Month: August 2023

  • This series has been fun and a real adventure, with a little help from my friends, whom I shouldn't tolerate as much as I do, but I love too much to curb. Next month, I'm going to scale back a bit. Get an RSS Feed. Ecce Amor Homo Fati.

    August 31, 2023

    | DAVID AUGUST : D'ANGELO

    | Martin & Lewis : That's Amore

  • It's finally the Super Blue Moon, y'all, the bookend to the beginning of this chapter, when the moon is, once again, at its perigee. The next time this will happen is in nine years, August of 2032. Think about that. Where will we be then?

    August 30, 2023

    | Yello : Moon On Ice (feat. Billy Mackenzie)

    | AIR : La Femme d'Argent (Studio Atlas Version)

  • Boy, I'm beat and sleepy, with "Nothing to say but what a day how's your boy been?"

    I can manage one note, though: I cannot find this mix of "One Day" anywhere but YouTube. NB: I changed the version of "Desert Night". I like the album version better.

    August 29, 2023

    | RÜFÜS DU SOL : Desert Night

    | Bjork + Sabres of Paradise : One Day

  • I don't think this post is particularly exciting, but thematically it's solid. Sometimes things are just what they are, and after spending too long between lines, that's a relief. Do you see the danger? Cycle safely, friends.

    August 28, 2023

    | Boards of Canada : Happy Cycling

    | Boards of Canada : Everything You Do is a Balloon

  • 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