The songs that comprise the Issa's Sunday Service list need to contain a direct reference to some element which most people would agree is literary in nature. Some bands, whose subject matter is literary in tone or style, don't necessarily base their work on a literary precursor or make direct allusion to something literary and so don't make the list. On occasion decidedly un-artsy bands make the list because of a specific allusion to some well-known literary fact.
Today's entry is at once literate and un-artsy. Among recent bands, Arctic Monkeys definitely have a way with words and, if not strictly literary in tone, they are most definitely sharp. They manage to be smart and pop-ish at the same time, no mean feat. Today's song,"A Certain Romance," contains a simple name drop: Sherlock Holmes, one my favorite literary characters. So the song's in. Enjoy.
And, oh, yeah, as a live band they bring it. Watch.
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This week two poems come from Lilliput Review, #131 (an issue featured twicepreviously), which shared the same page since they riffed on a particular image or, more precisely, a particular portion of the visible spectrum. Ah-hem.
Issa, too, has something to say about it. Enjoy.
behind the
shack-up
joint
leaves
reddened
Scott Watson
their red door
of correct feng shui
always locked
Ayaz Daryl Nielsen
downstream, the gate
to knowledge...
evening's red leaves
Click on image to enlarge, wait a few moments, mouse over the right side of screen, click to flip pages (or simply click images at bottom), hit escape to return
I just recently rediscovered Issuu (thanks Melissa, at the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy), where you can publish your documents. It has this neat flip-the-pages feature that mimics the reading experience, sort of. Above is a scan I did - actually multiple scans - of issue #160.
Here's a second issue, #161:
I'm still working on improving the quality of the scan, but this is certainly an interesting way to go in terms of providing samples for poets thinking of submitting work. I've connected up both of these issues to the archive and, since I have no idea what the archive and the Lilliput homepage is going to look like after the imminent changeover to Google Sites from Google Pages, where they are located now, this may be the way I go to archive in the future. Here's where the documents are stored on Issuu.
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Because it's Friday, here's a little bit of pure fun, coming your way Christmas Day, 2009.
And for those who just need a good old fashioned Friday afternoon dose, here is a 1 hour piece by the birthday lad, Sun Ra, on one of his terrestrial stopovers on the never ending intergalactic tour, which, of course, continues long after his translation to another plane.
awaiting the stars--
even a turtle cools
his behind
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