Was there a wind chime above my bed, a slow train in my back yard? Did I dream of ghosts with violins and bells, gypsy children playing instruments rummaged from attics? Did I float through a Chagall, green-faced & goaty, warm windows and shadows on snow? Muted trumpet, accordion, whispered helium-pitched Icelandic girl, computers--I just saw múm at The Bottleneck. And a chick to my right screamed "Whooo! That's my jam!" It was great.

trying something new... 

My friend Sid is having an awesome and envious time in Japan. If you ain't got nothin better to do, you need to get yerself some winkie.

detritus
+Currently listening to God - The Anatomy of Addiction from '94. Seven years ago my bus from Cork to Rosslare had stopped next to some huge machine that was ramming posts into the mud for a new dock. At times the bass and percussion are sort of like that, then it calms to a humming bass wave fluctuating behind bongos, raspy vocals, a skronking woodwind cacophany, a heartbeat. It's like trumpeting elephants stampeding past a murder of crows.

+New songs recently heard--"The Letter" - PJ Harvey. If there is a sexier song about writing letters someone please let me know. This comes at a time when I've promised myself to be more epistolary-active. A sign, perhaps? The album is out next week.
Unfortunately, the only good thing about the Cure's "The End of the World" is the end of the song. I've always loved the guitar and bass meandering and weaving through Cure songs, creating the perfect atmosphere for Robert Smith's vocals, manic or depressive. On this track the music is all blunted and muddled in the background so the focus is on R. yelping redundant sub-par lyrics. It reminds me of Wild Mood Swings, which is the only Cure album I ever left burning on someone's doorstep.
Now I never thought I'd be choosing George Michael over the Cure but I recently heard "Amazing" and I quite like it, in a disco-poppy kind of way. Of course, I can't refrain from connecting the words to his public toilet incident. And that's amusing. I wonder if the people busted in the restrooms of my hometown mall felt as liberated as GM?

+I just found out that the Finn Brothers (Tim and Neil) have been working on another album. It's called Everyone is Here and it can't be too far away since there are tour dates set for July. Think they'll be travelling in a leaky boat?