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.

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[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!