Comments on SibLINGSHOT ON THE BLEACHERS: citizen

@eloh, my god. Great to hear from you. I've b...

2011-07-13T11:08:16.831+01:00

@eloh, my god.

Great to hear from you. I've been skulking around the Rancho Apocalypto more than is seemly, but the gates are locked up tight.

I'd worried that you might have grown tired of the intrusion. Thrown in the towel, or worse.

You know, I still have not settled. Not really. Hardly anybody understands it, given that I bitched and whined. Our old block looks queerly handsome now that its neighbours are reduced to tidy piles of rubble; the sunlight travels all the way round from front to back. And the pulverized concrete raked up in mounds around the rose garden like so many ashes.

Well. It had potential.

It's high time, I think, that you explained your absence. Tell us to mind our own damn business, at least. I know I'm not the only one who has missed your writing.

Of course. Some time ago I promised poetry readings. The world is still turning. I have not written it off.

Damn. This is not any sort of rebuke, you know. A wagging finger. It is just so good to hear from you.

" A scent of magnolia masking mothballs."...

2011-07-13T04:56:16.416+01:00

" A scent of magnolia masking mothballs."

The title of the book about my life........well said ib... well said.

Glad you got there near enough in one piece, and g...

2011-07-09T11:47:10.397+01:00

Glad you got there near enough in one piece, and good to hear from you, Tim.

Our own move was tough enough going, even if was only half way across the city. Some people appear to cope with the drama quite convivially. I am not one of them.

More bonsai than banzai, like an ailing dwarf tree I cling to my windowsill till the last.

Very nice, IB. I'm all done moving. I have tim...

2011-07-08T20:47:45.915+01:00

Very nice, IB. I'm all done moving. I have time to fuck around again.To read and think and mourn and rejoice, all that shit. I'm moving one more time. If they try to make me do it again after that, well it won't be good.

Hey Anto. Glad to hear the excursion bore its ver...

2011-07-07T10:17:58.771+01:00

Hey Anto.

Glad to hear the excursion bore its very own soundtrack.

I have only mildly flirted with Bonny 'Prince' Billy previously. Although I liked what I heard. Your hijacking of the high road here serves as a reminder to do the man justice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9_u0dBEdx4&fea...

2011-07-02T23:13:55.956+01:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9_u0dBEdx4&feature=related

Now, OK, good, but what about this. Unrelated, yes, but awesome. Listened to loads of Bill while camping in a forest in France the last 2 weeks. The man..well, sometimes, there's a man.

Thank you for this, Nate. Very much appreciated. I...

2011-07-02T11:15:43.487+01:00

Thank you for this, Nate. Very much appreciated. I will dispense with my own purloined rip; amend the link on the original post.

Cheers!

Incidentally, take a peek in your intray. Not certain whether the email account remains active.

ib, You could try this. The record is in quite fair condition. Ripped at 320. Vinyl LP cover art. Try it out & let me know. If yours is better, then just chuck it

I could not decide which track to ride out with. Q...

2011-07-01T10:45:19.597+01:00

I could not decide which track to ride out with. Quine's coruscated shapes through the second part of 'Termites' are seizure inducing.

I only heard 'Escape' for the first time quite recently. I wish I had a better rip. Just for clarity.

Termites of 1938. Harris/Quine/Escape...excellent....

2011-06-30T20:05:32.714+01:00

Termites of 1938.
Harris/Quine/Escape...excellent.
Have to dig it out now that you have whet my appetite.
Thank you, kind sir.