"Our style of reality is the historical equivalent of a temper tantrum."- Terence McKenna

"The week Play was released, it sold, worldwide around 6,000 copies. Eleven months after Play was released, it was selling 150,000 copies a week. I was on tour constantly, drunk pretty much the entire time and it was just a blur. And then all of a sudden movie stars started coming to my concerts and I started getting invited to fancy parties and suddenly the journalists who wouldn't return my publicist's calls were talking about doing cover stories. It was a really odd phenomenon."- Moby (and ting)

Albert

"Have you ever seen an inch worm crawl up a leaf or twig, and then clinging to the very end, revolve in the air, feeling for something to reach...? That's like me. I am trying to find something out there beyond the place on which I have a footing."- Albert Pinkham Ryder

The man is a collection of soundbites.

  "A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work."

" No two visions are alike. Those who reach the heights have all toiled up the steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama."

“Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.” 

Bing and Ruth- Discovery of the month

Wham.

EDIT: As the album unfolds- maybe the discovery of the last 3 months. Hypnotic stuff.

" In 1988, Cohen explained to John McKenna of RTE Ireland that "Story of Isaac" was an anti-protest song but added, "I was careful in that song to try and put it beyond the pure, beyond the simple, anti-war protest, that it also is. Because it says at the end there the man of war the man of peace, the peacock spreads his deadly fan. In other words it isn't necessarily for war that we're willing to sacrifice each other. We'll get some idea - some magnificent idea - that we're willing to sacrifice each other for; it doesn't necessarily have to involve an opponent or an ideology, but human beings being what they are we're always going to set up people to die for some absurd situation that we define as important."

http://transeuropafestival.eu/

"He must be crying at things like the Bureaucrat's Golden Parachute, and the hole in the ozone layer."

Campo Imperatore Round 2

Summer on the plateau.

Straight Out Of The Woodwork

Request

For a project I'm trying to schedule what a week of 24/7 albums would look like on paper, and trying to go off those that real people like hearing. If you're reading this, recommend me your top ten please.(comment or email-  early      turtle at mac dot com)

FSOL

Took a while to get round to it, but elated to see FSOL are still spinning gold from hay.

 

"When I believe, I am crazy.

When I don't believe, I suffer psychotic depression."

- Philip K Dick

(Painting by Augustin Lesage)

Max Ernst

One ear in Italy, one eye in Spain,

In caves, my blood, and in the stars, my brain.

-Nabokov, Pale Fire