banana

because that's the song in my head right now, "banana co." an early song, but a beautiful one.

on sunday, our band decided to add "high and dry" and "karma police" to our set list. ohmigod, what a brilliant feeling to PLAY these songs, to be INSIDE them and inhabit them and let them fill me up with sound and words. i loved it. we all loved it. great songs and really cool to play.

otherwise a slow weekend, lazy and unfocused. i wrote a bit but not as much as i should have. must overcome laziness.....

poetry, too, is needed here. next time. i will recover from my stupor and get back into blogging action.

nice dream

"Radiohead have denied their album will be released on August 6 despite an internet retailer listing that release date. According to the listing on Amazon.co.uk, it was claimed that the record, described as 'New Album - TBC' would be released via EMI Records. However a spokesperson for Radiohead has denied that this is the case. As previously reported, the band fulfilled its contract with the label with their last album, 'Hail To The Thief' in 2003, and a new deal or label has not yet been announced."

oh, okay. it was all just a dream.

a date, a date!

according to amazon (and who are they to know?) LP7 will be released in the UK on August 6, 2007. Also rylan's birthday....

we can only hope.

and, pre-order our copy, too......


yaaaaaaaaay!

Lost

are they in the tv show, "Lost" or?

what i do know is that they are in the studio working on LP7. right now. as we speak. they better be. we're all waiting for it. and i want them to tour this summer, or else i want to fly to england and watch them perform there. how cool would that be?

doesn't matter

doesn't matter if the cars go past
doesn't take a lot to see it's not easy
when you want to make it all last

go to sleep and if the sky goes blue
just remember to unlock the door
all the monsters want to get to you

it doesn't matter when it's all right
doesn't matter if the cars go past
you talk and talk into the night

your dreams go bad and you can't stop
doesn't take a lot to see it's not easy
let the monsters have what they want

tell me what you have to say
no one listens anyway

thom and ed together at last

thom and ed doing station ids for mtv, a few years back. thom's quirky personality on display.....

the only song to play on itunes right now: "pop is dead"

music and angels

a new cd in the mail, high and dry, the single. and on itunes right now -

maquiladora with its cool guitar stuff going on.

and part of another charles simic poem today:

“in the library”

there’s a book called
“a dictionary of angels.”
no one has opened it in fifty ears,
i know, because when I did,
the covers creaked, the pages
crumbled. there I discovered

the angels were once as plentiful
as species of flies.
the sky at dusk
used to be thick with them.
you had to wave both arms
just to keep them away.

an early performance, on MTV, of "you"

and below, a later performance on BBC of "fake plastic trees"

like a strange dream

sometimes i think i am an information junkie. the internet, jeez. i can spend hours, days, my entire life just clicking every link to every other bit of information and photo and video. and when i am not on the computer, then i am pulled to bookstores and magazine stands, cuz it's not like i have enough books or magazines to read! i could open a bookstore, i have so many books. i can rationalize that i like all this info because it feeds my fiction writing. and it does. but mostly it just feeds my curiosity. there is no good reason to gather as MUCH information as i do.

am i going to do anything about it? no. except, after this, i will probably log on to amazon and order a couple of books i've had on my wish list.....

meanwhile: on itunes now - "remyxomatosis" from a radiohead japanese cd, "com lag"

and some poetry:

charles simic from a poem "evening talk"

everything you didn't understand
made you what you are. strangers
whose eye you caught on the street
studying you. perhaps they were the all-seeing
illuminati? they knew what you didn't,
and left you troubled like a strange dream.

the blackbird is involved

one novel is out being looked at by an agent. another novel is in my hands.

loralie.

it is instructive to edit this now that i've been through the ok computer novel so thoroughly. i have a better idea of what this needs (more dialogue!) and how to improve it.

loralie is my punk-rock musician with the secret family past - she doesn't know the secret, but it is affecting her life. she meets and marries this cool musician, an armenian guy in glendale (shades of "system of a down") which is a good thing. but she has to face her demons which is very nearly a very bad thing.

on itunes right now: fake plastic trees (acoustic)

and poetry - has been escaping me lately. so here's wallace stevens. #8 in 13 ways of looking at a blackbird:

I know noble accents
and lucid, inescapable rhythms;
but i know, too,
that the blackbird is involved
in what i know.