Why do i love this song?
Infinitely relatable and self-referential.
Can anyone say what the feeling is?
Seems to just be A feeling.
Hey!
I get that/those too!
Hum, huh?
Category: art
Watch “Pink Floyd – On The Run” & here me wax-on poetic/s.
No rights, just pure homage
to the first electronica/synth jam i ever heard in my entire life.
At least as far back as i can speculatively conjecture.
I was around age 5.
The daydreams i could and can enliven when actively listening to this cut
border on the absurd;
but, when carrying a double edged sword, Damocles, the most important
point/e/
To remember is: it has two sharp sides.
And, Damocles, apparently it hangs directly above you.
Observation only.
Already working on ambidexterity?
Genius it is to observe this track sidling itself betwixt the tracks finding themselves apposite ampersand opposite.
Facing each other as well as arching, in honest, desperate, curiosity.
(i.e. it plays well b/w the two songs between which it falls.)
A valley between twin peaks
Which can also serve us as a
Ladder-Alice
Uses from time to time.
Love it much. Dig.
Giggle.
Welcome to another lunar side, i suppose.
Treat yourself.
Listen to it cans on and try to discern the voices.
Heady.
Watch “Ocean Breathes Salty – Sun Kil Moon” on YouTube
No rights, just homage.
A real, little but sweet gut punch of a song.
The disempassioned but not resigned tone of the vocal.
The difference between saying
I don’t think so
&
I hope so.
Taken from Recollections of Sartre
Words are, for some, living creatures.
They persist in being and as such they insist on being noticed. The bound and covered, silent sirens contained on the leaves between the book’s cover.
If words live, then literature can possess.
If I read and share the a sentence that crossed Plato’s eye and mind too, has time and distanced ceased?
If most celebrated literature spouts from the community of dead authors, their words become free of their original sin of the author(s) having possessed physical existence. The sentences are not devalued by the messy work of the author living his/her life at this point. The lens becomes free from the shackles of selfhood. The lines now belong to the public. There is no greater authority to which they may appeal, who will explicate their “true” meaning.
Watch “Junior Kimbrough – God Knows I Tried (Full Album)” on YouTube
No rights, pure homage.
Dig it.
Watch “Mitch Hedberg – Home Movies – Insightful Hippie Pastor” on YouTube
No rights, just homage.
A great cartoon and a great cameo.
Un/Canny
“Eff abstinent. I want you to be obstinate for me,” he said.
“If it cannot be with guns, they will do it with chains/aws/ & stones,” he said.
Rejoinder: “You become a chimp from being a chump, when í substitite an i for a u.” I think Abraham Lincoln said that. Giggle.
Rerejoinder: “We turn o to a and from a crone comes the crane.”
Anyone watched Suspiria yet?
Watch “Portishead – Roseland New York City” on YouTube
No rights, pure homage
To the sexiest female vocalist out there. Triphop innovators transcribing electronica to orchestration.
This is how the young ‘uns learn of the classical instruments.
Try not to sway. Try not to nod in agreement with the dj cutting.
Young ladies: feel her power and use it to feel your own. We are beautiful without being half naked and shaking (make ’em earn those goods. Giggle.)
Taken from the Three Lives: The Rainmaker p. 459
“…all that was beyond reality penetrated almost violently into the boy’s senses. And sense impressions are a deeper soil for growing memories than the best systems and analytic methods…Knecht had more to learn by his feet and hands, his eyes, skin, ears, and nose, than his intellect…No doubt they were really seeking the same ends as the science and technology of later centuries, but the went about it in an entirely different way. But one thing was utterly impossible for them: not in their most audacious moments would it have occurred to them to meet nature and the world of spirits without fear, let alone to feel superior to them. Such hubris was unthinkable, they could not have imagined having any other attitude but fear toward the forces of nature. The various systems of sacrifice kept fear at bay. A man who had been able to ennoble his fear by transforming part of it to awe had gained a great deal.”
Notes on Bayadere Ballet (the word/s flow/z below like the lyriç of ballet.
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Youtube allows us to see tons of art that we may not usually get exposed to.
Like, ballet for me. Alvin Ailey is one among many other state, city, and national ballets that are familiar to most us, in theory. When was the last time you watched a ballet start to finish? Never for me; until, I saw the above performance. Thanks to youtube.
The Balanchine tradition cannot help but be my personal fave.
It reminds me more of yoga poses, the breathwork, physicality and poise are enough to usually bring a tear or two, though it is a very uncynical thing to admit. It is also super brutal looking. The practice and repetition of the same basic movements over time enables this art to enliven through proper breathing to oxidize muscles while balancing precariously.
The European and western ballet companies cannot hold a candle to the art expressed by the Boshoi Ballet. Alchemy in action.
I wrote letters from the words in the opening/closing credits, the subtitlez,and the actual youtube info on my screen. It contained characters in another language.
A meditation for sure.
Cheers.
Sleep Paralysis: The man who photographs his nightmares
The man who photographs his nightmares.
Grey scale.
Not one but two.
The Brothers not The Lovers.
Breathe.
Watch “blackalicious – Nowhere Fast – Blazing Arrow” on YouTube
All time Fave flow
Promo on the link for song
Watch “Blinker the Star – Top Of The Pops (Official Audio)” on YouTube
Howl, yes. Like reluctant headliners, look who is back on the scene?
Still clear and up to their resources. No doubt.
I hope they never change their attitude.
Their dog says that he will try anything, don’t you know.
Help ’em out.
They are kind enough to share on YouTube.
You can get more music here. Like their entire catalogue for $30.03. That has to be someone’s lucky number.
This goes out to the Wheeze L. Legg…. “kelis i hate you so much right now” on YouTube
‘Member how we loved this song as young un’s, sis o’ mine?
In your bedroom after moved into the back room. Door closed. Wilding out like idiots.
Being joyful to hear such a song,
“Curtis Mayfield. “Hard Times” (There’s No Place Like America These Days. 1975)
Ayup.
Uh huh.
Feeling this
Bet you don’t know as much Mayfield as you should.
I know i don’t know enough.
Future rabbit hole.
It’ll make you wanna put up your hands and move.
It’ll help synch ya groove to ya time.
…}k/no s/word/s{…
Watch “Abstract Orchestra ‘ Fancy Clown'” on YouTube
Ayup. Uh huh.
No rights; homage
Watch “MAD Dragon Sessions: Fly Golden Eagle “Horse’s Mouth”” on YouTube
Effing love this jam, album, and band.
And when nobody’s there to write it, I am gonna show you everything.
And i can feel it in the silence
Silence comes in willingly.
(Lyrics as my ears hear them. It has been brought to my attention that I often don’t get it right. I say rock n rollers can better enunciate if that is a problem.)
Giggle.
Watch “Joni Mitchell Wild Things Run Fast (1982)” on YouTube
For every album you can name by Joni Mitchell, I wager there are two and a half more albums per unit that you do not know. And, for every song, several variations: studio cuts, recorded live when she toured the album, recorded live years after, made to look as though filmed live.
And there are paintings for most too.
Found my worn Anthology of her Sheet Music copy-right 1983 Alfred Publishing Co., Inc.
Check it out cuz She’s Playing Real Good, For Free at her own digital domain.
Here is info on the title track of Wild Things Run Fast here.
A song of tradition and tribes.
Here are the lyrics…..
He came/she smiled.
She thought she had him tamed, but he was just as wild, eatin’ from her hand, at last.
Wild things run fast.
In the dark he could see the trap that wzs lyin’ in her sweet company,
eatin’ from her hand at last.
Wild thing run fast.
Winter beat the pines about.
He heard the heater cutting in and out
while she dreamed away.
In the night, it snowed:
Fast tracks in the powder white leading out to the road,
winding from her tender grasp.
Wild things run fast.
But wait? Did you hear it? My ears missed it entirely until I read the lyrics, saw these words, Backed-up the track (fka ‘rewound) and listened hard for it.
Uh. Sounds a lot like she is givin’ it back to tunesmith Chip Taylor’s Wild Thing (I think I love you), popularized by The Troggs, a band paving the way for garage rock, proto punk, and the lo-fi scene.
I forgot to mention, the tune-smith’s real name in James Wesley Voight, brother to actor Jon Voight, and apparently Angelina Jolie’s uncle as well.
Wild Thing has been coveredby The Jay Five, The Kingsmen, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Runaways, Chevy Chase, X, Sam Kinison, and Kermit the Frog, to name only a few.
Metamusic. Dig it much.
“Poliphilo’s Dream”: rabbithole
This odd tale appears to coalesce within my mind with “the Chemical Wedding of/by Christian Rosenkreutz,” (Johannes Valentinus Andreae), “The Beautiful Dream,” (Hermann Hesse), “The Parabola of Madathanus,” as well as, but more peripherally “The Great God Pan” (Arthur Machen) and “The Circular Ruins” (Jorge Borges).
All of the first four texts i referenced require minutia in tracing.
So, if this looks tedious, it cuz it is. It is not craven or unnecessary. If you think it is, this ain’t your kind of reading materials (even though you have read them already in some incarnation or iteration).
Such endeavors are best suited to scratch & scrawl, not typing, for me.
I have rabbithole notes on all these i need to consolidate and smelt.
Kindly forgive the clumsiness of the initial compilation.
WrittenCasey 