Needless To Say...

...I am very excited about seeing The ‘Motherfucking’ Death Set on Monday. I spent this morning leaping around the flat to their ‘To’ EP. I’m sure that the neighbours enjoyed my frenzied rendition of ‘Worldwide’, ‘Intermission’ and ‘Paranoia’. There was a lot of shouting involved. I recommend starting every day with The Death Set and some animated delight. Negative Thinking will ruin your life.

“They will crawl out as darkness falls, to be sick, to defecate, to release cramped limbs, to find out whether the muffled roaring, stinking, crackly noise is their home or the whole earth burning. They will seek out, in compassion, the sobs and moans of those alive and trapped in wreckage, perhaps desperately hoping that they are their own or someone known whom they might help.

They will be exposed, become contaminated, irradiated. Compassion, the humane response will be their executioner. They will carry contamination back to their holes in the rubble. Soon the children will vomit, weaken and begin to die. Their gravediggers too, will be dying”

Crucible of Despair: Effects of Nuclear War, Anthony Tucker & John Gleisner (1982)

Fabpants Recommends: Listening to deep, dark, miserable, but stunningly beautiful music at the gym.

Perhaps it’s a reaction to the sugar coated pop that bellows out of the gym’s speakers, perhaps it’s in honour of the work that the gym releases me from, or perhaps it’s just a product of my personality, but I love listening to miserable music at the gym.

Yesterday, when This Mortal Coil’s ‘Song to the Siren’, The Radio Dept’s ‘Strange Things will Happen’ and Joy Division’s ‘Atmosphere’ randomly played in that very order, I couldn’t stop grinning. The dark side of life is so beautiful. I find myself falling in love with it, and the music that honours its depth.

For your next run:

Download MP3: This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren (courtesy of animazeinc.com)




Download MP3: The Radio Dept – Strange Things Will Happen (courtesy of anyones-guess.com)




Download MP3: Joy Division – Atmosphere (courtesy of vaguespace.net)




Postscript:
I’m aware that I never told you all about my amazing canoeing trip in Norfolk. It encompassed Windmills, Lighthouses, Tall Church Towers, Birds, Butterflies, A City of Elephants, Short Sharp Showers and some Amazing Three Point Turns.

Also sidelined: ‘At Home by the Sea’ Festival and other short stories from ‘The Weekend that the German came to Stay’. Sorry, I’ve been a bit busy. Perhaps, one day, you will hear the amazing tale of Slow Club in the corner, and about the charm of Peggy Sue and the Pirates and their lobster fingered punchlines. Under The Arches, only a sheet of tarpaulin protected us from being battered to death by rain. I mustn’t forget to mention the perfection of seeing the CocknBullKid play at midnight. Oh, how we danced. The audience was the friendliness that I’ve ever encountered. We jigged to The Shout Out Louds, jumped to The Brakes, and together we were one. There were human pyramids too. Yes, human pyramids. You know who you are you charming lot.