KBYD August 24, 2010

Playlist:

I Can Only Give You Everything - MC5
Rattling Locks - Josh Ritter
Whitehorses - Die! Die! Die!
In a Jar - Dinosaur jr.
Roll Up Your Sleeves - We Were Promised Jetpacks
See Through Spiders - The Stagger Rats
Boris The Spider - The Who
My Machine - Boris
Love Don’t Live Here - Ladyhawke
Journal of Ardency - Class Actress
Dolphins Were Monkeys - Ian Brown
Run Through The Jungle - Lydia Lunch / 8 Eyed Spy
Neverending Math Equation - Sun Kil Moon
September's Not So Far Away - The Field Mice

Show archive (TBA) [ustream.tv]



Poems:

Modern Love
By George Meredith (1826-1909)

I
By this he knew she wept with waking eyes:
That, at his hand's light quiver by her head,
The strange low sobs that shook their common bed
Were called into her with a sharp surprise,
And strangely mute, like little gasping snakes,
Dreadfully venomous to him. She lay
Stone-still, and the long darkness flowed away
With muffled pulses. Then, as midnight makes
Her giant heart of Memory and Tears
Drink the pale drug of silence, and so beat
Sleep's heavy measure, they from head to feet
Were moveless, looking through their dead black years,
By vain regret scrawled over the blank wall.
Like sculptured effigies they might be seen
Upon their marriage-tomb, the sword between;
Each wishing for the sword that severs all.


THE MALDIVE SHARK
by: Herman Melville (1819-1891)

BOUT the Shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot of the Maldive sea,
The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim,
How alert in attendance be.
From his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw,
They have nothing of harm to dread,
But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank
Or before his Gorgonian head;
Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth
In white triple tiers of glittering gates,
And there find a haven when peril's abroad,
An asylum in jaws of the Fates!
They are friends; and friendly they guide him to prey,
Yet never partake of the treat--
Eyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull,
Pale ravener of horrible meat.


Design
By Robert Frost (1874-1963)

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth--
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth--
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.


A Lament
By Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

O well for him who lives at ease
With garnered gold in wide domain,
Nor heeds the splashing of the rain,
The crashing down of forest trees.

O well for him who ne’er hath known
The travail of the hungry years,
A father grey with grief and tears,
A mother weeping all alone.

But well for him whose feet hath trod
The weary road of toil and strife,
Yet from the sorrows of his life
Builds ladders to be nearer God.