Sunday, 26 July 2009

Monday, 20 July 2009

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky



Whew! This one almost floored me. Big read!

Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan

Well, if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Well, if you go when the snowflakes storm,
When the rivers freeze and summer ends,
Please see if she's wearing a coat so warm,
To keep her from the howlin' winds.

Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
If it rolls and flows all down her breast.
Please see for me if her hair hangs long,
That's the way I remember her best.

I'm a-wonderin' if she remembers me at all.
Many times I've often prayed
In the darkness of my night,
In the brightness of my day.

So if you're travelin' in the north country fair,
Where the winds hit heavy on the borderline,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.

Copyright ©1963; renewed 1991 Special Rider Music
http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/girl-north-country

Friday, 17 July 2009

Moon



ps writer/director Duncan Jones = David Bowie's son.

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum)


The Horrors - Primary Colours


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My Fav 3 Tracks =
1. I Only Think Of You
2. Sea Within a Sea
3. Primary Colours

Sunday, 5 July 2009

California Love - 2Pac (feat. Dr Dre)



...

[Dr Dre]
'We in that sunshine state with a bomb-ass hemp beat
The state where ya never find a dance floor empty
And pimps be on a mission for them greens,
Lean mean money-makin-machines servin fiends
I been in the game for ten years makin rap tunes
Ever since honeys was wearin Sassoons
Now it's '95 and they clock me and watch me
Diamonds shinin', lookin' like I robbed Liberace'

...

'Shake it shake it baby
Shake it shake it, shake it baby
Shake it shake it mama
Shake it Cali'

:--)

La Roux



My Fav 2 Tracks =
1. Cover My Eyes
2. I'm Not Your Toy

Saturday, 4 July 2009

Thursday, 2 July 2009

As I Walked Out One Evening by W H Auden

As I walked out one evening,
Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
Were fields of harvest wheat.

And down by the brimming river
I heard a lover sing
Under an arch of the railway:
'Love has no ending.

'I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,

'I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.

'The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.'

But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
'O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.

'In the burrows of the Nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
And coughs when you would kiss.

'In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or to-day.

'Into many a green valley
Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
And the diver's brilliant bow.

'O plunge your hands in water,
Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
And wonder what you've missed.

'The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.

'Where the beggars raffle the banknotes
And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,
And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,
And Jill goes down on her back.

'O look, look in the mirror,
O look in your distress:
Life remains a blessing
Although you cannot bless.

'O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart.'

It was late, late in the evening,
The lovers they were gone;
The clocks had ceased their chiming,
And the deep river ran on.

[http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15551]
[From Another Time by W. H. Auden, published by Random House. Copyright © 1940 W. H. Auden]