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.

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[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?