There are actually a few things I wouldn't mind doing blog posts on at the moment, but I'm a bit pressed for time, what with one thing and another. I still want to finish the Momus review, for a start.
It's not going to happen, is it? I should just face it.
I also still want to do a proper review of the Kodagain albums I have recently received and a post on Robert Aickbon. Towards the first of these two things I thought I'd just cut and paste here something I recently wrote in an e-mail about one of the Kodagain songs, currently my favourite:
I've been listening to A Drink With Something In It, by Kodagain. I really like Danse Russe. The words are from a poem by William Carlos Williams. You may know it:
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/danse-russe/
Now, that's hardly the best poem ever written, BUT, it is about fifty-billion times better than most song lyrics, and when you hear it put into a 'pop song', you realise this, realise how much more daring literature (in this case poetry) is than pop music, if only it also had the popular stage to present itself upon. This kind of thing is like the most daring of the Smiths' lyrics, like, "Charles don't you ever crave/To appear on the front of the Daily Mail/Dressed in your mother's bridal veil". I mean, imagine if Bono sung about dancing grotesquely and admiring his own buttocks. He'd win back my respect, the boring cunt. I think that what poets need to do is each have their own pop song-writer who puts all of their stuff into music, and they'd blow the current music scene away.
I really need to make dinner now… while dancing naked, grotesquely, swinging my shirt around my head, and so on.
If I don't get time to put the details up here, remember the Peter Harris Experience tonight from 10.00 GMT on Phonic FM.
Peter A Leonard writes:I think you could be on to something with the poetry idea.
I’ll have to suggest this at the next poetry slam I go to. Instead of trying to make your poetry crapper so that it more closely resembles exciting pop music, why not just make good poetry and set it to pop music, thereby making both poetry and pop music more exciting?