ALIEN LANDSCAPE
Author : NHJ
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Playing:
Between the Bars (Elliott Smith Cover) by Metric
Thursday, January 25, 2007
fever thursday
what an eeriely bad week of geometry, dying fishes, boys destined for failure and endless strings of brief phonecalls with fiends. oh. i mean friends.
**
when she became unreachable was the exact time, i started being honest. she found out detestable, odious things which i never told anyone before, because just this once i love someone more than i love myself. do you know what she said? i know all that. i just wished you told me sooner. i tried not to cry too much because she thinks crying is for sissies which is totally ironic considering what a baby she is. then i said, i'm not going to subject our friendship to a drift away stretched over years of reluctant emails and rare calls. we mean so much more than that. let's just jump off and die. i thought i heard a muffled sob on the other line then she said,
let's.
**
i want to be the surgeon that cuts you open, that fixes all of life's mistakes.
Posted by NHJ 1/25/2007 06:51:00 pm
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
rejecting Rudy
Rudy has impossibly soft, natural faded black hair and perfect hands.
i could be in love with him if i wanted to. he gave me clever notes in pink envelopes. he scented them with his cologne. Bulgaria Aqua.
you can fall in love with me if you want to, he said while smiling the smile of the mischevious unbreakable lovers of the 21st century. i could. he is everything i deserve. but Little Bear,
under pulsing streetlights, we traced our names across the galaxy with our soiled fingertips. you are my doom.
and i am crazy for shunning handsome prince poet because i think i may still be crazy for you.
Posted by NHJ 1/16/2007 07:57:00 pm
Friday, January 05, 2007
i only just realised that Alien Landscape is linked at the cyberhome of the juvenile yet sassy MRH. strange.
i find this unsettling only because she is a blood relative whom i've never had or found anything in common with in all the 17 years i have known her. we're like politician and poet. one's blunt and (arguably) popular, the other's a cowardly self-proclaimed revolutionary who is in fact just a part of a common species of antisocial weirdos.
Posted by NHJ 1/05/2007 07:36:00 pm
Thursday, January 04, 2007
orphans, prostitutes and whales.
The Mariner's Revenge Song is probably the Decemberists' best track. a full eight minutes of a mariner's journey of fulfilling his dying mother's last wish of making her former lover suffer and then die. it showcases the band's lyrical and musical genius perfectly! how bout that sailoresque accordian interlude eh! and the part where the song tremble and shake at the appearance of the whale! and that ending! this song is raw, rhythmic and salty.
i would recommend almost all their songs. from Leslie Anne Levine, an anguished cry of an abandoned child, to Red Right Ankle, about muscle and sinew in symmetry, to On The Busmall, a love song about runaways, to the wry A Cautionary Song about a boy's mother who was a prostitute, to A Bagman's Gambit, a sweet tale about an anarchist and a government officer being in love:
And at the gate of the embassy
our hands met through the bars
as your whisper stilled my heart:
"No they'll never catch me now.
No, they'll never catch me,
no they cannot catch me now.
We will escape somehow.
Somehow."
personally, this one is my favourite song of theirs. it's wistful, daring and epic; the description of my idea of a fairytale love.
my doomed girl, my discarded boy,
if i were to write a song, it would be about how randomly and carelessly we loved.
And I am a writer,
writer of fictions,
I am the heart that you call home.
And I've written pages upon pages
trying to rid you from my bones,
my bones, my bones.
Posted by NHJ 1/04/2007 12:45:00 pm
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
indie darling
surprise surprise! Joanna Newsom made #1 in our local paper's (The Straits Times) pop/rock album of 2006 category. i didn't know people here are actually listening to decent music. i didn't even know people here know of her.
it was only a few weeks ago i played Bridges and Balloons on AL.
"We sailed away on a winter's day
with fate as malleable as clay;
but ships are fallible, I say,
and the nautical, like all things, fades
And I can recall our caravel:
a little wicker beetle shell
with four fine maste and lateen sails,
its bearings on Cair Paravel
O my love,
O it was a funny little thing
to be the ones to've seen.
The sight of briges and balloons
makes calm canaries irritable;
they caw and claw all afternoon:
"Catenaries and dirigibles
brace and buoy the living-room --
a loom of metal, warp - woof - wimble."
And a thimblesworth of milky moon
can touch hearts larger than a thimble.
O my love,
O is was a funny little thing
to be the ones to've seen"
will keep in mind to play another one of her tracks in the coming weeks.
2006 had been a year of great music. i'm tempted to increase the songplay to once in three days instead of six. nothing like that too soon though.
Posted by NHJ 1/02/2007 07:18:00 pm
