Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

I would also like to find a sun-spot where I can sit and feel the warmth of the sun. I love a ground that smells naturally burnt. I’d like for small pebbles to engrave themselves on my feet and the palm of my hands.

In Ode on Melancholy, Keats gives advice on how to cope with sadness and in On Melancholy Hill, Damon Albarn invites those that can’t get what they want to a “day of another dream”. In the first, there are poisonous berries, death-moths and sad owls. On Melancholy Hill, there’s a plastic tree, a submarine and a manatee.

I like the idea of a sun-spot as my mistress on a hot summer day, when you can “emprison her soft hand, and let her rave, / And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes”. Only a couple more months until then, just looking out for the day.

Tags: anako flickr, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, John Keats

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 9:48 pm and is filed under Writing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.