The Boy of Summer

We summer boys in this four-winded spinning,
Green of the seaweed’s iron,
Hold up the noisy sea and drop her birds,
Pick the world’s ball of wave and froth
To choke the deserts with her tides,
And comb the county gardens for a wreath. – Dylan Thomas “I See the Boys of Summer”

From the Korrektiv Wiskonsin Live Jam Sessions Vault

Daughter Number One does a fairly decent job during her visit to ol’ St. James…

Babbsy O’Brien – St. James Infirmary

 

 

From the YouTube Music Video Archives: Anna Lee by Levon Helm

From the YouTube Music Video Archives: Come Healing by Leonard Cohen

From Cohen’s new album, Old Ideas, to which our friend in Toronto took a fairly close listen over at All Manner of Thing. I think most everyone associated at Korrektiv has probably heard it, but if for some reason you haven’t picked it up, here’s another chance. It’s a great album, and this seemed like a good song for Friday.

O, gather up the brokenness / Bring it to me now / The fragrance of those promises / You never dared to vow / The splinters that you carried / The cross you left behind / Come healing of the body / Come healing of the mind / And let the heavens hear it / The penitential hymn / Come healing of the spirit / Come healing of the limb

“It is a late-night record, best heard in a quiet room, in a big leather chair, with something pungent in your glass.”

From the YouTube Music Video Archives: From the Indies to the Andes in his Undies

While trying to get the lowdown on Fair Use laws, I came across this old gem from the Hoosier Hot Shots. As is typical of the music videos genre, there’s a fair amount of debauchery in this epic of Otto Zilch. So consider yourself warned.

From the Indies to the Andes, What a mission! / Stopping only now and then to do some fishin’ / And he went without a copyright permission / Was a very daring thing to do

The Kollektiv

From left to right: Potter, Expat, JOB, Lickona, Webb. Not present: Finnegan.

Public Service Announcement

The new Tom Waits, “Bad as Me,”  is available for $5.99 (mp3 format) at Amazon.

Hell in a Handbasket

Hell in a Handbasket A hymn by Jonathan Potter, forthcoming in the Korrektiv Katholic Hymn Book, p. 372.

“The powerlines have floaters so the airplanes won’t get snagged…”

 

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