[wpaudio url="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/4/2305849/01%20Lola%20Stars%20And%20Stripes.mp3" text="The Stills – Lola Stars And Stripes"]
Seeing The Stills live when I was seventeen was a life-changing moment. Hearing the hard drums echo during “Of Montreal” is something I’ll always remember. But it was “Lola…” – another small piece that brought me here now. After each season and every season.
[wpaudio url="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/4/2305849/11%20Turn%20Into.mp3" text="Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Turn Into"]
So it’s night-time, this song comes on. It’s a good moment song. So I let it play. And let our legs cool.
The answer to your question:
[wpaudio url="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/4/2305849/01%20Suzanne.mp3" text="Leonard Cohen - Suzanne"]
[wpaudio url="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/4/2305849/14%20Simple%20Twist%20Of%20Fate.mp3" text="Jeff Tweedy – Simple Twist of Fate"]
Why not?
[wpaudio url="http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/4/2305849/14%20Andalucia.mp3" text="Yo La Tengo – Andalucia"]
This hill has been around for a while. Doesn’t go away. Doesn’t want to. It’s a mound of soft, a mound of quiet. We’re not expected. But you climb when you look at it… that’s funny. The grass looks like pastel, like the little book I made for you. Our little holy bible of love. Not pencil crayons… at least not colored in hard. This hill is very sweet, modest… doesn’t think of itself as a hill at all, but a great white shark… a fuzzy, soft green great white shark you want to be eaten by.
…caught the Champions League draw during lunch, so I wrote it down on a napkin. We drew Atletico Madrid – the one team that I didn’t want to draw. Diego Forlan & Kun Aguero are a force… can’t count out Porto… other team is Apoel FC, a team I never heard of from Cyprus. John Terry won the defender of the year award, while Leo, my beloved Leo Messi won the forward of the year and footballer of the year award. Deserved it. No standing ovation for Paolo Maldini? That’s a sin.
There’s one of your long hairs, dangling between my neck and back. I’ll feel it if I turn my head. I took Messi for a run just now. I wore that funny little hat. We often wonder why people look so mean. But maybe their lives are hard. I’ll hear it from them some day. All their superstitions. I follow an old man on his bike, as rusty as mine. He has neat dress pants and a red baseball cap. In all his fashion. His feet go up and down, mine still prattles. Only kids prattle. Some books. You just don’t see because when you see, it’s easy not to. I wore your hat. That’s why I got a piece of your hair stuck on me.
MP3: The Rolling Stones – Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Buy Album: The Rolling Stones – Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)
Or maybe we celebrate with memory fireworks? Happy Birthday!
MP3: The Cure – Inbetween Days
Buy Album: The Cure – The Head On The Door
This one is for the lovely, wild lady… Happy Birthday! There isn’t any happier song than this one to celebrate your birthday! A. and I miss you and love you very, very much! Happy Birthday! BIG HUGGGGGGABOOOOS!
MP3: Karen O. And The Kids – All Is Love
Buy Album: Karen O. And The Kids – All Is Love Single