2023
Under has always been a symbol for death. The Eleusinian Mysteries went underground. The Christian Mysteries go underwater. It's a symbol of the unformed, of chaos, destruction, darkness, panic, fear. I need to go there now, into dreamy chaos. Tomorrow, then, we rise anew.
August 27, 2023
| Nightmares on Wax : I Am You
| Radiohead : Weird Fishes / Arpeggi (Kutsal Kaan Bilgin Cover)
As the title indicates, I have lost the plot. Not that there ever was one, in particular, but I was trying to follow the progression of the month extemporaneously and it all just kind of fell apart, maybe?
August 26, 2023
| Monsoon : Wings Of The Dawn (Prem Kavita)
| La Dolce Vita : Scena della Fontana di Trevi
All I can say is try to find a spot to watch a sunrise, y'all, and carpe diem. Every single one, grab it and squeeze it and love it. It goes so fast.
August 25, 2023
| Alex Reece : Feel the Sunshine
| Donovan : Sunshine Superman (1966)
I should start entitling my photos. This man's style is so point-on. He is rocking some cigarette, sì? The necklace, the shoes, the pose. He looks like an updated version of one of the characters in The Bicycle Thief. So, in honour of this post, we're gonna call him "Riga Blocca".
August 24, 2023
| Lil' Louis & The World : Thief
| The Bicycle Thief (1948) Trailer #1
One of the joys of growing up pre-internet, with bad-quality AM radio, was that we could never really figure out the lyrics to songs. So we made them up. We just flat-out made up our own lyrics.
August 23, 2023
| Rayelle : Get Dat
| Brothers Johnson : Strawberry Letter #23
Ok, put me down for two posts I have to write. If you knew what my life was like right now, you would understand.
Now updated.
August 22, 2023
| Amon Tobin : Eight Sum
| Oasis : Wonderwall (Official Video)
Can we make a deal? I'm gonna check out early and come back to this here text tomorrow. It will give you something to look forward to. The deal is I promise it will be better than anything I could possibly write right now, awright? Right.
NB: Now updated.
August 21, 2023
| Donna Summer : State of Independence
| Depeche Mode : Never Let Me Down Again
The problem with being an ex-dj is that you know too many versions of songs that are much better than the album versions that they post on all the streaming services. How difficult is it to catalogue the 12" mixes along with the rest of the material?
August 20, 2023
| Mr. Fingers : Closer
| Banksy : Create Escape (March 4, 2021)
This is kind of a corny post, but I want to keep it light, and why not be corny? I'm probably cringe-posting every day anyway! Ha.
August 19, 2023
| Kraftwerk : The Robots (Live)
| The Hollies : He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (1969)