Wake

Feeling a definite sense of loss, especially after posting those two micro-obits yesterday for Stanislaw Lem and Nikki Sudden. Tried to drink it into submission last night at Flying Burritto Brothers, using copious quantities of Herradurra Reposado tequila, but apparently it didn't work.

So let's have a song. Fuck it, let's even have two.

David Bowie - We are the dead (right-click and Save As to download)

Swell Maps - Blam!! (right-click and Save As to download)

The Bowie song, We Are the Dead, is from his at-times testing 1974 concept album Diamond Dogs. It's very beautiful and sad. The concept album purports to be based on George Orwells's 1984, though I have reservations about the success of the project.

"because of all we've seen, because of all we've said... we are the dead"

The Swell Maps track is off their best album, Trip To Marineville, and is a rowdy-if-melancholic anthemn of lost love with almost-gang-choruses and the works. On the LP it's bookended by pts 1 and 2 of the wonderfully upbeat and surreal Full Moon.

"why did you do it... you said you loved me / I don't care, I guess I'm nearly dead"

(By the way, do be sure and let me know in the comments section if you're having trouble downloading or playing the mp3s I post here.)