this is a blog
that i use to organize the daily advice i receive from literature and music.
some of the songs on this blog
can be collectively viewed and downloaded
here.
at the moment:
on hold. my
otherblag is a good resource for my
amoeba-inspired aural pleasures of late.
"man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief, and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another." /joseph addison
man man - poor jackie
"of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave, and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life? of what use, if the brain is too cold or too hot, and the man does not care enough for results, to stimulate him to experiment, and hold him up in it? or if the web is too finely woven, too irritable by pleasure and pain, so that life stagnates from too much reception, without due outlet?" /r.w. emerson
queens of the stone age - sky is fallin'
kid congo & the pink monkey birds - pumpkin pie "q: why does nobody get laid on thanksgiving?
a: all the coats are on the bed."/george carlin
"each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself." /hermann hesse
them crooked vultures - warsaw or the first breath you take after you give up
"only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything." /willa cather
spacemen 3 - big city (everybody i know can be found here)
"friendship is constant in all other things,
save in the office and affairs of love:
therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
let every eye negotiate for itself,
and trust no agent."/bill shakespeare
ariel pink's haunted graffiti - can't hear my eyes
"but we, o blockhead, with dogged spite and armored love
shall force those deaf dark powers to grow ears and hear us!
i know that god is earless, eyeless, and heartless too,
a brainless dragon worm that crawls on earth and hopes
in anguish and then in secret that we'll give him soul,
for then he, too, may sprout ears, eyes, to match his growth,
but god is clay in my ten fingers, and I mould him!"/nikos kazantzakis
city center - this is how we see in the dark (first version)
"two men look out through the same bars:
one sees the mud, and one the stars."/frederick langbridge
animal collective - i think i can
"we feel the music and love the music and give the music." /christian lorenz
yeah yeah yeahs - heads will roll (willy joy sex dream club)
"i don't want to be called 'the greatest' or 'one of the greatest.' let other guys claim to be the best. i just want to be known as a clown because to me, that's the height of my profession. it means you can do everything — sing, dance and, above all, make people laugh." /red skelton
j dilla - circus (cover by brabe)
"dayvan cowboy: an individual who boldly parachutes from the stratosphere down onto a surfboard in the ocean.
ex. bobby became a dayvan cowboy just last thursday./urban dictionary
boards of canada - dayvan cowboy
"what is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery. the flight of the buzzard and similar sailors is a convincing demonstration of the value of skill and the partial needlessness of motors. it is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. this i conceive to be fortunate, for man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery." /wilbur wright
flaming lips - the sparrow looks up at the machine
"experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." /oscar wilde
johnny cash - i heard the lonesome whistle blow (apparat remix)
"the pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. he who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of god prevail. he who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light." /matthew arnold
kurt vile - blackberry song
"morning bliss has gold in its mouth." /norwegian proverb
beach house - norway
"nature never deceives us, it is always we who deceive ourselves." /jean-jacques rousseau
le loup - canto i
"my method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."anouar brahem - for no apparent reason
"as sweet and musical
as bright apollo's lute, strung with his hair;
and when love speaks, the voice of all the gods
makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."bonnie "prince" billy - strange form of life
"what is a kiss? why this, as some approve:
the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love."/robert herrick
devendra banhart - woman
"if youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us." /george eliot
the zombies - time of the season (my morning jacket cover, september 2003)
"how many loved your moments of glad grace,
and loved your beauty with love false or true,
but one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
and loved the sorrows of your changing face."/w.b. yeats
the association - never my love
"ah, pray make no mistake,
we are not shy;
we're very wide awake,
the moon and i!"/sir w.s. gilbert
panda bear - mich mit einer mond
"but fair the exil'd palm-tree grew
midst foliage of no kindred hue;
through the laburnum’s dropping gold
rose the light shaft of orient mould,
and europe’s violets, faintly sweet,
purpled the mossbeds at its feet."/felicia hemans
mort garson - ode to an african violet
"in the heart,
in the heart,
where the truth shows
where the mind knows
where the love grows
that is where,
that is where,
i complete you
it's the only place
i can meet you"/michael andrews
kurt vile - space forklift
"there is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is a rapture on the lonely shore,
there is society, where none intrudes,
by the deep sea, and music in its roar:
i love not man the less, but nature more."/lord byron
swervedriver - never lose that feeling (jatun remix)
"'scuse me while i kiss the sky." /jimi hendrix
black chow - purple smoke
"there will be time, there will be time
to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
there will be time to murder and create,
and time for all the works and days of hands,
that lift and drop a question on your plate;
time for you and time for me,
and time yet for a hundred indecisions,
and for a hundred visions and revisions,
before the taking of a toast and tea."/t.s. eliot
burial - in mcdonalds
