all eyeliner and nailpolish, and rainbow-coloured bracelets circling your skinny arms.

it's no secret that meanwhile back in communist russia...'s anatomies is one of my favourite songs. i used to absentmindedly write out all the lyrics to the song when sitting on benches or on bus journeys, and leave the little scraps of paper around yarmouth buses and on pavements, wedged into billboards. i've since forgotten the lyrics and moved onto leaving paper cranes around (which, actually, caused a funny reaction with one of yarmouth's less colourful individuals...when i fixed a crane made of a mcdonald's wrapper to the top of a bus stop sign in the centre of yarmouth, he insinuated that my childhood must've been troublesome...although, i must admit, he didn't say it quite in that vernacular. in fact, he didn't really say it to me at all, rather than launch it at me from somewhere in his throat. i said that, yes, my childhood had indeed been troublesome, with my parents both dying before i was born, and having since been raised by birds. he then made the face that means 'at this moment, i am confused and unable to react to or deal with this social situation,' in other words, the face that directly precedes hit fist hitting, or even going through a part of my body. so i ran away, jumping with my arms flapping, and squarking.), but that's another story.

this morning i found a brilliant version of the song, one that might not seem wholly different to the casual listener, but one that really excites me, the obsessive listener. so many little differences to a song that i've heard an uncountable amount. it's the version they recorded on their 2003 peel session, just before the release of 'my elixir; my poison'.

meanwhile, back in communist russia... - anatomies (peel session)

this leads me onto another point, the point of where i got this session. it's from the perfumed garden, probably the first mp3 blog i started looking at regularly, and pretty much the only one i still visit regularly while away from uni, using this media-repellent shell of a computer. i highly advise you get the rest of this session and the earlier one, on the same page.

the perfumed garden has been host to some of the most amazing sessions, introducing me to thee more shallows, a brilliant darren hayman session, among many others, and making me see that low are, actually, really fucking great - with my terribly biased and uneducated opinion, i would say the low peel session is easily one of the top 3 ever recorded. if you look through the archives you're sure to find some real gems (like a few jesus and mary chain sessions that brought me to the site), and it's even better now that kris waaah (i'm pretty sure this is his real name) has his own space to host the sessions, eliminating the need for rapidshare. if any older sessions are down, i'm sure if you send him a friendly email he'll be happy to put it back up. but, don't take my word as gospel, i'm just guessing really, i don't even know the guy.

i missed most of these peel sessions the first time round, and the perfumed garden helps to quench that firey dissapointment every single day.