Get Thy Bearings...

Hot, sticky summer nights make anything other than listening to music (tonight it's 'Get Thy Bearings'), padding around my house barefoot and clutching a glass of ice water a chore.

Ohrwurm

Chrome Sparks is Jeremy Malvin, a young musician and producer living in Brooklyn by way of Pittsburgh and Ann Arbor. Marijuana is a hypnotic, spiraling ear worm of a track and so darn catchy i'm surprised that some big corporation hasn't licensed it for an advert yet. 

Temerity

"...Well, Its A Dirty Job But Someone's Gotta Do It

And It's A Dirty Song But Someone's Gotta Sing It"

Sonar Bullets

This week I've been mostly: listening to Grimes and BATS and getting excited at the thought of my upcoming trip to Ireland.

http://batsmusic.tumblr.com/

http://bats.bandcamp.com/

We Recognize Our Own Kind

"I must not fear.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing......Only I will remain."

The Litany Against Fear -  Frank Herbert

Moanin'

 If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this: my lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand to smooth the rough touch with a gentle kiss.

Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; for saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

Ay, pilgrim, lips are things to use in prayer.

Oh...O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; they pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips by thine, my sin is purged.

Wild Woman

Eagerly counting down the days to November 21st when the new Kate Bush album '50 Words For Snow' is released. Embedded below is the gorgeous new single 'Wild Man' .

http://www.katebushnews.com/

I Deserve So Much Better

"What I want from us
Is empty our minds
We fake a fuss
And fracture the times
We go blind
When we've needed to see
And it leans on me
Like a rootless tree

So fuck you, fuck you, fuck you
And all we've been through
I said leave it, leave it, leave it
It's nothing to you"

Sinuous

I like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh… And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you so quite new

E.E Cummings

Image:

Aubrey Beardsley, The Mysterious Rose Garden, 1895

Zeus

"...but you can't will yourself happy

you can't will your cunt wet

you can't keep standing at the station

pretending you're being met

you can't wear a sign that says 'yours'

when that ain't what you get



it flows and flows away from me

my love is a stream

your love is a vaudeville show

so charming and obscene

we both had our moments

we both had our fun

and then i hated to prove 'em all right

all those who said i'd run."

Hunicorn

Using All the Colors of Blue

Marble House

Judging from the feedback regarding the previous two mixes, some of you seem to be enjoying them. So here's another one!

Insomnia+Red Wine = Music For You

The result of insomnia.
Red Wine.
Music
All for you!

He Squeezes My Wrists

"...In the mouth of the river
A strange scene it is
Everything in flames
The sky with lightning
And the water, luminous
A strange scene it is
Under over through..."

Blow

"He couldn't stand to hear me say
That I'd been with someone new
And when I told him I had been untrue
He hit me and it felt like a kiss.
He hit me and I knew he loved me."

Over the past few months i've been delving back into the music i loved as a teenager. I had forgotten how surprised and taken aback i was by the lyrics the first time i heard it. It was written by Carol King and Gerry Goffin after they discovered that Little Eva, a member of The Crystals, was regularly abused by her partner. When they expressed concern, she explained it was his way of letting her know that he loved her. In my opinion it remains one of their finest songs and an ode to the tangled web that is domestic violence.

Juncture

This week I've been mostly:

Wearing my self gifted Christmas present. Green, grouchy and so very warm.
Braving the maelstrom that is my drafts folder.
Playing Fugazi's 'End Hits' loudly (video below).
Getting into mischief with new comrades :)

Making lists. As if their presence creeping in here wasn't bad enough, you should see my notebook. Pages 4daze.
Drinking whiskey.
Ambushing playgrounds (swings!) at 2am.
Crossing my fingers.

Fortitude

"We could have had it all (you're gonna wish you never had met me)
Rolling in the deep (tears are gonna fall rolling in the deep)
You had my heart inside (you're gonna wish you) of your hand (never had met me)
and you played it..."

http://www.adele.tv/home/

Blog Love

Although i have a selection of some sites i frequent on the right hand side, there are loads more that i read regularly and thought i'd give a heads up on a few of them.

Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords

Fighting Monsters... captures daily observations of life with Schuyler and is an insightful read.

"When Robert Rummel-Hudson's (Author of Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter) daughter Schuyler was eighteen months old, a simple question by her pediatrician set in motion a slow transformation; from a sarcastic, befuddled dad to the very last thing any new father or mother ever expects or desires to become: a special needs parent. Armed with nothing more than his love for his tenacious little girl and his determination to defeat her rare and invisible disorder, he fought his own depression, his past family dysfunction and the nagging suspicion that he was not the right person for the job."

Jay Smooth's Ill Doctrine

Ill Doctrine is a video blog hosted by Jay Smooth, founder of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, WBAI's Underground Railroad. Intelligent, funny and covering everything from politics (see above) to music and culture; his critical thinking with a dose of humour is well worth watching.

This Will Heal Given Time

"Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme."
Daniel Defoe