Tuesday, 23 February 2016

Episode 159-Don't You Wish You Had A Daughter Like Peggy Ray?

 
 
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is about Margaret Mary Ray, (nicknamed Peggy), who suffered from schizophrenia, stalked David Letterman for a long while and then an astronaut named Story Musgrave, and died by suicide, kneeling down with her head on a railway track. Tragic, horrible story, I read, (and can see), that the pain of mental illness isn't entirely wrapped up in the illness itself but is heightened in lucid moments, when you see no way out, when you can see the damage that you're doing, or the state that you're in more clearly. That's what got me about this story, that her suicide was all about clarity, so horrible, so bloody sad. Anyways, definitely worth a song, mental health is a serious thing.
 
Here's a video to go with the tune:

Sunday, 14 February 2016

Episode 158-Joseph Smith

 
 
Hello listeners. This week's tune is about how I've been hangin out with some Mormon missionaries, (if you listen all the time you've heard about 'em before), and talking about Jesus and the like. I went to a Mormon church today and was kinda slightly disturbed by a lot of it, uneasy like, this is a song about how when I'm speaking with the missionaries at home about Jesus related things it seems pretty OK, fairly helpful, but that formulaic rule driven mini societies created from off shoots of some of Jesus words are probably not for me.
Here's a video with a drawing of Joseph Smith, (founding father or Mormonism), and Jesus as anthropologists think he would've looked like, to go with the tune.
 
 
Hope you enjoy, and thanks for your time.
 
 
 






Tuesday, 9 February 2016

Episode 157-Kickin The Cat

 
 
Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a fairly straight forward thing about me being a little paranoid, anxious and also super grumpy at a pub. I'll let it speak for itself I think.
Hope you enjoy, and thanks for your time. Here's a video of me drawing a cat-squid to go with the song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9koRKUA2Q_A&feature=youtu.be
 

Tuesday, 2 February 2016

Episode 156-Scratches


https://ia601500.us.archive.org/20/items/CeskyLivesEpisode156-scratches/CLEP156-Scratches.mp3

Hello listeners. This weeks tune is a dark one, about dark things that happened to me a long while ago, and just kind of dark in and of it's own right in a 'what the hell do any of these words actually mean?' kind of a way. I watched Black Swan recently, great film, hence the title, and also the feel of the thing probably.
Hope you enjoy it anyways, and thanks for your time.
 
Here's a video to go with it: