In London you can estimate your black bile by remembering the last time you felt a cool breeze on your face. Straying along the cracked tiles of my front garden chilled my heart because the sensation of the frigid air felt eerily fresh. So I took a detour from my usual meander to the parade. I picked the last paper from my battered Rizla packet and stuck my headphones in my ears.
The first refuge is self medication. For Melancholia I prescribe rippling lithium, cheaper then intoxication and with less side effects. Music cuts cleaner then a scalpel and deeper then a drill. There is something synesthesiastic about it that goes without explanation because you just feel it.
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose,
Nothin’ ain’t worth nothin’ but it’s free,
Feeling good was easy while Bobby sung the blues,
Feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and Bobby Mcgee.”
Johnny Cash - Me and Bobby Mcgee
Other songs to roll and walk to:
Jelly Roll Morton - Pretty Baby (Tony Jackson Song from 1916 in the Congress Recordings)
James Brown - Lost Someone (Live in 1963 at the Apollo)
Sona Diabate - Nassannaba (Performed with Bembeya Jazz National)
Davy Graham & Shirley Collins - Hori-Hori
Nico - These Days
John Holt - Strange Things
MF Doom - Lemon Grass (Instrumental from Special Herbs Vol. 3-4)
Durer implies there is a thin line between inspiration and despair. Life is never as bad as it seems or as good as it ought to be. So I tend to teeter between the two.
Saturday
The first refuge is self medication. For Melancholia I prescribe rippling lithium, cheaper then intoxication and with less side effects. Music cuts cleaner then a scalpel and deeper then a drill. There is something synesthesiastic about it that goes without explanation because you just feel it.
“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose,
Nothin’ ain’t worth nothin’ but it’s free,
Feeling good was easy while Bobby sung the blues,
Feeling good was good enough for me,
Good enough for me and Bobby Mcgee.”
Johnny Cash - Me and Bobby Mcgee
Other songs to roll and walk to:
Jelly Roll Morton - Pretty Baby (Tony Jackson Song from 1916 in the Congress Recordings)
James Brown - Lost Someone (Live in 1963 at the Apollo)
Sona Diabate - Nassannaba (Performed with Bembeya Jazz National)
Davy Graham & Shirley Collins - Hori-Hori
Nico - These Days
John Holt - Strange Things
MF Doom - Lemon Grass (Instrumental from Special Herbs Vol. 3-4)
Durer implies there is a thin line between inspiration and despair. Life is never as bad as it seems or as good as it ought to be. So I tend to teeter between the two.
Saturday
PS
Is Tom dead or passed out on a pile of porn?
