When the sun goes down and the die is cast

[sovay]

I walked home tonight under flowering trees, including the kind that smell like fish. The sky around the moon in its mirrors of cloud was so blue, it looked like a night scene from a silent film, where the sun is plainly shining on the far side of the trees. I could never tell what time it was in Dreyer's Vampyr (1932), but then again neither could the protagonist.

It was Ludwig Wittgenstein's birthday today. I will rewatch Jarman's film for him as soon as I can retrieve it from its box. Last winter, I wrote a poem about him for my godchild, who as of this afternoon has two legal parents. Mazel tov to them and all the ghosts that hang around their house, difficult and kindly.

I will come back with some more of my art tomorrow.

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[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I'm waiting for the May-blossom - "half-confection, half-corruption".

Wittgenstein's a wonderful film. I enjoyed your thoughts.

Mazel tov, indeed.

ETA: I liked "Drink Down" very much - it made me go back to Rid Of Me. Forgotten how great that album was; there are days I could almost marry it, if that makes sense.

[sovay]

"half-confection, half-corruption".

Mm. I wonder where my nearest hawthorn is. My parents have a rowan in the side yard, but that is not quite the same.

Wittgenstein's a wonderful film. I enjoyed your thoughts.

I just fell in love with it. And also kind of with Wittgenstein. Karl Johnson is like that.

http://sovay.livejournal.com/358438.html

Mazel tov, indeed.

strange_selkie and darthrami are some of the best parents I know. They deserve a country that doesn't dick them around for it.

ETA: I liked "Drink Down" very much - it made me go back to Rid Of Me. Forgotten how great that album was; there are days I could almost marry it, if that makes sense.

Thank you! It's the first album of hers I played over and over and over: I heard "To Bring You My Love" first, and I still think I love it best (it scares me), but the entire album doesn't hold the same grip on me. The B-sides on 4-Track Demos are also among my favorites. But in either version, "Yuri-G."

[edit] My God, there's a cover. That didn't exist the last time I checked.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty good version!

[sovay]

That's a pretty good version!

I am surprised but pleased!

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

including the kind that smell like fish.
Bradford Pears?

Mazel tov to them
Seconded. (thirded?)

I will come back with some more of my art tomorrow.
\o/

[sovay]

Bradford Pears?

I don't know! I feel like I've never known what they are! They're planted on city streets, they produce masses of greenish-white blossom in clusters, and they smell like fish! derspatchel always thought they were dogwoods, but we had dogwoods for years and they don't smell like that. The Bradford pear sounds as good a guess as any, but I'll have to look for pictures.

Seconded. (thirded?)

Hey, they deserve all the mazel they can get.

\o/

That may have sounded more dramatic than it needed to; I'm in Lexington for the day, doing things around the house. I'm coming back to Somerville in the evening with more art to hang on the walls. I am making my space mine.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

... who as of this afternoon has two legal parents.

Mazel tov to them! That's excellent news.

I've never noticed flowering trees smelling like fish before. Now I'm wondering if there are any of that sort in New York or some other place where I could smell them.

I will come back with some more of my art tomorrow.

I'm glad of this. I hope all goes well.

[sovay]

Mazel tov to them! That's excellent news.

They rock.

I've never noticed flowering trees smelling like fish before. Now I'm wondering if there are any of that sort in New York or some other place where I could smell them.

I should think so. They certainly existed in New Haven. It's one of the reasons I find the Bradford pear a plausible contender; it's not a native species, it's just one of those ubiquitous ornamental urban things.