Move on up!

Hush now child, and don't you cry. Your folks might understand you by and by. Move on up towards your destination. You may find from time to time , Complications

Bite your lip and take a trip. Though there may be wet road ahead, You cannot slip, Just move on up and peace you will find, Into the steeple of beautiful people, Where there's only one kind


So hush now child and don't you cry. Your folks might understand you by and by. Just move on up and keep on wishing. Remember your dreams are your only schemes, So keep on pushing Take nothing less - not even second best, And do not obey - you must have your say, You can past the test

Move on up!

 

VIBES

Someone's put a J Dilla beat behind Lauryn Hill & Erykah Badu reading poetry separately, it's a vibey situation. 

 Power in music, power in words. 

State Trooper

Currently reading Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and listening to The Boss, feeling like I'd rather be working on a ranch in the wild west than working my conservative 9 - 5.

Bye bye Bowie

David Bowie has left this world today. We mourn, deflated - to think that one of our greats has been taken, far too early, by cancer. At least he was here and he did what he did. 

While the mortal him is no more, the spirit of Bowie lives on.

Some quotes to remember him with, courtesy of International Business Times:

"I really had a hunger to experience everything that life had to offer, from the opium den to whatever. And I think I have done just about everything that it's possible to do" – interview with The Telegraph

"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, "F**k that. I want to be a superhuman'"

"Fame, it's not your brain, it's just the flame / That burns your change to keep you insane" – Fame lyrics

"I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on" – Quicksand lyrics

"We spent endless hours talking about fame, and what it's like not having a life of your own any more. How much you want to be known before you are, and then when you are, how much you want the reverse" – recalling his conversation with The Beatles singer John Lennon to Time Out

"I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants" – interview with Q magazine in 1990

"To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me" – interview with Livewire's One On One

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring" – to his audience at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1998

"The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time"

Kate Bush

Let's just take a moment with Kate...

The Chemical Brothers - Snow

Give it a chance. Maybe skip 30 seconds or so, but then turn it up loud, close your eyes and feel it !

Went to see American Ultra last night at the cinema, such a great movie.. Perfect casting. Unique concept including comedy, romance and action. Unpredictable. Love love loved it. This song was playing during one of the scenes and it was perfect. Go see.

Thom Yorke "Harrowdown Hill"

Oldy but goody, based on the death of Dr David Kelly back in 2003. An equally disturbing story if it were suicide or murder.

Maya Angelou Live and Unplugged

A true and beautiful soul. Feed your soul through Maya Angelou, listen here:

Interview + The What - Biggie Feat. Method Man

Got me dancing!

Listen: Is Your Love Big Enough ?

This beautiful voice gets into your head and soothes, listen:

Sharada

When I was in India a couple of years ago, I had a bit of a sickness bug for a couple of days so I was bound to the hotel room. I found the music channel on TV and there was a show on commemorating the best Bollywood soundtracks of all time, or something like that.. anyway this song came on and I fell in love with it. I still think of it as one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard:

Wolf Alice - Bros

George The Poet - Search Party

Innuendo

While the sun hangs in the sky and the desert has sand

While the waves crash in the sea and meet the land

While there's a wind and the stars and the rainbow

Till the mountains crumble into the plain

Oh yes, we'll keep on trying

Tread that fine line

Oh, we'll keep on trying

Yeah

Just passing our time

While we live according to race, colour or creed

While we rule by blind madness and pure greed

Our lives dictated by tradition, superstition, false religion

Through the eons and on and on

Oh, yes, we'll keep on trying, yeah

We'll tread that fine line

Oh oh we'll keep on trying

Till the end of time

Till the end of time

Through the sorrow all through our splendour

Don't take offence at my innuendo

You can be anything you want to be

Just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be

Be free with your tempo, be free, be free

Surrender your ego - be free, be free to yourself

If there's a God or any kind of justice under the sky

If there's a point, if there's a reason to live or die

Ha, if there's an answer to the questions we feel bound to ask

Show yourself - destroy our fears - release your mask

Oh yes, we'll keep on trying

Hey, tread that fine line

We'll keep on smiling, yeah

And whatever will be - will be

We'll just keep on trying

We'll just keep on trying

Till the end of time

Till the end of time

Till the end of time

Dink's Song

If I had wings like Noah's dove

I'd fly the river to the one I love

Well fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well
 

Well I had a man who was long and tall

Who moved his body like a cannon ball

Well fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

I remember one evening, in the pourin' rain

And in my heart was an achin' pain

Well fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

Muddy river runs muddy 'n' wild

Can't give a bloody for my unborn child

Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

So show us a bird flyin' high above

Life ain't worth living without the one you love

Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

Well fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well

one

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people living for today

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people living life in peace

You, you may say

I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

I hope some day you'll join us

And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

Imagine all the people sharing all the world

You, you may say

I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

I hope some day you'll join us

And the world will live as one

will I ever get there? does it really matter?

Everyday, back and forth, what's it for?

I don't know, I'll get out, won't have to check my watch

I don't have the verve to belong to this dead side

Why I ever tried, I don't know

Oh, dare I face the real world

Gonjasufi

You're the devil
You're the one that divides this place
This place so divided
If united we stand
then we ain't gonna to fall
Children walk on both hands
While man still learnin' to crawl
Children fucking blowin' up malls
Grown men fucking blow-up dolls

All up to you

 

With or without you the world will keep on moving, it's all up to you which road will you be choosing? It's gonna be over before you know it, so be quick to smile, enjoy the ride. Beautiful and lovely.