Wednesday, December 17, 2008

TOPS

the songs i want all the time in this time which is right now - extending across perhaps a week back and forward; not ultimates of life because this isn't that story but one day it could be...
top 10 (as it goes) orderless:
-the go-betweens - bye bye pride
i've had this in my itunes for so long and never bothered to push through the first verse, only today i did, by accident, and the chorus/anything past 47 seconds is well worth it in happy arms out dancing listening.
-jawbreaker - chesterfield king
as everything cycles so jawbreaker comes back and harder and more tearful in a conceivable down-to-earth story (you wish, loser).
-van morrison - sweet thing
so shoot me i never realized the 'astral weeks' glory until now. it's like a secret garden!
-descendents - bikeage
absolutely fucking foolproof.
-lo down - mad fright night
soundtrack to 90's new york fantasies en route of 'kids' (subtract aids/rape scenarios, add choe/harmony summertime love)
-jay reatard - fading all away
annotating this would be like telling a fifty year old how to use a knife and fork.
-the clean - slug song
lskddfjwefmslkfijalfmsfc.
-brownbird rudy relic - your trick ain't workin
he has amazing hair and energy and taste in television shows.
-daniel johnston - some things last a long time
once i was talking to my friend about organ donation and she said 'but i don't want them to take my heart, that's where my love comes from'; this song feels like that.
-the wipers - alien boy
sound equality!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008




gold, now, bricks and
asphalt more
natural than natural sunlight, as it’s given. so
we can appropriate
‘the world is a beautiful place’
and leave it
there, no ifs only
yes I will Yes and you
reminded me what my elbows looked like
and
soon I will show you my shoulders turned
pink from playing squirrels.