I am coming off a weekend.
I also can’t get that one clever YouTube video to load for me, so just read whatever you want into the song titles.
If U Seek Amy (GhettoHouse Remix) – Britney Spears
Get Back (Rock Remix) – Ludacris
Idumea – Sacred Harp Singers
Lady Sings the Blues – Billie Holiday
Vremya Luni – Akvarium
Geraldine – Glasvegas
The Very Thought Of You – Billie Holiday
Kissing You – Des’ree
Vanyusha – DakhaBrakha
Sur – Astor Piazzolla
Do you own clothes that, when you put them on, suddenly make you realize that “OH DEAR CHRIST, I was wearing THIS when [insert fateful event] happened”? I do. There is this tunic that I own – it’s very pretty, with a cowl neck, glittery and embroidered, and in the sort of grey-blue colour that loves my eyes – and I haven’t worn it since March, and I have just figured out why. I feel confident and shiny in it, like a china doll in tissue paper, and I also feel that if an article clothing could ever be haunted – it would certainly be a tunic like this.
So on top of all of the usual Monday stuff, I’ve been walking around and feeling like this:
I think it’s a good illustration, no? I mean, you guys can always tell me if you think it’s too subtle.
Anyways. On with the music:
We Talk Like Machines – Savoir Adore
Third Stone from the Sun – Jimi Hendrix
Girl Anachronism – The Dresden Dolls
Remedy (Buffetlibre vs. Sidechains Remix) – Little Boots
Imagine? – Beat Crusaders
Shadows (Teenagers Remix) – Au Revoir Simone
Ruby Tuesday (Live) – The Rolling Stones
Won’t Wash – Hot Chip
The Other Side of the World – Tindersticks
Such Great Heights – The Postal Service
And here’s dessert:
This video, of course, while legendary, has also served as the source of one of the most legendary animated gifs of all time. I present here, for your enjoyment:
One of my greatest fears in this world (aside from this whole “zomg total life ruinage” thing that we all have from time to time) is never being able to rival such greatness.
What’s WRONG with me, and WHAT SUPERNATURAL ENTITY have I pissed off?
Ahem.
Jesus Doesn’t Want Me For a Sunbeam – Nirvana
Heysatan – Sigur Ros
Get Back – Ludacris
Heaven Tonight – Hole
The Last Thing On Your Mind – Lights
Red Turned White – Architecture In Helsinki
Baby’s In Black – the Beatles
Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis – Neko Case
Animal – Miike Snow
Vesna – Melnitsa
Since we’re continuing with the theme of my childhood around here:
“The Craft” was so bad that it was good. It was also creepy as hell, when you think about it.
The traffic outside sounds like the sea. Also, the genius of Julian Barnes appears to be ruining my life, but more on that at a later date.
Who The Fuck – P J Harvey
Control – Poe
Favorite Thing – the Replacements
As If By Magic – La Roux
The Bad Thing – Arctic Monkeys
Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash
The Last Carnival – Bruce Springsteen
Send Me on My Way – Rusted Root
The Trapeze Swinger – Iron & Wine
King Kong Five – Manu Chao
Also, after an intense Victory Day weekend, this is only appropriate:
Deputy squadron commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, Maria Dolina
After a successful breach of the Leningrad blockade
Snipers Faina Yakimova, Roza Shanina and Lidia Volodina
My great aunt, Evgenia Myasnikova. I owe her.
I've got no words that can describe this one
Soldiers on break with a "spoil of war"
Very famous picture. I like to call it "Do not go gentle into that good night"
My grandfather: Major General Pyotr Pavlovich Nistratov. The person I miss most on this day.
Every spark of friendship and love will die without a home. Hear the soldier groan, “We’ll go at it alone.” – Arcade Fire
And as for modern observations, check out a couple of videos I took of planes over Moscow today (I’m uploading a couple of the really short ones, but they kept coming overhead for a while. I felt like a kid again.) You can hear the screaming start off in the distance, as the planes are spotted by the people in the next street over.
For some reason, this year, it’s especially hard for me to look at pictures of WWII. It’s hard to consider the reasons why we hang on to our military so dearly, on this day in particular. Over 25 million dead is more than a statistic, it’s a seismic wave.
“You were born for the saddle,” my grandfather once told me, after he saw me ride for the first time, in America. I will never forget his happiness on that day, the way he smiled as if I had handed him a present, and all I had done was emerge from behind a line of trees, on an Appaloosa or some mix thereof, and trot up toward him. And then he paused, and added, seemingly randomly – and I will never forget his words, or his eyes behind his glasses when he said it – “Remember when to hold on.”
I am despondent, for all sorts of miserable reasons, but at least my lymph node isn’t as swollen up as it was this morning. Who knew that acute tonsillitis can go on for days with hardly any symptoms – until you’re on the verge of going septic, apparently?
And you really do find out who matters and who doesn’t, in the process of something like this.
I’m Looking Through You – the Beatles
Dying Over Europe – Jah Wobble
Close to Me – the Cure
Bonfires (live) – Rickie Lee Jones
Green Eyes – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Ung & Sänkt – Ebba Grön
Fix You – Coldplay
Day Tripper – the Beatles
The Perfect Crime #2 – the Decembrists
Good – Better Than Ezra
Honey, you hurt me bad this time.
You nearly tore me from my mind.
Hm, you know, speaking of Better Than Ezra, here’s an appropriate childhood classic:
Storms, storms all through the weekend, and me hiding from them in Lush and Topshop, mostly. Going through some of my old writing these last few days, I was struck how, at the age of 21 – 22, I felt that I would never be the heroine of a story again. That the stories were over, because I had grown up. I’m glad that life has been proving me wrong on that account – no matter how bizarrely it may choose to do so.
Obsessions – Marina and the Diamonds
Peligro – Manu Chao
The Scientist – Coldplay
Cum On Feel the Noize – Beat Crusaders
Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting – Elton John
Alternativa – Akvarium
I Don’t Like Your Band – Annie
re: Stacks – Bon Iver
Heartbreak Beat – the Psychedelic Furs
Just Lust – the Buzzcocks
I’m at a moment in my life right now, where it feels like anything at all is possible. I’m scared – and excited. I can’t decide whether I’m more excited than scared, or scared than excited. It’s like I’m having an internal monologue based on Owen Wilson’s lines in that little-known art-house flick, “Armageddon.”
Chan Chan – Buena Vista Social Club
The Big Sleep – Bat For Lashes
Aramaic Barbarous Dawn – Ghost
Sanctus – Mozart
Good Morning Good Morning – the Beatles
A Kind of Magic – Queen
Goodnight Ladies – Lou Reed
Inner City Pressure – Flight of the Conchords
Ekzemplyar – Kryhitka
Ease – Hanne Hukkelberg
It’s OK if you’ve got a weak spot.
You don’t always have to be on top.
Dear Duke – Anthem
Gone to Croatan – Jah Wobble
The General – Dispatch
The Other Side – the Twelves
Hand in Glove – the Smiths
Souvenir D’iti – In-Grid
Oblivion – Patrick Wolf
Close to Me – the Cure
Back to the Old House – the Smiths
Come On, Come Out – A Fine Frenzy
Here’s a Duke classic to blow your mind:
Those dorms. Those DORMS! The STORIES from those DORMS!
(Er, this wouldn’t be anyone’s cue to drop in the comments and start telling some of mine.)
Утром – Смысловые Галлюцинации
Field Below – Regina Spektor
Stop Talking – Memory Tapes
Shine On Brightly – Procol Harum
Twilight – Antony & the Johnsons
All I Want is You – U2
Promises – Badly Drawn Boy
Meadowlarks – Fleet Foxes
Steep – the Acorn
Eet – Regina Spektor
I’m going away this week. But I think I’ll be back. Life is so far up in the air right now, that I can’t see the ground. Stars, though, I can see.
…A treasure just to look upon it. Etc.
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