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Thursday, June 16, 2011
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last night i had a dream that my apartment was smashed to pieces. it was like pete townshend had been spent the night, and everything was broken; lampshades, hairbrushes, jewelry, plates, cups, silverware, walls, frames. it was strangely beautiful, though, and in my dream i didn't seem to mind it much at all. it brought me back to a poem by pablo neruda i read in professor maraniss's class at amherst. the poem is titled "ode to broken things" and is from neruda's 1956 compilation of odes to commonplace things called odas elementales. i especially enjoy the last line, "tantas cosas inútiles/que nadie rompe/pero se rompieron." the poem resonates much better in spanish, so those of you blessed with bilinguality jump here. enjoy.
Ode to broken things by Pablo Neruda
Things get broken
at home
like they were pushed
by an invisible, deliberate smasher.
It's not my hands
or yours
It wasn't the girls
with their hard fingernails
or the motion of the planet.
It wasn't anything or anybody
It wasn't the wind
It wasn't the orange-colored noontime
Or night over the earth
It wasn't even the nose or the elbow
Or the hips getting bigger
or the ankle
or the air.
The plate broke, the lamp fell
All the flower pots tumbled over
one by one. That pot
which overflowed with scarlet
in the middle of October,
it got tired from all the violets
and another empty one
rolled round and round and round
all through winter
until it was only the powder
of a flowerpot,
a broken memory, shining dust.
And that clock
whose sound
was
the voice of our lives,
the secret
thread of our weeks,
which released
one by one, so many hours
for honey and silence
for so many births and jobs,
that clock also
fell
and its delicate blue guts
vibrated
among the broken glass
its wide heart
unsprung.
Life goes on grinding up
glass, wearing out clothes
making fragments
breaking down
forms
and what lasts through time
is like an island on a ship in the sea,
perishable
surrounded by dangerous fragility
by merciless waters and threats.
Let's put all our treasures together
-- the clocks, plates, cups cracked by the cold --
into a sack and carry them
to the sea
and let our possessions sink
into one alarming breaker
that sounds like a river.
May whatever breaks
be reconstructed by the sea
with the long labor of its tides.
So many useless things
which nobody broke
but which got broken anyway.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
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i remember when i first saw nashville i searched endlessly for this tune and couldn't turn it up...not sure what made me think of it, but this song's great and i'm glad it's now out there.
christina raines is beautiful here...and believe it or not, she'd never sang before. i was reading the comments on the vid, and someone called attention to how closely she resembles emmylou harris here...spot on.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
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with a tip of the hat to stereogum (..and a lamely titled post), i'll say you should all check out craft spells. with a style similar to label mates wild nothing, these guys draw on the sounds of early 80's new wave and jangle...nothing new here, but fans of radio dept. and twin shadow will no doubt enjoy.
have to say their label, captured tracks, is up to some good things. look out for their debut idle labor out March, 29.
album highlight "after the moment" below...
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Friday, March 25, 2011
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crystal stilts' new album, in love with oblivion, is due for release april 22nd, and below is one hell of a song that'll be on it. this one's been kicking around for a while...i first came across it on a daytrotter set they did a while back, but this studio recorded version is fleshed out and trudges along with a burnin 'waiting for the man'-style piano plink.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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get the new radiohead album "king of limbs" now, and watch the new video for "lotus flower" below.
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Friday, February 18, 2011
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i haven't been to a good show in a while, and i'm pumped to catch yuck next week...get yer tix. for a band who have yet to release an album (that's due feb. 15), they've got a decent amount of material floating around on the web (no doubt because of the yuck blog, on which you can also check out their peculiar drawings).
the music press has been throwing around a lot of early-90's indie rock names (pavement, superchunk, lemonheads, etc.), and, as dangerous as it is for a young band to draw such comparisons, they're definitely all there in the mix.
this is their first single, "georgia."
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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Friday, December 17, 2010
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thirty years ago today, yoko ono watched as a smiling gunman fired five bullets from a .38 revolver into john lennon's body outside their upper west side apartment. after shooting lennon, the killer eerily leafed through "the catcher in the rye". yoko screamed as her doorman shouted "do you know what you've done?" to which the gunman responded, "i just shot john lennon". and that was the end of the ballad of john and yoko .
here are some newspaper headlines covering lennon's death. may he rest in peace.
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
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here is a very fleetwood mac-sounding track from cut copy titled "take me over" off their forthcoming album "zonoscope". stay tuned for american tour dates parties accompanying the feb release of their album.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010
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here's to george...i didn't realize until i saw that the bell house was hosting a george harrison tribute concert that not only was this past saturday, 11/27/10, the 40 anniversary of the release of all things must pass, but today, the 29th, marks nine years since harrison's death in 2001.
here's some great live footage of one of my favorite cuts off of the album...
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Monday, November 29, 2010
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scat your tuesday away with slim gaillard, an avant-garde jazz vocalist best known for improvising with his voice. armed with fluency in eight languages, slim produced the vout-o-reenee dictionary, an archive of his scat language. one could call snoop's izzo an evolution of vout...but izzo's got nothing on vout.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
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here's some nostalgic power pop from jenny & johnny who recently opened for pavement in ny. the male/female vocals offer a cheery and nostalgic melody i can't help but bop my head along to on this fine thursday. enjoy.
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Thursday, October 7, 2010
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"they more chase eachother around...it's sort of like the serpent who eats his own tail, and it goes 'round and 'round like that. and if you can stand in between 'em, they make big figure 8s on their sides... in your head."jerry couldn't quite take hef there, literally & figuratively, but there's still some cool synergy between the two. keep watching for live performances of "mountains of the moon" and "st. stephen".
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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