solitary worlds, and worlds in hordes: tremendous worlds and tiny worlds: some of them made of material like the material of this earth; and worlds that are geometric super-constructions made of iron and steel - "- Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned.

1. Incubus - Recoil
2. Prey - Recoil
3. The Tennessee Toad - Leo Kottke
4. Ya Shoulda Killed Me Last Year - Ice T
5. Hard Time Killin' Floor - Stefan Grossman
6. Getting Older Every Day - Big Bill Broonzy
7. 1970's Dictator Chic - Jacknife Lee
8. Spuzzle Bucket - Opiuo
9. You Haven't Done Nothin' - Stevie Wonder
10. Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
11. N.Y. State of Mind (Commentary) - Nas
12. N.Y. State of Mind - Nas
13. Wake Up - Missy Elliot
14. Glory - Various Artists (OST - Selma)
15. The Drift - Blackmill
16. An Ending (Ascent) - Brian Eno
17. Haunted - Lowkey, Mai Khalil
18. Hell Hound on my Trail - Robert Johnson
19. Dark was the Night, Cold was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson

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Image From: Edited Cover Image from The Complete Works of Charles Fort