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From The Desk Of Vanessa Carlton: Being Home

Liberman is Vanessa Carlton’s latest solo set and fifth overall. With classical-motif tracks like “Blue Pool,” “Take It Easy” and backward-masking-dense closer “Ascension,” Carlton has seriously upped her game, and is now composing complex etudes that easily eclipse her chiming Grammy-nominated hit from 2002, “A Thousand Miles.” Carlton will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our feature on her.

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Carlton: Houseplants for people who are never home. Having plants in your home will make you and your guests feel good. I don’t know why. It’s like you’re claiming your indoor space without excluding nature. If you are a traveling musician, stick to desert plants. You can’t go wrong with succulents. And also, mother-in-law’s tongue. That thing will never die. Plus it cleans your gross and stagnant indoor house air. Not until recently did I realize how important houseplants are to a home. Maya Angelou did an interview with NPR about her house fire, and though she lost a lot of valuable stuff in that fire (it burned her house to the ground), the thing she mourned the most were two plants. She had been nurturing them for a long time, and they were huge and healthy. That made a lot of sense to me.

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