yes Cate Le Bon and Sad sad feet Re Tanti Tikara's blog "Sad sad feet wake up song"

I agree, Tanti!  I made a sleeping tape with raindrops and mostly cate's softer songs, like "Sad sad feet," but also with so many other masterpieces of hers.  She's a god of music, not just her voice (and every tone of it, from beautiful, searing magnetospheric high notes to those haunting and hypnotic low notes half spoken), but her epic songwriting, strange productions, circus style guitar licks, creative back up musicians, the surreal often funny videos --  and her strange lyrics that you piece together gradually and grow into.  Her song "No God" on Mug Museum is followed by the mighty duet "I think I knew," both elliptical but after a while it became clear both songs are whispering to each other, a dialogue about something pretty heavy here. 

I fall asleep to my recording of the rain and her songs and have had wonderful dreams singing her songs with friends, once so joyfully, I was in tears in my dream.  (there's also cohen and some others on the recording, as well, so she's in good company in my dreams).

I wish she were more well known and would come to my town.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!  Awesome blog. Take care,

Mike

PS "I wrote a letter to my friends telling them that the moon here makes the wine sweet"

Good job Mike!

LOL ...

The Catalogue Problem

So what would time travel mean to cataloguers?

A chononaut could steal the first printed manuscript of Hamlet from a museum, jump down-time into 1570 -- and then hand the document to a teenaged Shakespeare.

The teenaged Shakespeare grows up, gets into the theater business, and, looking to make a quick buck, takes the manuscript given to him from the time traveler and uses it to launch the first-ever production of Hamlet.

The play goes on to be famous; that first folio ends up in a museum -- where it will end up stolen ...

But who wrote Hamlet?  Not Shakespeare, for he plagiarized the idea from a manuscript he was given.  And not the time traveler -- she only found the play, or stole it, that is.

So what would a cataloguer give as the creator of Hamlet?

Even worse, who published that first printed folio? 

Clearly no one created Hamlet.  And no one published that first printed manuscript.  It is a printed document that was never printed.  The work and the manuscript simply exist without origin.

RDA, the new cataloguring standard, prides itself on being able to handle future innovations in the bibliographic universe.  Could it handle time travel?  We'll have to wait and see.

Beaming back to the mothership,
Engage!

Hot new print monographs

               Hot New Print Monographs Corner

What exciting new print monographs are on YOUR coffee table or bedside table this summer?

I'm simply crazy for  Zolton Gravlock's new travelogue, Time Traveling Turtles Trapped in the Tiny Turnstiles of Tartulus-2.

This book transported me to Tartulus-2 where, where I  fell in  love with that planet's silver floating cities and had my heart broken at the plight of its poor amphibian time travelers.

It's perfect summer reading for that cottage on Mars or Titan!

faint transmissions from galacitc hub observatory: unidentifed planet

Legacy

This is just to report:
Commander Raganafrozzle-Smith brought five barbie dolls to Mars in 2101 AD.
Centuries later -- after the destruction of planet Earth -- these dolls were discovered by alien anthropologists of the Crab Nebula who concluded that a great and tiny race of blonde humanoids once inhabited the planet.

May the stars be on your back.
Beaming back to the mothership,
Engage...