We’re successfully inside dreamhost plan now so that means that this may be one of the last posts inside this motel’s address. Over the weekend I shall remain home for the most part hopefully aided by ex-contributor issa and local friend annie working on the new site. According to issa new site could very well be complete before Tuesday… I have finished mailing all of our kind donators today so if you check your mailbox and there’s still nothing from me please check your spam or mail me at motelmoka(at)gmail.com.

here’s 4four songs for the weekend, enjoy:

Der Schmeisser – kleines bongo maedchen
(Hueftgold ep, 2004)
The octopus project + Black Moth super rainbow – lollipopsichord
(the house of apples & eyeballs, 2006)
Klaxons – gravity’s rainbow (van she remix)
(gravity’s rainbow single, 2005)
Loveninjas – I wanna be like Johnny C
(I wanna be like johnny c, 2006)

Note: Links from last days hosted by enfiltro will all be erased by tomorrow. Get them while it lasts :]
Image: Matei Apostolescu

This night the monkey died. His skeleton has gone gangrenous with a toxicity that swells the night with green foam and odd light. Join the fray and tangle.

The motel de moka fund drive is almost half it’s goal. We’re all very thankful and I will be soon emailing personally each one of the donators for hugs and kisses. If you too wish to make a donation please visit our donate page. Thank you, once again.

Image: My current favorite, Moira Hahn. Marvellous mixture of japanese pop culture with 17th century ukiyo-e. Behold the truth that everything that is not tradition is plagarism.

First of all I wish to thank reader Oscar for allowing us to host our files for a temporary time while we’re homeless. As this is a loan and I’m very afraid of exhausting Oscar’s bandwith I need to ask of you readers not to hotlink the files on other page and download the files without streaming. Oscar writes some excellent podcasts on the alt stream radio, Enfiltro. Y sigo dandote las gracias, Oscar.

A mixture of folk tingled songs, some old/new, released/unreleased records. I’m specially fond and deeply recommend the Benoit Pioulard and Dosh which have been spinning all last month on my stereo and the unmastered song of which seems like a brilliant follow-up album by Paul Duncan. And oi! Aaron Coleman wrote some great reviews with podcast included at almostcool for both Pioulard and Dosh albums, read & listen here and here.

it’s that time of the year – Happy Samhain and Day of the Dead kids.

Van Dyke Parks – Van Dyke Parks
(song cycle, 1968)
Voices of the seven woods – an hour before dawn
(twisted nerve 7″, 2006)
Eric Bachmann – carrboro woman
(to the races, 2006)
Benoit Pioulard – patter
(Precis, 2006)
Dosh – Um, circles & squares (feat. Andrew Bird)
(the lost take, 2006)
Various – fly
(the world is gone, 2006)
Midwinter – the waters of sweet sorrow
(midwinter – 1973)
Larkin Grimm – the last tree
(the last tree, 2006)
Paul Duncan – red eagle
(unreleased, 2006?)
Lesley Duncan – love song
(sing children sing, 1971)

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two years ago a very close friend of mine lost his wife to a condition that was never diagnosed, and since then he has had many vivid dreams about her/

he posted this latest dream on his blog today, so i’m sure he wont mind me repeating it here/ a little background: he is a big fan of time travel, not just the idea but the serious possiblility of it actually exsisting/… with this dream i now understand why he is fascinated by it, a reason i shouldve figured out right away, but didnt/

just woke up from this:

i was going climbing with some friends. we met at this sort of creepy cool old used bookstore on the outskirts of town. it was famous for being able t get whatever old out of print book you needed, and usually in good shape. i was walking thru the stacks, and ran into angela lansbury. but she was in her teens. i didn’t think anything of it at the time, just thought it a bit weird. i knew it was her, but didn’t think anything of the fact that she was 19. i think maybe i had seen her a couple of times before this. i got some books, including some old climbing guidebook. went to the checkout aisle, and as i’m waiting to be checked out, angela lansbury–the murder she wrote one, who’s in her 60′s walked by. i made eye contact with her, and asked her if she knew of any special books she could suggest i read. she told me to come over so she could whisper it to me. “you’ll want to check out ‘the linesman’.” is all she said, but she winked as i drew back from her. i don’t remember looking that book up, but when we(some climbing friends and i) left the store, i knew that the store was a time vortex or something. by reading that book, one would unlock the secrets of the time travel. that’s how they got all those old books in great shape.
so, we’re driving to the climbing spot, and my phone rings. i pick it up, and anna answers. she’s been dead for two years now, and the same was true in the dream. i didn’t want to spook her, cos i was talking to her, and didn’t wanna fuck something up or scare her or anything. she asked me a couple of things, oh, i remember having told her once a long time ago that i’d be seeing her soon. she asked me where i was, cos i had called a while ago, telling her i’d be home soon. i asked her where she was, but she wouldn’t answer straight out. i eventually got out of her that she was at this mexican restaurant that we went to once. i know we only went there once, cos i could–in the dream–use this to figure out we were in boulder, but i could’t narrow down the time frame. she could sense i was getting at something, but i didn’t want her to know yet. i said to her “this is gonna sound really strange, but what year is it?” she wouldn’t answer. she sounded kind of put off, in fact, that i’d even ask. i didn’t know if she was sick by this point or not. but that wasn’t what i was getting at.

(break from the dream, this is josh talking reality for a moment)
the last book we both read (her first, then me) was called the time traveller’s wife, by audrey niffeneggar. if you haven’t read it, i would highly suggest you do so. when you do, you’ll know why this book especially means something more than just a book we read together.

(back to the dream).

i was trying to discern if she had read this book yet or not, in the time she was calling me from. i guess in the dream she was already sick, but she didn’t know she was gonna die. in the book, henry dies, and claire knows it. but henry’s the one who time travels, and is always hiding things from claire. it’s a great turn of circumstances…i was trying to figure out if the anna on the phone had read the book, and put together that she was gonna die. but i didn’t want to scare her.
i asked her a couple of times what the year was, but she wouldn’t tell me. i finally asked if she had read anything by audrey niffeneggar. she finally said that she had, and she got a little choked up when she answered.
i knew that shew knew, at this point. that she was gonna die, i mean. in fact, she told me. something to the effect of “josh, i know.” all i could do was manage to get out “i love you so much, anna. i miss you.” and it was completely garbled, cos i was crying already, but i didn’t want to not say them. she ended with “i know, josh. i know.”

end of dream.

dunno if it exists or not, but i’m off to find a book called the linesman now.

01 danieto_amanecer zencillo
02 audion and ellen allien_just a woman (audion version)
03 pendle coven_they made it for us (boats megamix)
04 kangding ray_stabil

06 freescha_shiver me timbers
07 orla wren_ballad of a daydream
08 radian_entoderm
09 tortoise_autumn sweater
10 the glove _holiday 80 (original instrumental mix)