I don’t know where to start. Jeff Buckley. Jeff. Buckley. I keep typing and erasing. The only thing I can stick to is the fact that I want others to discover his work.
The first time I heard Jeff Buckley and was introduced by name was in Sacramento. We were parked in the alley in Jim’s van. David and I were about to step out when Jim pulled us back in with the line that has launched so many stories, “Listen to this.” He put the CD in saying that it was a cover but such a chilling one that it needed to be heard. I didn’t understand right away why Jim was so passionate about it. Months later, another friend dropped his name and suggested listening to the Grace double disc legacy album. It slept in my closet through winter. Spring came around and I felt open to it and was surprised to hear what this album was made of. But it’s only weeks later that I got it.
You know what I would have asked Jeff if I had met him? I would have asked him about the watch. “Jeff, why do you wear that thing? I wish you would take it off.”
Labels: buckley, music, video
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 29, 2007
Fell a power line
Grace is the title of your album. What does it mean to you?
"Grace there meaning a prayer like a death prayer - not being afraid of it, sitting totally immersed in trouble and all those crappy slings and arrows that come to you in regular life, and then someone begins to love you for real, and instead of wishing for death, even thinking about it, it's not a factor at all. Death meaning relief."
Jeff Buckley
Village Voice, 10 June 1997.
Labels: music
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 29, 2007
Singsong
Do not twist romance into a cowardly habit.
Labels: one-liner
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 27, 2007
Use your illusion
When your televisions are broken.
When you wake up in the morning
Walking around the house
What are you preparing for?
Always waiting
To cross the road
The bell to ring
To be alone?
To run away?
To get even?
To say it?
To wake up?
My illusion is not metallic.
It does not tick or breathe.
It is a dashed line.
The most splendid of weapons.
My love
For enrichment
A just cause?
My Love
For Enrichment.
Labels: artform, echo
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 26, 2007
Frisson
tout petit
tout doux
petit trou de la bouche
sur la coupe du papier
je veux te deviner
dans les ombres de ta chambre
la paix du froid autour de nous
la claque et l'écho de nos peurs
tu en demandes encore
tout petit
tout doux
petites heures dans le noir
sur ton cou de papier
je te quitterai demain
sans le frisson d’un petit passé
ma voix du creux de tes remords
la claque et l'écho de nos peurs
tu en demandes encore
tu dis
reviens
reviens
reviens
toute seule
Labels: artform, echo, jargon
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 21, 2007
Loving
I miss going to my grandmothers home and spending days exploring all the books, magazines, records, cassettes, 8-tracks and photo albums from a time when my mother was beginning to show. I miss photography. My favorite photographs remain the ones with the golden hues and rounded edges. To me, they seem so genuine. Why did they ever stop trimming the paper that way? I love candid shots. Photographs of people who are in the moment say so much more to me than the ones that were posed for.
Yet, I love this picture of my mother and me. See how the focus is on the tree, in the background, and we are a bit blurry? I wonder if it’s a plastic tree. We both seem slightly weary but the look my mother gave at that moment... she still has it. Still that strong.
Labels: love
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 13, 2007
Videotape
When I'm at the pearly gates
This'll be on my videotape
my videotape
When Mephistopholis is just beneath
And he's reaching up to grab me
This is one for the good days
And I have it all here
In red blue green
Red blue green
You are my centre when I spin away
Out of control on videotape
On videotape
This is my way of saying goodbye
Because I can't do it face to face
I'm talking to you
After it's too late
From my videotape
No matter what happens now
I won't be afraid
Because I know
Today has been the most
Perfect day I've ever seen.
Labels: video
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 10, 2007
Ayoye
A friend sent this to me today. It made me happy:
Une chanson pas une joke
Ayoye tu m'fais mal
À mon cœur d'animal
L'immigré de l'intérieur
Tu m'provoques des douleurs
Tu m'fais mal au cœur
Nous ne sommes pas pareils
Et pis pourtant on s'émerveille
Au même printemps
À la même lune
Aux mêmes coutumes
Nous retournerons ensembles
Comme cendres
Au même soleil
Si le vent frappe à ma porte
Pour m'annoncer le réveillon
Je partirai comme marmotte
Au soleil à ses premiers rayons
Parmi les roseaux
Cueillir l'oiseau du paradis
À goût de grelots
À son de whisky
Chanter la toune
Comme papillon qui tourne
Ayoye, tu m'fais mal
À mon coeur d'animal
Labels: jargon
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 10, 2007
Breed & Feed
How to drown your sorrow in superficial bewilderment:
How would you define the state of the world, in one word? I simply can’t do that. The world is not defined by a single state or order. The world does not revolve around personalities, or does it?
I’ve been going back and forth about relaying the following information because of it’s nature being trivial, I didn’t want to add fuel to it yet, it is so spectacularly trivial that one has to wonder how it got so far? So please, don't let me stream this in your collective consciousness unless you are truly bored or are truly interested in celebrity behavior and it's effect on the ones who feed it.
You have been warned.
Click here if you want to read an interesting opening (the comments are a good read also) to a petition that has been launched in an attempt to have California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, commute Paris Hilton's sentence. At this moment, the petition holds 14,373 signatures.
Click here to go directly to the “Free Paris Hilton” petition.
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 09, 2007
Whatever better means
I mean, all I want out of life is excellent music, love and night vision goggles. Is that too much to ask?
Labels: deux, nedquarters
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 06, 2007
"elle-oh-elle"
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 05, 2007
Rocket science?
...if you read the paragraphs of
this entry backwards, you will understand the updated "about me" section.
posted by Primessa Espiritu
May 02, 2007
