I’ve been enjoying the Felt albums that were recently posted on Map Ref 41’ 93W, and during some web-based procrastination I read that Lawrence named the band after the word specifically as it is emoted by Tom Verlaine in ’Venus’.  Television stirs in me a whirlwind of adolescent feelings, managing to catapult me back to the late 90s every time I listen to them.  ’Venus’ in particular conjures visions of roaming the streets at night, though for me I perhaps mis-associate it with empty, late-night solitary experiences rather than something alive that ’flap[s] / like little pages’.


I just tried to attack my weird sleeping patterns (not insomnia, as I’m getting my full quotient, but in randomly-spaced chunks) by going for a 4 AM bike ride.   I forgot how much I love doing this.  I didn’t think to bring my good camera and turn this into a sappy blog post so the usual shitty mobile phone pics are presented here, but without apologies.