||| PLANS ARE FOR BREAKING |||

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

>>----> John Lennon

it's friday. throw your plans out the window. just be. 

FOR THE LOVERS + THE LIES >>> SUGARHIGH + LOVESTONED

 from my thursday post for SUGARHIGH + LOVESTONED. check it out each and every week for music stuff you won't always find on my blog. See the ORIGINAL post with some fantastic photos >>>HERE<<< 

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

― Rumi

Valentine's Day isn't just for couples. It's a day to honor all kinds of love. The love we have for a man, a woman, our family, dearest of friends, the love we lost, the mistakes we made, and the better people we are for it all.

I recently had the opportunity to sift through a huge box of photos from my late grandmother's garage. I was drawn to the smell of the musty paper and the neatness of each small square tucked into corner tabs, glued to acid-free, black paper. The grainy photos of the past. Past love. I am so drawn to love of the past. A love I will never know. It's a love where chivalry was cherished, people connected with eye contact instead of text messages. It's a love that was scribbled onto paper instead of typed on these informal screens. I am drawn to it's richness, the fragility, and vulnerability. While I love so dearly the progress of today, sometimes I ache for the simpleness. So today I honor the love of the past, the present, and the future. I will take small solace in knowing that somewhere there is a child covering up a shoe box with tin foil. Then carefully cutting a slit on the top the size of a paper valentine with an attached candy heart. 

I decided to do two playlists for today, because I recognize that we are not all in relationships, and perhaps are not seeking or longing to be in one. And some of us might be hurting today. Some might feel a tingling to rebel. Maybe take a moment to listen, reflect, forgive yourself or others, and tell someone you love them. The power of those three words can never be underestimated.

♡ happy valentine's day from the cedra sessions ♡

SIDE A // FOR THE LOVERS

A Sunday Kind of Love -- Etta James

Can't Help Falling In Love -- Elvis Presley

Love is Won -- Lia Ices

Sea of Love -- Cat Power

For You -- Sharon Van Etten

Little Bit -- Lykke Li

Night & Day -- Moondoggies

If You Let Me Be Your Anchor -- Dawes

Harvest Moon -- Neil Young

At the Hop -- Devendra Banhart

Poison Cup -- M. Ward

How Can I Tell You -- Cat Stevens

SIDE A: for the lovers from thecedrasessions on 8tracks Radio.

SIDE B // FOR THE REBELS

Say That -- Toro y Moi

Something Good -- Alt J

It Ain't Me, Babe -- Bob Dylan

Save Yourself -- Sharon Van Etten

You Ain't Alone -- Alabama Shakes

Big Love -- Matthew E White

Heartbreaker -- Led Zepplin

Cheated Hearts -- Yeah Yeah Yeahs

No Love -- Little Dragon

Alone Together -- Beachwood Sparks

You Broke My Heart -- Lavender Diamond

SIDE B: for the rebels from thecedrasessions on 8tracks Radio.

INSTA-SHOT OF THE NIGHT: FATHER JOHN MISTY

||| N E P T U N E || T H E A T R E ||| january 29, 2013 |||

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the last song of the main set featured a gyrating, hip shaking, flailing j tillman (aka father john misty), commanding the stage while wrapping the microphone cord and stand around his neck and body. the stage lights flashed bright white in multiple angles and the band's sound became more vivid, cacophonous, and chaotic. i stood there with my mouth hanging open in a huge grin. what the fuck was i witnessing? it was bizarrely awesome!!! bravo FJM! BRAVO! fan for life. 

this pic was snapped by @livlemann and is the first of a new series for the cedra sessions. i'm snagging my favorite shot from shows that you all take and featuring it here. this one is a gem! nice work. if i'm not at the show with you, just add #cedrasessions to keep me in the loop!

>>>---BAND TO WATCH: ROSE WINDOWS--->

photo by: eleanor petry

rose windows, 
you are crazy talented. i'm seduced by rabia qazi's deep + smooth vocals. each instrument and note woven together with perfection. this local band gives me that feeling that i have stumbled upon something really big. damn you, seattle...you have done it again! 

tomorrow night they will be opening up for 'father john misty' at the neptune theatre and i will be elbowing my way to the front row. perhaps i'll have to stash a flask so i don't miss a beat.
a review to follow. and there will be instagram shots i'm sure.

|||if you aren't following on instagram yet, the username is @cedrasessions of course||| 

take a listen at their single "war time lovers"

SUGARHIGH + LOVESTONED every THURSDAY: CHELSEA WOLFE

the babes over at sugarhigh + lovestoned have asked me to be a weekly guest blogger for them. i am flattered beyond words of course and can't wait to see where this collaboration takes me. first up: CHELSEA WOLFE. my current musical obsession. to see the full post (including a listen at one of her albums) and future posts each thursday just click >>>HERE<<<



photo credit: four///spin.com; one/three/four/five/six///Alexander Iezzi & Jordan Robin for dosier journal

FATHER JOHN MISTY. KARAOKE. R KELLY.

there isn't really anything that i love more than bursting into my own version of an R&B song from the nineties. i've been known to spontaneously ignite into a heartfelt jam of "candy rain" by soul for real or "poison" by bel biv devoe at the most random times, with absolutely zero prompting. some find it a charming quality of mine. others, clearly have no taste. keith sweat "twisted"? i'm all over that. so when i saw this video for the first time i was all smiles. especially because it just so happens to contain one of my very favorite artists. so take a moment to watch this little tasty morsel. you won't be sorry. 

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sea wolf + neil krug

god neil krug...you are a freakin' genius. i could get lost for days in your photographs + visions. luckily it is the perfect day for just that. a thick fog has been resting on the city for days now, obscuring the city lights and skyline. only a small break yesterday for an afternoon of sunshine and then the fog returned. at night it creeps down to the city streets, crawling through the alley ways. it's as romantic as it is chilling. perfect opportunity to get back to this blog world. 

you can now catch a weekly blog post every thursday from yours truly for sugarhigh + lovestoned. i've always admired these sexy ladies for their boldness and creative vision. so flattered that they have asked me to be a guest blogger for them. you can catch it >> H E R E <<

and to get lost in the land neil krug built go >>H E R E<<