vilaine fille

Summer playlist XIII (e ultima?)

1. Azzurro (l’unico ed amatissimo Maestro mio)
2. Innocent when you dream (Tom Waits)
3. I melt with you (Nouvelle Vague)
4. City of night (Pink Martini)
5. Another gay sunshine day (Nancy Sinatra)
6. Another believer (Sancta Rufola)
7. Ce petit cœur (Françoise Hardy)

This time around, I’m back at my own computer but, alas, too pressed for time to offer cover art. This playlist is dedicated with love to Miss Despina. Grazie di nuovo, diletta! (Isn’t the Maestro beautiful? I love him so much it hurts.)

Thank you

The lovely and talented Miss Despina, who does us all the great favo(u)r of blogging her fabulous and beautifully wrought adventures, sent vilaine fille’s way a Creative Blogger Award.

Thank you, Despina! Thank you for being a wonderful blog-friend; thank you for sharing your great soul with us; thank you for sprinkling a bit of pixie-dust on a battered heart.

You can fly! You can fly!
Soon you’ll zoom all around the room,
all it takes is faith and trust.
But the thing that's a positive must
is a little bit of pixie dust,
the dust is a positive must.

I’m supposed to pass on the award, but I’m a bit distracted right now by preparations for an upcoming trip, so I will do so in September.

By the way, one of my alter egos is now on Facebook. (The friend who urged me to sign up is, like, half my age—pour de vrai ! But I thank her, too, because it can be fun to waste time there.)

Senza titolo XXXIV

199. the return of… (what KMA said, please G-d)
200. this and, of late, many other wondrous and unexpected gifts
201. R, for her beauty, generosity, and love (especially her pushing me to do uncomfortable things)
202. feeling slightly more worthy of love and help
203. the ones who always understand (but first of all, the ones personally known to me)
204. hmm… *

* I think I am in love with the person who made that Radio.Blog.Club playlist!

Pensée du dimanche 26 août

Je sens vibrer en moi toutes les passions
D’un vaisseau qui souffre ;
Le bon vent, la tempête et ses convulsions

Sur l’immense gouffre
Me bercent. D’autres fois, calme plat, grand miroir
De mon désespoir!
—Brother Chuck, “La Musique” (with translation)

Summer playlist XII

1. Canzone (Lucio Dalla)
2. Gay messiah (Sancta Rufola)
3. Molto lontano (l’unico ed amatissimo Maestro mio)
4. Dis quand reviendras-tu ? (Sancta Marta)
5. Sonno elefante (l’unico ed amatissimo Maestro mio)
6. Complainte de la Butte (Sancta Rufola)
7. Apriti cuore (Lucio Dalla)

Sento solo lontano un misterioso rumore / è la notte che piano si muove, e tra poco esce il sole…

Once again, I am using someone else’s computer and so unable to post CD cover art. Buon ascolto a tutti!

Summer playlist XI

1. Tu ressembles à tous ceux qui ont eu du chagrin (Françoise Hardy)
2. Twilight (Antony and the Johnsons)
3. Polvere di gesso (Gianmaria Testa)
4. A thousand kisses deep (Father Leonard)
5. You can never hold back spring (Tom Waits)
6. Just wait till summer comes (Harry Nilsson)
7. Le premier bonheur du jour (Françoise Hardy)

  
  
  

Summer playlist X

1. Soft black stars (Antony and the Johnsons)
2. In dreams (Roy Orbison)
3. Città vuota (Mina)
4. Se piangi, se ridi (Mina)
5. I’ll be home (Harry Nilsson)
6. You’re the one Lee (Miracle Legion)
7. Thunder road (The Boss)

I’m still using a friend’s computer, so I can’t bring you cover art. And, yes, I am from there, albeit from the north. I rarely went to the shore, but I have exceedingly dim memories of being taken here when I was tiny.

Summer playlist IX

1. Vertigo: Scène d’amour (Bernard Hermann)
2. Mysteries of love (Lynch/Badalamenti, via Antony and the Johnsons)
3. Même sous la pluie (Françoise Hardy)
4. Des ronds dans l’eau (Françoise Hardy)
5. Take this waltz (Father Leonard)
6. It’s oh so quiet (Björk)
7. Cosa sai di me? (il Maestro)

Once again, I am using a friend’s computer and cannot offer CD cover art. Sorry! Mais l’amour, où est-il?

Senza titolo XXXIII

193. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
194. Di fronte al mare la felicità è un’idea semplice. (Scusatemi, non trovo l’originale.)
195. That I heard (thrice!) this rendition of the same idea as shaped by this genius. (Grazie, maestro.)
196. So I knock on the door/take a step that is new…
197. That a change is coming.
198. Non piangere, coglione, ridi e vai. (Grazie, Maestro, per questo capolavoro assoluto.)

Pensée du dimanche 19 août

Thank you for this
bitter knowledge,
guardian angels who
left me stranded.
It was worth it
feeling abandoned
makes one hardened but
what has happened to love?
—Sancta Rufola