For anyone who has read my blog, they’ve heard me mention the couple whose kids I used to babysit in my early-mid teens. The mom was a hairdresser, and the dad worked third shift in a factory. While the kids were outside playing and the dad was sleeping upstairs, I had free use of the…
Category: music
#SLS – “More Than This,” by Roxy Music (1982)
Veronica Veronese (cover for single release)By Dante Gabriel Rossetti I’ve often thought I should do an album where the songs are all bound together in the style of West Side Story, but it’s always seemed like too much bother to work that way. So instead, I have these 10 poems, or short stories, that could, with…
FFF 47 — “Rabbit Run,” by Idles from “Caught Stealing”
When I saw/heard the following track on Idles’ YouTube page, I was geeked. I didn’t have a clue they were doing a film score and had written 4 songs for a new movie, “Caught Stealing.” Expected to be released on August 29, the movie is crammed with stars including: Austin ButlerBad BunnyVincent D’onofrioZoë KravitzLiev SchreiberMatt…
#MMB August songs — “Picture Book,” by The Kinks
Here we are in August and I’ve already found several songs containing it. It remains to be seen how many will be checked off by others before the month is over. The one I went with today is The Kinks, with “Picture Book.” With Kinks songs, you really can’t go wrong. They are up there…
#SLS – “Singing from the Windows” by Dave Matthews Band, from Walk Around the Moon
Dave Matthews Band “Walk Around the Moon” album cover (link takes you to Pitchfork review) image link My first thought on great album closer is something that has every instrument vibing full blast with echoing screams by a long-haired 1970’s musician like Robert Plant or Steven Tyler. A song, when it ends, the silence is…
FFF46 — “The Rider-Waite Deck,” by Ichabod Wolf (2024)
Ichabod Wolf I came across, “The Rider-Waite Deck” on Spotify’s Release Radar awhile back and have had it in my favorites playlist since then. There is something compelling about Ichabod Wolf’s (Kieren Smith’s) resonant, fatalistic voice recite-singing the lyrics. The lyrics tell the tale of man who has been beaten hard by love and who…
dVerse — Tuesday Poetics — Wee Troubadour
Wee TroubadourLast summer’s three, she climbed the chunky boulder, playing follow-the-leader to the little seven boy, therewith his dad, and leapt off when we weren’t looking.She bent her knees as we’d instructed, but her lipshit a knee. Her lips swelled along with bleed. Tears.This summer’s four climbs her rocky friend with morein mind. Its elevated…
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