Yes, very late but here it is, my RFL set list

1. "Love Song 2009" -- Dent May and His Magnificent Ukelele
2. "If We Can Land A Man On The Moon Surely I Can Win Your Heart" -- Beulah
3. "Gimme Sympathy (acoustic)" -- Metric
4. "Awkward Kisser" -- Telekinesis
5. "Here Comes A Regular" -- The Replacements
6. "Another Girl, Another Planet" -- The Only Ones
7. "All This And More" -- Dead Boys
8. "Two Weeks Of Hip Hop (Dead Prez vs. Grizzly Bear)" -- The Hood Internet
9. "Dance Dance Dance (Bureka Som Sistema Remix)" -- Lykke Li
10. "Scenic World" -- Beirut
11. "Heartbeat" -- Buddy Holly
12. "Laughing With" -- Regina Spektor
13. "Turn Up The Faders" -- Nathan Asher & The Infantry
14. "American Music" -- The Violent Femmes
15. "Lover I Don't Have To Love" -- Bright Eyes
16. "Float On" -- Goldspot
17. "A New England" -- Billy Bragg
18. "Wendy" -- The Beach Boys
19. "French Navy" -- Camera Obscura
20. "Sheena Is A Punk Rocker" -- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
21. "Razor Blade" -- The Strokes
22. "I've Been Tired" -- The Pixies
23. "Girls" -- Beastie Boys
24. "Here Comes My Baby" -- Cat Stevens
25. "Ocean Breathes Salty" -- Modest Mouse
26. "69 Faces of Love" -- King Khan & The Shrines
27. "Here Comes The Sun" -- The Beatles
28. "Whistle For The Choir" -- The Fratellis
29. "See/Saw" -- Jay Reatard
30. "oh! bondage up yours!" -- X-Ray Spex
31. "Time For Heroes" -- The Libertines
32. "Burn It All Down" -- VHS or Beta
33. "Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)" -- The Eels
34. "Fluorescent Adolescent" -- Arctic Monkeys
35. "Teenage Kicks" -- Nouvelle Vague

NEW POEM -- Time Doesn't Heal All Wounds

Time Doesn't Heal All Wounds
5-26-09

some things never fade with time
remain an ache prodding your heart
some images stay imprinted on your mind's eye
for all eternity
no matter how hard you try to wipe them from your memory palace
these things we never forget
we choke on them and their indignities
we may suffer less but that doesn't
take the sting from their bite
nor does it lessen the blood that
oozes from wounds that never heal

copyright 2009 Katherine Andrews

More dirty pics of me! Many of you may have seen these on my flickr but I figured I'd post 'em for those who haven't. They say a lil bout who I am.

Stronger When Shackled

Can't Look You In The Eye

Always Chained Up

Latest Poem: When We're Serious

When We're Serious
Sat May 16, 09

when we're just crying for help,
when we only want attention,
we use razor blades and take pills,
when we're serious,
when for whatever reason this world becomes too much to bear,
we put guns in our mouths.

You know what though,
I think I might punch the next person who says "He's in a better place."
THIS is the better place,
where his wife and children and grandchildren and all the other people who loved him are shedding salty tears for someone they will never again see
except in faded photographs.
Please don't tell me he's better off.
He may be but we aren't and
all I want to do is scream the words of a hypocrite who said
"Live, Live for the sun, the dream, the excitable gift."

copyright 2009 Katherine Andrews

A quote from one of my fave poems: "Live," by Anne Sexton

"I say Live, Live because of the sun,
the dream, the excitable gift."
-- from "Live," Anne Sexton

Latest Poem: What Poems Are (first line from "With Mercy From The Greedy," Anne Sexton)

May 13, 2009
8:49 am

What Poems Are

"This is what poems are:"
sticky blood oozing
from open wounds and
so much salty moisture
staining previously dry cheeks.
They are words uttered and muttered
that should've been left unsaid.
They are a glance, a touch, a caress,
a whisper in the stillness of night,
the inky blackness, a whisper
never heard and yet
still absorbed into the enormity
of existence. They are
the sobs that wrack bodies when thought to be
unheard and the laughs cackled regardless
of who's doing the hearing. They are
all our terms of endearment and
our epithets and curses and
exclamations of scorn and
pity. They leak out onto the page
every instance of daily existence,
recording it for posterity and yet
tranforming the ordinary
into something extraordinary.

copyright 2009 Katherine Andrews

Regular Wednesday Velvet Set, 5-6-09, 7-9 pm slt

1. "Got To Give It Up (Pt. 1)" -- Graham Blvd
2. "Glowworm" -- The Apples In Stereo
3. "Soldier's Grin" -- Wolf Parade
4. "He's So Fine" -- The Chiffons
5. "Razor Blade" -- The Strokes
6. "Ever Fallen In Love?" -- The Buzzcocks
7. "So Lonely Is The Ballad" -- Jamie T
8. "Alone Again Or" -- Calexico
9. "The Golden Age of Aviation" -- The Lucksmiths
10. "Girlshapedlovedrug" -- Gomez
11. "Tin Soldier" -- Stiff Little Fingers
12. "The Pain" -- South
13. "Higher Power" -- Jens Lekman
14. "Aeroplanes and Hurricanes" -- Physics of Meaning
15. "Banned in D.C." -- Bad Brains
16. "Let's Go Crazy" -- Prince
17. "Rock and Roll" -- The Velvet Underground
18. "Rave On (feat. Zooey Deschanel)" -- M. Ward
19. "A Minor Incident" -- Badly Drawn Boy
20. "She's Still A Mystery" -- The Lovin' Spoonful
21. "Here Comes The Sun" -- The Beatles
22. "Homeward Bound" -- Simon and Garfunkel
23. "The Weakest Part" -- Yo La Tengo
24. "Hypno Sex Ray" -- The Cramps
25. "One" -- Vampire Weekend
26. "Cavaliers Har Hur" -- Bombadil
27. "Can't Stand Me Now" -- The Libertines
28. "Road To Nowhere" -- The Talking Heads
29. "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" -- Mike Ness
30. "Gravity Rides Everything" -- Modest Mouse
31. "Bring It On Home" -- Sam Cooke
32. "Here Comes That Feeling" -- El Perro Del Mar
33. "Bright Lights Of The City" -- The Pretty Things
34. "Plus Ones" -- Okkervil River
35. "That's The Punchline" -- The Walkmen
36. "Things The Grandchildren Should Know" -- The Eels
37. "My Love Is A Flower" -- The Modern Lovers

Regular Monday Dirty Needle Exchange set 5-4-09, 6-8 pm slt

1. "Bleary Eyed" -- Annuals
2. "Runaway" -- Del Shannon
3. "Say Hello To The Angels" -- Interpol
4. "Not Fair" -- Lily Allen
5. "Gin and Milk" -- Dirty Pretty Things
6. "Quality Control" -- Jurassic 5
7. "Cavaliers Har Hur" -- Bombadil
8. "Lupe Brown" -- The Fratellis
9. "Cum On Feel The Noize" -- Slade
10. "Sexy In Latin" -- Little Man Tate
11. "Soft Pedals" -- The Modern Skirts
12. "Not You Again" -- Dinosaur Jr
13. "Dead Sound" -- The Raveonettes
14. "Come On Let's Go" -- Ritchie Valens
15. "Teenage Kicks" -- Portastatic
16. "I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)" -- Stevie Wonder
17. "You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You" -- Dean Martin
18. "I Started A Joke" -- The Lucksmiths
19. "My Kingdom" -- Echo and the Bunnymen
20. "My Skateboard" -- The Aquabats
21. "No One (remix)" -- Alicia Keys featuring Kanye West
22. "Happiness and Penniless" -- The Holloways
23. "28 Butts" -- Little Jackie
24. "I'm Sorry I Love You" -- The Magnetic Fields
25. "Go" -- The Apples In Stereo
26. "Here Comes My Baby" -- Cat Stevens
27. "Gimme Sympathy" -- Metric
28. "Pretty In Pink" -- The Psychedelic Furs
29. "Fluorescent Adolescent" -- Arctic Monkeys
30. "Brand New Key" -- Melanie
31. "Carnival" -- Bikini Kill
32. "Left of the Dial" -- The Replacements
33. "A Little Less Conversation" -- Elvis Presley
34. "Loli" -- Nous Non Plus
35. "Oh Be One" -- Oh No! Oh My!
36. "Time For Heroes" -- The Libertines
37. "Suffer For Fashion" -- Of Montreal

Regular Wednesday set The Velvet 4-29-09, 7-9pm slt

1. "Teenage Kicks" -- Snow Patrol
2. "You Know I'm No Good" -- Amy Winehouse
3. "Silver Lining" -- Beulah
4. "Here Comes My Baby" -- Cat Stevens
5. "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory" -- Johnny Thunders
6. "Head On" -- The Jesus and Mary Chain
7. "How I Could Just Kill A Man" -- Cypress Hill
8. "Generator" -- The Holloways
9. "Hey" -- Elvis Perkins in Dearland
10. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" -- The Beatles
11. "Mama Oo Pow Pow" -- The Cramps.
12. "Always See Your Face" -- Love
13. "Not Fade Away" -- Buddy Holly
14. "Outta Here" -- KRS-One
15. "Carnival" -- Bikini Kill
16. "Jellybean Wine" -- Bombadil
17. "Hey Man (Now You're Really Living)" -- The Eels
18. "Broken Heartbeats Sound Like Breakbeats" -- Los Campesinos!
19. "Time For Heroes" -- The Libertines
20. "Ain't It Fun" -- Dead Boys
21. "Baby I Love Your Way" -- Irene
22. "Some Weird Sin" -- Iggy Pop
23. "La Llorona" -- Beirut
24. "Lay Lady Lay" -- Bob Dylan
25. "The Golden Age of Aviation" -- The Lucksmiths
26. "The City Has Sex" -- Bright Eyes
27. "John I'm Only Dancing" -- David Bowie
28. "You Can't Force A Dance Party" -- Dent May and His Magnificent Ukelele
29. "Dreaming" -- Blondie
30. "Rave On" -- M. Ward (featuring Zooey Deschanel)
31. "Singer Songwriter" -- Okkervil River
32. "Oliver's Army" -- Elvis Costello
33. "Haiti" -- The Arcade Fire
34. "Ex Girl to Next Girl" -- Gang Starr
35. "Not Fair" -- Lily Allen
36. "Police and Thieves" -- The Clash