English Dream of Cloudy Gold

Based on my Swedish Ground

slightly remade, consciously sharpened
and mixed from two recent snooze dreams






Sitting a strange sunday
morning outside an extremely familiar
door which we used to just
open, while write my latest update:


"First time ever here in Liverpool
waiting for someone to recognize me
and feel this summer die.
Anyhow I like
the golden darkness coming more
and more early..."


Almost remember I must have forgot
my glasses in another August
but then realise this scene takes place before
I even needed glasses.

Well, time for a pee,
so I go inside
someone's van
parked on the street down to our endless library.

Behind these magic windows
like an inverted prison cell
no one seems able to see me,
not even the whole class of 88 C
which I never socialized with
but still know every face among.




However now
we're appearantly in this cockpit, a little bit over
three golden clouds.
They assert
I will easily land on those
clouds if I only
JUMP,
well, jump in the right moment
and the right moment of course is
NOW...


...but as always
my feet doubt their voices
since they come from our ship computer,
not from actual clouds. How many
tons of gold
lies hidden within?

Without parachute
and with my legs more heavy than our whole heaven
my american friends anyway
recommend a russian technique
to focus
on
a special glimpse of sun
to get the whole goldmine
open
it's labyrinth,
it's million wings
immediately here for my heart in the air




"Third time over Tokyo
falling for someone to recollect me
like feeling her autumn being born.
And this time
I'm really not
afraid anymore?!"


It's just that I want so badly to stay
in this egg
even if i crashes
in this belly
even if my fuel
has grown completely incompatible
with your world
with our bird
this cockpit has become
my life.











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Once Upon the Japanese 60's

FROM UP ON POPPY HILL

directed by Goro Miyazaki
Japan 2011
music mostly by Satoshi Takebe



another animation from Studio Ghibli

about school kids and their club house in the early 60's




my SnowBlack Movie # 1327


Beautiful role: UMI MATSUZAKI the MAIN GIRL


Wise role: HANA MATSUZAKI the GRANDMOTHER

Exhausted role: SACHIKO HIROKÕJI the PAINTING GIRL

Explosive role: ??? ??? the PHILOSOPHY STUDENT


Shy role: YÜKO the FRIEND OF UMI

Crazy role: SHUN KAZAMA the MAIN BOY

Grumpy role: TOKUMARU the HEADMASTER

Happy role: SORA MATSUZAKI the LITTLE SISTER



4 Characters
7 Scenery
5 Camerawork

2 Thrill
4 Conflict
2 Humour

5 Psychology
4 Philosophy
2 Fantasy

4 Composition
7 Music
6 Concept

= 54


I now give 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 12 = 84 never exist(?)







A song in the movie naturally is this:
SUKIYAKI AS I WALK

First I thought it was a japanese cover of an american song, but realize this ultra-famous piece really is japanese (with many english-sungen covers).




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Movie With Computer Game Characters

"...if you leave your game, stay safe, stay alert! And whatever you do, don't die! Because if you die outside your own game, you don't regenerate. Ever..."



WRECK-IT-RALPH

by Rich Moore
USA 2013




my SnowBlack Movie # 1325


(since it's an animation
the actors just give their voices)


Happy role: VENELLOPE THE GLITCH (Sarah Silverman)

Grumpy role: RALPH the monkeyish monster (John C. Reilly)

Crazy role: KING CANDY // TURBO (Alan Tudyk)

Shy role: Q*BERT


Explosive role: CALHOUN (Jane Lynch)

Exhausted role: FIX-IT-FELIX (Jack McBrayer)

Wise role: CLYDE THE PACMAN GHOST and leader of Bad-Anon (Kevin Deters)


Beautiful role: SNOWANNA RAINBEAU one of the candy land competitors



6 Characters
8 Scenery
6 Camerawork

5 Thrill
2 Conflict
3 Humour

2 Psychology
4 Philosophy
6 Fantasy

4 Composition
1 Music
7 Concept

= 54


I now give 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 12 = 84 never exist(?)






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Monkey Heads Talking Naked

my Summer Album 13 : 14


NAKED
with Talking Heads 1988

which could as well been called MONKEY, based on the themes and cover frame




My favourite is FLOWERS with it's "reversed" perspective. Someone memorizes the golden days when there were factories, supermarkets and machines everywhere - before flowers and trees took over the whole city. Even if ironic, this missing of such human culture could be true as hell = if the green really had grown as totally unbalanced as the worst kind of concrete jungle.



most Amusing song: (NOTHING BUT) FLOWERS

most Beautiful song: RUBY DEAR

most Sexy song: TOTALLY NUDE

most Loving song: MOMMY DADDY YOU AND I

most Growing Strong song: BIG DADDY

most Smart song: MR. JONES

most Mysterious song: THE DEMOCRATIC CIRCUS



Overall Album

4 sound

2 melodies

6 accompaniment
 
6 rythms

3 singin' feeling

4 playin' dynamics

7 concept

4 variation

6 lyrics

5 titles

3 order of tracks

7 cover picture

3 historical importance

= 60


I now give 1 to 7 in thirteen cathegories
where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 13 = 91 never exist(?)






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Super Sexy Modern Monkey

Which I Love at least Some Numbers on

the first Lene Lovich album

STATELESS
from 1979

most songs by Les Chappell and Lene Lovich


sounds to me most like : Kate Bush, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Regina Spector, Sparks, Patti Smith





my Summer Album 13 : 15


most Amusing song: LUCKY NUMBER [single]

most Beautiful song: TONIGHT [composed by Nick Lowe]

most Sexy song: SAY WHEN!

most Loving song: TOO TENDER (TO TOUCH)

most Growing Strong song: I THINK WE'RE ALONE NOW

most Smart song: TELEPATHY (...saw you in my crystal... gonna bring my pistol...)

most Mysterious song: SLEEPING BEAUTY



Overall Album

5 sound

2 melodies

7 accompaniment

4 rythms

6 singin' feeling

3 playin' dynamics

6 concept

4 variation

5 lyrics

2 titles

3 order of tracks

2 cover picture

6 historical importance

= 55


I now give 1 to 7 in thirteen cathegories
where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 13 = 91 never exist(?)






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Miracle of Queen

THE MIRACLE
with Queen 1989



When they did their best here, they did better than ever. But this miracle only appears in Breakthru, maybe Party and The Invisible Man, as it seems to me.


my Summer Album 13 : 13



most Amusing song: PARTY (Was Over)

most Beautiful song: SCANDAL

most Sexy song: KHASHOGGI'S SHIP

most Loving song: THE MIRACLE

most Growing Strong song: (Reach You Would Really Be a) BREAKTHRU

most Smart song: (I'M) THE INVISIBLE MAN

most Mysterious song: WAS IT ALL WORTH IT? [at least the intro /outro]



Overall Album

7 sound

4 melodies

6 accompaniment
 
 5 rythms

4 singin' feeling

7 playin' dynamics

2 concept

5 variation

3 lyrics

2 titles

2 order of tracks

6 cover picture

4 historical importance

= 57


I now give 1 to 7 in thirteen cathegories
where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 13 = 91 never exist(?)





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RoeDeers (closer to)

LionHeart of Kate Bush

Can keep returning to her second record (-78) every summer without getting the least tired of it. Ten years ago I began to understand who Kate Bush was, through an older friend who thought I would appreciate her - and can that be more true?!



my Summer Album 13 : 12


most Mysterious song: IN SEARCH OF PETER PAN

most Smart song: WOW (alone on the stage tonight)

most Growing Strong song: SYMPHONY IN BLUE


most Loving song: OH, ENGLAND, MY LIONHEART


most Sexy song: DON'T PUSH YOUR FOOT ON THE HEARTBRAKE

most Beautiful song: HAMMER HORROR (in the BellTower of Notre-Dame)

most Amusing song: COFFEE HOMEGROUND



Overall Album

7 sound

6 melodies

6 accompaniment
 
4 rythms

6 singin' feeling

4 playin' dynamics

6 concept

5 variation

5 lyrics

5 titles

4 order of tracks

6 cover picture

7 historical importance

= 71


I now give 1 to 7 in thirteen cathegories
where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 13 = 91 never exist(?)






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Lucky Lovich (one but not alone)

Lene Lovich is a new fantastic discovery for me!



my Summer Song # 1301


LUCKY NUMBER

with Lene Lovich
by Les Chappell and Lene Lovich

from Stateless 1979


Lovich in Live Version
not including every record sound, but give a good impression




interesting instrument : except her voice sometimes used like a bird, as well as different kind of drum beats and synth sounds flying by, I like most the piano in the unbeatable intro


main emotion : sharp but cozy craziness, with a happy touch of irony


lyrics line lingering : "This rearrangement suits me now I must confess // the number one was dull but number two is best"


similar songmakers : Kate Bush, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Nina Hagen, some Patti Smith, and even if not her intention I can hear alot of SPARKS too.


form of field : Seems completely unique, though realise many sounded like her on the border between 70's to 80's. Kinda punk with a nice girlishness dressed in gothic overtones...


role on record : THIRD, which frustrates me a bit :-) since the lyrics is about how Lovich loves number one and then number two, but never gets to number three...


my private picture : a girl sitting alone in a big candy store, tasting every bit shaped like either "0" or "1", and then getting company from a boy doing same procedure synchronically with her






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Around Gothia Cup : Romantic Fiction and Real Playing

One of the most sexy, mind-shaking, yet so serious and open-hearted movies I've seen! Feels even more fresh this second time, about relations I never imagined when I was sixteen, and still hardly can. With swedish /iranian /italian context.



CIAO BELLA!
Sweden 2007

directed by Mani Maserrat Agah
manuscript by Jens Jonsson
based on an idea by the director




my SnowBlack Movie # 1323


Beautiful role: LINNEA (Chanelle Lindell)


Happy role: CARRO (Fredrika Tham)

Grumpy role: THE TRAINER (Jan Coster)

Crazy role: ENRICO (Oliver Wahlgren-Ingrosso)

Shy role: MUSTAFA // MASSIMO (Poyan Karimi)


Explosive role: DADDY of Linnea (Jimmy Lindström)

Exhausted role: MUMMY of Mustafa (Mina Azarian)

Wise role: JOHANNA (Lotta Karlge)



5 Characters
3 Scenery
7 Camerawork

7 Thrill
6 Conflict
3 Humour

6 Psychology
2 Philosophy
6 Fantasy

4 Composition
4 Music
7 Concept

= 60


I now give 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 12 = 84 never exist(?)






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Rhythm of YES

my Summer Song # 1300



RHYTHM OF LOVE
with Yes

by Jon Anderson, Tony Kaye, Trevor Rabin,
Chris Squire and Alan White

from album BIG GENERATOR, 1987





interesting instrument : except the magic chorus, I must pick the "full orchestra" synth sound so popular in late 80's, suddenly crashing in among all the super sharp guitars


main emotion : spiritually confident happiness


lyrics line lingering : "Why should I escort you /to your secret needs? Climbing up your ladder /I keep falling down"


similar song : someone with Queen from "The Miracle", maybe a slower cousin to Breakthru


form of field : synth rock, more pop:ish than Yes ever has been. Well, in my ears they handle the genre as good and creative as any progressive anthems Jon ever has made.


role on record : FIRST and by no doubt the album's BEST. Fantastic piece on what allmusic gives only two stars [but OK, maybe just this song and number five shines much stronger than so].


my private picture : a mountain cliff full of towers, each shouting through it's windows, then begin to behave like birds, every tower flying up to the sun.









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Wanda Fish, a case of Cleese

Saw the scenes of this film many times
during late 80's and early 90's
but now is the first time I get a whole grip of it


A FISH CALLED WANDA

by Charles Crichton and John Cleese
UK /USA 1988





my SnowBlack Movie # 1324


Happy role: ARCHIE LEACH (John Cleese) in end of case

Grumpy role: MRS. COADY (Patricia Hayes)

Crazy role: KEN PILE (Michael Palin)

Shy role: ARCHIE LEACH (John Cleese) in beginning of case


Explosive role: OTTO (Kevin Kline)

Exhausted role: WENDY (Maria Aitken)

Wise role: WANDA GERSHWITZ (Jamie Lee Curtis)


Beautiful role: WANDA FISH



5 Characters
2 Scenery
3 Camerawork

6 Thrill
2 Conflict
6 Humour

2 Psychology
2 Philosophy
5 Fantasy

4 Composition
2 Music
4 Concept

= 43


I now give 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 12 = 84 never exist(?)




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Glimpses of Swedish Summer

Summer with sexiest and most spititual Harriet

contains so much more of swedish culture than the sweet natural nude scenes, which are famous but few


SUMMER WITH MONIKA

directed by Ingmar Bergman
Sweden 1953
based on novel by P.A. Fogelström





my SnowBlack Movie # 1322


Beautiful role: MONIKA THE BIG GIRL (Harriet Andersson)


Happy role: Harry's BEST WORK FRIEND (Åke Grönberg)

Grumpy role: CASHIER OF PORCELAIN WAREHOUSE (Gösta Gustafson)

Crazy role: MONIKA THE BIG GIRL (Harriet Andersson)

Shy role: HARRY THE BIG BOY (Lars Ekborg)


Explosive role: LELLE THE RIVAL (John Harryson)

Exhausted role: HARRY THE BIG BOY (Lars Ekborg)

Wise role: AUNT LINDSTRÖM (Dagmar Ebbesen)



4 Characters
6 Scenery
7 Camerawork

6 Thrill
5 Conflict
3 Humour

6 Psychology
2 Philosophy
2 Fantasy

6 Composition
3 Music
5 Concept

= 55


I now give 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 12 = 84 never exist(?)





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Cosmos of Cosma, who made Chateauvallon a Real Dream

Realise finally now
that it's Vladimir Cosma
a romanian born composer
who has made many french motives
among which I've loved
two or maybe more
for a long long time
since middle 80's these:


REALITY Video Remade Dream

REALITY Original Sanderson Dream of LA BOUM


Chateauvallon instrumental melody

Chateauvallon with sungen voice


So now it's just to discover more Cosma movie compositions
hopefully from some Record, though here's a sample mix
of some other sides of his music:

Cosma's more comic Cosmos






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Seconds of Pleasure [Expanded again] with Rockpile

Finally in 1980, the fundament of Dave Edmunds and Nick Lowe released a full record under their identity Rockpile.

I've reviewed it almost a year ago, but still becomes more and more appearant how good rock'n'roll this really is!

Here Rockpile also includes Billy Bremner, who seems to me now a finer singer than both Edmunds and Lowe were then.




my Summer Album 13 : 11


most Amusing song:
HEART
by Lowe


most Beautiful song:
(I DO MY) CRYING IN THE RAIN
by Greenfield & King
= Bonus Brother Everly


most Sexy song:
PET YOU AND HOLD YOU
by Lowe


most Loving song:
WHEN I WRITE THE BOOK (ABOUT MY LOVE)
by Lowe


most Growing Strong song:
PLAY THAT FAST THING (ONE MORE TIME)
by Lowe


most Smart song:
TEACHER TEACHER
by Philips & Pickett


most Mysterious song:
A KNIFE AND A FORK
by Kip Anderson



Overall Album

6 sound

6 melodies

5 accompaniment
 
5 rythms

4 singin' feeling

6 playin' dynamics

6 concept

5 variation

2 lyrics

2 titles

3 order of tracks

1 cover picture

7 historical importance

= 58


I now give 1 to 7 in thirteen cathegories
where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 13 = 91 never exist(?)






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Sellers & Sommer in Second Pink P.

PINK PANTHER : A SHOT IN THE DARK

directed by Blake Edwards
UK /USA 1964

music by Henry Mancini




my SnowBlack Movie # 1316


Beautiful role: MARIA GAMBRELLI (Elke Sommer)


Wise role: BENJAMIN BALLON (George Sanders)

Exhausted role: INSPECTOR DREYFUS (Herbert Lom)

Explosive role: KATO (Burt Kwouk)


Shy role: HERCULE LAJOY (Graham Stark)

Crazy role: INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU (Peter Sellers)

Grumpy role: MAURICE (Martin Benson)

Happy role: THE KAZAK DANCER (Tutte Lemkow)



5 Characters
7 Scenery
4 Camerawork

4 Thrill
3 Conflict
7 Humour

2 Psychology
3 Philosophy
5 Fantasy

4 Composition
6 Music
6 Concept

= 56


I now give 1,2,3,4,5,6,7, where 3 is good
and total possible 7 X 12 = 84 never exist(?)









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my Music Chakra Round of June -13

13 music pieces I've listened to most now






Crown chakra


1
UNCHAINED MELODY
(time can do so much)

with Roy Orbison
by Alex North, Hy Zaret

from Roy Orbison's Many Moods 1969



2
OBOE CONCERT in D minor (RV 454)

with Hans de Vries and Solisti di Zagreb
by Antonio Vivaldi 1723

a part of "The Contest Between Harmony And Invention"??
from Vivaldi : Oboenkonzerte, recorded 1979




3RD Eye chakra


3
LOVE AND BEAUTY
(if they can lift their eyes and see)

with Moody Blues
by Michael Pinder

bonus to Days of Future Passed 1967



4
MY BACK PAGES
(I was so much older then - I'm younger than that now)

mostly with The Byrds
(also other performers)
by Bob Dylan

from Younger Than Yesterday 1967




Throat chakra


5
JAG ÄR INTE FRI (men även om jag var det...)

med Eva Dahlgren
av Eva Dahlgren

från Petrolium och Tång 2007



6
GEMINI

with Boards of Canada
by Marcus Eoin

from Tomorrow's Harvest 2013




Heart chakra


7
TOUCH
(a door behind a door... I need something more
If love is the answer you hold on)

with Daft Punk
by Gm De Homem Christo

from Random Access Memories 2013




Solar Plexus chakra


8
IMAGINE A MAN (and you will see the end)
with The Who

by Pete Townshend
from The Who by Numbers 1975



9
CAN'T BUY ME LOVE

with Henry Mancini and his Orchestra & Choir
by Lennon & McCartney

from Dear Heart And Other Songs About Love 1965




Sacral chakra


10
HEART

with Rockpile (=Lowe, Edmunds and Bremner)
by Nick Lowe

from Seconds of Pleasure 1980



11
NATURE BOY
(and be loved in return)

mostly with Bobby Darin
(also other performers)
by Eben Ahbez

from Things And Other Things 1962




Root chakra


12
"ORGAN" SYMPHONY No 3 (in C minor)

with Michael Murray (organ)
with Eugene Ormandy (conductor) 1980

by Camille Saint-Saëns 1886



13
GOD IS DEAD?

with Black Sabbath
by Butler, Iommi, Osbourne

from "13" 2013













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