Philip Tuley - Cohen and others

Clouds

Undir Köldum Norðurljósum

Svört Augu

Taking it back to the classic Ghostown sound 🏴‍☠️ 
Stopping a pirate can be dangerous to your health
Stopping a pirate can be dangerous to your health

Running running
Shunning gunning
Grinning winning
Binning sailing into
Battle battle
Dodging arrows
Leather saddle
Dancing shadows got you
Running running
Shunning gunning
Grinning winning
Binning sailing into
Battle battle
Dodging arrows
Leather saddle
Dancing shadows

Le Chuck whisky tango
Lone range Rambo
Monkeys and mangoes
Strung up like a banjo
Look and you can go
Cover every angle
Wild boar wrangle
Cannibal scandal
Pirates and vandals
Sharp sword handle
White beard Gandalf
Flip flop sandals
Woodwind band blow
Light another candle
Tree quango wangle
Two fingered Django
Front carrot dangles
Shambolic shambles
Lies entangled
Wrapped round your ankles
Network dismantle
Take another gamble
Learn by example
Shoot no preamble

Running running
Shunning gunning
Grinning winning
Binning sailing into
Battle battle
Dodging arrows
Leather saddle
Dancing shadows got you
Running running
Shunning gunning
Grinning winning
Binning sailing into
Battle battle
Dodging arrows
Leather saddle
Dancing shadows

Run make a beeline
Stop when you see the sign
Banquet divine
Two beers three wines
Stop the daily grind
Take a pause unwind
Go let's rewind
See who's behind
Why can't you see blind?
Must read between lines
Oh what did we find?
Heard it through the G vine
Be first be primed
Take the gold we mined
Hold up a He shrine
Foxed by the felines
Society decline
Wide web entwine
In a box confine
Push back the goal lines
Don't trust the headlines
Truth is redefined
Define Cloud nine
Everything is now mine

Running running
Shunning gunning
Grinning winning
Binning sailing into
Battle battle
Dodging arrows
Leather saddle
Dancing shadows got you
Running running
Shunning gunning
Grinning winning
Binning sailing into
Battle battle
Dodging arrows
Leather saddle
Dancing shadows

Stopping a pirate can be dangerous to your health
Stopping a pirate can be dangerous to your health

Lechuck's Lament

This is my favorite recording thus far. The poem was written while on the Amazon River in Peru. Thank you for listening!

All Is Sacred

Copyright Erin Wolf 2025
"I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here"

Song A Week - Week 32

Photo from & Song recorded in Random Lake, WI, August 2025

rain is comin' 
mosquitos biting
cicadas singing in the night
wind is hummin' 
thunder growling
i can't sleep for it all

'cuz i don't know
what i'm doing here
no, i don't know 
what i'm doing here

on the porch just sitting
waiting on somethin'
trying to figure it all out
lightning bugs are gigglin'
the dogs are howling
and the children running 'round 'til the street lights come on

i still don't know 
why i'm here
no, I still don't know 
what i'm doing here

oooh the tales and stories
coming down along the way
i don't know where we're going now
i guess we'll face the day either way

hot summer nights
dew drops ringing
every footstep's echoing
do i stay or do i
run away
try to find what it is i'm doing here

I Don't Know What I'm Doing Here

Voice of Georges Perec (1936-1982) 
Excerpts from ‘Je me souviens’ (Paris: Hachette, 1978)
Recorded for Radio France in 1978
Image: Monsieur Perec’s cat

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Quelques extraits de ‘Je me souviens’

Je me souviens que mon oncle avait une 11 CV immatriculée 7070 RL2.

Je me souviens du cinéma Les Agriculteurs, et des fauteuils club du Camera, et des sièges à deux places du Panthéon.

Je me souviens de Lester Young au Club Saint-Germain; il portait un complet de soie bleu avec une doublure de soie rouge.

Je me souviens de Ronconi, de Brambilla et de Jéus Moujica; et de Zaaf, l’éternel « lanterne rouge ».

Je me souviens qu'Art Tatum appela un morceau Sweet Lorraine parce qu’il avait été en Lorraine pendant la guerre de l4-l8.

Je me souviens du « tac tac ».

Je me souviens d'un Anglais manchot qui battait tout le monde au ping-pong à Château d'Oex.

Je souviens de Ploum ploum tra la la.

Je souviens qu'un ami de mon cousin Henri restait toute la journée en robe de chambre quand il préparait ses examens.

Je me souviens du Citoyen du Monde Garry Davis. Il tapait à la machine sur la place du Trocadéro.

Je me souviens des parties de barbu aux Petites-Dalles.

Je me souviens des Trois Evêchés: Metz, Toul et Verdun.

Je me souviens du pain jaune qu'il y a eu pendant quelque temps après la guerre.

Je me souviens des premiers « flippers »: justement, ils n’avaient pas de flippers.

Je me souviens des vieux numéros de L’Illustration.

Je me souviens des aiguilles en acier, et des aiguilles en bambou, que l'on aiguisait sur un frottoir après chaque disque.

Je me souviens qu’au « Monopoly », l’avenue de Breteuil est verte, l’avenue Henri-Martin rouge et l’avenue Mozart orange.

Je me souviens de …

…

“These ‘I remembers’, of which a number were published in les Cahiers du Chemin (no. 26, January 1976) were put together between January 1973 and June 1977. The principle is straightforward: to attempt to unearth a memory that is almost forgotten, inessential, banal, common, if not to everyone, at least to many. These memories for the most part belong to the period when I was between 10 and 25, that is between 1946 and 1961. When I evoke memories from before the war, they refer for me to a period belonging to the realm of myth: this explains how a memory can be ‘objectively’ false.”

Georges Perec

The Partisan

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