for those special nights.

Sebadoh
Brand New Love
The Freed Weed

Restless eyes close maybe it’ll go away
please rest tomorrow, bring a satisfied day.
The restless urge of love that’s worth burning for
surely it’s that forgiving love to give you more.

Any thought could be the beginning
of a brand new tangled web your spinning,
anyone could be a brand new love.
Any tie that holds can be broken,
tear your bitter world to the open,
anyone can be a brand new love.

You won’t be the first
your twisted change is normal
gossip dirt
whisper to the nodding head
thrilled you fell apart instead of them
but they will
cause any hope for love could be killed
If you need a different face
it’s definite time to destroy this place.

Any thought could be the beginning
of a brand new tangled web your spinning,
anyone could be a brand new love.
Follow what you feel
you alone decide what’s real
anyone can be a brand new love.

Anyone can be a brand new love.

here’s deadsy doing it.
I like Lou’s version better. I saw him playing with Folk Implosion once, and after his set he sat at a little table and sold shirts. I went and got a shirt, and tried to get him to call my drunken friend a motherfucker. As Mike was lying on his back, Lou looked at him and said, “I can’t call him a motherfucker, he bought a shirt too.” I was also drunk and did not think that, had I purchased another shirt, it would have tipped the cursing balance in my favor. So Mike escaped my first attempt to get hiim cursed at by a musician.

Devo
Jerkin’ Back ‘n’ Forth
Now It Can Be Told: DEVO At The Palace

I know I let you tell me what to do
You were confident you know best
Now things arent working like you want them to
Your confidence is what I detest
You got me lookin up high
You got me searchin down low
You got me I know you know
You got me jerkin back n forth
You told me people like to suffer
You told me thats the way it is
You said that things were getting better
You said I should expect all this
You think its funny
But what I say is true
The reason that I live like this
Is all because of you
There is a thought that keeps me thinking
Like a stone inside my shoe
It is a vision reoccurring
A dirty window I can see you through

No comment from des

From Terry Pratchett:

Folks,

I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early
onset Alzheimer’s, which lay behind this year’s phantom “stroke”.

We are taking it fairly philosophically down here and possibly with a mild optimism. For now work is continuing on the completion of Nation and the basic notes are already being laid down for Unseen Academicals. All other things being equal, I
expect to meet most current and, as far as possible, future commitments but will discuss things with the various organisers. Frankly, I would prefer it if people kept things cheerful, because I think there’s time for at least a few more books yet :o)

PS I would just like to draw attention to everyone reading the above that this should
be interpreted as ‘I am not dead’. I will, of course, be dead at some future point, as
will everybody else. For me, this maybe further off than you think – it’s too soon to tell.
I know it’s a very human thing to say “Is there anything I can do”, but in this case I
would only entertain offers from very high-end experts in brain chemistry.
-o-

Hopefully lots and lots of books, Terry.

so far so good.
Charles left me a lyric in the comments of the last post…

Tom Waits
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
Bone Machine

When I’m lyin’ in my bed at night
I don’t wanna grow up
Nothin’ ever seems to turn out right
I don’t wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That’s always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don’t wanna grow up
I don’t ever wanna be that way
I don’t wanna grow up

Seems like folks turn into things
That they’d never want
The only thing to live for
Is today
I’m gonna put a hole in my TV set
I don’t wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I don’t wanna grow up
I don’t wnna have to shout it out
I don’t want my hair to fall out
I don’t wanna be filled with doubt
I don’t wanna be a good boy scout
I don’t wanna have to learn to count
I don’t wanna have the biggest amount
I don’t wanna grow up

Well when I see my parents fight
I don’t wanna grow up
They all go out and drinking all night
And I don’t wanna grow up
I’d rather stay here in my room
Nothin’ out there but sad and gloom
I don’t wanna live in a big old Tomb
On Grand Street

When I see the 5 o’clock news
I don’t wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don’t wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don’t wanna put no money down
I don’t wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don’t wanna float a broom
Fall in and get married then boom
How the hell did I get here so soon
I don’t wanna grow up

this is my fucking theme song as I fight through my life at the moment. Life sucks, growing up sucks, but we all have to do it. –charles

Jerm sent me an interesting and terrifying picture of himself and a macaque.

I’m not sure what to make of it. I’m a little scared, a little aroused, you know how it goes.

tolek weighed in with this one…

this song makes my nards rumble. for the sound. lyrics are unmentionable.-tolek

Radiohead
Idioteque
Kid A

Who’s in bunker?
Who’s in bunker?
Women and children first
And the children first
And the children
I’ll laugh until my head comes off
I’ll swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I

Who’s in bunker?
Who’s in bunker?
I have seen too much
You haven’t seen enough
You haven’t seen it
I’ll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children

Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time

Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both sides
Let me hear both
Ice age coming
Ice age coming
Throw them in the fire
Throw them in the fire
Throw them in the

We’re not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
We’re not scaremongering
This is really happening
Happening
Mobiles quirking
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money

Here I’m allowed (background: and first and the children x6)
Everything all of the time
Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time

Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time
Here I’m allowed
Everything all of the time

deaf and lost are the children (repeated)

keep ’em comin’. I want to hear/see/read the nard-rumblin’ beats.

I want to send out a call to my pals: send me your songs. send me the tune that when you hear it something goes off in your head, something makes you think in whirling skeins of thoughts. send me your dream- scream- and cream-songs, send me the shit that makes you want to punch a baby or baby your baby. something like that.
Do it thus:

Artist
Song
Album
(give me links for them if you can)

Lyrics

Commentary/pictures/covers/nude photos of you with a macaque etc

I’ll post one song from each of my friends, whenever you send it.
love, g

random timing sunday edition

Peter Frampton

Show Me the Way
Frampton Comes Alive!
I wonder how your feeling
There’s ringing in my ears
And no one to relate to ‘cept the sea
Who can I believe in
I’m kneeling on the floor
There has to be a force, who do I phone
The stars are out and shinning
But all I really want to know

Oh, won’t you show me the way
I want you show me the way

When I can see no reason
You living on your nerves
When someone drops a cop and I submerge
I’m swimming in a circle
I feel I’m going down
There has to be a fool to play my part
Well someone thought of healing,
But all I really want to know

Oh, won’t you show me the way (everyday)
I want you show me the way
I want you day after day

I wonder if I’m dreaming
I feel so unashamed
I can’t believe this is happening to me
I watch you when you’re sleeping
And then I want to take you love

Oh, won’t you show me the way (everday)
I want you show me the way
I want you day after day

Oh won’t you show me the way (everyday)
I want you show me the way
I want you night and day
I want you day after day

okay, Mitt Romney is stupid:

It’s as if they are intent on establishing a new religion in America – the religion of secularism. They are wrong.

What? Do they screen these people for idiocy? m-w.com (“religion” is what “religious” people do):

re·li·gious
Pronunciation:
\ri-?li-j?s\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French religius, from Latin religiosus, from religio
Date:
13th century
1: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to n acknowledged ultimate reality or deity (a religious person) (religious attitudes)
2: of, relating to, or devoted to religious beliefs or observances
3 a: scrupulously and conscientiously faithful b: fervent, zealous
— re·li·gious·ly adverb
— re·li·gious·ness noun

Okay, that was fun. How about secular?

secular
sec·u·lar
Pronunciation:
\?se-ky?-l?r\
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Middle English, from Anglo-French seculer, from Late Latin saecularis, from saeculum the present world, from Latin, generation, age, century, world; akin to Welsh hoedl lifetime
Date:
14th century
1 a: of or relating to the worldly or temporal b: not overtly or specifically religious c: not ecclesiastical or clerical
2: not bound by monastic vows or rules; specifically : of, relating to, or forming clergy not belonging to a religious order or congregation (a secular priest)
3 a: occurring once in an age or a century b: existing or continuing through ages or centuries c: of or relating to a long term of indefinite duration
— sec·u·lar·i·ty \?se-ky?-?la-r?-t?\ noun
— sec·u·lar·ly \?se-ky?-l?r-l?\ adverb

Mitt Romney is psychotically stupid.

UPDATE: from a long absent pal

no forum or blog response to add this to but, I need to add this:

he said also “The founders proscribed the establishment of a state religion, but they did not countenance the elimination of religion from the public square. We are a nation “under God” and in God, we do indeed trust.” — those phrases came into the american experience in the 1950’s—they are not the “e pluribus unum” that our founders forwarded. jackass. (from the wik: “E pluribus unum” is a motto found on the Great Seal of the United States, along with Annuit Coeptis and Novus Ordo Seclorum, and adopted by an Act of Congress in 1782. According to Alan Frederick at Oxford University, “Ē plūribus ūnum” is Latin for “one out of many,” or, “from many, one.” Never codified by law, it was considered a de facto motto of the United States until 1956 when the United States Congress passed an act (H.J. Resolution 396) [1] adopting In God We Trust as the official motto.)

hi.

tolek

Why do we have to even say this?

Waterboarding has the ability to make the subject answer any question with the truth, a half-truth or outright lie in order to stop the procedure. Subjects usually resort to all three, often in rapid sequence. Most media representations or recreations of the waterboarding are inaccurate, amateurish and dangerous improvisations, which do not capture the true intensity of the act. Contrary to popular opinion, it is not a simulation of drowning — it is drowning.

Did anyone NOT KNOW that this was torture? Did anyone NOT KNOW torturing people is wrong?

And when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

Img from Lordsofrock.com, now in French!

In A Jar
Dinosaur Jr. Wiki
You’re Living All Over Me

I’ll be grazing by your window
Please come pat me on the head
I just want to find out what you’re nice to me for
When I look up don’t think I don’t know
About all the scabs you dread
It’s hard to stomach the gore

I know you don’t have the patience
To peel ’em off no more
In a jar where you fed me
All I could do was lick your hand
In a jar the scars are plain to see
I hope somehow you’ll know I understand

I’ll be grazing by your window
Please come pat me on the head
I just want to find out what you’re nice to me for
Then you smile and decide to take me in
‘Cause I look cute by your bed
But I can feel it just a little more

I’ll watch you fall apart, babe you know it
You know I’m young and stuff, babe don’t blow it
Just unscrew the top yeah
Pick me up now just can’t stop

In a jar where you fed me
All I could do was lick your hand
In a jar where scars are plain to see
I hope somehow you’ll know I understand
Scabs collect beneath your bureau
From the knife wounds you got

Discollective looks cool so far.

cuz i wanna do it too

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?
So, here’s how it works:
..
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle/Random
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button

Opening Credits:
Messenger- Pinback Live @ the Bottom of the Hill…Not a bad opener. I’d pick Ocean Size by Jane’s Addiction, maybe

Waking Up:
Diamond Sea- Sonic Youth (I initially got “Cut Here” by the Cure, but I fucking hate that song so I skipped it. The Cure has some good songs, and I dunno how that turd snuck its way into my playlist)

First Day At School:
Thieves Like Us- New Order

Falling In Love:
Spanish Flea- Optiganally Yours (Pure incredi-awesome-sauce)

Breaking Up:
Eraser 6-4 – The Jade Shader (weep, Terron ftw)

Prom:
Master and Servant! Depeche Mode. Perfect.

Life’s OK:
This Apparatus Must be Unearthed – The Mars Volta nice

Mental Breakdown:
Rosseau- Pinback

Driving:
My Serenade – Django Rheinhardt (that’s an odd one. stupid matching games)

Flashback:
Could You Be The One- Husker Du (not bad)

Getting Back Together:
Eastern Glow – The Album Leaf (i don’t seem all that excited about getting back together with this song…heh)

Sex Scene:
The Rare Ould Times – Flogging Molly (SCORE)

Dance Sequence:
What if I Knew – Dinosaur Jr. (can’t picture it…great song, but dancing?)

Wedding:
Saint Simon – The Shins

Birth of Child:
Loro – Pinback (better than the push the little baby down the spiral stairs)

Final Battle:
kanojyo wa kyou- The Pillows (that’s weird)

Funeral Song:
Such Great Heights – Iron and Wine (not bad!)

End Credits:
Days of Being Wild – …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead… (Kickass end credit song)

The only ones I cheated on I noted, or they were spoken word things, not songs (Struck by a Vehicle by Dane Cook came up, which didn’t fit, but did fit, in an odd way).