The light will bring you home
It's a small thing, but it has been ages since I was able to make myself dinner that was not a holiday meal or a sandwich and tonight I cooked some canned mackerel with shallots and tarragon and black pepper and ate it over spaghetti, with appropriate libations to the cats, of course. I sat on the couch with Hestia curled up in a little black seal-heap beside me and watched Kristoffer Nyholm's The Vanishing (2018), a harsh and atmospheric maritime noir drawn loosely from the famous disappearance of the three keepers of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse in 1900, here transposed to the 1930's and given the starting kick of a wreck with a dangerous secret. It was full of gulls and salt and the sinewy coiling of waves and winds about its rock-chip island and should have been released under its original title of Keepers, which contains among its double meanings the implication of finders. It was the closest I could get to a goddamn sea urchin, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie. My niece has been fully vaccinated.
selkie. My niece has been fully vaccinated.
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The lighthouse film--does it relate to another lighthouse film you were talking about recently?
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I love it. I tried to buy some more tonight while I was at the supermarket, but it was not unjustly sold out. I bought some canned pilchards instead.
The lighthouse film--does it relate to another lighthouse film you were talking about recently?
Which lighthouse film was I talking about recently? It is not the same historical incident that inspired Robert Eggars' The Lighthouse (2019); that one contains elements of the Smalls Lighthouse Tragedy of 1801. I've talked about the Flannan Isles Lighthouse in context of Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse (1980), which I saw performed by the Boston Lyric Opera in 2012 and loved.