We are all magicians, eventually.
No puffs of smoke, stolen identities, or trips down the Liffey
just a gradual fade.
The wand carves a corkscrew and a little piece vanishes
like undoing a puzzle
until you can see the light through the holes.
You shouldn't fuss.
Things must be left behind.
The next payment, the next electric bill
those are hungry mouths, you know.
The audience is spellbound as
a passion is abandoned
a dream interred
a certain laugh falls silent forever.
They sit uneasy as the wand clatters to the floor.
We are all magicians, eventually.
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Daniel Bradbury
Big fan of long walks in the woods, rye Manhattans, Spanish literature, jazz, and vinyl records.
Lover of all things creepy and crawly.
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In the middle of a crowded street, I stand, A ghost with a pen in a hollow hand. We speak in echoes, we smile for show, But where do the tears of the midnight go? We build our walls with bricks of gold, To hide the stories that remain untold. A thousand "friends" in a digital space, Yet not a soul to touch your face. But even a star needs the dark to shine, And these broken pieces are purely mine. For in every crack where the light leaks through, I am finding a version of me that’s new.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
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brilliant. absolutely, brilliant.