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Mogwai - Dial Revenge
For those of you who haven’t had an opportunity to see WALL·E yet, here’s the opening movie for it, called Presto. It should definitely whet your appetite.
This was so cute and funny. Perhaps even funnier than WALL*E itself.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth--
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.
Robert Frost is one of my Favorite Poets, I like Mending Wall the best.
Annie - “Loco”
I’ve listened to this song approximately 25 times in a row. I don’t know what it is: the driving synth beat, the post-punk mopey guitars or Annie’s sweet voice. But if I could transform this song into a pop-bliss serum and enter it intravenously, I would.
It’s the second track released from Annie’s forthcoming album Don’t Stop.
Billie Holiday - “Lady Sings the Blues”
There’s so much to say about Billie Holiday. I wish I had met her, but not just because she’s one of the most revolutionary jazz singers we know; she’s so real in everything she sings about.
Holiday co-wrote this song, and the most redeeming quality to me is the empowering perspective on what it’s like for a woman to have the blues. There’s also a film about Billie Holiday, played by Diana Ross, titled Lady Sings the Blues.
Cloetta Paris - “Cry Just A Little Bit”
Hi, I’m Erica. This is my first post here at Tuneage so by way of introduction, I write the creatively titled Erica likes music. In addition to music, I always like Diet Coke and Boston sports (sue me). In regards to music, I currently like Bikini, Uh Huh Her and Gotye.
Cloetta Paris is a Bird and the Bee-esque boy girl duo from Sweden. As a part of Buffet Libre’s forthcoming 80s cover compilation release Rewind, they recorded this cover of Shakin’ Stevens (listen to the original here).
They seem have kept the best of the 80s: the unapologetic cheesiness and toe-tapping beat, while losing any trace of the original’s sound that makes you feel like you should be watching a montage in a Molly Ringwald film.
If you like what you hear, be sure to check out their debut album Secret Eyes, which came out in April.
Little Dragon - “Wink”
Here’s a sexy song for hump day. Yukimi Nagano is an unbelievable singer, especially with Swedish trip-hop to back her up.
I skipped the train to listen to Little Dragon’s album in my car. Not all of it is down-tempo, and the bass kicks in with her voice in a few of the songs. You might also think this album is amazing if you are fond of various mixtures of electricity, jazz, R&B, driving Volvos, hip-hop, black female artists, or Nelly Furtado.
There’s more of Little Dragon on MySpace.
