Dear Alex, I always get to a point, where I realize huh, I can’t just let time go by me I should seize it, or at least start living in it. (Sorry you know this isn’t going to be a happy go lucky one) But then when I’m in throes (Sp?) I realize damn I…… Continue reading Passing time
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A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: Twisting Perspectives in the Prequel to The Hunger Games Trilogy
Dear Lucia, Recently I was in a bit of a reading rut and couldn’t bring myself to enter a whole new world, but at the same time I didn’t want to read a story I had previously read. This lead me to read Susan Collins’ “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” This book is a…… Continue reading A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: Twisting Perspectives in the Prequel to The Hunger Games Trilogy
How To Start A Garden: A Review Part Two (Electric Boogaloo)
Dear Lucia, I hope you have a wonderful time reading my song by song analysis of Nanna’s Album How To Start a Garden! I am absolutely obsessed with this album and have been listening to it (almost) exclusively in the days since it came out. You will notice this is a part two because I…… Continue reading How To Start A Garden: A Review Part Two (Electric Boogaloo)
How To Start A Garden: A Slight Fanatics Review
“How To Start A Garden” is the debut album of Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdottir, most well known for her role as guitarist, lyricist, and singer in Of Monsters And Men. Of Monsters And Men started as Nannas solo project, Songbird, but when the group won Músíktilraunir (lit. trans: the music experiments), an annual Icelandic young musicians…… Continue reading How To Start A Garden: A Slight Fanatics Review
Finding Tranquility in the Ocean
Dear there’s not enough art museums in Iceland so here’s NYC, Going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is like entering one of those old candy stores where you can chose your poison by the fistfuls and only at the end understand the damage you’ve brought upon yourself. Now, this is…… Continue reading Finding Tranquility in the Ocean