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June 3, 2008

Tom Waits Week: Cross My Wooden Leg And I Swear On My Glass Eye

It Will Always Come To Find You, It Will Always Hear You Cry

This song, with Keith Richards for added legitimacy, is one of my favorite ever. Again, Tom sings in myths, he hums like a detuned radio.  Dear God, there’s so much of me that’s lain dormant.

You say that it’s gospel, but I know it’s only church.

Many miles away, something crawls from the slime, at the bottom of a dark Scottish loch.  It’s a great song. It gets to me the way the Pogues can, sometimes. Ah, well. So, I’m a bit maudlin. Swaha.

February 10, 2008

God Bless Exile On Main Street… I Can’t Even Feel The Pain No More

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keith_richards.jpgTrue Grace is often gritty. The holy spirit is a man of the people. Shakti herself is as much Salomé as Shekinah. It’s all in teh kinetics, the motion, the clapping, not the one hand. Shakti is the vibration of Shiva’s String. Lingam and Yoni fit into String and M theory better than Tao into the Quantum. Tailor made, that one.

People think I’m crazy, they’re always trying to waste me…make me burn the candle right down.

Keith Richards plays guitar the way Otis Redding sings. Chillblains. Yes he is a  saint. His realm is elemental, but halo of brass can shine as brightly as one of gold. Better a halo than a noose.

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