bipolar me and me

Daddy--Read By Sylvia Plath

...Poem twenty three... go to youtube for words..

Sylvia Plath reading 'Lady Lazarus'

...Poem twenty two... click youtube for words

Alfie Boe - Bring Him Home - Live from the Albert Hall

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Clive James reads a poem that makes him cry - Canoe by Keith Douglas - N...

...What a guy.... poem 21..

Nilgraft

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NYC Girl

...yeah I know it should be brunette but hey.............

Mary Margaret O'Hara - When You Know Why You're Happy (live)

MARY MARGARET O´HARA Help me lift you up

 .. she reminds me so much of Mary Connealy.. (New York Mary)
Must be four years since I last saw her "New York Mary" that is...
she was divorced by then and living alone.. but happy with her
life, sad that I never kept my word and went to see her in NYC, x



 

Whisky Two

What do you mean? "is he pissed again?"



So picture this, there's me, my Roland Phantom
and an empty whisky bottle, we'd just spent a warm
summers night making music. The sun was up and
the "Dawn chorus" was at an end, so, with both
speakers on number eleven I was dancing round
my cow shed home. The cows had come across the
pasture to have a nose (nosey cows) and I swear
half the herd were tapping their hooves, and the rest
were swaying their heads.. well they are my cult following...
Happy days.

KRO

(head phones and loud)



  Link.. whisky two

Times

no names

..Lyrics.. Lyrics....



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Fool

...link...Lyrics

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Tom Waits - Time: cover sung by Heidi Talbot [HQ]

.. see it's national POETS day on the third so here's Poem 20..
(eat your heart out Dylan)

Tom Waits... Time........

Well the smart money's on Harlow
And the moon is in the street
And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws
And you're east of East St. Louis
And the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
 And Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon
His invisible fiancee's in the mirror
And the band is going home
It's raining hammers it's raining nails
And it's true there's nothing left for him down here
And it's time time time
And it's time time time
And it's time time time
That you love
And it's time time time.

And they all pretend they're orphans
And their memory's like a train
You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away
And the things you can't remember
Tell the things you can't forget
That history puts a saint in every dream
Well she said she'd stick around
Until the bandages came off
But these mama's boys just don't know when to quit
And Mathilda  asks the sailors
Are those dreams or are those prayers
So close your eyes son and this won't hurt a bit
And it's time time time
And it's time time time
And it's time time time
That you love
And it's time time time.

Well things are pretty lousy for a calendar girl
The boys just dive right off their cars
And splash into the street
And when they're on a roll  she pulls a razor
 From her boots and a thousand pigeons fall around her feet
So put a candle in the window
And a kiss upon his lips
Till the dish outside the window fills with rain
Just like a stranger with the weeds in your heart
And pay the fiddler off 'till I come back again
And it's time time time
And it's time time time
And it's time time time
That you love
And it's time time time...

Tom Waits - Martha (album version)

I'm sure many of us have a "Martha" and have never made the call,
but then you can't dial-up the past, it isn't there anymore, but...
'I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you..'

  .

[Looking For] The Heart Of Saturday Night

... that Tom Waits, he knows whats what so he does....



   Lyrics,,  no more Saturdays...

Beethoven: Quartet in A minor for Strings, Op. 132, Movement III.

Sometime about 1991 my sister was living in a small flat
in Brum,  She had returned from Rome for the last days
and subsequent funeral of our mother, why she didn't
return to Italy I'll never know. By now she was as low
in spirit as any-one can be and I felt helpless, with no
idea of how to get her out of the dark place she was in.
   We were always the closest of all our family (9) and
closer still was our love of music, so, with my old
record player and a box set of the complete  Beethoven
string quartets I kept bashing on her front door until
she had to let me into her flat. She had a scowl on her
face that would have made the devil take a step back,
until she saw what I had brought her, I just said "the
answer's in there Sister" and left.
      After a week or so she started visiting again and
told me I had saved her life, but when I told her opus
132, the third movement, was my favourite she chided me
 saying it was the most vulgar/obvious/ simplest/ of all
the quartets but, stlll, today of all Beethovens works,
it leaves me in awe. I feel he has found peace, and being
Beethoven, it's a triumphant peace...


(bet the snides take it down...

 p.s.. no, I wasn't bashing the door with the record player...




    Link.. at peace

Ashes..

link..  Ashes 2019

Best cricket summer I've ever known..but it ain't over yet.
As always (in the TMS box) there's an Aussie saying they
were cheated, no mention of what Ben has just done, or
Lyon dropping the ball.   Cooky  doesn't know where to look
and Aggers is pissing himself laughing...

all because

   Link..  the end..

Frightened Rabbit - Die Like A Rich Boy (Acoustic)

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10. Frightened Rabbit - Keep Yourself Warm - iTunes Festival 2012

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MELANIE My Father (JUDY COLLINS)

Drawing timelapse: a bottle of Oddka - hyperrealistic art

Serena Ryder - Live In South Carolina (Part 1)

   link...  Serena

THE LONE BELLOW - "You Can Be All Kinds Of Emotional" (Live at Huck Finn...

  Link..  you can...

Lake Street Dive in the Studio: Rachael Price Sings "What I'm Doing Here...

   Link...  Rachael

But Hey

   Link... But Hey..



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Buckets of Rain - Alice Banks (Bob Dylan cover)

Makes me smile.. don't know if she's split with her bloke..
but she doesn't smile much now.



Link.. smile

Rachmaninov: Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op.43 - Variation 18. Anda...

Life is precious... and the bloke on the piano is one lucky guy..
Played this on my old record player for my ex-wife,
(she and I were seventeen )... she wasn't impressed.
From that day on I only shared my love of music
with my sister Valerie... well, you couldn't tell your
mates you liked 'girly' music could you?

Love the comments below..  "this guy was born part piano"& "rhapsody in jeans"


  Link.. Rachmaninov

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Carmen - Les tringles des sistres tintaient

Opera..... rubbish innit.....





Link..  Carmen

The MET: Live in HD 2019 - Samson et Dalila: Printemps qui commence

We all live on this one planet, but in so many different worlds,
many of them less than good.   Elina? well she's from another universe,
a universe where there is only beauty. I first heard this piece of opera
many years ago, still have a version by Callas, and still, the last few
bars she sings (music not words) just well, just kills me.

Oh, and I'm sure Camille Saint- Saens is from the same universe as Elina



   Link..  Elina



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Poem 19

Four Quartets  East Coker  (a fragment)  T S Eliot.

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated
Of dead and living. Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment
And not the lifetime of one man only
But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
There is a time for the evening under starlight,
A time for the evening under lamplight
(The evening with the photograph album).
Love is most nearly itself
When here and now cease to matter.
Old men should be explorers
Here and there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In the end is my beginning.

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Booker T.

World Champions..

Feckin yes yes yes yes,,,, bring on the Roos...
For anyone that doesn't get cricket, I'm truly sorry...for them.

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Lisa Hannigan - "Just like Tom Thumb's blues"

Honey Blue

... she killed Eve... and Villanelle





Link.. Lyrics

Colder Glass

    Link ..  Colder Glass

West Side Story - Ending

   Link... West Side

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony (Official Video)

.. good on ya  Ash, Bitter Sweet was always yours..

  you can stop walking now..



   Link...  Verve

1954 #1. Secret Love - Doris Day

Oh  Calam. ... 97, you almost made it.

There should be a Doris Day day...



  Link... Calam...

Yours ( poem 18)

Yours............  Leo Marks..

The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours

A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause
For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours

Link... code     ( worth reading)

TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K)

Link... in my beginning is my end...

Lake Street Dive - "You Go Down Smooth" (Live at WFUV)

  Link... Smooth..

Just singing in the pub

   Link..  .. in the pub..

Chantel McGregor - Purple Rain @ Cambridge Rock Festival 2014

  Put a couple of tracks by this girl on my blog years ago,
thought she was wonderful also thought she would just
drift away into normal life. I checked her out again tonight...
 Wow, that was some drift.
She's fantastic and has done gig after gig, year on year.
Fantastic musician, fantastic lady..



Link... Chantel McGregor

Neighbor Song - Lake Street Dive

A while back I read that the White Rhino was now extinct,
well hey, don't worry, there's a pair of them living in the
flat above me.....



Link... White Rhinos

Poem 17

      STRANGE FRUIT......... Seamus Heaney

Here is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd.
Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth.
They unswaddled  the wet fern of her hair
And made an exhibition of it's coil,
Let the air at her leathery beauty.
Pash of tallow, perishable treasure:
Her broken nose is dark as a turf clod,
Her eyeholes black as pools in the old workings.
Diadorus Siculas confessed
His gradual ease among the likes of this:
Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible
Beheaded girl, outstaring axe
And beautification, outstaring
What had begun to feel like reverence.

Last flight

Very rare that I write about something in particular
but I'd been watching stuff from NASA, so I wrote about
our last flight, which will happen one day, sad.
This is the only copy I have of this and the levels are awful
but I love it so much(thanks to Mel) I had to post it here...



Link... Tibbet..

Tam Lin - Child 39

I so love this song, takes me back to the 60s and Fairport.

This version is so, so good (and live)  Thank you Alice. x





Link... Tam Lin

Possessed by Paul James- Hurricane

Song for Arthur...



Link..  Song for Arthur ...



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Melanie H Dylan cover

Link...  Melanie H.



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Redemption song cover

 Link...  Redemption