Beast that you are,
3 arms that you have to hold me,
4 hands to touch me with,
One eye to gaze upon me,
One leg,
A probosis on your lower abdomen,
No head as such,
And a tuft of coarse hair on your chest,
You are perfect,
My Darling. – David Shrigley, The Book of Shrigley

The hole you have in your heart is no hole at all, it is an endless galaxy of vitamins and boxes. I wish I could find the box with your tongue in it so I could sew up the cut and put it in your clean hand – Terri Gender Bender

1. Sui Zhen – Letter to You 001 (unreleased, 2010)
2. Telegraph Avenue – Lauralie (Mag records, 1971)
3. Gonjasufi – Sheep (Warp records, 2010)
4. Andras Fox & Sui Zhen – Petit Morte (unreleased, 2010)
5. Flamingos - I only have eyes for you (End records, 1959)
6. The Mole – Dreamer (Musique Risquee, 2010)
7. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Round and Round (4AD, 2010)
8. Dirty Projectors – No Intention (Domino, 2009)

Recently I have been spending time on skype, communicating with a loved one both present and absent. There are times when words, letters, and pictures need to be replaced by a haptic space of darkness and touch.

Whilst this can be filed under the “romantic-mixtape” category, I hope the variety of sounds, places and release dates make it one for a love beyond temporal-spatial restrictions.  For those interested, the Telegraph Avenue album is a Peruvian Psych/Pop gem well worth checking out. And for the uninitiated, Sui Zhen is a nomadic wanderer from Sydney whose talent is almost matched by her prolific output. Asides from writing songs whilst most people would scarcely have time to cook a meal (see: Letter to You 001) Sui Zhen makes films, photos and other devices for the storage of memories. Her album is being prepared for release soon, so keep an ear out.

When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.
- Augusto Monterroso.

1. Electroid 2000- Moogsters Revenge
   A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble Exploding In Your Mind Vol. 2  (Platipus, 2008)
2. Johnny Jones & The King Casuals – Purple Haze
   Come Get It I Got It (13 Amp Recordings, 2002)
3. Czeslaw Nieman – Z Listu Do M
   Katharsis (Polskie Nagrania  Musa,  1975)
4. San Ui Lim – Frustration
   Prog Is Not  A Four Letter Word (Delay 68 Records,  2005)
5. Música Dispersa- Cefalea
   Folk Is NoT  A Four Letter Word (Delay 68 Records, 2005)
6. The Gaslamp Killer – Anything Worse
   My Troubled Mind (Brain feeder, 2009)
7. Bo Diddley - Elephant Man
   The Black Gladiator (Cheker, 1970)
8. Titán-Chemix
   Titán (Nuevos Ricos, 2005)

Image: Here

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

Then he turned around and filled up a plastic cup with ice, filled it 3/4 of the way with water and carefully added four shots of espresso. He stirred it gravely and handed it to me, saying “enjoy.” And you know what? I really did. You’ve got to admire someone’s dedication to craft, and rigid adherence to a strict quality control policy. I was really, really impressed. So impressed that I swallowed my rage like so much cold coffee, opened up my wallet, and left a tip in the tip jar.

This whole thing’s blown up pretty big over the few hours — linked on Metafilter and BoingBoing — and it’s a little embarrassing. I mean, I can freely admit that I acted like a total dick here. But it’s not like I didn’t have probable cause. This is a tiny little thing that happened and made for a funny story, but I mean, c’mon, there are wars and genocides happening. I’m making a big deal out of it on this blog, but overall, not such a bad thing. – I am not lying.

” Along with a cup of coffee ”

01. Exene Cervenka – Surface Of The Sun
Somewhere Gone (Bloodshot Records, 2009)
02. The Dodos – Fables
Time To Die (Frenchkiss, 2009)
03. Deleted Scenes – Ithaca
Birdseed Shirt (What Delicate; 2009)
04. Swimmers - A Hundred Hearts
People Are Soft (Mad Dragon, 2009)
05. Rose Melberg – Things That We Do
Homemade Ship (K Records, 2009)
06. Curtis Harvey – Oldertoo
Box Of Stones (Fat Cat, 2009)
07. The Tallest Man On Earth – Pistol Dreams
Shallow Graves (Gravitation, 2008)

Note: Whew, the entire country is turning into a frozen hell hole. Warm coffee then? Maybe lit a cigarette too. MdM program is a little messy. It’ll take sometimes to get the groove back. or maybe Moka will fix it pronto. In the meantime, my post will be all over the place. (Haven’t post proper rock and indie for long time.) Anyway, enjoy the twangy small room americana rock songs above. They are lovely in straight forward way.

image: margolove

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. -A fragment from Alice In Wonderland.

1. Tune-Yards – Little Tiger
   Bird -Brains (Marriage Records, 2009)
2. Emily Neveu – My Cosmonaut Edit
   I Wonder If the Children Know (Lefse Recors, 2009)
3. Holly Miranda-Waves
   Waves (XL, 2009)
4. Super Furry Animals - Zoom!
   Love Kraft (Beggars Banquet, 2005)
5. Cornelius- The Micro Disneycal World Tour
   Fantasma (Matador, 1997)
6. Birds & Rarities – I’ll Never Sleep Again
   I’ll Never Sleep Again (Self Release, 2008)
7. Broadcast & The Focus Group-The Be Colony
   Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (Warp, 2009)

This playlist is called “Waiting For Santa”. Music for children and gnomes…made by both :-)
Photo: Andross