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I dropped the book in my lap and thought, with the scent of smoke hanging in the air, “that’s interesting.”Īs twilight fell, my host and I had ringside seats overlooking Kelowna and the inferno building at the town’s outskirts. It’s all going up in smoke, according to Buddha: “The tongue is on fire tastes are on fire …the body is on fire things tangible are on fire …the mind is on fire ideas are on fire …mind-consciousness is on fire impressions received by the mind are on fire.” And what, O priests, are all these things which are on fire? The eye, O priests, is on fire forms are on fire eye-consciousness is on fire impressions received by the eye are on fire and whatever sensation, pleasant, unpleasant, or indifferent, originates in dependence on impressions received by the eye, that also is on fire.” “All things, O priests,” said the Buddha in his famous Fire Sermon, “are on fire. I opened Joseph Campbell’s The Masks of God: Oriental Mythology to a random spot and my eyes fell on this passage: On arrival at this idyllic spot, I pulled a text from a bookshelf for bathroom reading. Our destination was a cabin perched on a cliffside in Westbank. We hadn’t intentionally planned to travel toward one of the greatest wildfires in provincial history, but we carried on anyway, like moths to a flame. Driving up the Coquihalla Highway, we were surprised to see columns of ash in the distance, rising into the sky. Some years back, during a period of change in my life, I made arrangements to stay at a friend’s cabin in the interior. Fire has a way of getting people’s attention.In addition to the singles “Anything But Me,” which they performed on Ellen, and “Kind of Girl,” MUNA recently covered Britney Spears’ “Sometimes” for the soundtrack to the Hulu film Fire Island. The indie pop trio are set to open for their label head on tour this month before they head out on a headlining trek of their own get tickets to see them live via Ticketmaster. MUNA arrives June 24th via Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records. I think there’s something very vulnerable about plainly expressing my desire to be kinder to myself and comfortable receiving love (and my desire to garden even though I kill everything I plant).”
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“Even though it is a happy, hopeful song, I shed the most tears of the record in the vocal booth recording this chorus.
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“This song explores the power of language and the words we use to describe who we are and who we want to be,” Gavin said about “Kind of Girl” in a previous press statement. With lyrics like, “I’m the kind of girl/ Who owns up to all of my faults/ Who’s learning to laugh at ’em all/ Like I’m not a problem to solve,” it’s easy to get caught up in all the emotion. Watch a replay below.Īccompanied by slide guitar and violin, “Kind of Girl” dips a toe into country as vocalist Katie Gavin sings about self-acceptance with slow-burning passion. MUNA were the musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday night, where they performed “Kind of Girl,” a cut from their upcoming self-titled album. The post MUNA Linger in the Slow Burn While Performing “Kind of Girl” on Fallon appeared first on Consequence.