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precursor to gris-gris Prince La La - Need You ( 1961 ) from the David Toop book: Prince La La died of a heroin overdose, age 27 - a trend setter.

exotica from New Orleans Mac Rebbenack and his Orch. - Sahara ( 1961 ) Mac Rebbenack became "Dr John" a few years later apparently this tune was adopted by the Belgian "popcorn" scene

quick-quick

Did you complete assembly by slot marks

cartoon Eyes burning like owlets reaching filmic attention, plummet Hold fast to dial [....] blips

yeah, in that poem the similarity of plummet / plume is visual rather than sonic but I'm guessing it was deliberate

Last night I started reading the David Toop book, Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts In Dr. John’s Gris-Gris, which has been excellent so far. I've learnt a lot about Sonny and Cher's early years - seriously! Toop doesn't avoid the cultural appropriation and racism in music angle. I'm...

plummet / mounted today I learnt that "mount" can mean "To fly upwards, to soar, to ascend" plummet can mean to descend, but there is also the rarer use of "To determine the depth of with a plummet" ( I suppose the modern use would be a "plumb line", something I associate with nautical stuff...

I thought I knew what "flicker" means, but today I learnt the original Old English meaning: "Of a bird: To flutter; to hover. occasionally To flap the wings; to move by flapping the wings." c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer, Knight's Tale (Hengwrt MS.) (2003) l. 1104 beforehand I was associating the...

also, another form of divination from wikipedia entry on Haruspex see also Anthropomancy

more sea / water imagery Hold fast to dial while opt readiness candour, "Hold fast" from wikipedia article on "sailor tattoos": also: "HOLD FAST is a nautical term that has its origins from the Dutch word “houd vast” which translate to “Hold Tight” in regards to holding securely to...

plume feathers but also: "A trail or cloud of smoke, vapour, etc., issuing from a localized source and spreading or billowing out as it travels." (OED ) cryolite is a salt which melts in water from wikipedia:

some more rough notes... lights burn brim to surge or wave a crass suiting foreshore [...] in socket trim, hot white partition cryolite brim / trim from Chaucer: brimme n. "shore, bank (of a river)," brim, originally: The border, margin, edge, or brink: Of the sea, or any piece of water...

Danny Dyer's hardest men classic episode Stephen "The Devil" French

timely thread I got this in the post yesterday: Decad of Intelligence ITHELL COLQUHOUN and this: The Dance of Moon and Sun: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism reduced from £40 to £25 in the Fulgar sale, so couldn't resist

shadow, lovers, assembly apparently an alternative title for Chaucer's 'Parlement of Foules' is 'Assemble of Foules' (Assembly of Fowls) according to wikipedia: I was reminded, because of the similarity of the translated title, of the persian poem, "Conference of the Birds" which has this...

more fortune telling?

like when watching a film in a cinema? filmic attention, dark, flicker the "lucid plane" could be a cinema screen?

fits with the visibility / lack of sight themes and with flames and glass ( alembic )? also, "lovers both wrapped" is fusion of sorts?

1635 G. Wither, Collection of Emblemes iv. xlv. 253