To celebrate this craziest of Christmassssss I'm re-posting a mix I made for Dandelion Radio in 2011.
This time of year can get my hackles up...a bit....such mindless consumption...I have been known to be a tad cynical about the whole odious affair, but this mix, as the title 'Mr Mucilaginous's Unsentimental But Only Mildly Cynical Zmas Mix' suggests, nay states, is only mildly so.
People Like Us - Chestnuts Ljudit feat. The Toilet - Santas Slaybells Monty Python - Christmas In Heaven Rocket 455 - Santa Ain't Coming For Christmas Sensational Alex Harvey Band - There's No Lights On The Christmas Tree Mother Jeff St. Pierre & Philip Antoniades - Rudolph The Rubber Nosed Reindeer Vulvinia & Jambonstar - Vulvinia Sings Christmas The Pork Boys - Fuck Christmas, Fuck You! Bonzo Dog Band - The Craig Torso Christmas Show The Beatbox Saboteurs - Winter Wunderland Forest King - Santa's Going To Sit On Your Lap Frank Gallagher - Christmas Message Jon Oswald/Gibbons Cry - White Merle Haggard - Blue Christmas John Shuttleworth - The Christmas Orphan The Legendary Tiger Man - Fuck Christmas, I Got The Blues The Dickies - Silent Night The Pilgrim Travellers - I'll Be Home For Christmas The Beatbox Saboteurs - Drummer Boy William Burroughs - Love Your Enemies Bill Frisell - What The World Needs Now Is Love
December's Eclectic Music For Mind And Bodhi is bursting with feeling. I'm calling it Paper Boats after a poem by Rabindranath Tragore. Ostensibly about a childhood game, it is probably better interpreted as a metaphor for the thoughts, words and actions that we launch into the world, ideally without attachment.
As usual, you can download the MP3 directly by clicking this link: EMFAB Decemeber 2020
Alternatively, you can stream it on Mixcloud, here:
Peggy Lee - I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard - Sea Shells - Decca - 1958 Deep Elem - Lost in the Woods - Lost In The Woods - Reveal - 2006 The Weather Station - Way It Is, Way It Could Be - Loyalty - Outside Music - 2015 Saloon - The Good Life - If We Meet In The Future - Track & Field - 2003 Fleetwood Mac - Landslide - Fleetwood Mac - Reprise - 1975 Chip Taylor & The New Ukranians - Fuck All The Perfect People - Fuck All The Perfect People - Train Wreck - 2012 Evie Sands - Any Way That You Want Me - Any Way That You Want Me - A&M - 1970 Joya Landis - Angel Of The Morning - 7” - Trojan - 1968 Shrag - Hopelessly Wasted - demo Kronos Quartet - Which Side Are You On (feat. Lee Knight) - Longtime Passing - Smithsonian Folkways - 2020 Louise Le May - Cassandra - A Tale Untold - Folkwit - 2015 Martin Simpson - Kit’stune/When a Knight Won His Spurs - Prodigal Son - Topic - 2007 Zoppo - Relapse - Don’t Trust Scarred Survivors - Transformed Dreams - 2006 Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Scattered Pearls - Etiquette - Tomlab - 2006 Mashmakhan - Days When We Are Free - Mashmakhan - Columbia - 1970 Thousand & Bramier - By The Moon - The Sway Of Beasts - Arbouse - 2006 Jimmy Scott - Sycamore Trees - Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me - Warner - 1992 The Albion Band - Ampleforth/Lay Me Low - Rise Up Like The Sun - Harvest - 1978 John Prine - Souvenirs - Souvenirs - OhBoy - 2000 Architecture In Helsinki - Souvenirs - Fingers Crossed - Trifekta - 2003 Rebekah Del Rio - No Stars - Twin Peaks (Music From The Limited Event Series) - Rhino - 2018 Judee Sill - Jesus Was A Crossmaker - Judee Sill - Asylum - 1971 Decameron - Journey's End - Third Light - Transatlantic - 1975 Bjork - Hyper-ballad (vocal line only) Richard Thompson - Dimming Of The Day/Dargai - Pour Down Like Silver - Island - 1975
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Paper Boats
This poem by Rabindranath Tragore appeared in a local parish magazine this week. It rather appealed to me as a metaphor for not being attached to our expressions...letting them drift where they may go like paper boats in a stream. So it is with this show.
Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running stream. In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of the village where I live. I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and know who I am. I load my little boats with shiuli flower from our garden, and hope that these blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land in the night. I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the little clouds setting thee white bulging sails. I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down the air to race with my boats! When night comes I bury my face in my arms and dream that my paper boats float on and on under the midnight stars. The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading ins their baskets full of dreams.