Dust in the wind...

coming right up,
are the best days,
of our lives,
if we can just
get through this one...

Song Of The Moment

The Hill, Lyrics by Marketa Irglova
Featured in the motion picture Once

Walking up the hill tonight
and you have closed your eyes
I wish I didn't have to make
all those mistakes and be wise
Please try to be patient
and know that I'm still learning
I'm sorry that you have to see
the strength inside me burning

Where are you my angel now
don't you see me crying?
And I know that you can't do it all
but you can't say I'm not trying
I'm on my knees in front of him
but he doesn't seem to see me
But all his troubles on his mind
he's looking right through me
And I'm letting myself down
beside this fire in you
And I wish that you could see
that half my troubles too

Looking at you sleeping
I'm with the man I love
I'm sitting here weeping
while the hours pass so slow
And I know that in the morning
I'll have to let you go
And you'll be just a man
once I used to know
And for these past few days
someone I don't recognise
This isn't all my fault
when will you realise

Looking at you leaving
I'm looking for a sign


(found a fan-made video of the song.
someone obsessed with angels,
close youre eye and just listen.)

through his eyes...

through the eyes of the most self-less man i ever had the pleasure of knowing.

tom petits favorite poem:

beyond a misty hill by james kavanaugh

some people never go there, perhaps they never will.

there's an unmarked road, to a silent grove, beyond a misty hill.

they don't send an invitation, i doubt they ever will.
you walk alone to a place i've known beyond a misty hill.

most will never find it. it might not be a thrill,
but the ones like me find a kind of peace,
beyond a misty hill.

there are no maps describing, nor is it found by skill.
it's an unmarked road to a silent grove,
beyond a misty hill.

tom never gave me an invitation, but he gave me the will to open my eyes which let me find my way around this hill. i saw him one year before his death. i am so grateful i got to thank him for his being, in the way, that he changed me and my vision of myself...

Song Of The Moment

all of the BULL~SHIT on the news about our next election has got me listening to this song again.

i hope you all realize that our "elections" are staged, they let us think we have a say in who is the next president. i also hope you realize america is an extremely racist country full of bigots and the companies that pay to put the next president on his soap box is not going to put a black man there. as sad as it is, here comes another war mongering republican.

enjoy your mess, ive got to go buy my plain ticket to France.







self evident by ani difranco

(inspired by the WTC disaster)

yes,
us people are just poems
we're 90% metaphor
with a leanness of meaning
approaching hyper-distillation
and once upon a time
we were moonshine
rushing down the throat of a giraffe
yes, rushing down the long hallway
despite what the p.a. announcement says
yes, rushing down the long stairs
with the whiskey of eternity
fermented and distilled
to eighteen minutes
burning down our throats
down the hall
down the stairs
in a building so tall
that it will always be there
yes, it's part of a pair
there on the bow of noah's ark
the most prestigious couple
just kickin back parked
against a perfectly blue sky
on a morning beatific
in its indian summer breeze
on the day that america
fell to its knees
after strutting around for a century
without saying thank you
or please

and the shock was subsonic
and the smoke was deafening
between the setup and the punch line
cuz we were all on time for work that day
we all boarded that plane for to fly
and then while the fires were raging
we all climbed up on the windowsill
and then we all held hands
and jumped into the sky

and every borough looked up when it heard the first blast
and then every dumb action movie was summarily surpassed
and the exodus uptown by foot and motorcar
looked more like war than anything i've seen so far
so far
so far
so fierce and ingenious
a poetic specter so far gone
that every jackass newscaster was struck dumb and stumbling
over 'oh my god' and 'this is unbelievable' and on and on
and i'll tell you what, while we're at it
you can keep the pentagon
keep the propaganda
keep each and every tv
that's been trying to convince me
to participate
in some prep school punk's plan to perpetuate retribution
perpetuate retribution
even as the blue toxic smoke of our lesson in retribution
is still hanging in the air
and there's ash on our shoes
and there's ash in our hair
and there's a fine silt on every mantle
from hell's kitchen to brooklyn
and the streets are full of stories
sudden twists and near misses
and soon every open bar is crammed to the rafters
with tales of narrowly averted disasters
and the whiskey is flowin
like never before
as all over the country
folks just shake their heads
and pour

so here's a toast to all the folks who live in palestine
afghanistan
iraq

el salvador

here's a toast to the folks living on the pine ridge reservation
under the stone cold gaze of mt. rushmore

here's a toast to all those nurses and doctors
who daily provide women with a choice
who stand down a threat the size of oklahoma city
just to listen to a young woman's voice

here's a toast to all the folks on death row right now
awaiting the executioner's guillotine
who are shackled there with dread and can only escape into their heads
to find peace in the form of a dream

cuz take away our playstations
and we are a third world nation
under the thumb of some blue blood royal son
who stole the oval office and that phony election
i mean
it don't take a weatherman
to look around and see the weather
jeb said he'd deliver florida, folks
and boy did he ever

and we hold these truths to be self evident:
#1 george w. bush is not president
#2 america is not a true democracy
#3 the media is not fooling me
cuz i am a poem heeding hyper-distillation
i've got no room for a lie so verbose
i'm looking out over my whole human family
and i'm raising my glass in a toast

here's to our last drink of fossil fuels
let us vow to get off of this sauce
shoo away the swarms of commuter planes
and find that train ticket we lost
cuz once upon a time the line followed the river
and peeked into all the backyards
and the laundry was waving
the graffiti was teasing us
from brick walls and bridges
we were rolling over ridges
through valleys
under stars
i dream of touring like duke ellington
in my own railroad car
i dream of waiting on the tall blonde wooden benches
in a grand station aglow with grace
and then standing out on the platform
and feeling the air on my face

give back the night its distant whistle
give the darkness back its soul
give the big oil companies the finger finally
and relearn how to rock-n-roll
yes, the lessons are all around us and a change is waiting there
so it's time to pick through the rubble, clean the streets
and clear the air
get our government to pull its big dick out of the sand
of someone else's desert
put it back in its pants
and quit the hypocritical chants of
freedom forever

cuz when one lone phone rang
in two thousand and one
at ten after nine
on nine one one
which is the number we all called
when that lone phone rang right off the wall
right off our desk and down the long hall
down the long stairs
in a building so tall
that the whole world turned
just to watch it fall



and while we're at it
remember the first time around?
the bomb?
the ryder truck?
the parking garage?
the princess that didn't even feel the pea?
remember joking around in our apartment on avenue D?

can you imagine how many paper coffee cups would have to change their design
following a fantastical reversal of the new york skyline?!

it was a joke, of course
it was a joke
at the time
and that was just a few years ago
so let the record show
that the FBI was all over that case
that the plot was obvious and in everybody's face
and scoping that scene
religiously
the CIA
or is it KGB?
committing countless crimes against humanity
with this kind of eventuality
as its excuse
for abuse after expensive abuse
and it didn't have a clue
look, another window to see through
way up here
on the 104th floor
look
another key
another door
10% literal
90% metaphor
3000 some poems disguised as people
on an almost too perfect day
should be more than pawns
in some asshole's passion play
so now it's your job
and it's my job
to make it that way
to make sure they didn't die in vain
sshhhhhh....
baby listen
hear the train?

Song Of The Moment

Everything Comes From You by Richard Evans, Joji Hirota, Sevara Nazarkhan, Sinead O'Connor, Guo Yue featured on the album Big Blue Ball produced by Peter Gabriel and Friends.

"Everything Comes From You" (featuring Richard Evans, Joji Hirota, Sevara Nazarkhan, Sinead O'Connor, Guo Yue)

Big Blue Ball is an album by multiple artists which grew from "recording weeks" at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios in the early 1990s.

In production for more than 15 years, "Big Blue Ball" is a project featuring several artists from all around the world working together.

There are two CD editions of the album with different covers, And a limited edition of 1000 copies of the album have been released on blue vinyl

ENIGMA!!! ENIGMA!!! ENIGMA!!!

holy fucking jerk off, for evera and tomorrow.

ENIGMA posted about half of its up coming album on their myspace page...

http://www.myspace.com/enigmaplanet

go listen!!!!

i'm really liking it, its got a lot of bass, with slow hardrock/hiphop break beats mixed in. only someone as smart as the guy behind enigma could make this work.

nine-eleven was an inside job!

here it is, 9/11, the anniversary of the us government internal terrorists attack. thank got i dont have a tv. i wouldnt want to turn it on and listen to all the bullshit the media is force feeding you to keep you fooled. dont believe me? well if your easily brainwashed by a media force, what this video and SHARE IT! it dosent take much common sense to see it. dont believe this video? well than go on youtube.com and search all the other 9/11 archival footage, youll see the correlations.

MUSIC, I LOVE MUSIC...

been a while sense i posted. been busy getting a business blog up and running. www.blog.xavierarmand.com, been a bit tricky to get up cause im hosting it out of my website rather than google or wordpress. but more about that in a minute.

last night, after i got tired of hours of web design. i went onto myspace and started checking on some of the bands i have friended, got annoyed that they were spread out over two accounts. SO. i made a new myspace to add only bands too. so i can keep up with only them without getting distracted by other shit. the url is: http://www.myspace.com/itsallthemusic

i also, finally, payed some attention to the http://www.last.fm/user/PiercedFairyX account i made a long while back to check out what that network had to offer...

hang in there, im getting to my point...

i download a fun widget that shows what ive been listening to through my iTunes. (see the widget in my side bar) when you go to install the last.fm software it goes into your itunes library and upload all the info into your account, add all the artist youve listened to, give you recommendations, etc etc...

the greatest thing it does, i think, what show you a text file of the number of songs your itunes has played. IN TOTAL (which i dont believe you can see in itunes)

my itunes has over 68,000 plays!!!!!

68,274!!!! THATS A LOT OF FUCKING MUSIC.

i refomatted my computer in october of 2005. so that list is just in the past 3 years. if the average song is 4mintues long it would end up equaling 273,096 minutes, or, 4,552 hours of music!

I LOVE MUSIC!

but!!! its not that much, if you take into account that avg american watches an avg of 4hours of tv an evening, after 3 years that ends up being 4,380 hours of sitting there brain dead.

thank the holy mother earth, i dont own and/or watch tv. at least when im listing to music, im also working on other things, reading, cleaning, web design, walking with my ipod, thinking!!! etc. how much porn i watch is another subject all together. hahaha.

anyway, just a bit fun seeing all that.

later
x

NEW ENIGMA!!!!

the album is released in a week!! just found this leaked video on youtube... i cannot fucking wait!!!!