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!

[thanate]

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

[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.

[oracne]

Oooh, thanks for the link to that cover.

[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)

[selkie]

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

[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.)

[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."