SUNDAY POETRY II

I’d hate to turn this into some kind of Doc40 tradition, because this site is really not at all about traditions, but since I started it last week, I figure I’ll do it again. I’m not 100% certain if this is a poem or a song lyric. Andy Colquhoun, who lately I have, through force of rotten circumstances, been neglecting abominably, composed the music for it, and we tried it out with me doing a kind of David Bowie Wild Is The Wind vocal, but my pitch over some of the changes was so fucking dubious and unlovely that we kinda put to one side, and haven’t really looked at it since. Here it is in print, and it rhymes, it’s a light piece, hardly Howl, but you decide. It’s called...

Naked Radio

Silence is the quality in this apartment
The only sound in this room is from below
An open window lower down the airshaft
A woman listening to the naked radio

Listening to the naked radio
Chained and listening to the naked radio

An announcer tells her Lucifer is falling
Is it truth or just part of the show?
Believe it at your sweet peril, darling
What they say on the naked radio

Listening to the naked radio
Are you believing the naked radio?

Did you hear about the Martian invasion?
They were here but then they had to go
Far too many people got the warning
That was broadcast on the naked radio

Listening to the naked radio
To the Martians on the naked radio

Silence is the quality in this apartment
The only sound in this room is from below
An open window lower on the airshaft
A woman listening to the naked radio

Listening to the naked radio
Chained and listening to the naked radio

FROM THE EMAIL

Along with much personal, stuff Michael Moorcock writes that after all these years a deal has been signed for an Elric movie...

Since a piece appeared last week in USA Today, it probably isn't very secret about the movie! :) The Weitz brothers are young, hip and very literate and I finally gave in and sold Elric because I trust them to do a good job. LOTR of course has helped studios see the potential in such things.

For more on Moorcock try...
http://www.eclipse.co.uk/sweetdespise/moorcock/

QUIZ

And since it’s Sunday, how about another nice quiz when tired of the Sunday papers? With all this talk of cults and cannibals on the comments board, what better than...

How Would You Murder?
http://quizilla.com/users/sethlyp/quizzes/how%20would%20you%20Murder?

YANCEY SLIDE

And if you still don’t have anything better to do, go over to Funtopia and check out the online serial Slide On The Run. (Just hit the homepage and follow the flashing links.)

CRYPTIQUE – It’s just a hungry feeling.