How beautiful the sun is on warm evenings! How deep space is! How powerful is the heart! Bending over you, queen of adored ones, I thought I breathed the perfume of your blood. How beautiful the sun is on warm evenings!

Night deepened like a wall, and my eyes in the darkness sensed your eyes, and I drank your breath, O sweetness! O poison! And your feet slumbered in my brotherly hands. Night deepened like a wall.

I know the art of evoking happy moments, and live again my past curled up in your lap. For what is the good of seeking your languorous beauty elsewhere than in your dear body and in your so gentle heart? I know the art of evoking happy moments. - The Balcony. Charles Baudelaire, ca. 1856. trans. Elaine Marks (1962).

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” Map of undiscovered Land. ”

01. Joanna Newsom - ‘81
Have One On Me (Drag City, 2010)
02. Be Good Tanyas - the coo coo bird
Blue Horse (Nettwerk Records, 2001)
03. Charlie Patton - Poor Me
Founder of the Delta Blues (Yazoo, 1969)
04. Liu Shui - Flowing Streams
Voyager Golden Record (NASA, 1977)
05. 5′nizza - Солдат (Soldat)
Pyatnitsa (2003)
06. The Go Find - Everybody Knows It’s Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight
Everybody Knows It’s Gonna Happen Only Not Tonight (Morr Music, 2010)

note: A short evening list. The songs seem innocent and ordinary, but turn out to be more than that. It’s like hearing an old friend telling odd personal revelation in random evening. Past and present are all in one spot, image and stories simply float out in the evening air. Anyway the list set flow is a little hurried, so maybe the songs contrast will act as a consolation. I am in scattered mood. They are a piece by Newsom, an applachian country, pre war blues, NASA audio file, ukrainian duo and an indie for closing. It’s a lose evening theme with blues.

see also: Voyager Golden Record
image: Abbey Lee Kershaw for Numero#110 by Greg Kade