Friday 7 August 2009

AUGUST 7TH - 23:32

it's become obvious and apparent to all that this blog is no longer a daily routine - to move on with our lives we must all accept this fact and thus appreciate the sparse yet rich entries i provide from now on...


...i've been to greece since we last spoke. the weather and the waitors were fantastic and scorching in equal measure, although for the majority of the week i thought i was going insane - i confessed to my mother one night, to her delight, that i was convinced a moustached german looking man was going to shoot me at the dinner table.

that particular night we watched greek dancing, so erotic and energetic, a british explorer who i'd guess was 70 told me:

'this is sex. we had it in the sixties, we had it in the jive. we held them here (pulls his hands close to his chest) - we had them in our hands. now, youth waste their time by dancing three feet away from eachother.' this is something i will never challenge or forget.

i read arthur schnitzler - dream story, leonard cohen - beautiful losers and andre gide - the immoralist. it seems sexual craving was the coherent theme for my literary ventures in greece!


since i have been back chris has turned 18 - he is now legally obliged to go out into the night and witness the beauty and the carnivorous.

i have been writing alot lately - i now have five songs that i would determine a singular output:

in ashes
species
the blood prayer (i think this title is slightly too chauvinist)
vaccuum
youth symmetry

wrote a song with matt this week - rauceby asylum, i look forward to playing this and all my other new songs at the gig at scy in a couple of weeks. how ironic that the songs i have written should have their first performance on the very dancefloor they were conceived.

listened to andrew bird - armchair apocrypha alot in greece. this song stands out, the first time i heard it reminded me of the simplest magic of music - the instantaneous attention commanded to apparent simplicity - the catch.

his whistling as absolutely beautiful, the rhythm is addictive, the melody is so whistful...