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Where is my dark wet freedom, that dark wet freedom?
Most of today was exhausting, overheated, and unproductive. There was a lot of walking in the heavy sun for nothing. The pharmacy gave me the wrong medication, which I cannot exchange for the correct one until tomorrow. That said—
1. Some unknown benefactor has sent me a DVD of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea (1969), starring Maria Callas. Thank you! This is one of the best movies I know about the ancient world.
2. Because it was titled Kore (2006), and because its original songs had titles like "Kore," "Ericina," and "For the Oracle," I impulse-bought a CD by Marlene Tholl from the coffeehouse in Ball Square. So far this does not appear to have been a mistake. Vocally, she reminds me somewhat of Heather Dale, although folk-rockier in style. The CD booklet opens with a short lyric, not replicated so far in the songs I've heard:
Have you heard tell of White-armed Persephone?
She dreamt underground like a seed in winter
She made love with a dark god
She gave birth to her own mother
The photography throughout shows a woman in white entering a cave choked with autumn leaves, a woman in red emerging into the greenery of spring. At the center of the booklet, a marble frieze of Hades catching Persephone up in his arms. Paging![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nineweaving.
3. I have discovered an entire Tumblr dedicated to ancient Mesopotamia. Hey, look, it's the earliest known author: Enḫeduanna of Ur, priestess, princess, and poet. Across forty-three centuries, she's still speaking.
4. The latest issue of Poetry is very strong: I was especially struck by Roisin Kelly's "Oranges," Doireann Ní Ghríofa's "While Bleeding," Martin Dyar's "The Donnellys," Stephen Connolly's "Fianaise Bhréagach," and Miriam Gamble's "Marine Snow."
5. So this photo does nothing to disprove my native association of Jareth and the gentleman with thistle-down hair.
The cats are curled up sleeping at different points around the house. I would join them if I didn't have work to do. Autolycus purrs a little when he snores.
1. Some unknown benefactor has sent me a DVD of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Medea (1969), starring Maria Callas. Thank you! This is one of the best movies I know about the ancient world.
2. Because it was titled Kore (2006), and because its original songs had titles like "Kore," "Ericina," and "For the Oracle," I impulse-bought a CD by Marlene Tholl from the coffeehouse in Ball Square. So far this does not appear to have been a mistake. Vocally, she reminds me somewhat of Heather Dale, although folk-rockier in style. The CD booklet opens with a short lyric, not replicated so far in the songs I've heard:
Have you heard tell of White-armed Persephone?
She dreamt underground like a seed in winter
She made love with a dark god
She gave birth to her own mother
The photography throughout shows a woman in white entering a cave choked with autumn leaves, a woman in red emerging into the greenery of spring. At the center of the booklet, a marble frieze of Hades catching Persephone up in his arms. Paging
nineweaving.3. I have discovered an entire Tumblr dedicated to ancient Mesopotamia. Hey, look, it's the earliest known author: Enḫeduanna of Ur, priestess, princess, and poet. Across forty-three centuries, she's still speaking.
4. The latest issue of Poetry is very strong: I was especially struck by Roisin Kelly's "Oranges," Doireann Ní Ghríofa's "While Bleeding," Martin Dyar's "The Donnellys," Stephen Connolly's "Fianaise Bhréagach," and Miriam Gamble's "Marine Snow."
5. So this photo does nothing to disprove my native association of Jareth and the gentleman with thistle-down hair.
The cats are curled up sleeping at different points around the house. I would join them if I didn't have work to do. Autolycus purrs a little when he snores.
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This is one of the reasons I value albums as artifacts and not just bytes on my computer.
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That CD booklet sounds gorgeous.
Which of the poems from Poetry should I read first? Or shall I close my eyes and see where my finger lands?
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I know there are illustrations in the book, but I always saw the gentleman with Jareth's hair. There is so much of it and it has such personality. I'd never seen David Bowie dressed in clothing anywhere near the right era, however, and now the mental casting is solidified. (Sorry, Marc Warren. You were very good at being nonhuman!) Coincidentally, I have just run into this article on the making of Labyrinth which provides the following glorious quote:
Bowie said of his character: 'One feels that he's rather reluctantly inherited the position of being Goblin King, as though he would really like to be – I don't know – down in Soho or something. But he's not. His thing in life is to be Goblin King, and he runs the whole place as well as he can. And he's kind of spoiled. He gets everything his own way. He's a big kid.'
I love the idea of a reluctant king of fairy who would rather be clubbing or trying to make it as a musician. The site's a timesink, by the way. I am not sure that I agree with all of its interpretations, but the information is fascinating to me.
That CD booklet sounds gorgeous.
I just said on DW, but will repeat here because it's true: this is one of the reasons I value albums as artifacts and not just bytes on my computer. The photographs are a beautiful series by themselves.
Or shall I close my eyes and see where my finger lands?
I think any of them will serve as a starting point, but "While Bleeding" was the first one I e-mailed to people.
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The author's interpretation does mostly line up with my own head-canon about owl-spirits as reality-shifting genii-like figures. Jareth has relatives living in the woods near Twin Peaks...
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You should maybe write that.
(I love the poem. The last line cuts itself so short.)
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...hmmm, yes. I'm going to file that away. Really loved that BBC Radio Extra about the breath-stealer I linked to recently on Tumblr, but I guess you probably didn't see that.;)
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ALAS NO.
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I can see how that might change things a bit.
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That was the first one that really got my attention, followed by "Fianaise Bhréagach," followed by just being really impressed with this issue overall.
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That's pretty cool!
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