In the 1969 revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feast day of Saint Valentine on February 14 was removed from the General Roman Calendar and relegated to particular (local or...
1. EMA – Past Life Martyred Saints (Souterrain Transmissions) Listen: Anteroom Martyrs are not victims. There is no self-pity or cool detachment to their pain. This is the mantra by which Erika...
Henri Rousseau never went to the Jungle. He spent all his days in Paris and surrounds, meticulously painting images of nature that were anything but ‘natural’. He copied his designs from ...
There are many blossoms of great beauty – many indeed. But they cannot compare with the beauty of the blossoms of blossom town, for these bossoms also have human feelings. – Sharebon. Boo...
“The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.” List of songs about or related to body parts. More textural than literal, ono...
Photo: Lars Tunbjörk Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - No One Is (As I Are Be) Mirror Traffic (Matador, 2011) Deerhunter – Desire Lines Halcyon Digest (4ad, 2010) Dj Shadow - Scale It Back The ...
Photo: Hotel Basico. Playa del Carmen. Belated summer / continental nostalgia. Andrew Sisters – Rum & Coca Cola Rum & Coca Cola (1944) Cesaria Evora – Sodade Miss Perfumado (Lusaf...
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Today’s list is nostalgic, and includes a track by John Fahey (who I initially discovered on this very website). It’s slightly warped playlist to...
Footprintz - Utopia Utopia Ep (Visionquest, 2011) Kasper Bjørke – Heaven (Nicolas Jaar Remix) Heaven (HFN Music, 2010) Queens Of The Stone Age – Make It With Chu Era Vulgaris (2007) Lit...
Photo: Charles Bergquist In summer we go to lie together beside the wather all of the things of the city mean half as much when we finally take them inside ourseleves. The slow water lapping the sun ...
Image via: Foldedmemos Stretch-Why Did You Do It? Why Did You Do It? (Anchor, 1975) Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle Fly Like An Eagle (1976) Boz Scaggs -Lowdown Silk Degrees (1976) Stevi...
Photo: Richard Misrach “When I think that I’m over you, I’m overpowered” Tracey Thorn – It’s All True It’s All True (2007) Lacquer – Behind Behind (20...
We arrived at the roller rink well after dark. I paid my $7 to the cashier, who took the money and scurried off to find me a pair of skates. A large concrete rink was surrounded by floor to ceiling b...
She had liked the young man’s looks, and his short-sighted eyes, and his odd way of speaking, that was abrupt yet soft, just as his hands were sun-burnt and sinewy, yet with smooth nails like a...
Photo: Phyllis Galembo. via: butdoesitfloat When you’re not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you’ve sinned. And you won’t make me jealous if I hear that they sweetened your n...
Image: Nonclickable Closer Musik - One Two Three No Gravity (Dettinger Remix) Kompakt 100 (Kompakt, 2004) Alteria Percepsyne -All You See Is A Ghost Cloacks Of Perception (Other Heights, 2011) Susum...
1. Gary Wilson – I wanna take you on a sea cruise (This Is Why I Wear My Wedding Gown 7″, 1983) 2. Solid Space - The Guests (Space Museum – Cassette – 1982) 3. Asmus Tietchens...
” Blue Green Blues. ” 01. John Lee Hooker – Father Was A Jockey Mr. Lucky (Charisma/ Pointblank, 1991) 02. Gregg Allman – Floating Bridge Low Country Blues (Rounder, 2011) 03....
Image: Creator’s Inn. “Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe ...
Image: Azul dc The Phenomenal Handclap Band -You’ll Disappear (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) 15 to 20 / You’ll Dissapear Remixes (Friendly Fire Recordings, 2009) Lindstrøm -Another Station (Tod...
Photo:Emile Barret Roland Appel - Dark Soldier Dark Soldier (Sonar Kollektiv, 2004) These New Puritans - We Want War Hidden (Domino, 2010) Forest Swords - Rattling Cage Dagger Paths (No Pain In Pop, ...
. ” Groove and Flavor ” 01. The Ramsey Lewis Trio – Nature Boy Pot Luck (Argo Records, 1962) 02. Cannonball Adderley – One For Daddy-O Somethin’ Else (1958) 03. The Neck...
The European Revolutions of 1848, known in some countries as the Spring of Nations, Springtime of the Peoples or the Year of Revolution, were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe. Descri...
Photo: Llove exhibition via Yatzer. Alice asked the Chesire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?” “I don’...
How long that wild rush lasted I have no means of judging. It may have been an hour, a day, or many days, for I was throughout in a state of suspended animation, but presently my senses began to retu...
On September 24, 1969, thirteen months after the riots that shocked America, the trial of the so-called “Chicago Eight” began in the oak-panelled, twenty-third-floor courtroom of Judge Ju...
Image: Nathalie Miebach The universe is nothing but a furtive arrangement of elementary particles. A figure in transition toward chaos. That is what will finally prevail…The skies will be glaci...
Photo: Carl W. Heindl. Troubled by wild fire and your heartless, raging music. Scritti Politti – Doubt Beat Early (Rough Trade, 2005) Maximum Joy – Silent Street/Silent Dub Disco Not Disc...
“27th day. Have rested and am moving south. All is well. Kerans.” So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southwar...
Photo: Platonov Pavel. The time and place and manner of my death are three facts that don’t exist yet. Facts exist for whole centuries and then suddenly cease. Pluto used to be a planet and now...
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