Tuesday, March 21, 2006

De-Poisoning

i never post direct follow-up blogs, but in case it just seemed to be necessary.

i came home to boston from texas tonight, went out and drank with my housemates, caem home again, read all of your posts, and turned off my computer.




then i ran a bath.






then i i sang along to/danced in the kitchen to/lip-synched into the bathroom mirror to every single song from the smiths "the queen is dead".
i stopped "mr shankley" and leanred the chords on piano. the bath sat there.


"the boy with the thorn in his side" had particular relevance.






then i took a lukewarm bath and kept listening. fine.







then i turned the computer on and wrote this.


now i'm going to bed.










there is a light and it never goes out

there is a light and it never goes out

there is a light and it never goes out

there is a light and it never goes out

there is a light and it never goes out....


















love
a

12 comments:

UrbanCelt said...

lip-synching and singing in the car is good too :) Something I do on a daily basis. Tho dancing in the car isnt recommended hehe

juxtagon said...

Ah, a classic album!
I hope you went the full hog and waved flowers around while wearing NHS specs and a broken hearing aid.

Just Some Girl said...

Nice to know your not past the point of no return, that would be horriable. Music is a great release and with all the time you miss from touring and all the pressure i'm sure you feel with buisness in general you need a release. I'm hoping to see you live in Denver in April, i've never seen your show just know your music from cds. I'm soooo excited I can't stand it, just kidding, but i'm am totally psyched to see you and Brian mabey i'll even get to meet you guys after the show. Be strong and if you have anymore issues with this music poisoning we will definitly have to get someone to cure you pronto!

June Miller said...

This post made me smile. You make me smile. Genuinely. So few things/people have done that for me lately, so thanks.

I'm glad to hear it's not as poisonous anymore. Really, though, there's nothing poisonous about Morrissey's voice. It's like buttah.

By the way, if you have time to see a movie, I recommend V for Vendetta. I know some people are gonna get on my case for it, but honestly? You'd probably dig it. It's some powerful shit. There's a beautiful subplot involving a girl named Valerie that anyone in their right mind should be touched by. I can't tell you anymore of it, because I don't want to spoil it for you, but trust me when I say you should check it out when you have the chance.

How do even my shortest posts end up looking so large? Damn.

UrbanCelt said...

I just watched "Sing", and I must say I was moved. I've listened to alot of music in my time but this was the first that really touched me. I can't wait to see you both at the signing in Hollywood

juxtagon said...

Um, I feel I must confess.

I stumbled drunk into a second-hand record shop, and staggered out with a copy of the Advance cd of Yes, Virginia ( full album promo). I think some journo must've been skint that week, But I feel I should do some pennance of some kind for this ;-)

Fun album, tho. production is a lot sharper, and "Shore of California" should be given the chance to live life as a full orchestra version. It's got a very Johnny Marr piano riff, tho. ( no bad thing).

I can see a few other influences in the other tracks, but I'm not going to mention them here.

And, yes, I will be going to a record shop to buy the new album when it's officially released. No sale for you lost here.

Oscillate Wildly and have fun.

Judith said...

You should write more follow-up posts as appropriate and also write spontaneous brief blog entries whenever possible. I appreciate your lengthy, thoughtful blog entries tremendously, but there is also something particularly wonderful about entries that have a sense of immediacy. The ability to provide that immediacy is one of the best characteristics of the medium, and often more powerful than an entry where you try and recall and reconstruct something you've been feeling over a long period of time that is already behind you. I'm by no means saying that your usual blog entries are anything less than wonderful, and I know that it's difficult to find the time to write at all, but I thought you might appreciate the feedback that briefer entries can be even more powerful sometimes for conveying your thoughts and connecting with your fans, while making less of a demand on you in terms of the time and labor that goes along with the perceived obligation to "get it all down."

juxtagon said...

I like the Replacements cover, 1st time I've ever heard someone do their tracks, but looking at the list of covers available for download - I'm a bit stunned and surprised there is nothing from "ShockHeaded Peter" by The Tiger Lillies. You'd kinda suit doing those, plus you could get Brian to sing/shout "Fred! Fred was dead! DEAD.dead.dead.dead.dead.dead.dead."

I'll get me coat.

Das T said...

The Smiths

can youlive a day without them? well I had that one with 2 girls on my little local festival(www.wiesen.at) saddly the Dolls cancel all the gigs in europe last.
M & johnny Marr they always make me kind of sad but that...
no no no I just don't want to accept
I want to make a differents
is always like you live you life but at the end of the day you are alone in your bed think the abyss of sleep with is real comfort, and you wake up in the morning...

you have seen taxi driver with is one of the malest(or how can I say that?) movies ever cause It is this sense of that need for silence loneyness that overcomes you and you start thinking thinking whats out there, violent thoughts...
...
........................
na then you all of a sudden happy again for whatever reason.
Like when you here the Dolls are coming, sorry
i changed the tone but that post and you guys made me kind of...
but i am not now
3 times to lovely austria, the place I call home.
Now "Heinz aus Wien"-"Immer noch"
good song for that one.

amanda last year the two times I saw you in Austria. Vienna/Flex such a great week and then the only one at the NIN concert who wanted to see more of you.
But then I saw you two the first time like i mean like you can talk to somebody with is quit different then during a concert(like in Glasonbury, it that amanda kissing that bright eyes guy? what?).

after 1 year of reading some stuff I wanted to ask and remember.
What was that with oasis?
was that really you with oberst?
funny dvd extras!!! toilet? I know that you mean ;-)
oh forgot the stuff.
as with not looking at girls in japan in contrast to italy, well
as a man I kind of think that the one we have in Central europe and the USA, I mean you cannot say something nice to a girl you see one the street without stupid stuff coming back from here, as like I am some pervert it's just you can say something about someone you think looks beauty-full or at least good. I mean what's that kind of world?
IT IS NOT ALWAYS SEX, GOD DAMNED!!!

Well it is almost 2 in the morning, university and work tommorrow. soo i will write my second blog entry somewhere around 10 pm or something.

Just thought about "Die Ärzte" band that had that one line with is english goes like this:
"You think the others have it better just because you have never seen them cry?"
WE ARE NOT ALONE!!!

Oasis:
"In your mind your dreams are real!"

Keep on rocking!!

It just everybody seems so sad here.
sign

MarkFarley said...

please please please please please come to Reading this year....

you guys are gonna rock...


DDolls for main stage... xx

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Unknown said...

I'm an italian sci-fi writer (also a comic writer!). I just wanted to tell you, in my broken english, that I just discovered WKAP and it broke my heart and made me laugh and it's the best fucking thing that passed through my ears in the last thousand years. I'm ashamed to sound this disarticulated in your language, but I wish to thank you deeply for the soul-gifts that you have given me. You have positively changed my worldview into something better and larger and uncut. I can't stop listening to "Runs In My Family", and I've done it for the last five days. I just have to steal you the lyrics and remix them in my next novel. This is not some fan bullshit, you have touched the deepest chords in my fucking being and I will translate this feeling into art. I've never told this to an artist: you just made the world a better place.