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[me_pirateship]

Just saving the link off...

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Checking In With Robyn Hitchcock from Bonnaroo on Vimeo.

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[me_pirateship]

Have been listening to "A Star for Bram" all day while packing the flat into boxes... :-)

It is as good, heartfelt and deep as "Eye", "Luxor" or "Trains"... You'd love that album, this is your kind of "not funny" Robyn. :-))) He was a "Warner-Brothers-pop-star" from 1999 to 2001... and he let Warner publish the brilliant, witty and funny album "Jewels" (which also meant handing on the rights)...
http://www.robynhitchcock.com/detail-pages/jewelsforsophia.htm
...and at the same time he kept the sole rights for the melancholic and poetic "outtakes"... "Star"...
Here... some seconds of each song, test-listening (my favourite is "I used to love you", the song for Syd. *sob*):
http://www.emusic.com/album/Robyn-Hitchcock-A-Star-For-Bram-MP3-Download/10827702.html

By the way, just asking him about drugs pretending you want to know about music is the easiest way with someone as open and communicative as Robyn, apparently. *LOL* (No, it wasn't me on Myspace who asked him, but e-music magazine, found it, looking for "Star" ... - but here's Robyn's answer, anyway.)
On "Acid Bird":
"That guitar sound - I got that sound by unintentionally having the wah-wah pedals pressed down to high treble. I think I played bass through a flanger - this was all done on four-track. This is one of my few actual drug songs. I only took about five trips, but I remembered one of them and I think at the time I felt nostalgic. On the whole I'm much less drug-influenced than people think I am. It's more that I listen to people who took these drugs. In my usual cagey way when I approached the 'big boys' in the drug world I was extremely careful.
I must say, I am very anti-drug now. I think marijuana should be illegal - I think all it did was make people more selfish. I love the music that people made in the mid-60s as the result of taking LSD, but they really mortgaged their futures. All of them were really kind of spent lightbulbs by 1969. I dunno. Drugs are for kids. It's depressing to see new generations of kids coming up on them. When I heard that Kurt Cobain was strung out I thought, "Oh Jesus, not again." Nowadays all you have to do to look bad is pull out a cigarette. So maybe life is simpler.
But, anyway; that bright pinging electric guitar sound you hear on things like the Byrds' albums or George Harrison on "And Your Bird Can Sing" - there's a kind of wire that connects your ear to guitar if you play on LSD, and it helps you to get that 'ping' sound. I wasn't the first to discover it, I just had the good fortune to discover it five years after everybody else."
(Yes, he learned from everyone else's dying / going mad... just in time. Five "trips" is "extremely carefull"? Non-psychadelic drugs don't cause "trips"... so that's the mescalin and LSD ONLY, in addition to all the dope causing selfishness *LOL*... and he's still frustrated about the smoking ban...)

*LOL* Robyn REALLY (day- and night-)dreams of trains... :-)
He says:
"The title of this song is meant quite literally - I do often dream of trains. There's a train route that goes through Waterloo in London, and I have this kind of imaginary route in my head that goes from Southampton to Oxford. I don't think it ever really existed, but I often find myself on it, in a very old railway carriage, usually on a Sunday. It's all really literal. That line "Summer goes to autumn overnight," that happens in the dream. It suddenly goes from mid-August to October."

[elle_icit]

He sounds as mad as you sweety.:-)

Looking forward to being with you in a couple of weeks. Have you booked other stuff or might you like to go see that link I sent you? Or just follow the energy? You and S. seem to be quite good at that...but more practice could be good.

I'm so pleased for you about your new flat.

[me_pirateship]

Probably the reason why I "digest" his songs as "me-music"... *LOL*

In a couple of weeks?! *LOL* Friday NEXT week! :-)))) Errrrmmmm.... will you be there? Sure? *LOL*

Not booking anything more because of grandma - but we can go and follow the energy. Or'll just fall in trance in the presence of Robyn... and only wake up when it's time to board the plane... buzzzzzz... I might fly back with my own green wings, I'm a fly, after all.

Thanks... somehow the old flat takes revenge, though. We keep getting injured moving out there... the last thing was that Stefan has cut off the tip of his right thumb (he'll be fine).

[elle_icit]

Sorry...just came back from the fringe.....my timing is all out and I'm forgetting what day of the week it is never mind what week. Yes of course I'll be here.

Ok....we always end up with great possibilities if we follow the energy. Hope grandma is going to recover sweety.

Oh no *sharp intake of breath and cringe* Poor S. Kiss it better for him. Did he loose the tip or were you able to have it sewed back on?

[me_pirateship]

See you on Friday!!!! :-)

Grandma isn't better but she's not worse, either. Somewhere between life and death. She won't decide for a while where she wants to go...

It's only a flesh wound, the bone isn't injured. He wanted to unscrew some brass parts from an old glass lamp for recycling, the lamp cracked and cut off the very tip of his thumb. At the hospital he was told to hold up his thumb... so he's been doing an "OK" sign for a week now... with a bloddy thumb... *LOL* (The wound is closing quickly, but he has sucessfully removed his fingerprint... when might this come in usefull? *LOL*)

[elle_icit]

Lets meet for dinner Friday?

Perhaps brother in law could send her some energy....to help the transition I mean..and make it easier for her to leave her body?

Ohhhh....*cringe* I can't look at others injuries without feeling very squeamish. Same with my own till I learned self hypnosis. Before that I cut myself whilst chopping tomatoes once...and fainted. *LOL* Last time I had an injury was five or six years ago and my body sat in a chair waiting to be stitched up.... for 12 hours.....whilst I relaxed and went someplace else......no problem. Havn't you taught S. how to do that sweety...it comes in very useful sometimes.

[me_pirateship]

It's difficult, because she's eating again and sitting upright... but keeps getting the food in her lungs instead of her stomach because of a previous stroke. So she never gets rid of her pneumonia. She's go a feeding tube through the stomach, too. If she's limited herself to being fed through that, she'd be fine. Eating is her only joy, though. I still hope she can get out of hospital. Not sure it's time for her dying, yet. She was fine and walking around and watching TV a couple of weeks ago. The pneumonia thing is her only problem (it has turned out she didn't have another stroke).

Poor you had to wait for a doctor for 12 hours?! How did that happen? *HUGS*

Stefan hasn't got any problems with wounds (if they don't hurt too much) and is healing qickly, too. I, on the other hand, am a bit squeemish when it comes to other's wounds... but I can still do first aid with kids' wounds. A student has told me while I was cleaning her bruised and bleeding knee: "Yeah, vomit on it, that might help." *LOL* I felt so ashamed... *LOL* With own injuries I'm usually fine - and when I skinned my right knee to the bone in a bike accident about seven years ago I should have just washed out the stones and dirt. The doctor left small pieces of road-dirt in the wound and said I'd be fine... my knee got infected, had to be cut open and was almost totally stiff until two years later. Was I relieved when I could finally bend it again! Probably the doctor had a problem with wounds... his job must be impossible to do for him.