March 2011
27 posts
By Gabe Moses
Forget the images you’ve learned to attach
To words like cock and clit,
Chest and breasts.
Break those words open
Like a paramedic cracking ribs
To pump blood through a failing heart.
Push your hands inside.
Get them messy.
Scratch new definitions on the bones.
Get rid of the old…
The @LalalaLimerick Desert Island Dozen pt. 5
Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks - He didn’t have the song craft genius of Elvis Costello or the classical training and traditionalist streak like Joe Jackson or even the Mutt & Jeff cuteness of Squeeze’s Difford and Tilbrook. But for one brief moment, he was more impassioned, more immediate, more cynical and more committed than any of them. To this day, I still slide back in my seat a bit when “Discovering Japan” comes roaring out of my speakers, and I’ll bet Tori Amos lies awake at night wishing she could write a pro-choice song as dark and complicated as “Can’t Be Too Strong.” Squeezing Out Sparks is one of the best albums most people have never heard.
Because I love @LalalaLimerick
for those lonely nights when you’re having trouble sleeping…
- the avett brothers - murder in the city.
- nico - these days.
- old crow medicine show - we’re all in this together.
- ryan adams - oh my sweet carolina (live.)
- neil young - helpless.
- bob martin - mill town.
- joshua radin - winter.
- chris bathgate - yes i’m cold.
- j. tillman - when i light your darkened door.
- kings of convenience - the build-up.
- phosphorescent - wolves.
- beach house - you came to me.
- jose gonzalez - heartbeats.
- jana hunter - palms.
- bon iver - blindsided.
- vetiver - road to ronderlin.
- six organs of admittance - lisbon.
- sigur ros - fljotavik.
- dario marianelli - clair de lune.
note: i just finished making this mix tape. click the title to download the mix. when you download the file it will be out of order, please put it in the correct order (above) and listen to it in that order, i spent a lot of time putting it in this order for a reason. merci beaucoup.
sweet dreams, sweetheart.