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Now I feel like Kafka with a bad migraine
After a run of welcomely lovely days, it was perhaps inevitable but deeply resented that I should hit a couple that sucked on toast, logistically, emotionally, resource-wise. I lost one completely to driving to a doctor's appointment that could have been virtual and too much of this afternoon and evening was spent in the kind of frustrated flat uselessness that I hope counts as convalescence because otherwise it's even more of a waste than it feels to me. Without spending that much time in the car, I have been listening to a lot of college radio. Girl in Red's "I'll Call You Mine" (2021) turns out to be a queer outlaw ballad while Jay Som's "Float (feat. Jim Adkins)" (2025) is a sweetly affirming house party. I was doing all right with the Divine Comedy's "Achilles" (2025) until it pulled out Housman and Patrick Shaw-Stewart and then the video was directly in the line of Jarman. I am unduly entertained by the reference to methylene blue in Jealous of the Birds' "Tonight I Feel Like Kafka" (2016).
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If you hate it so much you want to gnaw down to your own bones, and you’re crying bored and cross at yourself for breathing, it’s working! Sorry! I love you!
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Doing things makes me feel better! (Except for driving to unnecessarily in-person appointments.)
*hugs*
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*hugs* on top of awesome Elemental moodboards: also cool.
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*hugs*
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Now I feel like Kafka with a bad migraine
My brain automatically tried to scan this to the tune of "Bigmouth Strikes Again" by the Smiths (now I know how Joan of Arc felt); I'll have to check out the actual song!
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I can see how that happened! Lyrically it reminded me of the Mountain Goats' "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" (2008), which it otherwise does not resemble at all.
*hugs*
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Now I kind of want to make a playlist of songs which namedrop authors in the title.....
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You absolutely should.
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*hugs*
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Good to know that Neil Hannon is still making music under The Divine Comedy. I went through a little obsessive phase with his music. If I had to choose, I'd say his song "Generation Sex" is my favorite. It's a nice commentary on consumerism that still fits today, and it's like transcendentally catchy.
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Yes! I was just thinking about his music last month, so it was nice to find out that between then and now he had released a new album.
If I had to choose, I'd say his song "Generation Sex" is my favorite. It's a nice commentary on consumerism that still fits today, and it's like transcendentally catchy.
The transcendent catchiness is a very popular choice with the Divine Comedy.
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Have you heard Cleaners From Venus? It's mainly one guy, Martin Newell, an eccentric poet, author, and of course musician, who's been active since the early 80s and has recorded dozens of lo-fi pop albums on like four-tracks and they all have that transcendent catchiness to them. Many of his songs are autobiographical and poppy, but he's got a way of weaving this sort of introspective melancholy too, and there are a handful of songs that have that same sort of character-sketch quality to them a la Divine Comedy. He's an English treasure, I think.
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I have, but neither of the songs which you link, and which I appreciate! "They haven't really been this angry since 1381."
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Hate those. *hugs*
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Sympathies! I could have done a virtual appointment and just been tired. Having to drive myself there and back including through a construction detour just wiped out the entire day.
*hugs*
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https://www.tumblr.com/thisbluespirit/797219973270552576/original-other-elements-30-tungsten-tungsten?source=share
<3 Happy belated birthday? (I mean, I intended to do it weeks ago when you first suggested it, but hey... ;-D)
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I love him! Thank you so much! Your timing however intentional is ideal.
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Thank you. It was literally a conversation! We have that technology!
*hugs*
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Thank you! I haven't seen many of their videos and this one was sort of laser-targeted.
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And I liked "Tonight I Feel Like Kafka" too--I Liked the line "baby don't touch me, I'm made of chalk." I heard the methylene blue line but am burdened by my lack of knowledge of what methylene blue is--but if it's paired with cyanide, it's got to be good!
And I'll check out the other two anon--I was working backwards.
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I shared it with my father and he found "Invisible Thread" (2025) from the same newly released album, which I found beautiful and instantly made me wonder about the age of the singer-songwriter's children.
And I liked "Tonight I Feel Like Kafka" too--I Liked the line "baby don't touch me, I'm made of chalk." I heard the methylene blue line but am burdened by my lack of knowledge of what methylene blue is--but if it's paired with cyanide, it's got to be good!
It reminds me of Decoy (1946)! It's also just a good line.
Enjoy the rest of the music!
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I was interested in the wooden-house-in-the-woods aspect of the visual storytelling (Wakanomori having commented when I first met him on how exotic wooden houses seemed to him). The ax in the chopping block, the quilt with the white stars on blue in the background in the house, all of it was very frontier-American feeling, but of course the singer is English and the girls/young women were very visually English faces too. This isn't a problem! It was just interesting that visually, they decided to set it in a faraway-from-England-feeling location.