Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Good morning, music loving friends. Go, and pump thou likewise jams. Gotye – Somebody You Used to Know Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch Pepper Rabbit – Rose Mary Stretch Ryan Gosling – You Always Hurt the Ones You Love The New Pornographers – Letter from an Occupant St Vincent – Cheerleader Kimbra – Settle [...]
We could stand for a century—staring— With our heads cocked In the broad daylight at this thing. Joy, landlocked, In bodies that don’t keep, Dumbstruck with the sweetness of being Until we don’t be told “Take this,” and “Eat this” Told: “The meteorite is the source of the light, And the meteor’s just what we [...]
Saturday, October 16, 2010
You know how I adjusted to that problem of the radio in the environment? Very much as the primitive people adjusted to the animals which frightened them, and which probably, as you say, were intrusions. They drew pictures of them, on their caves. And so I simply made a piece using radios. Now, whenever I [...]
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Lord, I ain’t goin’ down to no race track See no sports car run I don’t have no sports car And I don’t even care to have one I can walk anytime around the block —Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan’s Blues
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
what makes you think that it won’t grow back in a day or two? husbands in winter, they know the truth but what can they do? i don’t like girls the way they are so shave their legs, and make them look like movie stars then we can pretend it’s natural put on whatever makes [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
the tortoise in the wheelchair wrapped his forehead in a bandage with a cast they made from plaster for his phony broken leg so he’d get pushed around the sidewalk by the zookeeper’s assistant with the hummingbird observing from behind the yellow flower and he flapped his tiny wings they moved so fast you couldn’t [...]
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Proud Valletta with Misses Ellen Sunday and Her Fantastic Cats and Jonathan Thompson, 11/10/09 at The Pinhook in Durham, NC. Set-list: A Holiday in Cottingley The Mary Celeste A Song For Clarice To My Mother, Who Waits Above God Sees The Truth But Waits A Bawdy Lament For Our Setting Sun Plastic Jesus La Fin [...]
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Right, so I figured it would be moderately interesting to keep a record of what songs my band, Proud Valletta, has played, and what at shows we played them; and it would be convenient to store this record in a common space, and since this blog contains more or less a hodgepodge of Things I [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
If you needed another reason to come to our show tomorrow at 10pm at the Cave in Chapel Hill, Tofer has provided one: Tofer drew my quill tattoo as well. Everything he does is magic. And if you haven’t already, listen to our music.
I’d heard Milk-Eyed Mender a few times, but I only really got into Joanna Newsom’s music with Ys. What a beautiful album. At first, her voice turned me off. I had a crappy bootleg of Yarn and Glue. Or are all versions like that? Mine was recorded in some sort of drive-me-mad stereo mode. It [...]