Rob - Do You Mind If I Keep On Watching You.

From "A Satyred Love", more or less a perfect album for me...

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"In all my loves there is an ineffable moment, the one in which, for the first time, I discover the face of a companion whose destiny I am granted, when I lean avidly over the traits that soon will become familiar to me."

- Lucien ("The Necrophiliac" by Gabrielle Wittkop, 1972)

Picture: "The Anatomist" by Gabriel von Max, 1869

(When the wife of a distinguished man dies, or any woman who happens to be beautiful or well known, her body is not given to the embalmers immediately, but only after the lapse of three or four days. This is a precautionary measure to prevent the embalmers from violating her corpse - "Histories" by Herodotus, 420BC - de Selincourt translation 1972)

CD (11 songs over two tracks) available from Speech Development Records and all good online retailers.

Digital download (11 separate tracks) available from:

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Amazon - http://amzn.to/TPqccE

Play - http://bit.ly/QSrcsA

Spotify - http://spoti.fi/RvXeRL

7 Digital - http://bit.ly/QhELkF

Nokia - http://bit.ly/Pylopg

Deezer - http://bit.ly/PqVN4b.

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now
  at this innocent hour
I and the one I've been sit
on the threshold of my gaze

 - Alejandra Pizarnik

Picture: "Silhouette Du Peintre" by Léon Spilliaert (1907).

The Shout by Jerzy Skolimowski (1978)

Uncut magazine liked the album it seems!

(October issue, out today)

Couple of amendments though:

1. Due largely to an unwillingness to repeat two modules I had already studied during my advanced BA I actually have a Post Graduate Degree and not a full MA.

2. I am great at parties, I'm always there singing this song...

Album can be bought here: Speech Development Records or here: iTunes
(or most other online stores, other digital options in the post below)

You're An Idiot For Not Coming To My Home

You're an idiot for not coming to my home,
where everything is refined and clever.
Here, under the eaves hang canvases,

sketches, Mikhnov's drawings, up to the standard
of Florence or the Louvre.
In the evening Glenn Gould or Casals play Bach,
you can chance upon poetry read aloud,
Dante is popular here, but apart from him
there's poetry from the Bible, today, for instance
Khlebnikov was holding sway;
the master of the house is also a poet.
Now do you see how stupid you are, you fool.
Idiot, you don't know my wife,
but if you do know her, then you are all the more stupid,
knowing her, in not having slept with her.
Semiramis or Cleopatra alongside her are railway station
cocottes, not knowing what heaven means or sin.

- Leonid Aronzon


Picture: "Symposium" by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1894).

(From left in the painting: Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Oskar Merikanto, Robert Kajanus and Jean Sibelius)

tHis iS cAIrO, nOt tHe ScReamErs

Second video and album out today...

CD (11 songs over two tracks) available from Speech Development Records and most good online retailers.

Digital download (11 separate tracks) available from:
iTunes - http://bit.ly/QhEfTJ

Amazon - http://amzn.to/TPqccE

Play - http://bit.ly/QSrcsA

Spotify - http://spoti.fi/RvXeRL

7 Digital - http://bit.ly/QhELkF

Nokia - http://bit.ly/Pylopg

Deezer - http://bit.ly/PqVN4b.

Second track and video from the album below. Once again directed by Scroobius Pip and shot by Tom Coles. Starring: Alison Naicker, Bobby the dog, Jim Henderson, Andy Bond and Tierney Nash.

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Woman Reading.

She licks her finger, little flick
of tongue and fingertip on furlough
to turn a page - 

a motion that distracts her.
The thread of phrase is broken
but for the word at turning -

vessel.
Vessel as in ship or blood?
She has to pause, all context lost

but blouse and skirt, this urge
to take them off
an ache

for something to contain it all.
Maybe vessel, maybe "el" alone,
bobbing on the tongue. Maybe

luscious, maybe just a finger to her lips
is all the afternoon
was asking for.

And lays aside her book.

- Kathleen Flenniken

Picture: "Study of Legs" by Henry Lerolle.

Nic Jones - Oh Dear, Rue The Day.

Powell - Search.

"I recognise in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty"
- Jean Genet

Picture: "Enrapture Scene Two - Escape" by Mark Stock (2001)

Re-Post... First video from my album directed by Scroobius Pip and shot by Tom Coles and starring Zoe Peters, Elizabeth Miles and Katerina Lambrakis.

Free download of the track and a great remix by Buddy Peace below.

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Michael Brownstein - Ned.

There are even single-word poems, or single words that ought to be poems; the best one I know of is the Tierra del Fuegan word “mamihlapinatapei”.

- John Barth, (A Few Words About Minimalism)

Mamihlapinatapei - a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that they both desire but which neither one wants to start.

Picture: Greta Garbo and John Gilbert in "Flesh and The Devil" (1926).

First video from my album directed by Scroobius Pip and shot by Tom Coles and starring Zoe Peters, Elizabeth Miles and Katerina Lambrakis.

Free download of the track and a great remix by Buddy Peace below.

Jackamo Brown on Facebook.