Cocteau Twin(s) Peak

Somehow the Cocteau Twins make music that matches Twin Peaks in an eerie way. We have now seen the first season of this great TV show, and am looking forward to more after that 7th episode cliff-hanger. My colleague at work today told me I should watch Blue Velvet as well. Stranger that Mulholland Dr., apparently, but no Laura Harring in that one.

There was a Cocteaufest in Toronto, whereat they played Cocteau Twins music all night, as a sort of tribute. I attended, but unfortunately it was very empty, so I left again to wander around, and found out Seekers Bookstore is opened everyday till midnight!! This bookstore is wonderful, because it has great second-hand books and an esoteric section. I bought a number of books (listed below), and then went back to the Cocteaufest, bought a beer and proceeded to read William Blake, who of course wrote 'the Sick Rose', to which I've already treated you ~ so now I shall give you 'And did those feet in Ancient Time', a cricket song these days (so I've heard, under the name 'Jerusalem'), but originally an anti-industrialism/ anti-commerce/ anti-empire/ anti-war pro-naturalize poem. I'm sure William Blake would not appreciate the way the English have raped his work, them that did not recognize his greatness when he needed it the most. Great engraver he was, as well.

And did those feet in Ancient Time

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold:
Bring me my arrows of desire:
Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire.

I will not cease from mental fight,
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land.

Books I bought:

* William Blake ~ Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

* Emily Dickinson ~ collection of poems by Everyman Library.

* Thomas Hardy ~ Under the Greenwood Tree.

* Toni Morrison ~ Song of Solomon (Nobel Prize winner).

* Starhawk ~ The Spiral Dance (20th anniversary edition).