The trees were draped with an astonishing assortment of household goods: jackets, tires, chairs, bicycles. It became something of a contest to see who could find the most amazing item in the branches. Except for an occasional Humvee full of National Guard members and some Spanishspeaking workers, we were the only people in the area. It was eerily still. (A New Orleans Times-Democrat account of the Mississippi flood of 1882 described this sort of post-diluvian silence as “the quiet of dissolution.”) Near the town of Empire, two fishing boats, the Sea Falcon and the Sea Wolf, both a hundred and fifty feet long, had landed across all four lanes of Highway 23. – Watermark

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” Cowpunk vs. Mother earth. 2010. ”

01. Eli et Papillon – Une chanson pour tout dire
(Demo 2010)
02. Neil Young – Heart Of Gold
Harvest (1990)
03. Creedence Clearwater Revival – Before You Accuse Me
Cosmo’s Factory (1970)
04. Holly Golightly – Mother Earth
Slowly but Surely (Damaged Goods, 2004)
05. The Black Keys – Do the Rump
The Big Come Up (Alive Records, 2002)
06. Reverend Horton Heat – Marijuana
Holy Roller (Sub Pop, 1999)
07. Jimi Hendrix – Crying Blue Rain
Valleys Of Neptune (2010)
08. The Coral – Dreaming of you
The Coral (2003)

note: It’s burning summer blues, cowpunk. Something slow, but not mellow. Blues but not sad. Slow burn, perfect to listen while fighting 4 pounds of crawfish and a big cup of sweetened tea. Maybe yelling at TV for all the wrong things that goes on in the world. The war, the oil spill, the recession, neighbor’s dog and the clunking fridge.

see also: Cow punk
image: mickiky

Photo: moS.nap

• Phantogram-When I’m small
  Eyelid Moves (Barsuk, 2010)
• Bike For Three!-Always I will miss you. Always you
  More Heart Than Brains (Anticon, 2009)
• Nujabes-Kumoni
  Metaphorical Music (Dimid Recordings, 2003)
• Tha Blue Herb-Once upon a laif in Sapporo
  Stilling, Still Dreaming (Real Life, 1999)
• José González-Dreams / Crosses
  Sometimes I Rhyme Slow: A ReMixtape by Dert (2006)
• Nosaj Thing-Aquarium
  Views / Octopus (Nosaj Thing, 2006)
• The Roots-Dear god 2.0 (Feat. Jim James &  Monsters Of Folk)
  How I Got Over (Def Jam, 2010)

It wasn’t until we were well past the middle of it that we realized the old dull pain, whose stitched wrists and clammy fingers, far from being subverted, had only slipped underneath us, freshly scrubbed.
Mirrors and shop windows returned our faces to us, replete with the tight lips and the eyes that remained eyes and not the doorways we had hoped for.
His wounds healed, the skin a bit thicker than before, scars like train tracks on his arms and on his body underneath his shirt.

Richard Siken,  Little Beast.

From far away. Stays for a day
Never a frown with golden brown
- The strangler.

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” Summer 2010. It’s not a good year, but we stick together. ”

01. Alternative TV – Nasty Little Lonely
The Image Has Cracked (Anagram Punk UK, 1978)
02. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Switch
The Scream (1978)
03. The Stranglers – Golden Brown
Greatest Hits 1977-1990 (1991)
04. Wire - Fragile
Pink Flag (Restless Records, 1977)
05. The Adverts – Newboys
Crossing the Red Sea with The Adverts (Fire UK, 2002)
06. The Damned – New Rose
Damned Damned Damned (Stiff, 1977)
07. The Stranglers – European Female
Greatest Hits 1977-1990 (1991)
08. The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
Crazy Rhythms (Bar None, 2009)
09. The Jam – Smithers-Jones
The Sound Of The Jam (2002)

Ah, sorry guys, been a little slow. I am trying to keep up. How about something to play for hot summer afternoon? I collected few early punk and new wave. That distinct British sound from late 70′s. I like them when it click, specially the melody and lyrics. “Every time just like the last // On her ship tied to the mast // To distant lands // Takes both my hands // Never a frown with golden brown” It can sing in my head over and over again softly like a lullaby. (Or maybe it’s the heat stroke.) Who says punk is all harsh. The root is all folks, songs, and blues, the things that children will sing for ages to come to fend off bad time.

Anyway, explore the web, entertain yourself while I am sorting up stuff. This can take a while, Moka will hold down the fort, so be nice to her.

see also: new wave, punk
image: Punk ‘n’ Love by ~tingfinder

Photo: Julia Galdo.

• NUfrequency – Fallen Hero (Motor City Drum Ensemble remix)
  Fallen Hero (Rebirth, 2010)
• Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts – The Pussy Shepherd
  The Pussy Shepherd (Musique Risquée, 2009)
• Fania All Stars – Ella fue (She was the one)
  Ella Fue 7″ (Fania, 1978)
• Les Edits du Golem – Fever (Lulu Rouge edit)
  Mp3 release only
• Archie Shepp – Mozambique (Stilove4music edit)
  Mozambique (Stilove4music, 2006)
• Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Heat Wave
  Heat Wave (Gordy, 1963)

Now that I am no longer a hyperbolic youth able to make love to you 37 times an afternoon, perhaps my odes are better in recompense.
Here is a semitransparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it. Step inside the lightbulb of my fermentation, Aphrodite, and tell me of the heating ducts of your day.
Put your eyelash on my pillow, I will do whatever you say.

- Dean Young.