roachboy

i was thinking that it's difficult to think of van morrison as good anything at this point...but i'm a horrible, cynical person.

there are couplets that i like. one is from brian eno's fabulous "kings lead hat" (talking heads as an acrostic) on "before and after science" which is:

the killer cycles/the killer hurts

as a radio joke.
i like that.

but mostly, i agree with filtherton about hip-hop in particular. while i wouldn't call rakim my favorite poet, i really like his lyrics in the context of his delivery. check out "in the ghetto" sometime. maybe now.



but there's alot.

and here's the saddest song i know. but it's in french.



i'm not sure how the words would operate independently of this context, but in this context they can make me cry sometimes.

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite