Where the long shadows fall

Thursday, December 3, 2009



Where the long shadows fall



though i walk through valley after valley after valley
and find only shadows
though i walk and find only shadow
the sun falls behind the yew bushes
i young in different shapes stand next to them
the old chapel is to my right
the shadows then lengthen and there again the long shadows fall

when i saw the shadows and starres fall around me..
as a boy
i knew this world
all we see
be
and are
is imperium
Empire of Nothing

Sanvean

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Fjöll Í Austri Fagurblá

Wednesday, November 18, 2009





Fjöll í austri fagurblá
freista dalabarnsins.
Ungur fylgir æskuþrá
upp til jökulhjarnsins.

Sveimað heimahögum frá
hef ég vors á degi,
víða stíða þræddi þá
þunga hraunavegi.

Heiðin breiða hugumkær
hvetur viljann ofar.
Leiðin seiðir, fráum fær,
fögrum sýnum lofar.

Gangan sækist öruggt enn
urðarróti móti.
Einatt hlutu heiðamenn
höggvinn fót á grjóti.

Hver, sem ofar á að ná,
einskis metið getur
þótt í fangið fái sá
fjúk og hretið betur.

Anda heitum yndi nóg
unaðsreitir geyma.
Seinna leitar þráin þó
þinna sveita heima.

Tranclation from here: http://forums.skadi.net/showthread.php?t=42532

Wonderful blue mountains in the East
luring the children of the dale.
Following the juvenile longing
Up to the glacier’s top.

Floating I was from my home
On a spring day
Small paths I went over
Pathless lava.

The beloved wide heathland
Spured my will to get up high
The enchanting way, safe to walk,
Promising a great view.

Safe the walk goes on
Through raw rocks.
Always wanderer got injured
On this rocks.

Everyone who can get higher
This will not bother
Even when hard wind blows in his face
And hail storms are coming down.

The plagued mind will be rewarded
By the loveliness offered by resting places.
But later the yearning calls
you back to your home.

Steindór Andersen (singing) and Sigur Rós, from the album "Rimur" (2001)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009











Clan of Xymox, from the album "Medusa" (1986)

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Я не много понимаю в поэзии, и редко попадаются стихи, которые действительно близки, и тем приятней их находить:
http://tiny-voice.livejournal.com/

Не беспокойся, не пускай слюни
У нас все будет хорошо
Все у нас будет
Достопримечательно
Привито
С аккуратным гравием вокруг наших речей
С белыми бордюрами вдоль наших прикосновений
С ослепительными сказками
С удивительными глазками
Наших котов
Наших дверей
Наших скупых откровений


Белый Бим
Беглый шум
Надежда в кульке навынос
Продление жизни на десять немыслимых кадров
На полках – изобилие
В головах – сироп и кисель
И забвение в потайных кармашках
Отчуждение в чрезвычайных экранах
Да хранит нас огонь
Во имя себя, и близких, и бродячих туфель


Я бы тронул рукою
Гладь невозможную
Неописуемую тишину
Непобедимую дремоту
Неистощимую надежду на подарки
Неистребимое желание борьбы с пространством
Мы висим, как рубашка на теле
Читаем новости, смотрим телик
Вгрызаемся зубами в календарь
Поднимаем якоря, заползаем в космос
Нещадно движемся навстречу времени, словам, губам, тележкам с картошкой
Во тьме теряем след
И носом не ведем, когда пора
Когда уже полна жопа
Когда уже поздно свистеть сквозь невечные зубы
Дымовые трубы
Играют зашторенный марш


Спустись ко мне
Сгори в моей груди
Будь моим сердцем
Стань моим донором, ну же!
Покури, соберись, и войди
В зал из невиданных красок
В терем из сосудов и артерий
В храм из вывернутого настежь нутра
Видишь зеленый? Пора!
Беги по полоскам
Заткнись и беги
С глазами и без них
С ушами навыпуск
С языком на взводе
С метелью внутри
И всегда и ваще
И не плачь

Dear Darkness

Thursday, September 24, 2009





Dear darkness
Dear darkness
Won't you cover, cover
Me again?

Dear darkness
Dear
I've been your friend
For many years

Won't you do this for me?
Dearest darkness
And cover me from the sun

And the words tightening
The words are tightening
Around my throat

And, and...

Around the throat of the one I love
Tightening, tightening, tightening
Around the throat of the one I love
Tightening, tightening, tightening

Dear darkness
Dear darkness
Now it's your time to look after us
'Cause we kept you clothed
We kept in business
When everyone else was having good luck

So now it's your time
Time to pay
To pay me and the one I love
With the worldly goods you've stashed away
With all the things you
Took from us


P.J. Harvey, from the album "White Chalk" (2007)

A Most Peculiar Man




He was a most peculiar man.
That's what Mrs. Riordan said and she should know;
She lived upstairs from him
She said he was a most peculiar man.

He was a most peculiar man.
He lived all alone within a house,
Within a room, within himself,
A most peculiar man.

He had no friends, he seldom spoke
And no one in turn ever spoke to him,
'Cause he wasn't friendly and he didn't care
And he wasn't like them.
Oh, no! he was a most peculiar man.

He died last Saturday.
He turned on the gas and he went to sleep
With the windows closed so he'd never wake up
To his silent world and his tiny room;
And Mrs. Riordan says he has a brother somewhere
Who should be notified soon.
And all the people said, "What a shame that he's dead,
But wasn't he a most peculiar man?"


Kings of Convenience, from live at Passionskirche, Berlin, 12 August 2004
Simon And Garfunkel cover

Gold in the air of summer

Wednesday, September 23, 2009







*..You'll shine like gold in the air of the summer..*




Kings of Convenience, from live in Rome, Italy, May 2001

Leaning against the wall

Tuesday, September 22, 2009





Your eyes are cold
I know you'll tell me all

Not to fall I lean against the wall

I'm on the floor
Not listening anymore

I should have known
The things to which you're prone
(You cross your arms
And tell no lies
A thousand thoughts run
Through my mind
A thousand words that I don't need
I never thought you could do this)

I should have known
The things to which you're prone
(You cross your arms
And tell no lies
A thousand thoughts run
Through my mind
A thousand words that I don't need
I never thought you could do this)

Your eyes are cold
I know you'll tell me all
Not to fall
I lean against the wall


Kings of Convenience, from the album "Quiet Is The New Loud" (2003)

"Found songs"

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Iceland:)

my photo is in a booklet of Ólafur Arnalds's new album "Found songs":)
Day I, Erla's Waltz
Here are some photos of CD and Vinyl booklets:





lovely tee, Ólafur sent to me as well:)

Riverdeadbank

Thursday, September 3, 2009







Like dust
I'm lost in the world
I thought that I had
Had a place
Between the heavens and the earth
Between the starred sky

I feel the crunch of dirt
I smell the scent of flowers
My aimless feet
To be in the world
And not a part of it
That's the aim of the pain
That's the aim
I'm sorry that there seems
No happiness in life
I'm sorry that there seems
No one

Passing streams
Dying dreams
There seems to be no joy
There seems to be no joy

You cannot see the ships sailing
You cannot see the sails sailing
Amassing as Christ on the horizon
Outstretched
Outstretched...


Current 93, from the album "Thunder Perfect Mind" (1992)

Mary

Monday, August 31, 2009





Do you recognize me
Here on this sleeper train
And do you feel the pain
Growing into the night, Mary
And I can feel the taste
Of your third birthday cake
Remember how it was
To hold you into my arms, Mary
It was there
The summer lights around
I was there
His hand upon my knees
And we're gone
Across these sunny streets
And we're gone
The day you died, Mary
And we go faster now
Together throught the fields
Here on this sleeper train
And I can touch your face, Mary
The precious things we've done
Hidden under my skin
I let you sleep a while
I let you sleep a while, Mary
It was there
The summer lights around
I was there
His hand upon my knees
And we're gone
Across this sunny streets
And we're gone
The day you died, Mary


Yann Tiersen, "Mary", vocal by Elizabeth Fraser
from the album "Les Retrouvailles" (2005)