I remember you well at the Chelsea Hotel

And when you say you love me,
I don't want to think you really mean New York City
And all the fun we have in it

- from Chelsea Walls, a film by Ethan Hawke

A film I don't recommend and a setting I'm enamored with

• Chelsea Hotel No. 2 by Leonard Cohen
• A live cover by Martha Wainwright
  

One Headlight

So long ago, I don't remember when

That's when they say I lost my only friend

Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease

As I listened through the cemetery trees

Hey, come on try a little

Nothing is forever

There's got to be something better than In the middle

But me & Cinderella, We put it all together

We can drive it home

With one headlight

• The Wallflowers -One Headlight

Everyone seems to have forgotten how much they loved this song in the 90s.

Poetry is a verdict

"Lever les Yeux"

"Poetry is a verdict not an occupation...Once the fire celebrated Light, the
dirst Humility, the blood Sacrifice...Once, for a while, he seemed to serve
something other than himself. Those were the only poems he ever wrote. They
were for Shell. He wanted to give her back her body."

- from The Favourite Game by Leonard Cohen

• Listen: Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen
  

In your art, your beauty

photo by Suisea

Through the yard of blonde girls
Through the river and the sea
Gold sharks glittering
A tree of white
Breaks the earth
The streets where Lola played

Its in your heart
Its in your art, your beauty
Even in this world of lies
Theres purity

- from Yard of Blonde Girls by Jeff Buckley

Dear reader, is this the most beautiful Jeff Buckley song? I think this is one of the very few for which he did not write the lyric. My favourite composition. Certainly not one of the famous ones, this one is on Sketches for my Sweetheart, the Drunk.

Will you still recall my name and the month it all began, will you release me with a kiss?

So you face it with a smile

There is no need to cry

For a trifle's more than this

Have I tried to draw the veil?
If I have, how could I fail

Did I fear the consequence?

Oh, you're such a pretty one

And the naked thrills of flesh and skin

Would tease me through the night

Now I hate to leave you bare

If you need me I'll be there

Don't you ever let me down

- from Narcotic by Liquido

• Fall at Your Feet by Crouded House (live)

What's your damage, Heather?

Heathers is so very.

• Cornflake Girl - Tori Amos
• Rip her to Shreads - Blondie

Curse your star

photo by Haruniji

Lady, go and curse your star,
Thus Love is, and thus you are.

- Dorothy Parker, To A Much Too Unfortunate Lady

• Live On Tomorrow - Juliana Hatfield (Live)

Changes

daylight licked me into shape
I must have been asleep for days
and moving lips to breathe her name
I opened up my eyes
and found myself alone
alone
alone above a raging sea
that stole the only girl I loved
and drowned her deep inside of me

Following this tangerine theme are two more songs and two great cover versions:

• Just Like Heaven: The Cure
• Cover by Katie Melua
• Changes: Ozzy Ozbourne
• Cover by the Cardigans

Zeppelin never goes out of style

Dearest to my heart are:

• The much forgotten Tangerine (Led Zeppelin III)
• The much plagiarized D'yer Mak'er (Houses of the Holy)

Tangerine, Tangerine, living reflection of a dream

I was her love, she was my queen

And now a thousand years between.

Thinking how it used to be

Does she still remember times like these?

To think of us again?

And I do.