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If you leave the room, then the king leaves you
I am not really catching up on anything. The night we got home from New York, there was an exciting cat-related incident at five in the morning that kept everyone from sleeping until after the sun came up (everyone is fine, cats included), and this morning we were awoken shortly after eight by the sounds of construction thinly separated from our bedroom by some tarpaper and shingles. It is the roofers finally come to prevent further ice dams, but they were supposed to come this weekend while we were out of town and instead they are forecast for the rest of the week. I assume I will sleep sometime on Saturday.
1. There is a meme going around Facebook about the five films you would tell someone to watch in order to understand you. I've been saying Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale (1944), Ron Howard's Splash (1984), Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein (1993), John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940), and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953). Which is hardly complete, but adding postscripts feels like cheating, so I haven't. The internet being what it is, of course, I first saw this meme in the mutated form of the five weird meats you would tell someone to eat in order to understand you, to which I had no difficulty replying: venison, blood sausage, snails, goat, and raw salmon.
2. In other memetic news, I tried the Midwest National Parks' automatic costume generator:
and while I don't think "Paranoid Hellbender" is a good costume, it'd be a great hardcore band.
3. I haven't done an autumnal mix in a while, so here is a selection of things that have been seasonally rotating. This one definitely tips more toward Halloween.
Anaïs Mitchell, "Any Way the Wind Blows"
In the fever of a world in flames
In the season of the hurricanes
Flood'll get you if the fire don't
Belbury Poly, "Caermaen"
"Belbury Poly's Jim Jupp discovered the vocal—Joseph Taylor singing 'Bold William Taylor' on a CD of English traditional music. The rendition had been originally captured in 1908 on a cylinder recording made by the folk-song collector Percy Grainger. Sampling the whole tune, Jupp 'changed the speed and pitch and recontructed it to make a different melody with unintelligible lyrics'. Effectively, he made a dead man sing a brand-new song. Someone with a superstitious streak might well have hesitated before taking such a liberty." —Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (2011)
Brandi Carlisle, "The Stranger at My Door"
Condemn their sons to Hades, yeah, Gehenna's full of guys
Alive and well, but there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter
The Clientele, "Lunar Days"
When it's late November and you're lost in the leaves
And you speak in beaten copper tongues that nobody hears
Chris Sullivan, Damon Daunno & Company, "Wait for Me"
Ain't no compass, brother, ain't no map
Just a telephone wire and a railroad track
You keep on walking and don't look back till you get to the bottomland
The Cramps, "Fever"
Fever isn't such a new thing
Fever started long ago
Elvis Perkins, "In the Garden"
She wore her hair around her neck
At the foot of the bed her husband kept
In the sea of white roses where the lower things crept
Ensemble Economique, "I Light My Cigarette, I See YOU There"
Jake Xerxes Fussell, "Canyoneers"
What's in a man to make him thirst
For the kind of life he knows is cursed?
The Moulettes, "Devil of Mine"
And where the devil is that devil of mine?
Quickstep roulette rotating in time
He could have any heart that he wanted, but he chose mine
Sam Phillips, "World on Sticks"
I spent all my disbelief on you and how far
We made it before it all came apart
It's amazing what a girl can do with half a heart
Zeal & Ardor, "What's a Killer Like You Gonna Do Here?"
Have you ever killed a man before?
Did you see his begging eyes? Did you feel the gore?
I would really like to be writing about anything.
P.S. I just want to point out that if you have recently seen The Robots of Death (1977) and you open a copy of the official tie-in anthology Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (2017) and see a pair of characters named Poul and Toos, it is extremely confusing that the former is female, the latter is male, they are respectively a senior and a junior officer aboard the Death Star, and neither of them has a problem with robots.
1. There is a meme going around Facebook about the five films you would tell someone to watch in order to understand you. I've been saying Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale (1944), Ron Howard's Splash (1984), Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein (1993), John Ford's The Long Voyage Home (1940), and The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953). Which is hardly complete, but adding postscripts feels like cheating, so I haven't. The internet being what it is, of course, I first saw this meme in the mutated form of the five weird meats you would tell someone to eat in order to understand you, to which I had no difficulty replying: venison, blood sausage, snails, goat, and raw salmon.
2. In other memetic news, I tried the Midwest National Parks' automatic costume generator:
and while I don't think "Paranoid Hellbender" is a good costume, it'd be a great hardcore band.
3. I haven't done an autumnal mix in a while, so here is a selection of things that have been seasonally rotating. This one definitely tips more toward Halloween.
Anaïs Mitchell, "Any Way the Wind Blows"
In the fever of a world in flames
In the season of the hurricanes
Flood'll get you if the fire don't
Belbury Poly, "Caermaen"
"Belbury Poly's Jim Jupp discovered the vocal—Joseph Taylor singing 'Bold William Taylor' on a CD of English traditional music. The rendition had been originally captured in 1908 on a cylinder recording made by the folk-song collector Percy Grainger. Sampling the whole tune, Jupp 'changed the speed and pitch and recontructed it to make a different melody with unintelligible lyrics'. Effectively, he made a dead man sing a brand-new song. Someone with a superstitious streak might well have hesitated before taking such a liberty." —Simon Reynolds, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (2011)
Brandi Carlisle, "The Stranger at My Door"
Condemn their sons to Hades, yeah, Gehenna's full of guys
Alive and well, but there ain't no hell for a firewatcher's daughter
The Clientele, "Lunar Days"
When it's late November and you're lost in the leaves
And you speak in beaten copper tongues that nobody hears
Chris Sullivan, Damon Daunno & Company, "Wait for Me"
Ain't no compass, brother, ain't no map
Just a telephone wire and a railroad track
You keep on walking and don't look back till you get to the bottomland
The Cramps, "Fever"
Fever isn't such a new thing
Fever started long ago
Elvis Perkins, "In the Garden"
She wore her hair around her neck
At the foot of the bed her husband kept
In the sea of white roses where the lower things crept
Ensemble Economique, "I Light My Cigarette, I See YOU There"
Jake Xerxes Fussell, "Canyoneers"
What's in a man to make him thirst
For the kind of life he knows is cursed?
The Moulettes, "Devil of Mine"
And where the devil is that devil of mine?
Quickstep roulette rotating in time
He could have any heart that he wanted, but he chose mine
Sam Phillips, "World on Sticks"
I spent all my disbelief on you and how far
We made it before it all came apart
It's amazing what a girl can do with half a heart
Zeal & Ardor, "What's a Killer Like You Gonna Do Here?"
Have you ever killed a man before?
Did you see his begging eyes? Did you feel the gore?
I would really like to be writing about anything.
P.S. I just want to point out that if you have recently seen The Robots of Death (1977) and you open a copy of the official tie-in anthology Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View (2017) and see a pair of characters named Poul and Toos, it is extremely confusing that the former is female, the latter is male, they are respectively a senior and a junior officer aboard the Death Star, and neither of them has a problem with robots.