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.

Dreams Come True - 'Love Love Love'

Album: 嵐が来る

Did that Pinoy girl who lives in the hostel down my block and with whom I take the same bus on most mornings smile at me tonight?

In any case, I know I smiled right at her.

=)

Yo La Tengo - 'Don't Have To Be So Sad'

Album: Summer Sun

The perfect combination for me would be to take up concurrently a dance, a music, and a language course. So many things, so little time.

I want to get a frivolous white blacklight ink. A spiral of stars, on the inside of my right wrist. This would be prolly the fourth or fifth week running I've been thinking about it. Someone told me not to ("... think about future jobs!"), someone said go to "Go for it!"

Living dangerously and living recklessly: what a thin line.

Jill Philips - 'It Could Happen To Us'

Album: Kissing Jessica Stein

Maybe I just need to find my Helen ...

Tabla Beat Science - 'Devotional'

Album: Tala Matrix

I realized that is what I want, watching Reggie (Regis?) and Sebastian very much enjoying themselves moonlighting at the Chihuly Lounge: getting paid for doing something I thoroughly enjoy.

Fisher - 'Missing'

Album: Uppers and Downers

The dream vacation of mine seems more and more like a memory.

Like it had taken place.

And I can remember most of the details like it happened yesterday - smells, colors, the air, tastes ...