The first time I saw flowers I freaked

[sovay]

Today: we watched Derek Jarman's Jubilee (1977), a gorgeous cut-up flier of a film, and Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense (1984), the best concert movie ever. The book that rushthatspeaks brought me from the Strand was David Edmonds and John Eidinow's Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers (2001), which is exactly as delightful as it sounds. We ran into nineweaving in Berryline. My immune system is doing its best to kill me, but otherwise I'm doing all right.

Nonetheless, teenybuffalo requested the angsty playlist, so this is as far as it had gotten:

Arcade Fire, "We Used to Wait"

I used to write letters
I used to sign my name
I used to sleep at night

Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, "Episode 4: The Chimes of Big Ben"

'Cause they got their dogs
And they're at your heels
And I got my hands on whatever I can steal

Elvis Perkins in Dearland, "Shampoo"

Above me a perfect square of sky

The Mountain Goats, "This Year"

I am going to make it through this year if it kills me

PJ Harvey, "Big Exit"

Baby, baby, ain't it true
I'm immortal when I'm with you?

Placebo, "The Bitter End"

You shower me with lullabies
As you're walking away

The William Blakes & Spleen United, "Running Up That Hill"

Do you want to know how it feels?
Do you want to know that it doesn't hurt me?
Do you want to hear about the deal I'm making?

I still wish my immune system weren't trying to kill me, of course.

Comments

[readingthedark.livejournal.com]

I presume I've gone on and on about how Placebo are one of the greatest bands in the world, but you've mentioned them enough lately that I can't help but post this comment.

[sovay]

I presume I've gone on and on about how Placebo are one of the greatest bands in the world, but you've mentioned them enough lately that I can't help but post this comment.

I don't mind. I first heard them late in college when "Nancy Boy" came on a friend's mp3 player as we were driving; I really started listening to them in graduate school when I discovered their cover of "Running Up That Hill." I still don't have all of their albums, but I am working on remedying that. The video for "Pure Morning" makes me very happy for reasons I cannot quite explain.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

They are righteous live.

[sovay]

They are righteous live.

I've never seen them!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yay, now I have three, count 'em, three, versions of "Running Up that Hill, which is a song I love. Tell me we both matter, don't we?

[sovay]

Yay, now I have three, count 'em, three, versions of "Running Up that Hill, which is a song I love.

Glad to help!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Have you the Faith and the Muse Version? Tell me you do, or I shall be moved to remedy that for you.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I don't! I have Kate Bush, Placebo, and now this.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Four! Four vonderful versions of the song! aa aa aa.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/g07jhu

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

This seems a different song with the same name, but wow--it is beautiful! Thanks!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's right. All the track names on that CD are messed up for some reason.

This is the real one: (misnamed "Soul in Isolation").
http://www.sendspace.com/file/l9p1js

The song I sent is actually called "Frater Ave Atque Vale"

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, this is more like it.

EXCELLENT.

[sovay]

The song I sent is actually called "Frater Ave Atque Vale"

Is that a song about Catullus 101?

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, but I think so..?

[sovay]

I'm not sure, but I think so..?

*YOINK*

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Have you heard this one before? "The Snow" by Lily Holbrook: http://www.sendspace.com/file/3liexh

[sovay]

Have you heard this one before? "The Snow" by Lily Holbrook

Never!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Man, I never noticed before just what a classic Chess song "Big Exit" is. That's useful, in context.;)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

... eeep. Not liking the sound of the words "big exit" with the name Chess....

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Look out ahead
I see danger come
I wanna pistol
I wanna gun
I'm scared baby
I wanna run
This world's crazy
Give me the gun

Baby, baby
Ain't it true
I'm immortal
When I'm with you
But I wanna pistol
In my hand
I wanna go to
A different land...

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Phew! These are supremely relevant and not so worrying as what I was imagining.

[sovay]

Man, I never noticed before just what a classic Chess song "Big Exit" is. That's useful, in context.

It's easily my favorite off that album, although I liked "Good Fortune" and "The Mess We're In" and "This Is Love" have grown on me since 2004. At the time, it was associated for me with a kind of dangerous joy—don't get too used to this—and indeed it is now very painful for me to listen to. But it's still my favorite song on that album, and sometimes I find myself singing it.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting "This Year"! I'd only heard it on Patchen's radio show, which also means that I only just found out that I was missing the first verse...
In exchange, have this (if you don't already): Superman Song

PS: Hope your immune system stops trying to kill you, and happy rest of passover.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

PPS: also download Fountains of Wayne's "Song of the Passaic". I may have told you to do that already. But it is good, and vaguely angsty.

[sovay]

In exchange, have this (if you don't already): Superman Song

I did not! Thank you.

also download Fountains of Wayne's "Song of the Passaic". I may have told you to do that already.

You did, and I got it.

[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Thank you, they look delicious. When I get my act together a bit more I'll make my own angsty playlist and post it in return.

[sovay]

Thank you, they look delicious.

Glad to oblige.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I've a couple of angsty songs to give you in return, but none on this computer, alas. Will see what I can do.

Hope your immune system becomes less inimical to you soon.

[sovay]

I've a couple of angsty songs to give you in return, but none on this computer, alas. Will see what I can do.

It's all right; I'm not sure how many more I need.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

It's all right; I'm not sure how many more I need.

Ah, but are any of them you have settings of Irish-language modernist poetry? With lines like "Mo scornach slochta le slaghdán"*?

I can't now find the CD that's in question, but when I do find it, I'll send you the track.

*One of the things that annoys me most about Modern English is how unfriendly towards long runs of alliteration it is. I'm tossing translations round in my head that try to preserve some trace of that--"My throat stopped with a snot-cold"; "My throat throttled with a [something that equals a cold and starts with þ]"--and none of them really work.