todos-somos-marcos:

Our Lady of Struggle

fytomwaits:

Summertime/Burma-Shave | Tom Waits

Probably my favourite version of Burma Shave that I’ve heard. From the bootleg Fast Women and Slow Horses (also known as On Broadway and Cold Beer on a Hot Night) that is a recording from Sydney, Australia in 1979. It features Tom merging the melodies of Summertime and Burma-Shave, a fantastic ramble and homage to Elvis before he goes on to an expanded version of Burma-Shave. Those incredibly powerful and intensely visual lyrics of the piece are abundant as Waits conjures the dark narrative and it concludes with him despairingly singing the lyrics of Summertime in a fantastic contrast to the depressing end of the song. Sublime stuff.

“I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking awayshall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.”

-Nietzsche 

Neon Indian and The Antlers “Rolled Together”

“How often have you turned away, because you feared you might discover something terrible about yourself? How often have you been willing to look at your face in the mirror, without being embarrassed? How many times have you tried to shield yourself by reading the newspaper, watching television, or just spacing out? That is the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question: how much have you connected with yourself at all in your whole life?”

Stephanie Kaza, Dharma Rain