Patrick Wolf - "To the Lighthouse". This post is partially meant to mark next month's U.S. release of Patrick Wolf's brilliant album Lycanthropy. But part of me just wants to share the song with my fellow outsider—someone displaced by his own foreign ideologies and comportment. I can't call it disaffectation. It's something more emotional and ultimately more hopeful. If you've lived your life on the fringe, feeling cheated by your community, by your nation, by your friends, and by your love, then this song's for you.

Dreamers of unrealized dreams, outlandish thinkers, freaks—stop throwing stones. Let us gather at the lighthouse. Patrick Wolf will greet us there with his violin, his laptop, and his old bicycle. He calls himself a folk singer. Perhaps we are his folk.