We were swallowing panic in the face of its force

[sovay]

I am insomniac; hear me meander.

I haven't got a single amazon.com review for Postcards. Even if the review read wtf? this book sux!!!—all right, I will have to familiarize myself with internet-speak before I can parody it, I understand—I would still be able to think to myself, "Hey! Somebody actually read it! Whoa!" As it is, I resign myself to feeling unloved, unnoticed, and generally melancholy . . . except that I have personally sold copies to people, so that doesn't work at all. Ah, well. Eventually, I'll hit on a functional guilt-trip. Eventually.

Till then, I'll listen to my new music. audiography-surfing earlier today led me to discover the traditional and new-minted songs of Great Big Sea, a band from St. John's in Newfoundland that spectre_general and his wife who does not yet have a livejournal had recommended to me in the past. They are fantastic. "The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man)," "Recruiting Sargeant," and "Fisherman's Lament" are now stuck on more or less permanent loop in my head, while "Nothing out of Nothing," "French Perfume," and "Feel It Turn" are competing for space. As soon as I have something that resembles pocket money, I know where I'll spend it: I need more Great Big Sea. Food? Eh. Negligible. It's books and music that are critical.

Comments

[spectre-general.livejournal.com]

You can borrow our "Up" and "Play" if you want. Neither of us are big fans of their later stuff, but there are the occasional gems, like "Turn".

Also, you should listen to Rasa, who are Newfoundlanders but not traditional at all.

[sovay]

You just want to convert me to Newfoundland in general, don't you?

Of course I want to borrow your albums! So far I've liked Up and Play immensely, as well as the few songs I've heard from their self-titled first album in 1993, and I've been able to find something I like on every later album except the latest, Something Beautiful. That's just too mainstream pop for me. But I will admit that I haven't heard a full album yet.

Thank you!

[spectre-general.livejournal.com]

No problem!

We don't have their later stuff, or their first album... but we were able to salvage Up and Play after the snow-blower incident which I'm told I should tell you about.

[sovay]

Yes, I keep hearing vague references to it: I'm becoming very curious by now.