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Will the light show me what is broken?
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.
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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I also learned of it because of Cooper! I had been trying to pin down whether a likeness to her work in something by J. B. Priestley was lineage or apophenia and the existence of Hawkes makes it look like the former, which was of course reassuring to me, but also now I just want to read Hawkes.
(It had been staring me in the face since childhood, since The Grey King is dedicated "for J. B. and Jacquetta.")
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Right, I'm taking that as direct influence, then, and will cite it as such, but excuse me?
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I had no idea they did another album! I'll have to check it out; I loved their Lost in the Cedar Wood.
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Enjoy! They can record their third any time.
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It's criminal that you can't get that edition of A Land in the States. I'm lucky enough to own a pocket-sized hardback from '53 with the Moore illustrations; read it on a camping trip in Worcestershire, where the sandstone breaks through the soil. It felt like the right landscape for the book. I wish Hawkes had written a novel.
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I still haven't heard much more of Johnny Flynn, so I associate his music almost entirely with The Detectorists - he did the lovely theme song, but it sounds as if the archaeological theme was maybe a natural fit?
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Thank you!
It's criminal that you can't get that edition of A Land in the States.
It seems such a natural fit! I'm trying to figure out if I can afford to order an actual print version from the UK.
I'm lucky enough to own a pocket-sized hardback from '53 with the Moore illustrations; read it on a camping trip in Worcestershire, where the sandstone breaks through the soil. It felt like the right landscape for the book. I wish Hawkes had written a novel.
That version sounds like the right one for you, too, and I'm so glad you read it on old rocks. Her ideas of time look like they went into a lot of novelists I know.
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Thank you!
I still haven't heard much more of Johnny Flynn, so I associate his music almost entirely with The Detectorists - he did the lovely theme song, but it sounds as if the archaeological theme was maybe a natural fit?
I think so. His pre-Detectorists music had a strain of weird time and land in it and he only seems to have kept leaning into it, which I approve of.
(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, but it's still three seasons and a couple of specials of something, so it may not get watched in its entirety any time soon desite liking it.)
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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!)
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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!
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Aw, cool! :-)