Good easy weekend for me, maybe less so for other people.

While I was having a great time chatting it up with Faith and Space Dog at Ports my sister was in Vegas getting almost litterally kicked in the teeth by life. 'Parently she was headed down some stairs when someone pushed her hard enough to send her flying. It was nasty fall leaving her bruised all over and in great need of dental constructive surgery.

She's on hydrocodone and penecillin and my mom and she are trying to figure out today how to get the dental work done when she doesn't have insurance. Her job could be on the line here just from time spent dealing this, not to mention she needs to be able to speak and be presentable.

Stuff like this torments my idea of reality. Besides being the big sis and worrying over people because I should be able to protect them. Might be a pointless way of thinking about these things but it's an instinct developed over years of being told to watch over those around me.

But in my head the shape of reality - and I totally accept that this is a shape that's applied after the fact - is ye old spiderweb where everyone and everything is a thread and our interaction weaves shape into the world. At every joint where threads meet in the weave are the ways in which we affect each other and tie significance to our interaction. Those ties, until altered by future weaving, bind threads together and when one thread is shaken the reverberations are felt in attached and related threads.

I guess the mistake is in assuming such reverberation should be felt immediately. Instead I felt it when my mother told me at Easter mass yesterday. But it messes with me. I had such an amazingly good Saturday night, complex and promising more for the future, and that's that. It strikes me as weird for possibly no good reason. After all this time I'm still surprised I'm not telepathic.

**********************************
Finally...

1. Transmission/third world or third round/a decade of the weapon of sound/punk power. (N.B.- boy, I just have no idea)
"Guerilla Radio," Rage Against the Machine
(Guessed by Space Dog)

2.Witness these scenes/at the end of the century/city animals, urban creatures/on the streets of London,/something wicked this way comes.
"Psycho Karaoke," Transglobal Underground

3. Desperanto spoken here/today I hear it everywhere.
"Desperanto," Marianne Faithfull

Musical interlude courtesy "The Frail" (live) by Nine Inch Nails

4. You knocked me out,/ you bit my lip,/you held me down and kept me sober.
"Knock Me Out," Grace Slick (The Crow 2 Soundtrack)

Musical interlude: "Will o' the Wisp," by Miles Davis (Sketches of Spain).

5. Flaxen hair blowing in the breeze,/it is time for the geese to head south.
"The Beekeeper," Tori Amos
(guessed by Faith)

6. (hh Jackie O, ehh Jackie O, hey Jackie O) A Bouvier till her wedding day, the shots rang out, the police came, momma laid me on the front lawn...
(guessed by Faith and Anna_bel_lee4)

Musical interlude: "A Violet Fluid," Nine Inch Nails (Downward Spiral: 10th anniversary edition)

7. We gotta kick em out. Well I feel plenty good and I guess that I could get crazy now, baby.
"Kick Out the Jams," Rage Against the Machine (covering someone else on Renegades)
(Guessed by Space Dog)

8. Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel like I am home again.
Lovesong, The Cure (guessed by Firewolf)

9. I want to bathe in milk/eat grapes/Robert de Niro will sit on my face.
"Reeling," PJ Harvey
(Guessed by Thea)

10. Manos arriba, quienes quiren, a próxima se reunirse capacitaz ser. (I... think)
"Instancias," Control Machete

11. I can't believe it,/the way you look sometimes/like a trampled flag on a city street, oh yeah.
"21st Century (Digital Boy)," Bad Religion

12. "Exits to freeways twisted like knots on the fingers, jewels cleaving skin between breasts."
"Screenwriter's Blues," Soul Coughing

Skipped "Murder Mystery" by the Velvet Underground because I'm not sure how it's in my music but it's a really annoying song, And the words are pure babble.

13. Hold on to my love./You know I can't stay long,/all I wanted to say is I love you and I'm not afraid.
"My Last Breath," Evanescence

14. Sometimes when I'm alone/I imagine that the world is a mirror/and in my mind's eye I behold my dark inner nature.
"Sloth," Dead Can Dance

Musical interlude: "Saltarello," Dead Can Dance

15. On a cobweb, afternoon, in a room full of emptiness, by a freeway...
"Like a Stone," Audioslave

16. and I don't drink whiskey but I'm crazy about my gal/and I don't drink whiskey but I'm crazy about my gal/this is 1928 and it must be a brand new year
"Downtown Blues," Frank Stokes

17. This is a story of a big dog, for the dog who chases his tail will be dizzy.
"Atomic Dog," Wreck
(guessed by nsidemymind, though this person said it was a George Clinton song - it might be, I don't know - but the version I have is by Wreck)

I just can't be bothered to try to puzzle out the few words of "Compulsion" by In the Nursery. Mostly this guy repeats "compell me" and there are others from time to time but I can't understand them. The music is interesting and fun.

Further musical interlude of "Kyrie" from Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. It's an excerpt pulled for the Immortal Beloved soundtrack and profoundly beautiful. But see, the name of the track is repeated three times before any other words are sung. So I'm just noting it before moving on.

Continued interlude: "Bird," Dead Can Dance

18. turn up the radio (x3) I play on the radio/it wasn't long before I think of you.
"Cat on the Wall," PJ Harvey

19. I can see it out my window,/that stupid sunshine in those trees./A voice/it cuts me down and/I try to shut it up but I can't let it go, oh!
"Choking the Cherry," Poe

20. Damn your chest beating, just you stop your screaming, it's splitting through my head and swinging from the cieling.
Me-Jane, PJ Harvey

Interlude of A Perfect Circle's "Lullaby" which opens with the line "go back to sleep" repeated several times, fading into the musical mix.

21. There are things that I said I would never do. There are things I cannot believe that they're true.
"The Line Begins to Blur," Nine Inch Nails

22. Falling, I'm falling. (repeat) Have you ever walked through a room/only it was like the room passed around you/like there was a leash around your neck that pulled you through.
"Have You Ever," The Offspring

23. I'm the man in the box, buried in my shit. Won't you come and save me.
Man in the Box, Alice in Chains (guessed by Firewolf)

24. Again we end the ten(?) all by greasy dead(?), worked to the bone, again. (Sorry, I just don't know. People didn't know how to balance mic volume against feedback loops back in the day.)
"Faster than Light," Lead into Gold

25. I see the real you. It put me in my place.
"Beautiful Disgrace," Orgy

26. We move like cagey tigers/oh, we couldn't get closer than this.
Lovecats, The Cure (guessed by Firewolf)

27. woman(?) is an angel in the place where I was born, (?)living in hell(?), living in heaven.
1959, The Sisters of Mercy

28. Si crees que se le esta acaban el bueno honor(?), esto esta comenzando.
"Esperanza," Control Machete

29. You can't get through it/you can't over it/you can't get around
"Going Down," ani di franco

ok... I have to skip the next song cause it's in German: "Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore," Marlene Dietrich

More skippage: "Domine Jesu" from Mozart's Requiem. The words are all in Latin.

30. I am sitting/I am apart/I am growing up/in the fucking dark. (I think)
"Golgotha Tenement Blues," Machines of Loving Grace