your mission
your mission is to consume
and die young
you are mercenary
i’m patti hearst
and this is vietnam
the quiet american roars
we are voluntary idiots
pretentious soldiers
of the markets
and i am a hollow man
part of the humming choir
that celebrates the god of profits
whilst we walk on stilts
and wobble
like stravinsky
on harmonic tightropes
above our fading star
our fading home
who thought it would fade so soon?
these random clips
just stuck together
mean nothing
in this broken jaw
of communication
the blinded eyes
of where we live
we climb the spindly trees
to get nowhere and fall
to our deaths
and what do you care?
until you fall too
draw the curtains forever
and live in the shadow
we all are shadows now
this toy of life
to play with
until it breaks
the stilted dialogue
of death
and this is how it ends
the film runs out
the drive is full
the motherboard stops
you climb the tree
and then you fall
there is no more
you climb
to the top
but still
something’s always
out of reach
and so you fall
you climb
as high as you can
in whichever way
you want
but don’t be afraid to fall
because the answer’s
underground
30 Nov 2006 06:45 pm by sd


melancholie in der popmusik or mélancolie et culture pop
hello i am in a hotel corridor as it is the only place i can get on line – which is why the photos stopped being up loaded and i went very very quiet.

but i am here to tell you that i am appearing on the television in my former role of melancholic folk star (you remember him? well he’s BACK folks) – as is the wonderful way of the lilac time the programme is on arte and is called melancholie in der popmusik and is a tracks spezial on thursday 23rd november at 23:45 cet (repeated on wednesday 29th at 01:25 cet) according to a close friend “madame gainsbourge and even thom york are giving something personal” and then we perform an open book – i’m always promoting the keep going album – i never stopped.

so now i’ve only got to go to australia to take more pictures and then i can make the follow up to keep going – i was going to tell you what it’s called but as it wont be out for months i wont.

please don’t get me the penguin classic decadent poetry collection or the gore vidal memoir for christmas as i’ve already got them. take care everyone x
22 Nov 2006 04:27 pm by sd


a little marx - a little freud - a little social history
i think i live in the seventies - everything since seems to have been a mistake - or perhaps i never grew up - a supporter of european culture - the great novelists poets and composers whose names recur - well - nowhere anymore. i remain yours - washwood heaths greatest living poet - a throwback from the space age - when we knew the secret of success was the capacity to survive failure - see you round the clubs x
11 Nov 2006 03:10 pm by sd


backstage foro sol mexico city
we flew in from rio to do some awards show that ended after a long wait. this time we're in the bond street area of mexico city in a strange hotel of 25 floors. i'm on the 24th and as i sat in the circular bath a helicopter flew towards me and then descended. down below it's hard to believe jack kerouac and william burroughs lived and worked. around here each house and shop has an armed guard. but the food is good if you find a friendly place. two buskers singing lady madonna and mr moonlight in sweet harmony. some photos got corrupted so there are a few rio and mexico shots missing - a million mexican snaps as the car journey here took forever. now i must go through my pre stage rituals of listening to gram parsons and weeping. join the sol foro everyone x
22 Oct 2006 02:57 am by sd


Araucanians
i woke up from dreaming i was in a distant land with a socialist female president - some dreams come true. but we leave here after the show - so our chilean experience will be too short. chris coco is writing his diary from the other side of van three you can find it here. nothing happens unless first a dream x
10 Oct 2006 04:21 pm by sd


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