SONGS FOR A SOLITUDE – The Vampire's Wife

Susie, I’ve discovered lots of wonderful things through the Stuff Posts. Could you make us a playlist of some of your favourite songs? Something to spread some light in these strange days. Thank you so much for making such beautiful things. Love and quarantine, Becky.

Dear Becky, I have been listening to a lot of music in lockdown, and I keep finding myself going back to my old favourites. Here is a bunch of songs—most of them have been featured on the Stuff Page over the years. I hope they lift you up, the way they lift me! We can find such collective comfort in songs. They are, indeed, the most precious and sustaining of things. Love, Susie x

SONGS FOR A SOLITUDE

Black Lips – Get It On Time

Weyes Blood – Andromeda

Nina Simone – My Father

Joanna Newsom – Cosmia

Langley School Project – Good Vibrations

Staples Singers – Uncloudy Day

Nico – These Days

Nana Mouskouri – The Rose

Mama Cass – Dream a Little Dream of Me

Stevie Nicks – Edge of Seventeen

Mazzy Star – Fade Into You

Emmy Lou Harris – Sweet Old World

Uum Kalthuum – Enta Mori

Idiot Prayer – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

The Run-a-ways – Cherry Bomb

Langley School Project – Desperado

P.J Proby – Somewhere

Python Lee Jackson – In a Broken Dream

Shangril-Las – Past, Present, Future

Arvo Part – Spiegel Em Spiegel

I COME FROM THERE

I love this poem, Tropical Town, by Salomón de la Selva. The poet was born in 1893, in León, Nicaragua, writing in both Spanish and English. He was active throughout his life in numerous labour and political movements He died on February 5, 1959. I love the line ‘I come from there…’, suggesting that the poet is an immigrant, far from home, dreaming of the repose of the cemetery, ‘where the green trees are.’ So very beautiful.

YOU MIGHT AS WELL LOVE

Someone called Vivienne from Auckland sent this beautiful poem/piece of philosophy from Pádraig Ó Tuama to my husband’s Red Hand Files this week. Such a wondrous thing as it falls to its very most simple and touching conclusion. Thank you, Vivienne, for enriching our little corners!

GRETA BELLAMACINA IN VENICE

Actress, poet, filmmaker, style icon and dear friend, Greta Bellamacina prepares to take on Venice Film Festival in her bespoke Raspberry Vampire’s Wife Dress and Cape. ‘There's such a magic to the shape of the dress–and the colour. It felt very special. There's also this timelessness to it. A lot of pieces from The Vampire’s Wife transcend the decades,' Greta says of the dresses. We adore Greta here at The Vampire’s Wife. Love Susie. x Black Under Heaven everything lives unnerved tiny cups and scissors hungover lilies in heaven marching in glass on the table our child arranging the sky,...

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