Would you turn me away if the walls were all I could see in your face?

[sovay]

I do somewhat resent that the first time I remember my dreams in weeks, they are nightmares about attending a convention, having to fight off a serial killer, and then contracting some kind of life-threatening alien infection, which is definitely way too high a ratio of pulp to anxiety if you ask me.

On the other hand, I spent much of the afternoon being interviewed by a grad student for her master's thesis in folklore: she is studying the music of Jewish partisans in WWII and the creation of liminal spaces through song and I felt like a one hundred and ten percent ringer and I had a wonderful time.

The recording I made for Jeannelle M. Ferreira can now be found with author's notes on her blog: "October Ghosts and Minor Resurrections: An Audio Excerpt."

The world continues fractured and frightening, but people build fires, and within the circle of the light, even if only for a little while, things may be all right.

Comments

[yhlee]

*support support*

[sara]

I would totally listen to a Jewish partisans record.

I remember about twenty years ago reading about the armed Jewish resistance and finding it so HOPEFUL.

[kore]

I thought you might like this -- there was a Twitter listening party last week for Jet Plane and Oxbow, "meaning that we tweeted along in real time as we listened to the record, shared stories and photographs from the tour and the making of the album, and answered questions" Jonathan Meiburg says. https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/pages/list/collection_468.html

[gwynnega]

How wonderful and fitting that you were interviewed by that grad student about the Jewish partisans' music!

[moon_custafer]

I dreamt you and I met at a convention (remember those?) and discussed jocular representations of the Devil in modern popular culture. Also I invented Spoon Fencing.

[asakiyume]

I love that you're a source. You're a source! Transmission of knowledge and culture FOR THE WIN.

And we'll always build fires. (And I love that retelling and recording so much!)