califone crOwl roomsound soundtrack to crOwl's trip to seattle. has cd rom enhancements... enjoy as we did. 060312 ... raze in the marble of your animal eyes take my comfort anywhere dry white scratches on a sunburnt shin don't give it a name drowned & drinking the light god's eyes are closed just like yours straw bones nails of november clay the way you kiss your uncle on the mouth slow learner keep forgetful don't give it a name drowned & drinking the light god's eyes are closed just like yours black sea resort off season days broke heels & bare legs pink waterline gave up on your twisted code god's eyes are crossed maybe just like yours ((( tim rutili ))) 080112 ... raze "all my friends are funeral singers" has been sitting in my bedroom in one place or another for more than three years now, and somehow i only got around to listening to it for the first time this morning. i think it may have edged out the others as my favourite califone album. there's a cracked beauty there that just elevates it a little. and no one writes lyrics quite like tim rutili. they're like impressions leftover from mostly forgotten dreams. "whale bone frame come new eyes froze planets hung from a whalebone frame lemon stung kiss gone voice gone we bend like trees toward the last light" 121231 ... raze http://califonestitches.tumblr.com/ a sort of music video that "creates itself" by drawing images from various tumblr blogs. pretty neat. 130910 ... unhinged sometimes i still miss you the way you smiled at me almost nine months ago asshole 130911 ... raze the new album "stitches" is really good. a little more spare than the last few, maybe, and the melodies seem to have grown sweeter. but that's not a bad thing. tim rutili's lyrics are still doing that magic thing they do. "chinese opera show me your stitches deep sea diver shoes on a wire the blood left my hands sucking the whiskey out of your hair the wilderness between the bite marks and scratches didn't we fit together like somebody else's sweater? cut the connection just to stitch it together again again again" 131028 what's it to you? who go blather from