Break My Stride - MATTHEW WILDER

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"Smooth Criminal" Michael Jackson

As He Came Into The Window
It Was The Sound Of A Crescendo
He Came Into Her Apartment
He Left The Bloodstains On The Carpet
She Ran Underneath The Table
He Could See She Was Unable
So She Ran Into The Bedroom
She Was Struck Down, It Was Her Doom

Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You OK
Are You OK, Annie
Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You OK
Are You OK, Annie
Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You OK?
Are You OK, Annie?
Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You Ok, Are You Ok, Annie?

(Annie Are You OK?)
(Will You Tell Us That You're OK?)
(There's A Sign In The Window)
(That He Struck You - A Crescendo Annie)
(He Came Into Your Apartment)
(He Left The Bloodstains On The Carpet)
(Then You Ran Into The Bedroom)
(You Were Struck Down)
(It Was Your Doom)

Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You OK?
Are You OK Annie?
Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You OK?
Are You OK Annie?
Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You OK?
Are You OK Annie?
You've Been Hit By
You've Been Hit By - A Smooth Criminal

So They Came Into The Outway
It Was Sunday - What A Black Day
Mouth To Mouth Resus - Citation
Sounding Heartbeats - Intimidations

Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You OK?
Are You OK Annie?
Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You OK?
Are You OK Annie?
Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You OK?
Are You OK Annie?
Annie Are You OK?
So, Annie Are You OK
Are You OK Annie?

(Annie Are You OK?)
(Will You Tell Us That You're OK?)
(There's A Sign In The Window)
(That He Struck You - A Crescendo Annie)
(He Came Into Your Apartment)
(He Left The Bloodstains On The Carpet)
(Then You Ran Into The Bedroom)
(You Were Struck Down)
(It Was Your Doom)

(Annie Are You OK?)
(So, Annie Are You OK?)
(Are You OK Annie?)
(You've Been Hit By)
(You've Been Struck By -
A Smooth Criminal)

Okay, I Want Everybody To Clear The Area Right Now!

Aaow!
(Annie Are You OK?)
I Don't Know!
(Will You Tell Us, That You're OK?)
I Don't Know!
(There's A Sign In The Window)
I Don't Know!
(That He Struck You - A Crescendo Annie)
I Don't Know!
(He Came Into Your Apartment)
I Don't Know!
(Left Bloodstains On The Carpet)
I Don't Know Why Baby!
(Then You Ran Into The Bedroom)
I Don't Know!
(You Were Struck Down)
(It Was Your Doom - Annie!)
(Annie Are You OK?)
Dad Gone It - Baby!
(Will You Tell Us, That You're OK?)
Dad Gone It - Baby!
(There's A Sign In The Window)
Dad Gone It - Baby!
(That He Struck You - A Crescendo Annie)
Hoo! Hoo!
(He Came Into Your Apartment)
Dad Gone It!
(Left Bloodstains On The Carpet)
Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!
(Then You Ran Into The Bedroom)
Dad Gone It!
(You Were Struck Down)
(It Was Your Doom-Annie!)
Aaow!!!

Janet Jackson- FEEDBACK [ Official Full Length Video ]!!!!!!

This is amazing

Oh my God this is amazing: Article

Björk - Isobel

Joanna Newsom, "Sadie"

Fire escape leg of The Tiny Tour is up tonight!

Hello! The fire escape leg of The Tiny Tour is up now on www.birdinsnow.com

Do you like hats? I know you do.

Ladies and gentlemen, do you like ladies' hats? I love the idea of having big, floppy decorated hats for every occasion and wish I had more than the very small collection I do have (it used to be bigger but I lost some in some moves). Anyway, I am a little tight on funds right now, but if I wasn't I would head on over to

Lucy's hat shop
on 1118 Pine St. in Philadelphia!

The owner there, Lucy, (Lucy is her middle name actually), is just delightful and she will help you find a hat for any special or ordinary occasion. She must have 100 or so hats in there at any given time. You want some leopard hats? Yeah, you got it! You want magenta hats with rhinestones? You got it there! You want an acid yellow hat with black trim that will cut into your spleen every time you look at it? Yeah, there is one there right now!

Does this sound like an ad to you? Yep, it is! This is my ad for Lucy's hat shop. It is beautiful, Lucy is beautiful, and most importantly, the hats are beautiful. She also carries lucite jewelry, other antique jewelry, and some old and glamorous coats. Go there! Please!

My new page on PennSound

I have a new page on PennSound and it contains a recording of a reading I did last year and my most recent reading with Matthew Rohrer. Check it out: DL's new page on PennSound.

Bob Dylan - Simple Twist of Fate (1975)

Beautiful Bob Dylan, sweet Jewish Gemini like my father

When are people going to stop putting their heads up their asses?

I am taking a Young Adult Fiction class and I recently found out that Where's Waldo? is one of the 100 most banned school books. Are you kidding me? Where's Waldo??!?

Seriously, what is the world coming to? I like Waldo and I think he is acceptable for any age. He's cute and he teaches kids to hunt. Let's get real, book banners.

Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero

"We are the children
The last generation
We are the ones they left behind
And i wonder when we are ever gonna change it
Living under the fear till nothing else remains"

Some things to say

I have three things to report:

1. I love Pilates. When my Pilates teacher tells me to imagine there is a bag of sand in my pelvis, that is all the aesthetic training I will ever need. It is a blessing to be able to move.

2. I love this woman's website: Bits and Bobbins. Whenever I am sad, looking at her amazing creations and suggestions makes me realize that every day is new. My love for it sometimes also makes me remember this creepy guy on a New Jersey train who asked me if I had majored in textiles. I didn't, but sometimes I wish I had. When I am 60, I am going to start a clothing line. I figure it will take me that long to save enough money and finish all my already started but unfinished projects.

3. I love my friend Camilla Schofield's drawings. Not only is she a kick-your-ass-good historical scholar, but she is a really wonderful artist. I think she is in the middle of a one-doodle-a-day project and here are some of my favorites:

Andrews Sisters - Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

Kate Hall's new chapbook is out

Kate Hall's new chapbook, Suspended, is out from Greenboathouse Books (I love that press's name) and I can't imagine it is anything but brilliant. Kate Hall is a fabulous poet.

Here is where you can buy Kate Hall's chapbook.

Devendra Banhart Interview

Kate Bush - Lily

Well I said
"Lily, Oh Lily I don't feel safe
I feel that life has blown a great big hole
Through me"
And she said
"Child, you must protect yourself
I'll show you how with fire"

Eyes - Rogue Wave

Bracelets

I remember one Fall in Northampton I helped this very bubbly man put on a Sylvia Plath day on her birthday. I think he does it every year and I am very glad if he still indeed does, but I only helped out one year. It was great. During the day, scholars talked about her poems, singers sang songs they wrote about her, people who had met her once gave long accounts of her––all of it was amazing. Not a lot of people came the year I helped, which is probably my fault cause I was supposed to do most of the publicity. Still, I sat in the paltry audience and swooned at the magnitude of the whole thing. Some of you out there might not like Sylvia Plath, but I am fanatic about her. She is, and always will be, my hands-down favorite poet. We as a poetry society haven't even begun to realize what a genius she was.

Anyway, one of the speakers told a story about how she was in a workshop with Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Someone from the audience (not me) asked her to describe what it was like to be near them––what they looked like and dressed like and so forth. The woman (I wish I could remember her name) said that Sylvia Plath was very neat and proper and energetic and driven and that Anne Sexton was kind of ethereal and quiet, except for her ringing bracelets. She told us how Anne Sexton had these long arms full of bracelets that would ring and jangle as she spoke and moved her papers around and that it was enchanting. And as she told the story, in my mind, I saw this large person––larger in her grace than she could ever be––full of bracelets that rang like bells. It was around this time of my life that I started collecting bracelets.

I have quite a collection now and I just bought a small glass case to house them and so here they are in the below picture. I think collections are important. Someday, I would like to have a collective collection website for people to put up their collections up on it for everyone to see, but it might be some time before I get a chance to undertake such a project. If anyone out there starts one, let me know!

Here are some of my bracelets:

Madonna - Buenos Aires

Help animals just by putzing away on the internet!

Today, my wonderful friend Michael let me know about something really important. Supposedly, the Animal Rescue organization is having some trouble getting people to go to their site and this is not good. The way they have it set up, they need people to click a button on their site and when you do, their advertisers pay a certain percentage relative to the amount of clicks. (I think this is a cool set-up actually.) So basically, when you click the button, you are giving money to help feed abused, neglected, and abandoned animals. One of the saddest things in the world is to a see an animal that has been domesticated beyond its will a long time ago be left for dead. We cannot forget our animals.

Here is the link to click Animal Rescue Site.

Click on the big purple button that says: "Click Here to Give--it's free." Once you have done so, you will have given an animal .6 bowls of food.

I have clicked about twenty times already. My arm is tired. Please help.