Showing posts with label Brenda Kahn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brenda Kahn. Show all posts

26 February 2010

Brenda Kahn must make more music

and I would live on the Brooklyn side if I could look out my windows through the metal neon lines of the fifty foot Domino Sugar sign hangs over Brooklyn like a cross on a hill and the tragic Miss with the pout and the beer desperately trying to make sex look sincere is ignoring my friends who are too drunk to fear and the band still sweating a sardonic sneer and I know that I'm going but am I going anywhere
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08 June 2009

Music: Two

Brenda Kahn. Epiphany in Brooklyn was released in 1992, a glimpse of dawn before first light, and occupying the spaces between and among the fortresses of insipidity - those out there trying to make albums, trying to make music, trying to make songs.
As against which, she stands foursquare 'gainst gales, and lays upon your placesetting the wholly aloof cat. That this gift was heavened and feathered before us seventeen years ago will suggest how rare are the benefices of the good intentionalities.
and you find that your life is a frustrated vision
of Gauguins, Rodins and excellent diction
mint juleps and needles don't add up to wisdom
you've cracked you've gone mad
it makes me so sad
that I like you better than most of the men
I've had