ABBA - 'Dancing Queen'

Album: Greatest Hits

One should own at least one video of a heartwarming story with drag queens as protagonists.

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I'm afraid that, not-too-deep-down, I'm really, really, a drag queen at heart.

वसुदारा दास और काय काय - 'चले जैसे हवाईएँ'

Album: मैं हूँ ना OST

Felt the train of my existence come to a grinding halt today - the squealing protests of the wheels on the tracks, the barely-felt inertia because the train was going really slow anyway.

One thought: one revelation.

But I've forgotten it now.

So the train slowly chugs on. In complete ignorance ... but not bliss.

कविता सुब्रमण्यम और उदित नारायण - 'चलो चले पुरवा'

Album: नायक OST

Yesterday, I missed cuddling.

Today, I missed 'accidental' butterfly kisses on my neck - you know, when you're cuddling that someone, their cheek on your collarbone, and they blink.



I must be PMS-ing.

Tricky - 'Aftermath'

Album:

Then. Then what? Then what happened? What can I say? I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.



Winterson, Jeanette. The PowerBook. Great Britain: Jonathan Cape, 2000.

Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs - 'Jesus Don't Love Me'

Album: You Can't Buy A Gun When You're Crying

Night of one part wonder, two parts coincidence. Sweet ass.



Am resisting and desisting: Hello there Mr. Button, have you met Ms. Finger?

Tee hee hee!

Maximilian Hecker - 'Rose'

Album: Rose

Been looking for the song to hit the aural-emotional sweet spot. Nothing seems right - too soft/too slow/not depressing enough/minor key not minor enough ...

For a moment, I thought 'Rose' could be the one - if I played it loud enough - but now I realize it doesn't, not exactly, not really.

Maybe I need Nirvana ...?

Man Man - 'Engwish Bwudd'

Album: Six Demon Bag

Ang mo men freak me out. Literally.

Which is a wee bit strange because I happen to love (naturally) redheaded chicks - red, orange, carrot-top, strawberry-blond, whatever - there's just something about them.

Man, talk about double-standards ...

k.d. lang - 'What Better Said'

Album: Invincible Summer

Otto Hoffmann
The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant is to say yes to all of existence.



Waking Life. Richard Linklater, 2001.

Yes ...?

Shivaree - 'New Casablanca'

Album: Who's Got Trouble

Please take me out of here
So we can have a ball
I've been tied up
My face against the wall

Who's got trouble
We've got trouble
Go ahead make mine a double
I do declare I'm in a state
And I just can't wait

Still not over it; can't believe it, but it's true.

I'm still not over it.

Don't seem like I'll ever get over it.

Don't seem like it, at all.

Bon Jovi - 'Someday I'll Be Saturday Night'

Album: Crossroad

To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself I stay on the run.



Winterson, Jeanette. The PowerBook. Great Britain: Jonathan Cape, 2000.

Guess this is a better reason to be running.

Fisher - 'Different Kind Of Wonderful'

Album: Uppers and Downers

With Jeanette Winterson's Art & Lies, I seem to experience a sort of lexical-gustatory synesthesia. Sort of. I could taste her words, but they don't taste of edibles.

Or, maybe, it's more accurate to say I feel her words in my mouth: they are flesh I chew on. In a literal sense, I devour her words.

And this morning, it occurred to me that, in a peripheral, evanascent way, Art & Lies and Four Quartets are somehow ... linked.

Nina Simone - 'Feeling Good'

Album: Feeling Good: The Very Best of Nina Simone

Er.

Was I being flirted with by the records shop owner/manager/whatever? She seemed pretty nice - maybe she was just being friendly.

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Why are they all always just being friendly? =(

Fisher - 'True North'

Album: One

The most awkward fact in all this doubt is this: remembering, which occurs now, at this split second, does not prove that what is being remembered actually occurred at some other time. I may be convinced that it did, especially if a number of others, the more the better, are convinced too. When I am alone, and the experience, the emotion , the event, was mine and mine alone, how can I say for certain that I have not invented the entire episode, including the faithful memory of it?

It could be that this record set before you now is a fiction.



Winterson, Jeanette. Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd. Great Britain: Random House UK, 1994.

Jill Scott - 'I'm Not Afraid'

Album: Beautifully Human

Exactly how does one live dangerously?

Spirit is willing but the mind is bewildered.