http://www.moteldemoka.com Indie MP3 blog mostly rock, pop, folk and electronic Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:12:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having lived my entire life on the east coast of the U.S. and briefly in Europe, the concept of California and the west coast was always an imagined, distant place for me. Eventually I'd like to make it out there, maybe spend a few years in San Francisco, experience some ... http://www.moteldemoka.com/2008/07/22/california-dreamin/ " Almost Sweet " 01. Cary Brothers - Ride Who You Are (Procrastination Music, 2007) 02. Paul Duncan - Oil In The Fields Be Careful What You Call Home (Hometapes, 2005) 03. Calexico - Two Silver Trees Carried To Dust (Touch and Go Records, 2008) 04. Lymbyc Systym - Truth Skull Love Your Abuser (Mush, 2007) 05. Ova Looven ... http://www.moteldemoka.com/2008/07/22/disguised-as-sweet/ In a district that sleeps alone, save for your few back-pocket lobbyists sharing space under the covers, post-work social events are networking for some, but that seldom found chance to breathe for others. In a city bursting at its seams with political rhetoric and hot air, founded upon agendas far ... http://www.moteldemoka.com/2008/07/21/distriction-happy-hour/ There was a man in our village who never in his life had a pet of any kind until his wife died. By my calculation, Gerard Loomis was in his mid-fifties when Marietta was taken from him, but at the ceremony in the chapel he looked so scorched and stricken ... http://www.moteldemoka.com/2008/07/19/sunday-sunshine/ . Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations. Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies like a snowflake falling on water. Below us, some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death, snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and barn back into the little system of his care. All night, the cities, like shimmering novas, tug with ... http://www.moteldemoka.com/2008/07/17/before-the-last-second-ticks/ Photo: Josef Sudek (1896–1976), from the portfolio Svàty Vit (1928) . Poets don’t invent poems The poem is somewhere behind It’s been there for a long time The poet merely discovers it ~ Jan Skácel ~ Josef Sudek (1896-1976), born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, was gifted with an extraordinary intuition for knowing where such poetry was to be ... http://www.moteldemoka.com/2008/07/13/shrouded-in-the-symbiotic-mystery-of-timelessness-and-romanticism/ I was very influenced by the makeup of Claudia Cardinale in a film where she had very dark eyeliner. As soon as we hit on that for Penélope, everything changed. It was also very important to have an ample cleavage enhanced by strategically placed medallions, because that's one of the ... http://www.moteldemoka.com/2008/07/10/o-es-nada-cosas-de-mujeres/ Like in the children's book we moved representationally. Where the yellow blob stands in for warmth... We were all imagination and mistake, experiment. - Priscilla Becker. Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - Ocre Paraiso 91.90.77 Ep (Oslo, 2007) Four Tet - Wing body wing Ringer (Domino, 2008) Valerio Cosi - Hoboland Valerio Cosi & ... http://www.moteldemoka.com/2008/07/10/obectified-circuitry/