The Sentinels Sent A Letter

Many yellow days and many amber nights later, I have picked up the proverbial pen again. Watch the fuck out.

Besides sweeping by many important milestones and desecrating many relentless pie-suckers; I've been busy with two jobs, a looming (in a good way looming) marriage, catching up on shows and movies, the music of Trespassers William, Mark Lanegan, Ben Harper, Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos, Hem, Neko Case and the Perishers has been whispering early morning lullaby's to me. To all you prissy maybe sparrows, the wedding is on October 21st 22nd.

The second job is interesting, gets me in touch with the natural sensei spirit in me. That said, the next post shall hold a marvelous delight for all us from one of the hospital receptionists.

I spent the better part of my surf seeking day looking for Hem's Funnel Cloud today. Not a good thing when you yearn for something so bad. Every page has a good review, every page has a picture; but no zShare, no sendspace, no mediafire, no RAR NO FUN I SAY. So I give to you, my prettys, Hem's Funnel Cloud in all its multi orgasmic Sharebee glory. Thanks to Asim who put up with my relentless pushing the link-ness-ish-tude.



"...For the Brooklyn based Hem, what you initially hear is what you fall in love with—soft melodies, delicate instrumentals, and quiet, detailed musicianship that seems destined to be duplicated over a career..."

Funnel Cloud is the fourth album by folk rock band Hem. I Considered the band's most ambitious work to date, they recorded the album accompanied by a 21-piece orchestra, as well as James Iha of the Smashing Pumpkins.

The concept was conceived on the day of lead singer Sally Ellyson's wedding, during which the party had to evacuate to storm cellars due to a number of tornadoes that touched down in the area.

Track listing
1. "Almost Home"
2. "Barcarolle"
3. "The Burnt"-Over District
4. "Curtains"
5. "Funnel Cloud"
6. "Great Houses of New York"
7. "He Came to Meet Me"
8. "Hotel Fire"
9. "I'll Dream of You Tonight"
10. "Not California"
11. "Old Adam"
12. "The Pills Stopped Working"
13. "Reservoir"
14. "Too Late to Turn Back Now"
15. "We'll Meet Along the Way"


Download via Sharebee



You can now download lots of Dye Corduroy Mp3s from http://dyecorduroy.4shared.com

For the insolent ones, Dye Corduroy is my baby. And with more than 60 new songs I've yet to lay down, this space shall be the bohemian whorehouse that shall overcome the military masturbation that your life has become. One song at a time.


Last night I saw a Natalie Portman movie Goya's Ghosts. I seriously recommend this movie to any and all who like 19th century an 17th century movies set with the masteries of modern cinema. Natalie Portman in the last 3/4ths of the movie is ravishingly brilliant in her projection of a jaded, paranoid, tormented soul... I won't give away more.

Chronology Methodology

Along the autobahns of wasted mileage with colliding causeways of amiss, times passed me by. Here is a feeble attempt to catch up:

Feb 25th: Mr. Dye C got engaged. Please say hello to Mrs. Dye C

Erm, thats about it: I have been recording a lot of english songs, the last few being At Your Meridian, Darla's Summer, The Broken Dream Collective, Masterplans and Mezzanines.

FUH-REAK

Go to www.myspace.com/dyecorduroy and give them a spin... BDC and Masterplans will be uploaded there shortly.

And THAT was my huge update...

Try not to *dwell* on it.

The Shepard of My Despair (mp3 post)

Without any further delays let me unleash the two new tracks upon you feeble fumbling critters.

Mp3 - Dye Corduroy - Darla's Summer

Mp3 - Dye Corduroy - At Your Meridian

P.S. - If the songs are not downing, please head to the Dye Cordroy MySpace page to download the new tracks: www.myspace.com/dyecorduroy

Darla's Summer is a slap-yo-momma/alt-country-ish ditty while At Your Meridian is a velvety-dystopic-love-song. Very different in styles.

Lyrics - Darla's Summer

Hey Darla come on out, come on out let's play
I'll shelter you from daylight; pushing into greys
You don't have to walk on water; don't have to stray
I'll pick you out some peaches; we'll run around till late

And all the while you are here
The shepard of my despair

And Theresa's endless summer has ended
And Theresa's endless summer has ended

Did someone say I loved her? Nah: It must've been the wind


Hey Darla seven up, touch me and i'm there
I'll paint the green of envy; breach the atmosphere
Hey Darla kiss the sunshine; poison all the queer
Your lips whisper trembling, apocalyptic fears

You raise the bar and i'm there
Gangway coz' i'm coming up for air


And Theresa's endless summer has ended
And Theresa's endless summer has ended

Did someone say I loved her? Nah: It must've been the wind
Conceive the perfect murder; the alibi you bring

The soul has colossal impossible blackholes to tame
With sunspots and planets that have never been named
You spin like a wheel in the face of a careless mistake
The stars in your eyes; revolve; evolve and refrain


Lyrics - At Your Meridian

I know lately; we seem to be flying
But I've been thinking with a straight mind
Swear i'm thinking with a straight mind
Consequently; things have been fine
I've been walking down a straight line
Swear I'm walking down a straight line

These have been the only words that I wrote
You have been the only truth I spoke
Mine has been a lonely kind of road
Will you take a drive? Will you take drive?
Will you take a drive?

I've had waited, all of this time
To sing about the world on decline
In the panoply of these lines
You have baited, now reel in my rhymes
For you i'd rather steal the sunshine
At your meridian of fair crimes

This has been the only thought in my head
Will you run or will you play instead?
I will chase you down the palisades
Won't you be mine? Won't you be mine?
Won't you be mine?

All day long, all i hear is how happiness disappears
But I know if you stay, you will persuade my fears
In your world, i would be - the only war of peace
And I'd stand, take the fall - be the timbre of your speech

Pledge my Grievance to the Flag

If the cyclops dreams of yesteryear were any indication: it's really become a boggy marsh or political peasantry. It's a shame. Start digging underground to kick in the ostrich's face. FEH !

This is just a sick sad carousel ride that I will be continuously throwing wrenches in the works of. I shall be uploading the two new tracks "At Your Meridian" and "Darla's Summer" come next post.

p.s. I am back (for the 13th time).

Lines, Longitudes and Laments ... (Mp3 post)

So then, the new Dye Corduroy track is finally up. Download it, read the lyrics, read the post-mortem and dilly-dally it in your aural minefield. It's called Inn Lakeeroan Mein... and this is its eulogy:

Originally written on an acoustic guitar in 2004 and recorded last month. In the key of F#min. Classified as alterna-rock in-yo-face-urdu that your mainstream bands yearn to create :P

Verse 1: This is the part where the character in question, being commented on by yours truly in third person is seeking refuge in the lame shadow he himself casts; ignorance ... then he goes on to dive in the sea of cynicism by criticizing the map of his own body, mind and soul... the card that was dealt to him and not realizing that he is the one who has to play the hand. The pallisades of the distance ahead muddled by many like himself, in and around eachother. An orgy of self-knit illusions.

Chorus: He has left out his dreams to yellow in the sun. I want him to find solace and shelter in the words that he has forgotten ... i want him to search for answers in his past so that the future is not a mirage of hope and thus faded glory but a fortress of fortitude.

Verse 2: This verse mainly describes the norms of the society and the government and the authorities and the mentors and the teachers and the architects of the disarray ... they have made you a slave to their own set traditions, and fate becomes the looming and impending cloud of doom that spews fire on the ignorant. Ominous. Those very norms that became the follies of the soul... and engulf you and me in hatred.

This person is you. This person is me.

And in the bridge/outro I confess and call myself as witness and as victim and as tyrant:

Bridge: I confess I have nothing, just lies and false anticipations. But I do have dreams, and I want someone who can dream with me...


All lyrics, music, vocals and foreplay by Adil Salik.

Download: Dye Corduroy - Inn Lakeeraon Mein (Mp3)

INN LAKEERAON MEIN

Verse 1

Apnay aks say jo dhoonday pannah yeh; ghaflat mein
Apnay naqsh mein jo dhoonday khata yeh wehshat mein
Faaslon ko dekhay jab hain yeh parday ankhon pay
Jinn ko bunn kay, zulm chunn keh, woh hai betha zehnoon mein

Chorus

Dhoop mein rang badaltay sapnay hain
Saaya paao unn lafzoon mein
Jo bhool chukkay ho bhool
Apnay maazee mein hain jawab
Mustaqbil kiyon ho saraab

Verse 2

Silsilooan mein jo sulagta dhamakta baadal hai
Aag barsaayey uss bay khabar pai jo qail hai
Inn lakeeron kay jo rooh kee khata khud ban bikhray
Nafratoon mein jab yeh saara zamaana hai duuubay

Chorus
Dhoop mein rang badaltay sapnay hain

Saaya paao unn lafzoon mein

Jo bhool chukkay ho bhool

Apnay maazee mein hain jawab

Mustaqbil kiyon ho saraab

Bridge/Outro

Mayrey paas kuch bhee naheen
Jhootee ikk aas behtee rahee
Mayrey saath koi to hoo
Ankhon mein jiss kay ikk khwab ho...

Tomorrow On The Runway ...

Today’s favorite pre-fix is: CIRCUM

You don’t have to peel your eyes to see how circumstance has circumcised the circumscribed architects of moral misdemeanors without giving an aorta of a chance to circumvent the inertia of impending doom.

In other news: watch this space for a link to download the new Dye Corduroy track Inn Lakeeroan Mein

Insouciantly yours: The penancemongerrockstarfromretributorysolace

Finally recording again ...

Me in a music shop
Originally uploaded by DyeCorduroy.

Hey ...

The pedal's back... I'm finally recording again... Umme rocks and the weekend is tooooo far... *bittersweet-ambivalent-meloncholy-shudder*

Taipei Dreams

Taipei Dreams
Originally uploaded by DyeCorduroy.

Furiously quivering airports of Taipei were serene with the industrial lull of the din of the modern machines and the crisp air. Not moreso else was I reminded of the contrast than at the point this picture was taken ... at the Tryst in Vegas.

Cascading Fountains of Wishful Waters

Monte - Cascading Fountains in Wishing
Originally uploaded by DyeCorduroy.

Outside the Monte Carlo - did NOT throw a single quarter in there.

( mainly coz i knew i had what i wanted and i didn't want any one/thing else more )

Mirror on the strip

Mirrored Horizon - Strip
Originally uploaded by DyeCorduroy.

Here is a view of the strip from a Wynn hotel room window

Dart for my Sweetheart

This ephemeral Friday was marked with a corporate goulash of dwindling sensibilities and lechery beyond treason. You tend to find out so much about people is so little time. They do their own strip-show in front of an audience and the sight is so godforsaken that on a good day you would bleed with empathy but not today. Not this Friday.

I will here onwards be chronicling my US trip with photos and little anecdotes about Vegas, Oakland, San Francisco and San Diego.

The set presented here above are scenes from the Vegas strip – its way over the head yet people, pimps and playthings congregate to resonate in collective orgasm amidst the lights, glitz, glamour and the dollar shops down the strip. The Wynn, the Venetian, the Bellagio, Caesar’s Palace, Treasure Island, MGM, Monte Carlo and what not. Civil structures of civil fuckdom. Enjoy.

Pissed off at the Vistas

What good is it to be so disarmingly pretentious that you cannot even admit to your own self that you've finally found happiness - or are you going to pretend to be bored with it? That WOULD be the fashionably sensitive thing to do --- FEH

If i weren't so consumed by the corporate maladies that reverberate through the stupid song stuck in my head everyday I would prolly blog a lot more, record a lot more and live a lot more - can't love a lot more though ... go figure .. umm...

Anywho... so if you think you're happy, let yourself be. And if you're not go buy my record. The one I didnt release yet. OR go listen to the following list of songs which are playing constantly in my head/car/bed :


Alanis Morissette – Your house
Ali Azmat - Mangagun
Ali Azmat - Na Rey Na
Ben Folds – Give Judy My Notice
Bic Runga – Get Some Sleep
Bic Runga – When I See You Smile
Bruce Springsteen - Cover Me
Chris Isaak - Go Walking Down There
Counting Crows - A Murder of One
Counting Crows - Angels of the Silences
Counting Crows - She Don't Want Nobody Near
Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night
Dashboard Confessional - As Lovers Go
Dashboard Confessional - I'll See You There
Death Cab for Cutie - Title and Registration
Del Amitri - Driving With The Brakes On
Del Amitri - Tell Her This
Dye Corduroy - Aik Dafa Ka Zikr Thaa ...
Eisley - Telescope Eyes
Foo Fighters – Best of You
Foo Fighters – D.O.A
Foo Fighters – No Way Back
Foo Fighters - Resolve
Foo Fighters - What if I Do?
Garrison Star - Black and White
Garrison Star - Kansas City, Kansas
Giant Drag - Kevin is Gay
Giant Drag - Slayer
Goo Goo Dolls - Become
Goo Goo Dolls – Better Days
Goo Goo Dolls - Can’t Let It Go
Goo Goo Dolls – Let Love In
Goo Goo Dolls - Stay With You
Goo Goo Dolls – We’ll be Here (when youre gone)
Goo Goo Dolls – Without You Here
Jack's Mannequin - Into The Airwaves
Jack's Mannequin - Kill The Messenger
Jack's Mannequin - La La Lie
Jack's Mannequin - Last Straw
Jacks Mannequin - Rescued
Jack's Mannequin - The Lights and Buzz
Jacks mannequin- Dark Blue
Jacks mannequin- Holiday from real
Jacks mannequin- I’m ready
Jacks mannequin- Lonely for her
Jacks Mannequin- Miss Delaney
Jacks mannequin- Mixed Tape
Jacks_mannequin - Bruised
Jewel - 1000 Miles Away
Jewel - Drive To You
Jewel - Foolish Games
Jewel - Satellite
Jewel - Stephenville, Tx
Jimmy Eat World - 23
Jimmy Eat World - Work
Josh Rouse - Streetlights
Josh Rouse - Under Your Charms
Junoon - Muk Gaye Nay
Junoon - Pehli Lagan
Junoon - Rooh Ki Pyaas
Katheleen Edwards – In State
Kings of Convenience - Homesick
Little Willies - Easy As The Rain
Little Willies - It's Not You It's Me
Little Willies - Roll On
Little Willies - Streets of Baltimore
Live - Heaven
Live - Nights of Nights
Live - The River
Live - Where Do We Go From Here
Muse - Time Is Running Out
Nada Surf - If You Leave
Nada Surf - Inside Of Love
Noori - Meray Log
OK Go – Maybe this time
Pearl Jam - Come Back
Pearl Jam - Gone
Pearl Jam - Home
Pearl Jam - Life Wasted
Pearl Jam - Parachutes
Pearl Jam - Severed Hand
Pearl Jam - World Wide Suicide
Placebo – Follow the Cops Back Home
Placebo - Infra-red
Placebo – Meds (feat – Alison Mosshart)
Placebo – Post blue
Plumb - Damaged
R.E.M. - E-bow the Letter
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Charlie
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Death Of A Martian
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hard To Concentrate
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Hey
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Made You Feel Better
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Slow Cheetah
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow ((Hey Oh))
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Wet Sand
Rhett Miller - Help Me, Suzanne
Rilo Kiley – Portions for Foxes
Ryan Adams - Dear Chicago
Sara Mclachlan - Angel
Sarah McLachlan - I Will Not Forget you
Sarah McLachlan - Ice Cream
Sinead O`Connor - Tiny Grief Song
Something Corporate - As You Sleep
Something Corporate - I Won't Make You
Something Corporate - Miss America
Something Corporate - The Runaway
Something Corporate – Watch the Sky
Stars - Your Ex-lover Is Dead
Stereophonics - Dakota
Teddy Tompson - Seperate Ways
Tegan & Sara - Walking With A Ghost
The Innocence Mission - Where Does The Time Go
The Little Willies - Roly Poly
The Mighty Lynchpins - Can't Get Worse
The Mighty Lynchpins - Fast Train to Oakland
The Smiths - Girlfriend In A Coma
The Smiths – There is a Light that never goes out
The Smiths- Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale
Tori Amos - Power of Orange Knickers
Tori Amos - Strange
Tori Amos - Wednesday
Vanessa Carlton - White houses
Wilco - Thirteen