HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WHOEVER.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WHOEVER.

l’esprit d’escalier took me and threw me under your truck
so that when you yelled “faggot”
and I said “no, thanks,”
we were each more than the other
and I lifted you out of your aging Chevy
and you plucked me up off the sidewalk

and in the air above the street
we danced the sad waltz of Pietro Crespi.

and what did the scissors give me
but a set of tiger stripes?

I walked down into the water.
I walked out into the night.
Did the water take me under?
I held gifts in either hand.
I was tigerfish asunder
with my arms all marked in bands.

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copycats:

okkervilriver:

I came here to say that I’m going away - Okkervil River

(Serge Gainsbourg cover)

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capucha:

Serge Gainsbourg- Ballade de Johnny Jane

yo how come this ballade ain’t got no words

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Destroyer - Painter In Your Pocket

Where did you get that penchant
for destruction
in the way you talk?

gunstreetgirl:

thisistheglamorous:jasmined:

Brandon Bird: “Leisure Time with Mr. Rollins”


hahahhaa. those kids will never beat him. don’t they know that?

Three dudes beating off to Henry Rollins - JUST LIKE REAL LIFE.

gunstreetgirl:

thisistheglamorous:jasmined:

Brandon Bird: “Leisure Time with Mr. Rollins”

hahahhaa. those kids will never beat him. don’t they know that?

Three dudes beating off to Henry Rollins - JUST LIKE REAL LIFE.

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86400:

sixbucks:

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: O’Malley’s Bar

Another brilliant Murder Ballad, longer and more profane than Stagger Lee!

I looove the line about the fucking big ashtray.

Okay, here’s my secret: Murder Ballads bores me to tears.  Listening to Murder Ballads put me off listening to Nick Cave for something like five years because I was obviously wrong when I thought he made the sort of music that I would like.  There, I said it.

I’m right there with 86400. Moreover, From Her To Eternity doesn’t do much for me other than to make me want to listen to something else. Is Dig Lazarus Dig a fluke or is my taste in grandpa-rock just terrible? Am I actually abusing italics for emphasis? Blah blah blah?

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71revisited:

Elliott Smith - 2:45 AM

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