
... What binds me thus in my singularity to the absolute singularity of the other immediately propels me into the space or risk of absolute sacrifice. There are also others, an infi nite number of them, the innumerable generality of others, to whom I should be bound by the same responsibility. -Derrida. Gift of death . pp. 68. " Three Lists for Soulful Night No.2 " 01. Cat Power - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction The Covers Record (2000) 02. [...]

" Acoustic. Texture exercise list. " 01. The Bad Plus - Lithium For All I Care (Heads Up, 2008) 02. Songs: Ohia - The Body Burned Away Ghost Tropic (Secretly Canadian, 2000) 03. Iron & Wine - Love Vigilantes Around The Well (Sub Pop, 2009) 04. Barzin - Soft Summer Girls Notes to an Absent Lover (Monotreme Records, 2009) [...]

In sullen light of the inauspicious day. Now, free, by hazard's quirk, from the common ill Knocking our brothers down, we strike a stance Most mock-heroic, to cloak our waking awe At this rare rumpus which no man can control : Meek and proud both fall; stark violence - Channel Crossing - Sylvia Plath " Mid 2009 exploration. no.1 " 01. The Lounge Lizards - Queen reprise Queen Of All Ears (Strange & Beautiful, 1998) [...]

In sullen light of the inauspicious day. Now, free, by hazard's quirk, from the common ill Knocking our brothers down, we strike a stance Most mock-heroic, to cloak our waking awe At this rare rumpus which no man can control : Meek and proud both fall; stark violence - Channel Crossing - Sylvia Plath " Mid 2009 exploration. no.1 " 01. The Lounge Lizards - Queen reprise Queen Of All Ears (Strange & Beautiful, 1998) [...]

This is a bizarre end to a bizarre life, made all the more bizarre by the fact that Jackson, who was unlike anyone else in so many ways, made his name performing music that convinced everyone else that he was like them in so many ways. His best songs tapped into universal emotions: jealousy, lust, anger, confusion, and, frequently at first and less often as he aged, joy. There was abiding hope that he would one day return with a record worthy of his talents, and though in recent years it seemed unlikely, he specialized in the unlikely. Everyone knows [...]

Wanda Jackson - Let's have a party Wanda Jackson (1958) We've finally reached our goal for this year! I hereby declare our fund drive 09 officially over! Thank you so much once again to those of you who donated as well as our kind readers who are constantly supporting us with their comments and their emails. See you next week!

Don Cornal & the Eternals - Let's start again Mudie's Mood (Moodisc, 1970) Hello there! This is the first fund drive update and I'm happy to announce that despite my daft decision of running it on a weekend it has been a great success so far. We've collected $165, meaning we're only $35 dollars away from our $200 goal! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated, your help will keep the motel alive one more year. MdM is a a labor of love and you are [...]

"I wish you wouldn't keep appearing and vanishing so suddenly: you make one quite giddy." "All right," said the Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowy, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest of it had gone. "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin," thought Alice; "but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in all my life!" (Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", 58) 1. Bobbi Humphrey - Please set [...]

" Kinda Bossa Nova Rhythm " 01. Thievery Corporation - Retaliation Suit Radio Retaliation (Eighteenth Street, 2008) 02. Vinícius de Moraes, Quarteto em Cy - Soneto Do Amor Total/Samba Em Preludio Bossa Nova & Samba Gold Collection (Musicrama, 2000) 03. Luiz Bonfá - Manha De Carnaval (Morning Of Carnaval) Orfeu Negro (1959) 04. João Donato - Tudo Tem Lugar [...]

Photo: Valerie Phillips . Summer turns the stove on and fun begins to cook. Barefoot walks in Baltimore with empty pocketbook. When night comes we can go walking on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. A silence tailored for talking and a love with so much to say. Monsters at Work - Magic morning A Psychedelic Guide to Monsterism Island (Lo, 2009) Dj Kaos - Love the night away (Tiedye mix) [...]

There was to be a fourth thing, but as yet he knew nothing of it. The affair with Agnieszka bothered him not because he felt guilty about Basia, his wife—though he did feel guilty—but because Agnieszka's poetry was notorious for its candor and explicitness. Every year produced a new slim volume in which the slimness was inversely proportionate to the indiscretion. Piotr wrote poetry himself, less prolifically and more guardedly. He had written poems about his affair with Agnieszka, but his way with pathetic fallacy meant that even Basia could read them without guessing their true provenance. The [...]

This ocean, humiliating in its disguises Tougher than anything. No one listens to poetry. The ocean Does not mean to be listened. A drop Or crash of water. Its mean Nothing. It Is bread and butter Pepper and salt. The death That young men hope for. Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. "Thing Language" - Jack Spicer Carly Simon - Why Why Single (Mirage [...]

Photo: Piotr Nidzgorski . For a boombox poem, click here . Jimmy Edgar - I wanna be your STD Color Strip (Warp, 2006) Jamie Lidell - A little bit more (Luke Vibert mix) Multiply additions (Warp, 2006) Junior Boys - High come down Last Exit (Kin, 2004) Plus Device - Body [...]

"Goethe's final words: ' More light'. Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry: 'More light'. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlelight. Neon. Incandescent. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and candles. Light is metaphor." Chris Stevens, Northern Exposure (1990) Bibio - Lover's Carvings ('Ambivalence Avenue', [...]

"As I was hiking down the mountain with my pack, I turned and knelt on the trail and said 'Thank you, shack'. Then I added 'Blah,' with a little grin, because I knew that shack and that mountain would understand what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world." - Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, Grafton Books, 1972 Yaw - Where Would You Be (Brownswood Bubblers, 2008) Jose James - Visions of Violet (Brownswood Bubblers, 2008) Dudley Perkins - [...]

"We´ll always have Paris" -Humprey Bogart in Casablanca. "Pero el amor, esa palabra... Moralista Horacio, temeroso de pasiones sin una razón de aguas hondas, desconcertado y arisco en la ciudad donde el amor se llama con todos los nombres de todas las calles, de todas las casas, de todos los pisos, de todas las habitaciones, de todas las camas, de todos los sueños, de todos los olvidos o los recuerdos". - Julio Cortázar. Fragmento 93 de Rayuela . Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix) [...]

Photo: Oliver Helbig. Nature's wastefulness seems quietly obscene. It's been doing that all week: making beauty, and throwing it away, and making more. - Tony Hoagland, A Color of the Sky . Efdemin - Acid Bells (Martyn's bittersweet mix) Métisse 2.5 (Curle, 2009) Four Tet & Burial - Moth Moth/Wolf Cub (Text, 2009) [...]

In silence the heart raves. It utters words Meaningless, that never had A meaning. I was ten, skinny, red-headed, - True Love , Robert Penn Warren. ... and in so doing gives stability to the ideas, and qualifies them at once for permanent and universal approval, for being followed by others, and for a continually progressive culture. And so, where the interests of both these qualities clash in a product, and there has to be a sacrifice of something, then it should rather be on the side of [...]

------------------------ 1. Ane Brun - Fight song ( A Temporary Dive, 2005 ) 2. Bardo Pond - Cry Baby Cry ( Ticket Cystals, 2006 ) 3. Keren Ann - Where no endings end ( Keren Ann, 2007 ) 4. Kath Bloom & Loren Connors - All My Trials Here ( Sing The Children Over-Sand In My Shoe, 2008 ) 5. Carla Bozulich - Baby, That's the Creeps [...]

And we feel like we have visions of tomorrow. Sonido Lasser Drakkar - Visions The Electric Mass Begins (Noiselab, 2003) Golden Boy with Miss Kittin - Rippin' Kittin Rippin' Kittin (Illustrious, 2002) Adult. - Hand to Phone Hand to Phone (Clone, 2001) In Flagranti - Pick a Trick Brash & Vulgar (Codek, 2009) Felix Da Housecat [...]