Absolutely Perfect!

As I've said before, I'm slow on the uptake with new music. I'm still not sure why.

There are a couple of tunes I've heared on the SomaFM (somafm.com) Secret Agent channel that caught my attention. Way smooth and mellow Jazz in a South American/West Indies (Caribbean) style with bits of electronica around the edges.

Then I heard parts of one of the songs again while watching Top Gear! In particular, during the trip to Spain and the racecourse / resort while showing The Stig and his helmeted girlfriend in the pool.

As it turns out, it was Bebel Gilberto.



I've had an attraction this sound for some time and now is just about the first time I've put a name or face to it. Awesome that it's such a gorgeous woman.



And more pics.




I'm including some of these songs on a birthday CD compilation for a friend. I hope she appreciates it.

Perhaps I'm getting too much lovin' these days.

I sware I love my cars. Both Volvo. Both Turbocharged. Both making far more power then stock.Both are a blast to drive being that they are rear wheel drive. Making a left this morning, I get the back out. While hanging out there, it decides to slide what was prolly another ten degrees to the right and was really sideways at that point, but still kickin' tail too. I let it hang out a little more and it swings gently back to the left for a bit before straigthening out.

I've been addicted this crap for far too long now mate!

Not really believing that a 240, much less a Volvo can bust a grape? How this pic?



That's not my car BTW. I can only hope my project car comes out that nice when it's done.

Sia! Moon!

I've been a slow lazy dolt about keeping up with Sia, but today while listening to an internet radio station that I actually stumbled into, I heared "Moon". What a killer song!

I know of Sia from Zero 7. I was knocked over by songs like Somersault (which had one of the sweetest vids I'd ever seen), Speed Dial, and Destiny. Yet for some reason I've been slow on the uptake of her solo stuff.

That's about to change.

About that station, it's called Lush. It's a somafm.com
channel that for some strange reason, is not listed on their home page. I was litteraly screwing around with XMMS and the ip address of the feed for the Digitalis channel with I found this and struck paydirt! If you are a Linux user using XMMS, chose the "add url" utility and enter "http://fx.somafm.com:8800". Winamp has the ability to do so as well, but not using Windows for years now I don't remember how.

Anyway, they just started playing "Somersault" by Zero 7. This station is the bomb rip!

Here is the Somersault vid I mentioned earlier. Thanx Youtube!



And what's a post about a favorite without pics?

Special people

Chatting with a freind reminded me of a couple of people that are absolutely amazing and incredible to me. Fridah Kahlo (from a time well before that dumb Hollywood movie!) and Suzanna Samuelson.

I origonally spun off into this bit of rememberance when a freind said something that made me think of one of Fridah's paintings. Fridah Kahlo is one of my two fav artists (the other being Eyvind Earl), an amazing individual, and a beautiful woman. Concerning the "beautiful" part (on a purely physical level), our tossed up American society most likely won't think so. She has some hardcore eyebrow action jumping off and didn't shave her armpits. Being Mexican, especially in todays racist climate, doesn't help if trying to make an impression on the sea of dolts.

But whatever! I couldn't care less what people think! She was simply incredible. I wish I could've met her.





If you are remotely interested, read the link to the wiki entry above.

Suzanna is a freind from my late teens and through most of my 20's. She too is an artist. She is another amazing person with a person that I was ultimately invested tons of emotional energy in. She had a huge effect on me. Effects that would ultimately teach me some serious lessons. Seeing pictures of her reminds me of just how incredibly awesome she is. I can't begin to explain and would really rather not try.

So I'll just post a couple of pics. :-)




The pictures of Suzanna are from a blog entry at Tow (tow.com). Here. I better give credit where credit is due eh?

kthanxbye! LOL

Dedication to line

Be quiet. There is little to say. Much to write. Plenty to sing. And only one listener of consequence. Move back from that which you wouldn't have been close to in times previous. These things alter line and cloud objective. The enemies of clarity, these multitudes are.

So now in the age of killable offenses, are the things you say you need needed? Of course, it's yes and no. And we know the pitfalls of yes and the provision of no. The temporal state of yes and the perpetual state of the provisioning.

We, the duality coalesced of the field marshal and architect. We know the objective. Our enterprise is operandi. We know the modus. Where is the D in D.S.P. in the quest of P.L.V and The Valeethian Wheel Works? Are we still building the foundries of the mind? Are not the fires still lit? Are not the motions towards objective first emotive? What world is built that was not first imagined?

So we keep our mouths shut from utterance beyond need. We hide glee for the privileged and the provisioning. And I, just a small quiet player, back straight, shoulders broad, and standing in array with the wrestlers. Mercurial and bristling with power. I am nothing but a thankful and temporal disturbance in the fabric of time.

Depressed?

I think I'm depressed. I think that perhaps the wreckage of some other daydream, recently ended, is far greater then I thought (carelessness sucks!). It's hard to move at times. It's hard to get up at times. It's hard just to open the front door at times.

Maybe I don't want to be seen?

Maybe I don't want to see?

One thing is certain: I need to find my way out of this funk! There is far too much that needs to be done.