For Emily in Missouri -7th July 2008

Neil Young and the International Harvesters – Powderfinger
Ted Leo and the Pharmicists-I’m looking through you
Picadilly Line-Visions of Johanna
Please-Steal your dreams
Steve Miller Band –Going to Mexico
Roky Erickson & The Explosives –You’re gonna miss me
Joe Cocker and Leon Russell –Girl from the north country
Country joe & the fish-here I go again
John Martyn-don’t think twice it’s alright
Jolliver Arklansaw-Hatred Sun
Pink Floyd – Paintbox
Phil Ochs – Changes
Judy Henske and Jerry Yester – Raider
Love – Singing cowboy
Bob Dylan and the Band – Dirge
Leonard Cohen –Suzanne
The Rolling Stones – You can’t always get what you want

Dr Euphoria and the Mind Gardener’s Eternal Playlist - 1

Last night Dr Euphoria and the Mind Gardener repaired again to the cellar of dreams.
The eternal playlist begins:

The Guess Who – Eye
Gypsy – Blindman
Dolce Aqua – Preludio
The Nits – Home Before Dark
Culpepper’s Orchard – Time Flies
Blue Oyster Cult – Burnin’ for you
Graham Nash – Everybody’s been burned
Oakley Hall – House Carpenter
Punch Brothers – It’ll happen
Soft Machine –We know what you mean
Beck Bogert & Appice – Living life backwards
The Henry Road – Jeff Lynne is five
Steely Dan – Sail the waterway
Ramatam –The Land/rainy Sunday evening
Marissa Nadler – Daisy and Violet
Demian Dempsey –St Patrick’s Day
Gene Clark – Silver raven
Pan – To get along
Jack Bruce – Victoria Sage
Golden Earrings – Must I cry
Debbie Saloman – Long velvet sigh

Cutter's Way

The greatest film noir of the 1980s , I saw this film again after a more than 20 year gap. If anything, it was more powerful than on previous viewings. The light of California is permeated with the darkness of power and corruption, against which struggle flawed heroes.The three leads(John Heard, Jeff Bridges and Lisa Eichhorn give what may be their greatest performances. Written by Jeffrey Alan Fiskin from the novel by Newton Thornburg and directed by Ivan Passer, this film has been unjustly neglected and should be known by more.

The Grand Tour 2

Last night Prometheon created a new 23 minute piece. There was no title that sprang to mind, so for the time being we're calling it ' The Grand Tour 2'

Robert Lelievre

I’ve planned for a while to write something about Robert Lelievre on this blog. He’s one of the best singers I’ve ever heard as well as being one of the best songwriters. The album he made with his Danish band Pan, is one of the great classics. I first heard the only studio album by Pan in 2002, after finding a CD at the record fair in Utrecht and fell in love with its brilliance immediately. There were thousands and thousands of records that were made in the 70s and very few of them are remembered by most people. Pan is not one of them, which is sad, because it should be in the pantheon of rock’s great records. Pan only released one album. It is one of the great cultural crimes that the solo album that Lelievre made for Sonet was unreleased in his lifetime or as far as I know ever. I truly hope a record company will rectify that situation soon. I cannot think of any other unreleased tapes (apart from perhaps Haystacks Baloboa’s second album (same musicians mainly but different band name) or David Forman’s second album) that I want to hear. There is some deep connection made by Lelievre’s voice into my head. ‘Song to France’ and Tristesse are filled with a truly painful yearning for a lost home. Pan is undoubtedly one of the biggest influences on my creativity over the years since I first heard it. Until recently I could find very very little information about Pan or Lelievre but there is now a very impressive website dedicated to them. I would urge you to visit:

http://www.panrobertlelievre.com/

Motion Demon at Silent Hill

I like this picture of Steve Kethero's, taken at Silent Hill, during a Motion Demon session a few years ago

some bookmarks

It's been quite a while since I made any attempt to get my Opera bookmarks in order (possibly my memories of the thousands of carefully ordered bookmarks on crashed computers of the past, has made me question the future value of the task) and looking through them again tonight, I came across a few pages that I enjoyed visiting again.

http://edgarbroughtonlyrics.bravehost.com/wasawasa.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottonwoodhill
http://globalia.net/donlope/fz/notes/farewell_aldebaran.html
http://www.richieunterberger.com/garyfarr.html
http://www.phillesh.net/
http://www.richardandmimi.com/richard.htmlhttp://www.richardandmimi.com/richard.html