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Songs for the Nocturne Issue (a selection)
Songs for the Nocturne Issue (a selection)

A small mix of songs that are inspiring the Half Mystic team in our creation of Issue III.

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Music, SelectionsTopaz WintersMay 20, 2017andrew lloyd webber, florence + the machine, hozier, john mayer, lorde, marika hackman, of monsters and men, oh wonder, pinegrove, porches, rurutia, the smiths
III: Nocturne | Searchlight Song: "Variations on a Theme"
III: Nocturne | Searchlight Song: "Variations on a Theme"

I can explain it so well. The night soft-nosed and sprawling. This air is heavy on my teeth, but I can trust it for now.

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Columns, Music, Personal EssayChristina ImMay 15, 2017searchlight song
“There is a tone to nighttime in all its quiet, misery, and insomnia that makes it louder than the day.” (Audrey Lee on Nocturne)
“There is a tone to nighttime in all its quiet, misery, and insomnia that makes it louder than the day.” (Audrey Lee on Nocturne)

I find nocturne in the buffering of the wind against my car windows as I speed down the freeway at nine o’clock in the evening.

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Music, Personal EssayGuestMay 8, 2017audrey lee
Miles and Miles and Miles to Go
Miles and Miles and Miles to Go

I took comfort in making myself even smaller, tucking in my edges until I felt whole. Myself, a perfect and solitary thing.

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Film, Music, Personal EssayLydia EileenApril 26, 2017Topaz Winters, The Plain White T's, The Cure, Saint Motel, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ishan Modi, Duran Duran, Dexys Midnight Runners
Preorders are Open for Issue III: Nocturne
Preorders are Open for Issue III: Nocturne

Something sharp & true shifts within us when we embrace darkness instead of shying away from it.

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Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersApril 10, 2017Leonard Cohen, Maryse Meijer, Kristen Berger, Sophia Terazawa, Erica Bramham, Emily Blue, Lisa Heller
A Million Things: The Uncertain Eternities in Harold and Maude
A Million Things: The Uncertain Eternities in Harold and Maude

I am living with them. Because of them. Because of them.

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Art, Film, MusicLydia EileenMarch 25, 2017cat stevens, tchaikovsky
¿Libretto Crescendo?
¿Libretto Crescendo?

A violin plays, the notes lifting up and back down again, reverting in the end back again into air. I breathe. Somehow, it makes sense.

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Music, Personal Essay, TheatreLydia EileenFebruary 20, 2017tchaikovsky
"It's enough—and hard enough—for it to be honest." (an interview with Linying)
"It's enough—and hard enough—for it to be honest." (an interview with Linying)

my present self is grateful to my past self five, ten years ago for making an effort to remember things that happened.

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Interviews, MusicChristina ImJanuary 19, 2017linying
The End of the World Sounds Like a Sleepy Violin (a selection)
The End of the World Sounds Like a Sleepy Violin (a selection)

Nocturnes are magical concepts because they blur this realm of fear and comfort, waking and sleep, into a state of dreaming.

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Music, SelectionsMargaryta GolovchenkoDecember 27, 2016craig armstrong, david bowie, depeche mode, james newton howard, jeremy sumpter, ludovico einaudi, selenite
Introducing Issue III: Nocturne (& Call for Staff Members)
Introducing Issue III: Nocturne (& Call for Staff Members)

There is a beautiful thing waiting for us in the distance, & it sounds so much like song.

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Announcements, MusicTopaz WintersDecember 22, 2016
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