A Sweet Unrest

Be Still My Heart

 I opened up my email this morning to find this!

Roddy is pleased to announce his first full band dates in
over 10 years.

OCTOBER 2011
Mon 10 - Leeds, Brudenell
Tue 11 – Middlesbrough, The Crypt
Wed 12 – Glasgow, ABC
Thu 13 – Manchester, Deaf Institute
Sat 15 – Liverpool, Kazimier
Sun 16 – Birmingham, Glee Club
Mon 17 – Bristol, The Fleece
Wed 19 - London, Bush Hall
Thur 20 – London, Bush Hall

Hope to see you there!

Oh, I hope to see me there too.  October, so I have five months to win the lottery/pull a heist/earn lots and lots of tips.  I'd definitely go to the Glasgow show, if I had my choice, so JC and Mrs V could make sure I get medical care if I faint.

A girl can dream.

Roddy Frame - Dry Land (a demo which I got from his website, be sure to check out his shop as well)

Maybe he will have a new album soon too??

A Quick Poem

 

I've been consumed by all the little and big things here, reading and thinking plenty but not able to make any sense of any of it, not yet.  How about a quick poem?

A Quick Poem by Adam Zagajewski 

I was listening to Gregorian chants 
in a speeding car
on a highway in France.
The trees rushed past.  Monks' voices
sang praises to an unseen God
(at dawn, in a chapel trembling with cold).
Domine, exaudi orationem meam, 
male voices pleaded calmly
as if salvation were just growing in the garden.
Where was I going?  Where was the sun hiding?
My life lay tattered
on both sides of the road, brittle as a paper map.
With the sweet monks
I made my way toward the clouds, deep blue,
heavy, dense,
toward the future, the abyss,
gulping hard tears of hail.
Far from dawn.  Far from home.
In place of walls - sheet metal.
Instead of a vigil - a flight.
Travel instead of remembrance.
A quick poem instead of a hymn.
A small, tired star raced
up ahead
and the highway's asphalt shone,
showing where the earth was,
where the horizon's razor lay in wait,
and the black spider of evening
and night, widow of so many dreams. 

                                    (translated by Clare Cavanagh)