Fabulist!

We stay up too late at night trading music like tiny jewels. "Have you seen this one?" I say. "How about this-- wait until two minutes in, isn't that astounding? Where does that come from?" Elaine asks.

We discuss how the song Hallelujah now hangs from the window of every film, in the rafters of every television show. "Did you know it's because of John Cale?" "I had no idea!"

We keep excavating this strange and interesting beauty, culled from various corners of internet repositories. We do it at such a rapid-fire pace, we forget to share it with the world, as we've already gone to the next miraculous thing of wonder. So here's my offering of a recap, a list of the gems we find along the way.

Anais Mitchell's Fonder Heart Video (I saw her last week and was floored by her voice, and lyrics)

Anais Mitchell's The Brightness (Entire album stream)

Michael Chorney (Anais' album producer: his songs AND production are sparse, and warm, and open)

Kurt Nilsen sings Hallelujah (2:00 minutes in.. that voice)

John Cale doing a lovely strings version of Hallelujah, circa 1992

Jeff Buckley does Hallelujah live

How John Cale & Jeff Buckley revived Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah