Themes for Young Lovers

Percy Faith and His Orchestra

If the transcendent trilling of Slim Whitman can cause the outsized brains of Martian invaders to explode, then this is surely the extravagantly intimate music which summoned them to earth in the first place. In an era of unrestrained chaos and violence, Themes for Young Lovers could be an act of utopian might and courage -- an icy bubble bath at the foot of a cataclysmic pyre. In the late summer of 2008, however, this fascinating mode calls to mind the intestinal soundtrack of a sated vampire biker in full leathers, picking his teeth by the campfire, chuckling with Fred Neil about fork oil and Yukio Mishima.

Baja Marimba Band Rides Again

According to Wikipedia:

The earliest hashish was created without the use of sieves. The ancients would gently rub their palms and fingers on cannabis buds for hours while resin accumulated on their hands and then scrape that resin off. This sort of primitive harvesting is undertaken even today in the Cannabis growing farms of Manali, Naggar and Upper Himachal Pradesh. The earliest use of hashish was most likely from farmers scraping resin off of their hands after a day’s harvest of commercial hemp and at that time hashish was normally eaten, not smoked.

Faithfull Forever...

Marianne Faithfull

Dusk is the most difficult time of day for mothers and addicts. Dusk should not be confused with twilight -- that audacious, potentially intoxicating celebration of daylight. Dusk is the time of day when our hands are wrung at what we have done and at what we have left undone. Dusk renounces daylight. Dusk is dread. One reaches for the bottle at dusk or not at all.

Persuasive Percussion

Originated and produced by Enoch Light. Performances by Terry Snyder & the All Stars. 

With apologies to Radio Raheem:

Let me tell you the story of right speaker v. left speaker: the tale of Love and Hate. One speaker is always fighting the other. Left speaker Hate is kicking much ass and it looks like right speaker Love is finished. But hold up! Stop the presses! Love is coming back...yes, it's Love! Love has won! Left speaker Hate KO'ed by right speaker Love!

Bongos, baby. Bouncing bongos. Cover art by Josef Albers.