Your former glories and all the stories dragged and washed with eager hands

[sovay]

Three different people this afternoon sent me this article about the drowned and dredged intaglios from the fort of Uxelodunum: "Ancient Romans Dropped Their Bling Down the Drain, Too."

Just now, I discovered that Garbage had lent their glitchy wall of sound to a cover of Siouxsie & The Banshees' "Cities in Dust," easily my favorite song about the excavation of Pompeii.

They pair nicely.

Comments

[cynthia1960]

the more things change, the more they stay the same!

[sovay]

the more things change, the more they stay the same!

I just feel we shouldn't have lost curse tablets along the way.

[cynthia1960]

oh, yeah, not a good idea to release them into the wild

[thanate]

....how did I not know this song existed previously? Thank you for fixing this oversight.

[sovay]

....how did I not know this song existed previously? Thank you for fixing this oversight.

You're welcome!

[troisoiseaux]

easily my favorite song about the excavation of Pompeii.

Does this imply the existence of other songs about the excavation of Pompeii? Because this is a playlist I didn't know I needed.

[sovay]

Does this imply the existence of other songs about the excavation of Pompeii? Because this is a playlist I didn't know I needed.

I am afraid it implies the existence of me being slightly facetious, but other songs about or at least significantly referencing Pompeii include Nova Mob's "The Last Days of Pompeii," Dar Williams' "This Was Pompeii," and Bastille's "Pompeii" (bonus: acoustically surrounded by Pompeiian artifacts at the British Museum).

[troisoiseaux]

Bastille's "Pompeii" (bonus: acoustically surrounded by Pompeiian artifacts at the British Museum)

I love that song/band (I actually saw Bastille in concert in... oooh, 2014, I think?) but I'd never seen that video! How cool!!!

[oracne]

Oooh, thanks for the link to that cover.

[sovay]

Oooh, thanks for the link to that cover.

Welcome!

[aurumcalendula]

Ooh I need to check out that cover!

(...I somehow made a vid using the original but didn't realize it was about Pompeii until now)

[sovay]

Ooh I need to check out that cover!

I have played it multiple times in a row!

(...I somehow made a vid using the original but didn't realize it was about Pompeii until now)

They used the plaster cast of the dog from Pompeii as the cover art for the single.

(What did you vid to the song?)

[aurumcalendula]

It's such a cool version!

This one about Carter's arc in season 3 of Person of Interest. There's a lot I would change if I made it now, but I still like parts of it.

(I never looked up the lyrics, so I didn't realize what I was hearing as 'liar's shrine' was 'Lares' shrine')

[moon_custafer]

I can also recommend the Post-Modern Jukebox cover version: https://youtu.be/wJY83K3o670

[selkie]

I restrained myself from telling you not to leave yer crap around! I was good! I did not add to the gyre!

[sovay]

I restrained myself from telling you not to leave yer crap around! I was good! I did not add to the gyre!

Your forbearance is appreciated by the management!

(The Venus in ametheyst looks like a short story by Tanith Lee.)

[selkie]

It's just so awful, because the usual expedient of putting your ring on a chain around your neck didn't do anything because apparently their concrete was good but their vegetable-based craft fixative sucked? I'd die, or at least I'd weep.

[asakiyume]

NICE version of "Cities in Dust"

Both versions I have, I have thanks to you! And now I can add a third.

(paywall prevents my seeing the NYT article, but before the wall came up I saw some of the trinkets and treasures that went down Roman drains--I agree; that article pairs nicely with the song.)

[sovay]

Both versions I have, I have thanks to you! And now I can add a third.

Yay!

(paywall prevents my seeing the NYT article, but before the wall came up I saw some of the trinkets and treasures that went down Roman drains--I agree; that article pairs nicely with the song.)

Boo, paywall! I didn't think it would be an issue: I'm not signed in to the New York Times.

[selkie]

The Guardian has nice images, no paywall. Search “Roman treasures drain.”

[asakiyume]

Thank you! A female highwayman saw to it that I was able to read the original, but I'm glad to know there's a non-paywalled article out there too!

[minoanmiss]

Thank you double!

[mrissa]

For some reason when I saw this yesterday I didn't think to tell you my favorite Garbage-adjacent story:

Antje Duvekot (WHO IS GREAT) was playing a gig wearing her favorite Garbage T-shirt, and after the gig a very earnest older lady came up to her, took her by the hand and pressed it earnestly, and said with a quaver of feeling in her voice, "Sweetheart. You. Are NOT. Garbage!!!"

We now say this around the house when we mean "I want to be reassuring and I'm afraid I'm missing the point somehow."

[sovay]

Antje Duvekot (WHO IS GREAT) was playing a gig wearing her favorite Garbage T-shirt, and after the gig a very earnest older lady came up to her, took her by the hand and pressed it earnestly, and said with a quaver of feeling in her voice, "Sweetheart. You. Are NOT. Garbage!!!"

That is an excellent Garbage-adjacent story!