1. Sounds like ‘would be’, emphasized in the song with the text like ‘there is nothing i wouldn’t be’ with the nice double negation. I always understood would be in this sense as ‘placeholder’, blank canvas, something not with any inherent meaning, but ready to accept any meaning put on or in to it.

2. Spelling it out: wood beez. The actual thumbnail of the video of the hand squeezing out honey refers to bees. In an old interview in Dutch magazne Vinyl:

n the video of Wood Beez you see a lot of honey. What stuck in my mind is the hand which squeezed a lump of honey. Honey does have a sexual meaning in black traditions. For someone like Yellowman its a symbol of sperm.

“That’s right. I didn’t think of that when I used it in the song though. First it caught my attention in the work of Joseph Beuys, an artist I really admire. An image from a totally different corner came after that, namely from the bible. Somewhere in there is the saying ‘Out of the strong comes forth the sweet’. I felt it said something essential about my music. The soft, the sweet (but not weak) that comes from the strong. In England there are pots of honey with that saying and an old drawing of a sleeping lion with a cloud of bees above him. That saying does have the same ambiguous meaning in relation to sperm. I won’t deny that the ambiguous meaning began to play a part in the song. But mostly honey is a symbol for something organic, soft and vital.”

Source: http://www.aggressiveart.org/aof_files/interviews/aof_interview_p3a-9.htm

Hope you can solve it. Good luck!

I’d love to see ‘em/ (asides from the fact that for some reason, I cant watch ‘em on this site-and I have downloaded latest versions of Flash and Apple but am getting audio only)…asides from this, I’d prefer to watch ‘em from my Sofa.

Could anyone mail me for a trade or whatever?

Cheers

Tony S

If you want to see Scritti with Brian Wilson, try John’s link above - this link from UCLA’s site seems to have the best seat availability.

Also, at ticketmaster.com, there are two new US dates confirmed: one at the Roxy in Hollywood 10/29 (a great locale I hear) and one in Anaheim at the House of Blues 10/30 (near Disneyland.) House of Blues concert looks more affordable, as it doesn’t require a two-drink minimum.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1054026/?search_redirect=scritti&tm_link=tm_header_search

A good link to check on the latest US tour updates!

Also there is an unconfirmed gig supposedly in nearby Panoma that may take place a few days before or after the Brian Wilson concert.