BUCCANEER

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What would you say
If I told you I was once a Buccaneer

Could I convince you
If I said Ahoy
Howz’ about ‘ere ‘ere

Could you believe it, can you see it
do ya need sad hooks in you
How about a pirate’s smile
Is there a way to get thru,
thru to you

What would you say
If I said I found a treasure map
and how could I make you see
I’d keep you safe from all the traps

Would you be willing
To dive for pearls
In a deep-sea skive with me
or are you still too scared
To deal with what
What it is you think you’ll see

Take a deep breath
Take a deep breath
Goin’ under,
Down deep,
Deep under

I wonder will them clouds
Ever go away
At times like these I wonder
Wonder what you’d say

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e.s
june 2006

paper ship

Take the letter in your hand
Make a fold, and make a fold.
Make it into a little boat
And place a candle in the hold
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James Fenton, from ‘Martine’s Song’

PAPER TIGER

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Just like a paper tiger
Torn apart by idle hands
Through the helter skelter morning
Fix yourself while you still can
No more ashes to ashes
No more cinders from the sky
All the laws of creation
Tell a dead man how to die
O deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun
Looking through a broken diamond
To make the past what it should be
Through the ruins and the weather
Capsized boats in the sea
O deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun
We're just holding on to nothing
To see how long nothing lasts
O deserts down below us
And storms up above
Like a stray dog gone defective
Like a paper tiger in the sun
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by BECK
from SEA CHANGE

Boiiiing !

Hold My Head
We’ll trampoline...
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Pixies ‘Velouria’

FLOATATION

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by GRID
from Electric Head

sea change

Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
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William Shakespeare, The Tempest

The Sad Message

The Captain becomes moody at sea. He's
afraid of water; such bully amounts that prove the
seas. . .

A glass of water is one thing. A man easily downs
it, capturing its menace in his bladder; pissing it
away. A few drops of rain do little harm, save to
remind of how grief looks upon the cheek.

One day the water is willing to bear your ship
upon its back like a liquid elephant. The next day
the elephant doesn't want you on its back, and
says, I have no more willingness to have you
there; get off.

At sea this is a sad message.

The Captain sits in his cabin wearing a
parachute, listening to what the sea might say. . .

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by Russell Edson

Heave To

Polly Wann’a Cracker

plankdance

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man who sailed with him
was taking quite a chance,
he'd hang them from the gallows
just to see if they could dance
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adam ant, ‘jolly roger’
from ‘kings of the wild frontier’

MANCHILD

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by Neneh Cherry
from Raw Like Sushi

fall in a river

Don't ask me where
to fall in a river
Might not deliver you
all the way home
I guess that you must
think I'm stupid or something
Well, that's a good thing
That's okay
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'Fall In A River' by Badly Drawn Boy
from 'The Hour Of Bewilderbeast'
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OH MY GOTH, I’M SO DEPECHED

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ENJOY THE SILENCE
by Depeche Mode

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Xerxes? / Κθέρκθη?

Take It Easy

...and if it's easy, take it twice !

incompletion

Under history, memory and forgetting.
Under memory and forgetting, life.
But writing a life is another story.
Incompletion.
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Paul Ricoeur
‘Memory, History, Forgetting’
Translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer

PETS

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PETS
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Children, Children are innocent
A teenager's fucked up in the head
Adults are even more fucked up
And elderlies are like children

Will there be another race
To come along and take over for us?
Maybe martians could do
Better than we've done
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!

My friend says we're like the dinosaurs
Only we are doing ourselves in
Much faster than they
Ever did
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!

We will make great pets
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We will make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
We'll make great pets!
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by Porno For Pyros

on shells

The concept that corresponds to a shell is so clear, so hard, and so sure that a poet, unable simply to draw it and, reduced rather to speaking of it, is at first at a loss for images. He is arrested in his flight towards dream values by the geometrical reality of the forms. And these forms are so numerous, often so original, that after a positive examination of the shell world, the imagination is defeated by reality.

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Gaston Bachelard, ‘The Poetics Of Space’
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image: caroline muir

new clown

in town

aw c'mon

its a poem
its not supposed
to mean anything,
but just be.
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(d. last night)

She Likes Rides

She Likes Movies
And She likes Stars
She Likes Sunsets
And She likes Cars
Yeah she Likes Parties
And She Likes Skies
But more than Music
She Likes Rides

She Likes Rides

She Likes Rides

She likes wah wah guitars and
Little Men from outer space

She likes pink and red and yellow
And sometimes she likes her space

But before you’ve discovered
What she hides inside

Take my advice and know
She Likes Rides
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e.s / 2002

SIGUR ROS - SAEGLOPUR

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from the album TAKK...

WIDDERSHINS / FERAL

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untame yourself

what the heart knows today

the head will understand tomorrow
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james stephens (1882 – 1950, r.i.p)

pyramid song

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I jumped in the river and what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars All the things I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt I jumped into the river Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the things I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt ...

There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

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by radiohead
from 'amnesiac' (2001)

i had a dream

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I had a dream this nasty place flooded. In full diver’s regalia I swam in to inspect. The city had been evacuated, with the exception of some talking heads revved up for their transmissions and some taxi drivers, who had turned their vehicles into subs - they were overcharging for a ride around town. This mess was more beautiful than it had been in aeons. Some taxis moved in unison and looked like schools of fish. The ones left behind hoped to make a quick buck…apart from me, of course…I stayed behind to make sure of my luck.
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e.s
june, 2006

THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS

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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pool singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
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Sara Teasdale, 1920

anything / everything

the mind of man is capable of anything –
because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future
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joseph conrad, ‘heart of darkness’

the show of wisdom

SOCRATES: At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis is sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters. Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the whole country of Egypt; and he dwelt in that great city of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and the god himself is called by them Ammon. To him came Theuth and showed his inventions, desiring that the other Egyptians might be allowed to have the benefit of them; he enumerated them, and Thamus enquired about their several uses, and praised some of them and censured others, as he approved or disapproved of them. It would take a long time to repeat all that Thamus said to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts. But when they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without its reality.
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Plato, ‘Phaedrus’
Translation by Benjamin Jowett.

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image courtesy of THE KLF

from the sea close by

I grew up in the sea and poverty was sumptuous, then I lost the sea and found all luxuries grey and poverty unbearable. Since then, I have been waiting. I wait for the homebound ships, the house of the waters, the limpidity of day. I wait patiently, am polite with all my strength. Men see me walk by in fine and learned streets, I admire landscapes, applaud like everyone else, shake hands, but it is not me speaking. Men praise me, I dream a little, they insult me, I scarcely show surprise. Then I forget, and smile at the man who insulted me, or am too courteous in greeting the person I love. What can I do if all I can remember is one image? Finally they call upon me to tell them who I am. ‘Nothing yet, nothing yet…’

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Albert Camus, intro to ‘The Sea Close By’ (Logbook)

strange

Strange? Why shouldn’t it be strange? It is strange. It is all strange.
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Saul Bellow, ‘Henderson The Rain King’

IDLEWILD

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TALK TALK - It's My Life (Music Video)





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modest mouse
three songs from ‘the moon & antarctica’ :
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DARK CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
Well i might
disintegrate into the thin air if you like
And I'm not
the dark center of the universe like you thought
Well it took a lot of work to be the ass that I am
And I'm pretty damn sure that anyone can
Easily, equally fuck ya over
Well God said something but he didn't mean it
Everyone's life ends but no one ever completes it
Dry and wet ice, they both melt
and you're equally cheated
Well it took a lot of work...
Well an endless ocean landing on an endless desert
Well it's funny as hell, but no one laughs when they get there
If you can't see the thin air
Why the hell should you care?
Well it took a lot of work...
Well sure you'll tell me you've got nothing to say
And I went and shook hands the other day
If you can't see the thin air then
What the hell is in your way?
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GRAVITY RIDES EVERYTHING
Oh gotta see, gotta know right now
What's that riding on your everything?
It isn't anything at all
Oh gotta see, gotta know right now
What's that writing on your shelf
In the bathrooms and the bad motels?
No one really cared for it at all
Not the gravity plan
Early, early in the morning
It pulls all on down my sore feet
I wanna go back to sleep
In the motions and the things that you say
It all will fall, fall right into place
As fruit drops, flesh it sags
Everything will fall right into place
When we die, some sink and some lay
But at least I don't see you float away
And all the spilt milk, sex and weight
It all will fall, fall right into place
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THIRD PLANET
Everything that keeps me together is falling apart, I've got
this thing that I consider my only art of fucking people over
My boss just quit the job says he's goin?out to find blind
spots and he'll do it
The 3rd Planet is sure that they're being watched by an
eye in the sky that can't be stopped
When you get to the promise land your gonna shake that
eyes hand
Your heart felt good it was drippin?pitch and made of wood
And your hands and knees felt cold and wet on the grass beneath
Outside naked, shiverin?looking blue, from the cold
sunlight that's reflected off the moon
Baby cum angels fly around you reminding you we used
to be three and not just two
And that's how the world began
And that's how the world will end
A 3rd had just been made and we were swimming in the
water, didn't know then was it a son was it a daughter
When it occurred to me that the animals are swimming
around in the water in the oceans in our bodies and
another had been found another ocean on the planet
given that our blood is just like the Atlantic
And how
The universe is shaped exactly like the earth if you go
straight long enough you'll end up where you were

I AM GOING TO HAPPEN

image: www.asweettasteofcharleston.com/ cakes

self

is a project, something to be built -
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Susan Sontag from ‘The Aesthetics of Silence’ in ‘Under the Sign Of Saturn’

CLOSE TO ME

by The Cure

the devil

wouldn’t recognize you

violence

The violence you mete out is always the mirror of the violence you inflict on yourself.
The violence you inflict on yourself is always the mirror of the violence you mete out.
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Jean Baudrillard, ‘The Intelligence Of Evil’

hoi polloi

people seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character
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ralph waldo emerson

the mirror turn lamp

“It must go further still: that soul must become its own betrayer, its own deliverer, the one activity, the mirror turn lamp.”.
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William Butler Yeats

you better ...

... love lovin’ and you better behave
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tears for fears, ‘woman in chains’

MAGIC

Summer turns me upside down
Summer
Summer
Summer
Summer
It’s like a merry go round
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The Cars, ‘Magic’

The Dawntreader

Peridots and periwinkle blue medallions
Gilded galleons spilled across the ocean floor
Treasure somewhere in the sea and he will find where
Never mind their questions there’s no answer for
The roll of the harbor wake
The songs that the rigging makes
The taste of the spray he takes
And he learns to give
He aches and he learns to live
He stakes all his silver
On a promise to be free
Mermaids live in colonies
All his seadreams come to me

City satins left at home I will not need them
I believe him when he tells of loving me
Something truthful in the sea your lies will find you
Leave behind your streets he said and come to me
Come down from the neon nights
Come down from the tourist sights
Run down till the rain delights you
You do not hide
Sunlight will renew your pride
Skin white by skin golden
Like a promise to be free
Dolphins playing in the sea
All his seadreams come to me

Seabird, I have seen you fly above the pilings
I am smiling at your circles in the air
I will come and sit by you while he lies sleeping
Fold your fleet wings I have brought some dreams to share
A dream that you love someone
A dream that the wars are done
A dream that you tell no one but the grey sea
They’ll say that you’re crazy
And a dream of a baby
Like a promise to be free
Children laughing out to sea
All his seadreams come to me
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By Joni Mitchell

PROVE YOU ARE ALIVE

Prove it.
Sesshu Foster ‘Atomik Aztex’

Are you the favorite person of anybody?

...is the title of a great short film by Miranda July

HUNTING HIGH AND LOW

by
A-ha

THIS IS THE SEA

These things you keep
You’d better throw them away
You wanna turn your back
On your soulless days
Once you were tethered
And now you are free
Once you were tethered
Well now you are free
That was the river
This is the sea!
Now if you’re feelin’ weary
If you’ve been alone too long
Maybe you’ve been suffering from
A few too many plans that have gone wrong
And you’re trying to remember
How fine your life used to be
Running around banging your drum
Like it’s 1973
Well that was the river
This is the sea!
Wooo!
Now you say you’ve got trouble
You say you’ve got pain
You say’ve got nothing left to believe in
Nothing to hold on to
Nothing to trust
Nothing but chains
You’re scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
Scouring your conscience
Raking through your memories
But that was the river
This is the sea
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Now I can see you wavering
As you try to decide
You’ve got a war in your head
And it’s tearing you up inside
You’re trying to make sense
Of something that you just can’t see
Trying to make sense now
And you know you once held the key
But that was the river
And this is the sea!
Yeah!
Now I hear there’s a train
It’s coming on down the line
It’s yours if you hurry
You’ve got still enough time
And you don’t need no ticket
And you don’t pay no fee
No you don’t need no ticket
You don’t pay no fee
Because that was the river
And this is the sea!
Behold the sea!
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By The Waterboys

no symbols

‘...where none intended’
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Samuel Beckett, ‘Watt’
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(for kuk!)

OK?

if you’re not a little paranoid
you’re out of your mind

(someone said it, somewhere)

guise

“I bear in my hands the disguise by which I conceal my life. A web of meaningless events, I dye it with the magic of my point of view.”
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Michel Leiris

benthic

‘It was the loneliest feeling imaginable, like writing thank-you notes from the bottom of a volcano.’
Brock Clarke ‘Carrying The Torch’

JUST ONCE

I had a dream
That, baby,
once,
you let me in
Just for a sec
You put aside
Your doubts
And let me win
a battle,
Just once -
You let me rise above
zero,
and for once
You felt comfortable
‘bout being
A hero
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e.s
june 2006

a song from the campfire headphase

Boards Of Canada
Dayvan Cowboy
from ‘The Campfire Headphase’

AQUACADE (6.6.6)

THERE IS BEAUTY EVERYWHERE

it scares the hell outta me

BANG!

if you crack the code of big ole bang
you’re on a perfect course
i recommend you join a band and
sing songs ‘bout the force

HOLY C

perhaps i’m rapping bull poo
it must be all them cows
i really don’t know where or when
or moos or why’s or how’s
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TRIUNE

was a snap, my brains had parted
was a clap, and life had started
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they had been so blissfully married
in a spectacular pure fusion
since it’s been a mixed and varied
illusion of confusion

umbilical

cut to scene of soul discord
snip! – they clip’t m’umbili’cord

emergencies

pacified insurgencies

sleep (m’ambient) / MUU - MUU

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sleep (m’ambient)
can’t i stay in here a while
some sounds out there sound so hostile
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MUU - MUU
the glow was peachy in the womb
my own first private living room

DAWN

the dinosaur inside it roars
it’s old ways to defend
while dolphin flippin’
close to shore
tries to comprehend

chariot’s thread

i sunk deep down
to th’abyss
deep and found a start...
a thread,
that bled
from ocean bed,
to pull myself
apart

1000 OCEANS

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Tori Amos - 1000 Oceans

EIGHT ARMS TO HOLD YOU !

EIGHT ARMS TO HOLD YOU is featured in the film 'Goonies'.

Song Credits:
Producer : Arthur Baker
Vocals: Tina B, Lotti Golden, B.J. Nelson, Will Downing
Drums & percussion: Jimmy Bralower
Sequencer: Arthur Baker
All keyboards: Robbie Kilgore
Emulator: Gary Rottiger