please whisper

Apparently before Jed had left us
he wrote some poems
wrote them for no-one
I guess I'll show them
here's one of Jed's poems

You said I'd wake up dead drunk alone in the park
I called you a liar but how right you were
air conditioned TV land, 20 grand walk to the bank
with shakes from the night before, staring at the tiki floor
high school wedding ring keys are under the mats
of all the houses here but not the motels
I try to sing it funny like Beck, but it's bringing me down
lower than ground
beautiful ground

Test tones and failed clones and
odd parts made you

from "The Sophtware Slump" (v2, 2000, Usa).
Dream-rock.

dEUS: "Pocket Revolution" ****
Fog: "10th Avenue Freakout" ****
Grandaddy: "Excerpts From The Diary OF Todd Zilla EP" ****
Midwest: "Whatever You Bring We Sing" ****
Oneida: "The Wedding" ****

CocoRosie: "Noah's Ark" ***
Death Cab For Cutie: "Plans" ***
Finn.: "The Ayes Will Have It" ***
Four Tet: "Everything Ecstatic" ***
Fr Luzzi: "Happiness Is An Overrated Value" ***
Low: "The Great Destroyer" ***
Matt Elliott: "Drinking Songs" ***
Mercury Rev: "The Secret Migration" ***
Mugison: "Mugimama Is This Monkey Music?" ***
Sigur Rós: "Takk..." ***
Xiu Xiu: "La Foret" ***

Damien Jurado: "On My Way To Absence" **
Eels: "Blinking Lights And Other Revelations" **
Nine Inch Nails: "With Teeth" **
Yuppie Flu: "Toast Masters" **

...

Look at all the people with their heads down in their hands
they put the flowers on the box that's holding all the sand
that was once
that was once
you

...

from "Electro-shock Blues" (Dreamworks, 1998).
Lagna-rock.

...

Angels 'round here don't sing
they have a curse upon me

...

You don't have to be impatient
for something that ain't coming

from "Pocket Revolution" (V2, 2005, Belgium).
Alternative.

...

Becky wondered why she'd never noticed dragonflies
Her drag'n'click had never yielded anything as perfect aas a dragonfly

...

from "Sumday" (V2, 2003, Usa).
Dream-rock.

...

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep
...

from "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" (Saddle Creek, 2004).
Lagna-folk.

...
She's a rose, she's a pearl, she's a spin on my world
all the stars make their wishes on her eyes
...

from "Blood Money" (Anti, 2002, USA).
Drunken, smoky, surreal jazz-bluesy poems.

I like to sit and cry in front of my tv
I like to think of words to scream
about all it is I am and all it is I wanna be

...

from (Moondog Jr) "Every Day I Wear A Greasy Black Feather On My Hat" (Island, 1995, Belgium).
Experimental jazz-bluesy tunes.

You are a car, you are a hospital
I'd walk to hell and back to see you smile
on saturday

...

from "Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot" (Capitol, 1995, USA).
Dream-slo-fi.

...

I couldn't do nothing but
watch as her tears
fell on fresh fruit
...

from "Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot" (Capitol, 1995, USA).
Dream-slo-fi.

I'm a total wreck when you don't call
fancy me a brand new Newton, sitting
under an anvil tree
waiting for an anvil to fall

...

from "Ether Teeth" (Ninja Tune, 2003, USA).
Experimental tunes.

...
She's painting on my back a beautiful flowerpot
...

from "In A Bar, Under The Sea" (Island, 1996, Belgium).
Alternative.

Nightswimming deserves a quiet night
...

Every street light reveals a picture in reverse
...

from "Automatic From The People" (Warner, 1992).
You all know R.E.M.

...
But I hope that you're laughing now
from that place on the carpet
where we shared a sleeping bag
in your sister's apartment

Oh how she would worry so
you know I was just a stranger
but she asked me to care for you, yes she did
and I went and betrayed her

But do you know we're in high demand, Laura
us people who suffer
because we don't take to arguing
and we're quick to surrender

...
'cause it's the ones with the sorest throat, Laura
who have done the most singing
...

from "Lifted (or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ears To The Ground)" (Saddle Creek, 2002, USA).
Lagna-folk.

Can you feel the wind of Venus on your skin
can you taste the crush of a sunset's dying blush
stars will always hand in summer's bleeding veil

Can you feel the rings of Saturn on your finger
can you taste the ghosts who shed their creeking hosts
but seas forever boil, trees will turn to soil

...

from "It's A Wonderful Life" (Capitol, 2001, USA).
Dream-slo-fi.

We were both standing in your mother's living room
sweating up a storm in that terrible month of June
and the sweat rolled down your cheek
and into your mouth
and I knew this must have been a dream 'cause your mother
would never let me in her house

You are the most beatiful widow
in town

Many years later
in the glassy month of December
I stood with my hands in my pockets
trying to avoid
that shiny wedding portrait
hanging on that old woman's walls
'cause I knew you'd be wearing a smile that'd be
too painful to look upon

from "Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot" (Capitol, 1995, USA).
Dream-slo-fi.

When I sat down on the bed next to you
you started to cry
I said "maybe if I'll leave you'll want me
to come back home"
But maybe all you mean
is "leave me alone"

At least that's what you said

You're irresistible when you get mad
isn't it sad I'm immune
you thought it was cute for you to kiss
my purple black eye
even though I caught it from you
I still think you're serious

from "A Ghost Is Born" (Nonesuch, 2004, USA).
Lagna-rock

...

I wish I could just write this song
and turn away
and carry on what I'm doing
but hey, whatshadoing?

I wish that I could match
these angels in my bones
these devils in my soul
but no, no, no

...

from "A Song About A Girls" (Chikaree, 2004, Belgium).
A sophisticated something in between Tom Waits, Autechre, dEUS, Jamiroquai and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.