YOU DON'T NEED SOMEONE NEW

i've posted this video before, but i just pulled out my 12" single of this song the other day and i've been playing it non-stop. i'm kind of obsessed with the early 80's liverpool music scene and with this wild swans spin-off band in particular. as you may already know, the wild swans were founded by ex-teardrop explodes keyboardist paul simpson in 1980, releasing one excellent ep (the revolutionary spirit) and a radio session recorded for john peel before splintering into the lotus eaters and care (featuring simpson and future lightening seed ian broudie). the lotus eaters released one full length album (no sense of sin) in 1984 that i'm DYING without.
while i'm at it, here's a video of the wild swans from after they re-formed in 1988 (dig the drummer!) and a video of care that i've posted before and am also OBSESSED with...




interesting side note: all three bands continue to be massively popular in the philippines. good taste over there, i guess...

SPEEDWAY

THE FORCE/ZODIAC

JERK DREAMIN'

i had a vivid dream this morning that i was on the hunt for jamaican food with my friend paul (i assume we were in or around toronto). we were looking for some fabled "best jerk chicken spot" deep in the bowels of a dark suburban shopping mall. when we finally found it, the line up of people and the smells of curry and spice wafting from the back signaled that we had indeed found something special. it was one of those dreams where you can never quite get what you want or get where you're trying to go, so in waiting and ordering and waiting some more, the chicken was always just out of reach. at one point a man came out from the back with a huge tray of fresh fried "johnny cakes", which were snatched up in a frenzy by all the people waiting. i have no idea if they were really johnny cakes or what they were, but they looked like large flat donuts with some sort of intoxicating curry gravy oozing out. i woke up soon after, never having tasted my dream chicken. now i have a hunger- nay, LUST- for jamaican spice with no other option but to try and make it myself. i'm venturing off into new kitchen territory here folks, wish me luck!

BLOCK OF WOOD

"and it doesn't look good
and i'm feeling like a block of wood
so take me away
i know not where..."

ONLY MUSIC SURVIVES (AGAIN)

ONLY MUSIC SURVIVES

where did they find that gross drunk serge gainsbourg-looking bum? oh wait...