Saturday, March 30, 2019

Crass - Who Dunnit? [Side A & B] (1983)















It's
been backing up for a long time now....

Thursday, March 21, 2019

"A World So Full of Love" / ROGER MILLER

Schiller on love and music....


Ah, song and love in joy together blending,/ Preserve for life youth's glory without ending.” Friedrich Schiller, Gedichte. Die vier Weltalter.

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

John Lennon - Woman

from Thomas McGrath, Letter To An Imaginary Friend, Book II

"Ain't no grabirons a man can lay hand to. I tell you it's DARK
DOWN HERE MAN!
        slippery dark
                        can't see
                                    I tell you it's hell--"
We must walk up out of this dark using what charms we have.
Hell's everywhere, this only seems like hell, take my hand,
It is only required to open your eyes--
                                                            see
                                                                there's
The land as it was
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
        Unchanged and changed.
                                                I tell you millions
Are moving.
                Pentagon marchers
                                                Prague May Day locomotives
With flowers in their teeth!
                                        And now the red ball is hammering in—
Spot an empty! Grab an armful of rods!
                                                            I'll take you
In the final direction...
                                    Only: open your eyes...
But it's hard, hard, man
                                    I'm standing here, naked
As a studhorse in a rhubarb patch
                                                    Waiting
                                                                waiting
                                                                    and here--
Around me
                trouble built for small boys and crazy men!
For my purpose (as I keep saying) is nothing less 
Than ...
To elaborate the iconic dynamite of the authentic class struggle 
In other words to change the world
                                                    --Nothing less.
                                                                    It's hard and I'm 
scared ...

Friday, March 1, 2019

Takemitsu on music

“Music is either sound or silence. As long as I live I shall choose sound as something to confront a silence. That sound should be a single, strong sound.” -- Toru Takemitsu