Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss. ~Robert Burns

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it
happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn
whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the
hill? A kiss, and all was said. ~Victor Hugo

In celebrating the Valentine's Day, Lovapalooza was made where couples gather to show their love for each other through a kiss. There is something about a kiss that connects two people together, and I mean a kiss that's not lustful. Something that brings them to anywhere they can't explain. A kiss that seems so special, a means of expressing two people's love for each other.

It just triggered me off because of Incubus' song, A Kiss To Send Us Off, form their latest album, Light Grenades. My fave track from the album aside from Anna Molly, Earth to Bella, Quicksand and Love Hurts. I like the song and the content as well that it doesn't appear to be malicious but rather you can feel the intimacy in a kiss.

Meet me here
On November 11th, come alone
Bring your mouth
And selective irreverence
We'll both see stars, just

ONE!
MORE!
Tongue!
Kiss before the sky falls
Out
From
This cloud we're hovering on
To send us off

A kiss to send us off
A kiss to send us off
A kiss to send us off!

Kill your doubt
With the coldest of weapons
Confidence
No more words, OOooooooooo
Just the sound of resplendent
Tongues colliding

ONE!
MORE!
Tongue!
Kiss before the sky falls
Out
From
This cloud we're hovering on
To send us off

A kiss to send us off
(repeat xtimes)

Here I am, there you are
On a wire connecting our hearts
Theres a string, and it's tied, to a kite
Theres a storm, in the sky
Now the clouds become electric
There you are, here I am
Could I
Have!
A kiss to send us off (repeat xtimes)

yeah right, brandon! give me a kiss to send us off!
\m/

Light Grenades Playlist
Meaning of Kiss

It's Incubus frontman, Brandon Boyd's, Birthday!

Icubus has just released their 6th album, Light Grenades, and their first single released was Anna Molly. Incubus' music is just one of my favorites (plus the frontman of course!).

here's quotes from the birthday BoyD about their latest album.

"Now on our sixth album, we (Incubus) have been writing music together long enough that there is a sense of perspective available that has only come to us with time. Some of our earlier works, though pure and even fun at times, lent to a sense of disorganization; a readily apparent lack of focus in my opinion. I have always said, "Yeah, we suck...but we're really good at it!"

"I think I can speak for my band when I say that we are interested in movement, experimentation and freedom. Being in this band has allowed us the freedom to move in and around other artistic endeavors. Like meandering streams we each wandered off over the past two years; only to be drawn unconsciously back to the ocean where all streams converge. And thus composed 'Light Grenades', our sixth studio album. What I am getting at (sort of) is that art has rescued us in many ways. Through circumstance, chance, good fortune, a teeny, weeny bit of talent, and an ardor for expressivity, Incubus has survived long enough to garnish a perspective onto itself. "Like a camera taking a long shot with a wide angle lens," we conjured 'Light Grenades'; a forty-seven and some odd seconds long bulbous mass of sound and intention captured on tape. 'Light Grenades' that explode with consciousness, light, art and mind. If you enjoy it, we thank you. If not? Then my dog is French and he already pooped under your pillow."

-Brandon