Will the light show me what is broken?

[sovay]

I did not get any pictures of the sunset per se, even though it was one of the low-fired kind that always look like scratchboard at this leafless time of year.



I keep returning to the sunset view from our kitchen, but it reminds me of the Hopper light I used to see all the time around Winter Hill as well as the colors of a lobster buoy.



There were grape leaves tangled up in the twigs swaying in the line of the telephone wires. The curious mauve smoke-color of the sky was not something I expected the camera to catch.



I understand this mirror exists in order to prevent collisions in the driveway of the business it belongs to, but it's such a good creator of abstract gleams.



The street full of maple leaves looked like the bank of a river by Greer Gilman.

I am just now catching up on the rest of Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane's The Moon Also Rises (2023), whose initial singles I heard around this time last year. It may be even more archaeological and ritual than its predecessor, which I have to say I am really enjoying. I wish I could get the edition of Jacquetta Hawkes' A Land (1951) with Macfarlane's introduction as anything other than an e-book.

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[thisbluespirit]

I just heard that theme song for the first time the other night: I liked it and so far I like the show it belongs to, which I understand from all sources sticks the landing

Oh, nice! <3 I liked it very much when I watched it. I was a little uncertain at the start, but I'd been recced it by about three different people, so it seemed likely they were probably right, and I continued (and they were right, I did like it.)

I think they use his music at other points, too, but I know they do also use the Unthanks, because that's who did the Magpie song from the episode 3.1 sequence that gave me goosebumps. (It's been a while now - a couple of years!)

[sovay]

I liked it very much when I watched it. I was a little uncertain at the start, but I'd been recced it by about three different people, so it seemed likely they were probably right, and I continued (and they were right, I did like it.)

I expected to like it based on my affection for both leads and sympathy for the anoraky amateur archaeology of the premise, but it could always have wiped out into cringe comedy or something and fortunately that doesn't seem to be what it's interested in. I look forward to the bit with the Unthanks.

[edit] We have gotten to see Johnny Flynn diegetically performing the title song!

[thisbluespirit]

We have gotten to see Johnny Flynn diegetically performing the title song!

Aw, cool! :-)