31_days | December 2014 Themes

Last ones for this year! And then

feral_phoenix will kick off 2015~ (but the rest of 2015 isn't 'booked' yet, so expect a prompt-making sign-up post soon)

1- I wanted to make something strong
2- owing no explanations
3- But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask
4- thoughts imprinted on the body
5- the mechanized hum of another world
6- You didn't have to smile at me
7- the king of all happiness
8- a dapper villain in a Sunday serial
9- He's just a kid and he never knew
10- the unbearable price of earthly delights
11- and all I wanted was a sliver to call mine
12- they don't love you like I love you
13- color spills from the bed
14- a bridge of paper and ink
15- boats light up the river in a string of flame
16- Will we ever more kiss on the boardwalk's fading rail?
17- In your tragic wedding gown with your long hair hanging down
18- Is it too late to tell you that I don't mind?
19- Oh life, with your shoulders in the mirror
20- that stained-glass expression on your face
21- possibilities at sea
22- Were they telling me to run
23- the morning sun crosses the threshold
24- If I am alive this time next year
25- I'll just hope for rain
26- I flooded my sleeves as I drove home again
27- because hands speak more intimately than words
28- Hard times befallen the sole survivors
29- Do you think about any of them?
30- I'm amazed that I survived
31- This is going to be our evil inheritance.

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annotations (and a bunch links if you feel like listening because there was a lot of musical inspiration this time)

1 - "Make Something Good" - Laura Veirs
2 - paraphrase of a line from Boardwalk Empire
3 - "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" - The Smiths
5 - "Don't Take Me Alive" - Steely Dan
6 - "Honeybee" - Steam Powered Giraffe
8 - quote from Boardwalk Empire
9 - "Sleeper in the Valley" - Laura Veirs
10 - movie review in The New Yorker
11 - "Make You Better" - The Decemberists
12 - "Maps" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
13 - "Sadako Folding Cranes" - Laura Veirs
15 - "Life is Good Blues" - Laura Veirs
16 - "Wide-Eyed, Legless" - Laura Veirs
17 - "Before the Eyes of Storytelling Girls" - Anais Mitchell
18 - "I Don't Mind" - The Decemberists
19 - "The Henney Buggy Band" - Sufjan Stevens
20 - from blank maps by kuruk
22 - "Things That Scare Me" - Neko Case
23 - from an Issa haiku, as translated by the Haiku Guy
24 - "All the Trees of the Field Will Clap Their Hands" - Sufjan Stevens
25 - "I Can See Your Tracks" - Laura Veirs
26 - "Fox Confessor Brings The Flood" - Neko Case
27 - "Are You Listening?" by André Aciman in The New Yorker
28 - "Hey Nineteen" - Steely Dan
29 - quote from Boardwalk Empire
30 - "Airbag" - Radiohead
31 - Pado Monelli