Everybody knows: A good playlist sets the stage for great head.
EPISODE 1: “BOB” (link to playlist on AppleMusic)
He said he was on his bike looking for pot Parliament near Dundas. I wasn’t selling but offered to share a joint, still checking my sense of him, the sweats he wore, his readiness to look me in the eye.
“I can take care of that for you” “I’d like that” “Can I trust you?” “I like your attitude, you go for what you want”
Bob stands before me, just out of reach, arms at his side, cock head flirts with the hem of his tee, his hand occasionally backs my forehead away again again
inhales a smoke as he smiles down laughs rubs waves bounces it across my face
“Here, boy.”
Cracks open a fresh bottle, inhales it through his lips like a whistle, holds it up to my nostril, a more direct hit tongue divines this perfect “V” where slit opens to shape crown
Now there’s only Bob’s cock fierce powerful bobbing
ACETONE Shaker
TINDERSTICKS Another Night In
AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB What Holds The World Together
SWANS Saved
LUNA 23 Minutes in Brussels (“Say a prayer for you and me”)
STEREOLAB Pack Yr Romantic Mind
BROADCAST Corporeal
MVB Swallow
CORNERSHOP Jullandar Shere (Jeh Jeh Mix)
YLT Blue Line Swinger
SPIRITUALIZED I Think I’m In Love
PATTI SMITH Because the NIght
KYLIE & NICK Where the Wild Roses Grow
MARIANNE FAITHFULL Hello Stranger
CAT POWER The Greatest
MAZZY STAR Flowers in December
LOW Stay
RED HOUSE PAINTERS Shock Me (Acoustic Version)
EBTG Back To The Old House (Live)
About the playlist (includes links to every track in full on YouTube):
(1) newest release Shaker iconic early 90s alt-rock LA band Acetone from their recently re-issued ginormous (11 LP) box-set, I’m still waiting. I first heard them with their 1996 sophomore effort, If You Only Knew becoming immediately obsessed—dreamy, buttery, guitars, bass notes, vocals—lighting a spliff wishing I smoked Marlboros. (2) Opening track of my favourite Tindersticks Curtains, lush strings set the stage for the reveal, the moment at hand, backed by an equally dramatic number by American Music Club going all rapturously giddy (3) over Gena Rowlands hair dipping into a Swans track (4) made famous by MTV at the time and a dispute between lead voice of god Michael Gira and producer Bill Laswell (Laswell wins) (5) a layover in Brussels with Luna high in the sky (6) Pack Yr Romantic Mind getting all Stereolab googly-eyed over the tower your (7) corporeally slurping on (Tender Buttons simply the best), finally prepped/open enough to (8) swallow MBV fully giving yourself over on repeat (9) “Women’s Gotta Have it JJ Jeh,” riding the (10) YLT Blue Line Swinger with your first hit of Jungle Juice blows your head clear off all spacey (11) I Think I’m In Love “can we do this every day?” (too soon) (12) because Patti reminds you there’s more yes, more darkness, earthly delights (13) Nick & Kiley’s murderous ballad (14) “Hello Stranger“/s to welcome but, for now, isn’t cock simply (15) “The Greatest?” better than (16) forced cut Flowers in December, that never (17) stay for long but the tenderness of this one after, no hurry, hand rests on head rests on thigh, a soft lingering tableau (18) shocked me (RHP does KISS)(19) back to a place I never expected to conjure this early morn.
The sweetest thing (bonus track) about this list, is they all come from cherished albums I still play all the way through, any one of which would fill the task nicely sans interruption.
M2GHB Rating: He came. Had a smoke or three. Came again.
NOTE: We intended a “live” component with STEVIE MANNING (FEB 16 3PM) which has been postponed for now due to the snowstorm).
KIRBY is the author of She (KFB 2024), Poetry is Queer (Palimpsest Press, 2021), This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press, 2019), publisher at knife | fork | book and currently at work on Fairy (2026).
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