whimper

our wires crossed
and i was lost in the current
a heavy vault of sadness for a heart
now i wander through the deep
o, how i have made peace now with the dark
when i saw the sun glitt'ring
before i lost that spark
i found hell hounds always whimper
never bark

blues are my blues

it ain't got nothin' to do with you
my blues are my blues,
and i can't choose, no i can't choose
when i feel so down

they say that only time can heal
so why bring me down, man, with your jive?
if i want to feel sorry, i'll feel sorry
all night

and it ain't got nothin' to do with you
my blues are my blues,
and i can't choose, no i can't choose
when i feel so down

you say my blues make you worry
well thank you, but i'm doing just fine
and if i want to feel sorry, well
i feel sorry all of the time

and it ain't got nothin' to do with you
my blues are my blues ooh ooh ooh
and i can't choose, no i can't choose
when i feel so down

it ain't got nothin' to do with you
ooh baby don't come around
ooh baby don't come around

humid nights

and then the air answered for me
while i stood facing your
wall of questions
and then you laid the weight upon me
before i was ready
to carry out all of my intentions

the tension was high
the nights were so humid
the look in your eye
made me feel so useless

to harvest all that i've sewn
or to watch all that's grown
turn to ashes?

and then the sea parted for me
while i stood facing the shore
and i took the weight off my shoulders
that i had carried before

the tension was high
the nights were so humid
the look in your eye
made me feel so damn useless
the look in your eye
made me feel so stupid
the look in your eye
made me feel so human

vermont winter folk song

if there's no reason put it back
i rang the bell until it cracked
but they'll never take my alarm
serious after that long,
unforgotten incident on the farm

but this time molly jumped down
from the second story of the barn
and molly's ankle's broken
and she can hardly move her arm
and when i ran to tell them
they sent for an ambulance
the firemen came too,
and then the firemen left

and the candle glowing upstairs
went largely unnoticed
and pretty soon the flames spread
to the floor and molly's card deck
and the hay in the loft caught
faster than one might expect

molly wears a cast now
and breathes a deep sigh of regret
and i know they won't forget

the next time i ring that bell
they better listen to me well

"paul is dead"

I was drunk the night we met, I might try to forget
Except I know so were you
I don't really care, cause we went on from there
And I try not to hide from what is true
The other night I had this dream
You told me what you want from me
I gave it to you instantly
and I woke up without a clue

from the Odd Peanuts Wolf Gang Kill Them All tumblr. http://opwgkta.tumblr.com/

(everybody wants to go to) japan

end of times

Haunted Graffiti

making me ill from being so still
i'm living with myself these days
with barely anything to say
i'm living with my problems and can't
do a thing about them

i'm just a killer
who can't kill anything

mingus + roach

solemnity

aster

sleeve design

lead leaf - the candle reveals the hidden message ep

released november of last year, our latest. p. bowman on drums, gold leaf on casio, magic organ, microphone. droney / intensely emotional psychedelic rock

flamingas motel *****

calligraphy by jeanine hauk, find her over at ontaskfamily.com

telegraphese - londoner: is (are) a total loss

Examples of telegraphic coded expressions, taken from The Adams Cable Codex, Tenth Edition, 1896 are:

• Emolument - Think you had better not wait
• Emotion - Think you had better wait until -
• Emotional - Think you had better wait and sail -
• Empaled - Think well of party mentioned
• Empanel - This is a matter of great importance.

and from The A.B.C. Universal Commercial Electric Telegraphic Code

• Nalezing - Do only what is absolutely necessary
• Nalime - Will only do what is absolutely necessary
• Nallary - It is not absolutely necessary, but it would be an advantage
• Naloopen - It is not absolutely necessary, but well worth the outlay

haikus2sheev2

haikus to shiva pt. ii (march 2011)

one unique snowflake
over the tipsy line there
she's gone and done it

don't let some up-turned
bubbly-breathed belligerent
bother your love now

you're spinning circles
around every color
in your dust white dress

as for your good thing
i can only be jealous
of his am'rous gaze

you know no other
could light a fire like yours
he's firm in your flame

on the other hand
my old dew is glistening
for me yet again

and it's like:

"and when i see you
i want to kiss you, but
i know that ain't right

so i ask if i
can hold you, babe i only
want to make you glad"



and while hope leads me
back to that sweet spiral,
fear's reversing

mary of silence (with guns)

saturday night/sunday morning, 2:42 a.m.: just returned from the soul/funk night dance party in west oakland where my buddy joe was spinning, listening to mazzy star.



right when the song ends, gun shots like two blocks away.

love you south berkeley,
sincerely,

gold leaf

my sun don't never go down mixtape

My Sun Don't Never Go Down Mixtape by gold-leaf


all great shit

tracklisting:
Aster Aweke & Sensation Band - Lomiye
Unkown Artist - Chemirocha
Dinosaur Jr. - Mick
Amon Duul II - Pale Gallery
Brian Wilson - Cabin Essence
Circulatory System - Prehistoric
Brian Eno & David Byrne - Two Against Three
Roy Ayers - Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Group Inerane - Ano Nagarus
Bernard Lubat - Crazy Organ
Pierre Schaeffer & Pierre Henry - Valse
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Trouble In Mind
Eddie Lee Jones - My Sun Don't Never Go Down
Java Court Gamelan - Bubaran: Nudan Mas
Marika Papagika - Lemonaki (Little Lemon)
Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin - Katunbu (Dance)

duality

unused art for graphic design project

sing yourself a song