Achtung Baby!

i have kissed you into a memory

vinna.

believe me that strangers arrive
when i have kissed you into a memory
slowly, oh seriously
-that since and if you disappear
e.e. cummings

+ Radiohead: How To Disappear Completely

[ Absolutely Zero ]

[ Jason Mraz: Absolutely Zero (live) ]

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera 

: Ghost

alone in the crowd by *Zendar

Voxtrox : Ghost

+ Voxtrot finally spins a long-player
+ AOL : 'Voxtrot' (Full CD)

[ Only A Broken Heart ]

Honeydipped

Here comes that feeling I've seen in your eyes

What would I give, to start all over again
To clean up my mistakes

[ Tom Petty - Only A Broken Heart ]

: Manic Depression

Richard Kern

Seal : Manic Depression

: hope

David Usher : Hope (Tell everyone)

Hermandad		Brotherhood
Homenaje a Claudio Ptolomeo		Homage to Claudius Ptolemy
Soy hombre: duro poco		I am a man: little do I last
y es enorme la noche.		and the night is enormous.
Pero miro hacia arribo		But I look up:
las estrellas escriben.		the stars write.
Sin entender comprendo:		Unknowing I understand:
tambiŽn soy escritura		I too am written,
y en este mismo instante		and at this very moment
alguien me deletrea.		someone spells me out.

Octavio Paz - via

[ Every Time I Try ]

Photo Credit

[ Spain - Every Time I Try ]

"It makes you so vulnearble. It opens your chest and it opens your heart and it means someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up these defenses. You build up this armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something like kiss you, or smile at you, and your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple 'maybe we should just be friends' or 'how perceprtive' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-of-you-and rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not Love."   Neil Gaiman

[ Can't See (Useless) ]

[ Oingo Boingo - Can't See (Useless) ]

[ Take This Waltz ]

[ Leonard Cohen - Take This Waltz (live) ]
"I'm so happy, so happy, to sing this song for Garcia Lorca, I stood on my head for him."

Sonnet of the Sweet Complaint
Federico García Lorca

  Never let me lose the marvel
of your statue-like eyes, or the accent
the solitary rose of your breath
places on my cheek at night.

  I am afraid of being, on this shore,
a branchless trunk, and what I most regret
is having no flower, pulp, or clay
for the worm of my despair.

  If you are my hidden treasure,
if you are my cross, my dampened pain,
if I am a dog, and you alone my master,

  never let me lose what I have gained,
and adorn the branches of your river
with leaves of my estranged Autumn.

[ I Keep A Close Watch ]

photo: OSCAR FALK

[ John Cale - I Keep A Close Watch ]

[ If There's A Chance ]

[ The Cardigans - If There's A Chance (live) ]

[ breathe ]

photo: David Bradford

[ Moist - breathe (tla mix) ]

[ Start Again ]

[ Duncan Sheik  - Start Again ]

[ 89 Days of Alcatraz ]

[ Emm Gryner - 89 Days of Alcatraz ]

[ .. a friend ]

Cardigans - Losing A Friend
James - Lost A Friend

[ Underwear ]

[ PULP - Underwear (live) ]

[ Angel Dream (no.2) ]

[ Tom Petty - Angel Dream (no.2) ]

[ Mood Swing Whiskey ]

[ Jeff Buckey - Mood Swing Whiskey ]

/Dying On The Vine/

[ John Cale - Dying On The Vine ( from John Cale & Strings )  ]

[ Leaders of the Free World ]

I’m sick of working for a living
I’m just ticking off the days till I die
I miss you Louise
And the sickest little pleasures keep me going in between pulling teeth

But the LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD
Are just little boys throwing stones
And its easy to ignore ‘til they’re knocking on the door of your homes

Elbow - Leaders of the Free World (acoustic) ( real audio stream ) Torr first mentioned the existence of this show. One of my favorite songs this year. [more] acoustic songs.

+ Leaders of the Free World - track by track
+ INTERVIEW WITH ELBOW IN AMSTERDAM
+ Janice Long Session
+ Elbow - Newborn (glowgeorge Reborn Mix) [ via elbow messageroom]
+ Previously : Acoustic Elbow from 2004

[ If There Is A Chance ]

Photo source

[ Cardigans - If There Is A Chance ]

"Twos don't work. Two's hurt and crumble. Twos fall into one, and then into dust and nothings."
Neil Gaiman

[ It's Hard To Turn Me On ]

[ Quasi - It's Hard To Turn Me On ]

[ Neglekted ]

[ The Afghan Whigs  - Neglekted ]

[ The Bed's Too Big Without You ]

[ The Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You (Live) ]

[ Little Black Dress ]

[ Gavin Friday - Little Black Dress ]

[ Everyone's In Love With You ]

[ David Byrne - Everyone's In Love With You ]

[ 66 ]

[ Afghan Whigs - 66 (Live) ]

"...The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted."
Neil Gaiman

[ Woke Up In A Strange Place ]

[ Jeff Buckley - Woke Up In A Strange Place (acoustic) ]

"I heard my soul singing behind a leaf, plucked the leaf, but then I heard it singing behind a veil. I tore the veil, but then I heard it singing behind a wall. I broke the wall, and I heard my soul singing against me. I build up the wall, mended the curtain, but I could not put back the leaf. I held it in my hand and I heard my soul singing mightily against me. This is what it's like to study without a friend."
The Book Of Mercy - Leonard Cohen

[ I've Loved You All Over The World ]

Photo: Blackbook Magazine // Text: Tonight I can Write by Pablo Neruda

[ Willie Nelson - I've Loved You All Over The World ]

[ Love is Blindness ]

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

[ "Love is Blindness" -  Trespassers William ]

[ Already Over Me ]

[ The Rolling Stones - Already Over Me ]

[ My Lovely ]

Eisley "My Lovely" (acoustic)
&
Live Video clips from the Summer Scenic Tour

+ The Amazing Eisley/Lovedrug "Say Cheese" Photo Contest

[ First we take Manhattan - Leonard Cohen ]

Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin