Born this day.

One of my favourite pieces of classical music, and not just because it caused a riot when played for the first time.

Written for Johnny by Glenn Danzig

Bad luck wind been blowin' at my back
I was born to bring trouble to wherever I'm at
Got the number 13 tattooed on my neck
When the ink starts to itch
Then the black will turn to red

I was born in the soul of misery
Never had me a name
They just gave me the number when I was young

Gonna find me a preacherman confessin' all I've done
Or you can catch me with the devil playing 21
Bad luck wind been blowin' at my back
I pray you don't look at me
I pray I don't look back

I was born in the soul of misery
Never had me a name
They just gave me the number when I was young

Got a long line of hearthache
I carry it well
The list of lives I've broken
Reach from here to hell
Bad luck wind been blowin' at my back
I was born to bring trouble to wherever I'm at

I was born in the soul of misery
Never had me a name
They just gave me the number when I was young

I was born in the soul of misery
Never had me a name
They just gave me the number when I was young
They just gave me the number when I was young

Tickets booked!

Daniel Johnston, Speeding Motorcycle

Ravi Shankar & Philip Glass, Passages, 1990

The Rest is Noise. Featuring Steve Reich & Philip Glass.

"Einstein on the Beach broke all the rules of opera. It was in four interconnected acts and five hours long, with no intermissions (the audience was invited to wander in and out at liberty during performances)."

In The Future by David Byrne

In the future everyone will have the same haircut 
and the same clothes.
In the future everyone will be very fat from the stachy diet.
In the future everyone will be very thin from not 
having enough to eat.
In the future it will be next to impossible to 
tell girls from boys, even in bed.
In the future men will be 'super masculine' 
and women will be 'ultra-feminine'.
In the future half of us will be 'mentally ill'.
In the future there will be no religion or 
spiritualism of any sort.
In the future the 'psychic arts' will be put to practical use.
In the future we will not think that 'nature' is beautiful.
In the future the weather will always be the same.
In the future no one will fight with anyone else.
In the future there will be an atomic war.
In the future water will be expensive.
In the future all material items will be free.
In the future everyone's house will be like a little fortress.
In the future everyone's house will be a 
total entertainment centre.

In the future everyone but the wealthy will be very happy.
In the future everyone but the wealthy will be very filthy.
In the future everyone but the wealthy will be very heathly.
In the future TV will be so good that the printed 
word will function as an artform only.
In the future people with boring jobs will take 
pills to relieve the boredom.
In the future that no one will live in cities.
In the future there will be mini-wars going on everywhere.
In the future everyone will think about love all the time.

In the future political and other decisions 
will be based completely on opinion polls.
In the future there will be machines which 
will produce a religious experience in the user.
In the future there will be groups of wild people, 
living in the wilderness.
In the future there will only be paper money which will 
be personalised.
In the future there will be a classless society.

In the future everyone will only get to go home once a year.
In the future everyone will stay home all the time.
In the future we will not have time for leisure activities.
In the future we will only 'work' one day a week.
In the future our bodies will be shrivelled up but our brains 
will be bigger.
In the future there will be starving people everywhere.
In the future people will live in space.
In the future no one will be able to afford TV.
In the future the helpless will be killed.
In the future everyone will have their own 
style of way-out clothes
In the future we will make love to anything, anytime, anywhere
In the future there will be so much going on that no one 
will be able to keep track of it.