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- La Via Della Droga (M2) – Goblin
- Regeneration – Stone Temple Pilots
- The Clan – Geoff Bastow
- Mama You Sweet – Lucinda Williams
- Cold Roses – Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
- Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain – Elvis Presley
- Clouds Up – Air
- Little Rain – The Rolling Stones (Jimmy Reed cover)
- Hurry Sundown – Little Richard
- Let’s Pretend It’s Summer – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Earthquake Weather – Beck
- Me And Jane Doe – Charlotte Gainsbourg (written, performed, & produced w/ Beck)
- Blue Jay Way – The Beatles
- Parade of Blood Red Sorrows – Jane Weaver
- Diode – Andy Votel
- Shade Lady – Quincy Jones
- How’m I Gonna Keep Myself Together – Dory Previn
- Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp / Map To The Treasure / Beads Of Sweat – Laura Nyro
- I’ll Keep It With Mine – Nico (Bob Dylan cover)
- 04/27/05 Wednesday – Fantômas (Mike Patton)
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Hello All.
Welcome to Volume Nine of the MixTape series: The Demise Of The Mask. –(Volume One here)__(Volume Two here)__(Volume Three here)__(Volume Four here)__(Volume Five here)__(Volume Six here)__(Volume Seven here)__(Volume Eight here)-
I’ve got quite a treat MixTape here for you. This one features the Stone Temple Pilots‘ tune “Regeneration” from their 2001 record Shangri-La Dee Da; a song I’ve always appreciated for the prog embellishments given to their more typical style of whirl-with-a-sugared-crunch, and for the fact that Scott Weiland‘s vocals here remind me so much of my uncle’s but taken out of the context of his own Candombe-beat-rock-n-roll. You’ll also hear one of my favorite songs by the fantastic Lucinda Williams, “Mama You Sweet.” This is a song that I can marvel at with every listen, how with such precision she spirals through an aggregate of metaphors for grief–she navigates them as each feeds into the next–seemingly trapped but with the only release being to collapse out onto the total, simple truth of the titular phrase: “I love you, Mama you sweet.” Really, this is just stunning songwriting! You’ll also hear from one of my favorite songwriters, the always brilliant and honest Dory Previn; one song each from the married couple of Jane Weaver and DJ/producer Andy Votel; something from the work that Goblin did for the soundtrack of the 1977 film La via della droga (mainly exported as “The Heroine Busters” or “Dealer Connection”); something from one of Elvis Presley‘s final recording sessions, in the Jungle Room at Graceland on 7 February 1976; and The Rolling Stones with a Jimmy Reed cover taken from their joyous record of blues covers released at the end of last year, Blue & Lonesome. Oh, and along with a whole lot of other great tunes you’ll hear a three song portion of the second side of Laura Nyro‘s great LP of 1970, Christmas and the Beads of Sweat, featuring Alice Coltrane on harp and Duane Allman on guitar.
Also below you’ll find a list of things I read (or re-read) so far since January of this year. These are works that I truly enjoyed and/or loved. I highly recommend them all!
I’m currently half-way through The Complete Fiction of Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, translated by Celina Wieniewska, and wow! Schulz’s language has repeatedly made me pause with wonder; it’s just stunning.
I had heard this writer’s name before but what compelled me to find this book down in the library’s basement is having seen The Hourglass Sanatorium (Sanatorium pod klepsydrą), a 1973 Polish film directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, a beautiful phantasmagorical work, a cinematic poem, which was based on Bruno Schulz’s story collection. The film won the Jury Prize at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, and has quickly become one of my favorite films of all time.
You can read about it here at the fantastic film blog 366 Weird Movies, and you can watch the whole thing here on Vimeo.
After I finish up this book I plan on picking up a work of literature by one of my favorite painters, Leonora Carrington (her 100th birthday would have been April 6th). Perhaps I’ll read her novella The Hearing Trumpet, or The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington, which is just about to be published by the small press Dorothy.
And then I finally plan to commit to the brilliant Alan Moore‘s massive (1266 pages) novel: Jerusalem
But as for what I have read and listed, I’d truly recommend anything you find below!
I do want to make special mention of the graphic novel/comic book biography Pablo by Julie Birmant & Clement Oubrerie, published by independent publishing house SelfMadeHero as part of their great “Art Masters Series.” Here Picasso’s formative years are narrated by his first great love and muse, the artists’ model Fernande Olivier, and the whole work is just beautiful with an intimacy biographies can often lack.
Oh, and remember this month is not only National Poetry Month, but as Mike Patton‘s Fantômas project reminds us, “April is national humor and anxiety month.”
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- La Via Della Droga (M2) – Goblin
- Regeneration – Stone Temple Pilots
- The Clan – Geoff Bastow
- Mama You Sweet – Lucinda Williams
- Cold Roses – Ryan Adams & The Cardinals
- Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain – Elvis Presley
- Clouds Up – Air
- Little Rain – The Rolling Stones (Jimmy Reed cover)
- Hurry Sundown – Little Richard
- Let’s Pretend It’s Summer – The Brian Jonestown Massacre
- Earthquake Weather – Beck
- Me And Jane Doe – Charlotte Gainsbourg (written, performed, & produced w/ Beck)
- Blue Jay Way – The Beatles
- Parade of Blood Red Sorrows – Jane Weaver
- Diode – Andy Votel
- Shade Lady – Quincy Jones
- How’m I Gonna Keep Myself Together – Dory Previn
- Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp / Map To The Treasure / Beads Of Sweat – Laura Nyro
- I’ll Keep It With Mine – Nico (Bob Dylan cover)
- 04/27/05 Wednesday – Fantômas (Mike Patton)
[La Via Della Droga (M2) – Goblin]
[Regeneration – Stone Temple Pilots]
[The Clan – Geoff Bastow]
[Mama You Sweet – Lucinda Williams (photo by Annie Leibovitz)]
[Cold Roses – Ryan Adams & The Cardinals (photo by David Black)]
[Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain – Elvis Presley]
[Clouds Up – Air]
[Little Rain – The Rolling Stones (Jimmy Reed cover)]
[Hurry Sundown – Little Richard]
[Let’s Pretend It’s Summer – The Brian Jonestown Massacre]
[Earthquake Weather – Beck (photo by Autumn de Wilde, 2005)]
[Me And Jane Doe – Charlotte Gainsbourg (written, performed, & produced w/ Beck)]
[Blue Jay Way – The Beatles]
[Parade of Blood Red Sorrows – Jane Weaver]
[Diode – Andy Votel (Water color of Andy by Saydan Aksit)]
[Shade Lady – Quincy Jones]
[How’m I Gonna Keep Myself Together – Dory Previn]
[Upstairs By A Chinese Lamp / Map To The Treasure / Beads Of Sweat – Laura Nyro]
[I’ll Keep It With Mine – Nico (Bob Dylan cover). (photo by Lisa Law, Los Angeles, CA 1967)]
[04/27/05 Wednesday – Fantômas (Mike Patton)]
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2017 Reading List Thus Far:________
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: Apocalypse Suite / The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas by Gerard Way & Gabriel Ba
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A Mouthful of Pennies 