Our herring craft, our trawlers, our fishing smacks as well

[sovay]

I dreamed of writing about an unofficial slow marathon of sea-movies and shorts I had been watching over the course of the month, most of them discovered obscurely on various streaming services. None exist in my waking life; all had some element of the weird or the speculative, mostly in low-key, low-budget ways where a sci-fi first contact was as ambiguous as the relationships between the members of a psych-rock band taking a yacht down the coast of California in the '70's. At least one of the features I loved enough to want to track down the rest of the writer-director's work. A couple of the shorts were conceptually cute and didn't do much for me as movies. Otherwise most of the day was doctor-oriented, but so has been the entire week, really.

Comments

[kathmandu]

I marvel at the way your dreaming mind comes up with finished works of literary and artistic merit.

[sovay]

I marvel at the way your dreaming mind comes up with finished works of literary and artistic merit.

I wish I could share them in their proper media!

[luzula]

Did you grow up by the sea, or did you get your affinity for the sea some other way? *curious*

And I hope your health improves soon!

[sovay]

Did you grow up by the sea, or did you get your affinity for the sea some other way?

I grew up around the sea: it's readily accessible from the greater Boston area and my grandparents with whom I spent a lot of time lived in Portland. I learned to swim in the ocean off Cape Elizabeth in Maine. But when I was something like a year and a half old, I was taken to see the century tides, and I jumped into them in the middle of winter (and was pulled out of the freezing water and shucked of my red-and-white snowsuit and wrapped in a sand-scratchy blanket in the back of my grandparents' car), so the general feeling in my family is that the affinity started early.

And I hope your health improves soon!

Thank you!

[luzula]

But when I was something like a year and a half old, I was taken to see the century tides, and I jumped into them in the middle of winter (and was pulled out of the freezing water and shucked of my red-and-white snowsuit and wrapped in a sand-scratchy blanket in the back of my grandparents' car), so the general feeling in my family is that the affinity started early.

That is a strong affinity. : ) I went sailing in the archipelago on the west coast of Sweden from an early age, and I do like the sea, but it was a much stronger experience to me the first time I went to the Swedish mountains. As a teenager I never wrote poetry about the sea, but I did about the mountains.

[thisbluespirit]

Your dream media is always so impressive! May the upcoming days and weeks hopefully have less doctors in them. Unless you want them, obviously; in that case, may they never cancel and see you pronto!

[sovay]

Your dream media is always so impressive!

I generally enjoy it! I just wish I could bring it out with me.

May the upcoming days and weeks hopefully have less doctors in them. Unless you want them, obviously; in that case, may they never cancel and see you pronto!

Thank you!

[watervole]

They long defied the bitter night and battled with the swell

Still one of my favourite songs.

[sovay]

Still one of my favourite songs.

Bok, Muir & Trickett's is the first version I heard. I used to fall asleep to records of Gordon Bok (and Greg Brown, and the Highwaymen).

[buttonsbeadslace]

I have that version on one of my favorite playlists :) I think this might be the first time I've recognized one of your post-title songs.

[sovay]

I have that version on one of my favorite playlists

Oh, cool! May I ask what else is on the playlist?

[cmcmck]

Three score and ten! :o)

[sovay]

Three score and ten!

I grew up on the song! See above.

[thawrecka]

If only there was a way to tap into the movies we watch in our dreams

I say, as if there weren't at least a dozen sci fi stories about why that would be a bad idea.

[sovay]

I say, as if there weren't at least a dozen sci fi stories about why that would be a bad idea.

I know, but I'd just set up an arthouse theater.