Like spinning plates
While you make pretty speeches,
I'm being cut to shreds
You feed me to the lions,
a delicate balance
And this just feels like spinning plates
I'm living in cloud cuckoo land
And this just feels like spinning plates
My body is floating down the muddy river
----
Thom
(the piano-vocal version of this song on "i might be wrong" could probably be one of the prettiest songs I have ever heard.)
Half
Cut me in half, open the door, put the record on and listen to the silence within the piece. At the break of dawn I will come back within a tube, catch the sunshine, release the puget sound, fan the fountain and sail to the corner of the moon.
Hits of Sunshine (For Allen Ginsberg)
today i
said goodbye
to my conflicted goddess
her lush eyes
show surprise
at how we could gather knowledge
the painting has a dream
where shadow breaks the scene
and the colors run off
blue is bashful
green is my goal
yellow girls are running backwards
until the nextime
with six hits of sunshine
the lights will blind up with blues in haiku
the shadow has a dream
where painters look to sea
the colors burn out
now i know where
i once saw you
stepping into muddy water
john’s reflection
decried perfection
now you walk him through the gardren
waiting in the wings
painters shade their dreams
with falling colors
see me wave good
bye forever
happiness the goddess lover
hurry back re
member last time
the hits of sunshine
the hits of goldmine
i’ll see you back tonite
where painters love the light
and yellow shadow girls
today i
say goodbye
to my complicious goddess
her hushed eyes
show surprise
and how we captured knowledge
i’ll see you back tonite
where shadows dream of light
let’s slip on outside
----
Sonic Youth (A Thousand Leaves)
Act scared, this machine's closing down
Stay still, they are coming to get you
Shed tears, the sun's not ready for excuses
Amputate an arm, royalty is looking for volunteers
Blind your eyes, the sky is raining blood
Open a window, jump out, this machine's closing down
"In your eyes" still reminds me of you. :)
Send failed, send again
a little to the left, a little to the right
i am thinking about promenades
a corporate f*kin animal
the presentation is talking to me instead
the presentation is selling me
i was made
thank you for that concern
demonstrate, exemplify
mention this is what you are trying to do, this is your view, this is the way
the way
the W.A.Y.
this is the landscape, i am dubbed
no subtitles
the board is black, add another user
a personal letter written, signed off
undisclosed recipient
send failed
send again
send successful
shut down
This is a test
ch
glu d
to a room
in a skyscrapER
idontSpeakTheLAnguage
no st
IMulAtion
the dust and flexs
too dangerous to v enture
out side nothin aliVe
nothin in th Microwave
isleep withthe screen on
noonec h anges the bed a ndth e war dr obe s ar e
empty
i want to walk on dry land get out of this fucking room
no
a ir
Rnm64 48th fl oo r
a knokin in above argu ing shuFFling
label on pressd shirt
complimenntryyy dryyy clleeeeaaning
----
Thom
Buildings
This time the disco stops. Rome is the backyard of my mind. I am meant to hold on to harmony on a fine day. The wind is about 40 miles from the sun. I am standing in a circle. I open my mouth and hold the 7 colours of your temptation. I am waiting. I am strategic. I am the last frog in the well. I am a building on a cliff. My heart is giving in to your suspicion. If you stop this music now please also remember to delay the deceit.
Listening to...
Not a single word was said.
They lied still without fears.
Occasionally you showed a smile, but what was the need?
I felt the cold far too soon in a wind of ninetyfive.
My friends are lying in the sun, I wish I was there.
Tomorrow brings another town, another girl like you.
Have you time before you leave to greet another man
Just to let me know, how do you feel?
How do you feel?
Goodbye to you.
Childish bangles too.
I’ve had enough for one day.
----
Richard Wright "Summer '68" (Atom Heart mother)
Do your eyes expand when you see a leaf on a stair? Mine does. :)
Beirut
Back from Beirut. It was fantastic. Went with the office folks. Out into the mountains of Afqa. Sleeping under the stars, waking up to a bright red sky. :) Did all sorts of activities as part of the team-building exercises, ie, rappelling, caving and zipline freefall. Will put 'em photos up onto a site as part of my ongoing documentation of the places I have been to. :) God bless Afqa.
X to Y
From corruption to emancipation, from defeat to permanence, from subjugation to violation, from debasement to opulence and from x to y i move swiftly but silently into the innerdepths of your linearity.
Pain has an element of blank;
It cannot recollect
When it began, or if there were
A day when it was not.
It has no future but itself,
Its infinite realms contain
Its past, enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.
----
Emily Dickinson
Radiohead wrap up first session
Thom posted in his blog today that the band has wrapped up their six day recording session and plan to reconvein in 2 weeks to record more.
"everybodys wasted. expended i mean. energy wise i mean.
all in need of bowl of coco pops.
colins i s playing sleaz bass on mornin' mi lord..
its sounds very heavy. err phat. ..like a freight train...
'the speakers ar e cracking'
ths is the last day of the session.. we start again in a couple of weeks
good,
i need to get away,
six days straight from 11 till late is enough for an old man like me.
need energy!
i dont know. what do people write in blogs normally?
i could write about how im finding it difficult to finish lyrics.
that there are giant waves of self doubt crashing over me and if i could allieviate this with a simple pill ...
i think i would
although it is a necessary part of the procedure. but that would be dull wouldnt it?
i could write about watching V festival.. how i thought Dizzee Rascal stole it..
or ponder the imminent energy crises that awaits us even before our governments get their arse in gear over climate change.
or how amazing the sky is outside with the moon hiding behind fast moving clouds and the bats swooping close to your head.
which? hmm
i have absolutely no idea what i am talking about"
Blackjack
i
see
corners
dyed in black
and friends
high on crack
then,
i
see
the steel thats spliced between
their eyes.
i
am
hitting the
sack.
really,
i
am
going back.
Moving, watching, working, sleeping, driving, walking, talking, smiling ... at times like this I think of you. I think of 1996. 9 decembers back. New years eve. Take me back. I liked it with the lights switched off. Did you? I miss being the space between your hands.
"K"
an open sky
raining blood
onto our brothers
and then onto us
an unkind hand
holds us down
kills our brothers
and then kills us
Was talking to my good friend Sandeep Joseph and he said something that really hit me. Its so true and this is exactly how I feel. Exactly.
"How one can spend time with people and not be close..how the mind can be brimming with boredom...or ideas that aren't born." - SJ
I can't remember how this got started
But I can tell you exactly how it will end
----
This is probably my favorite Nine Inch Nails song. Its called "Everyday is exactly the same" and its from "With teeth". Not to forget Dave Grohl's killer drumming. What metamechanical hands.
