love bite: let's talk about vampires.💋

There isn't a particular reason for me to be writing yet another post on this lovely Wednesday , 

and THAT was the exact moment when I realized, that I was in fact NOT writing on a Wednesday, but on Thursday night! 

Oh dear time, you and your sneaky ways... It is now Saturday night (yes, I checked), and in honor of the recurring fang-tastic vampire-themed dreams I've been having the past few nights, I hereby present my top 5 songs (atm) that remind me of vampires. 

1. Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode BUT performed by Anberlin : such a SEXY song and I am not sorry for saying it!!! Vampires dancing around and biting necks, simply SO blissful! This tune's connection to tonight's theme is thanks to Season 1, Ep. 6 of The Vampire Diaries, Damon and Vicki dancing will forever be memorable, k?
2. This Wheel's On Fire covered by Siouxsie & The Banshees : please tell me you hear the vampiresque nature of SJB's (a.k.a Siouxsie Sioux) singing... The guitar arrangements along with the synths + her voice + the lyricssss = please BITE ME.

3. DLZ by TV on the Radio : I can't quite explain why, but most of TVOTR's songs remind me of vampires. This one isn't necessarily up there on my list, but it's a good enough pick to introduce you to TVOTR. Perhaps TVD's use of their songs on the show helped influence a lot of my choices, but I think that even if you disconnect the two, this band's music has a fabulous somber/sexy energy (much like vampires do!).

4. Bela Lugosi is Dead by Bauhaus : I once read a Youtube comment written by some guy named Scott Jefferson (shoutout to Scotty), whom said, and I quote "I remember listening to Bauhaus before Goth was a thing.  We called it Vampire Punk back then."; THANK YOU Scott for reassuring me that this banger (and other Bauhaus' tunes) are vamp-adjacent.

5. You're My Lover Now by The Teeth : perhaps the band's name contributed a big chunk to my association between fangs and this song, but I can just imagine a smoking hot count Dracula (which BY THE WAY, go read up on the real Dracula, Vlad Tepes, uncultured swines), trying to flirt/romance somebody despite his obvious lack of social skills and/or tact! Either way, the little screams + the guitar instantly bring me to that mental space.

lines i cannot shake

 And when the ghostly dust of violence traces everything ~ circles by soul coughing

Yours is the cloth, mine is the hand that sews time ~ all my love by led zep

Dumb luck is only the luck I ever knew

I'd make a wish but I don't think it'd ever come true

Dandelion, I guess I'll leave it up to you - dandelion by charlotte gainsbourg

Who'll come and bless them in the middle of the sea?

With the winds-a-blowing right to the bone

When the pipes are calling, will you take our bodies home? - rest by syd matters

 

you found me!

After an intense staring contest with this **blank and annoying** page, my nit-picking brain decided it was time. I was ready to finally launch this blog... You see, the main conflict resided in what the correct introduction to this silly little website would be, but, perhaps that's what kept me from embarking on this journey for SO LONG. 

It's funny how mocked you can feel when that blank page and blinking cursor tease you, as you rummage through the clutter of ideas you yearn to share with the world. 

Anyway, I digress! This is the official welcome to all of the following folks: 

• fellow poets
• melomaniacs
• lovers of cringe (both cringing at things, and BEING cringeworthy)
• my dear friends of course
• Sal Vulcano (i know you're out there Sal)
• perhaps even my  s o u l   m a t e    happens to stumble upon this, in which case, hey, nice to meet you, come here often? ;-)

I write with too many commas, my thoughts will often be inside jokes that crack me up (that probably only I would understand), and I could probably talk about music until you no longer bear to listen to me.

You've been warned.

In this blog you will find a variety of poems (written by yours truly unless stated otherwise), song recommendations along with my commentary on said picks, photo dumps, passages from books or other reading materials I enjoy, completely miscellaneous posts filled with truly DUMB contents, and more... Some entries will be written like this one, with a tinge of irony. Some entries will be a tad more personal, and might be on the verge of oversharing. I do not want to box myself into a specific style, and I won't, so be prepared and expect the unexpected :-)

inspired by the fear of being average,

eureka!