Saturday, 1 April 2023

Dredge

Wonderful inventory game where you fish around and things haunt you. Relaxing.

the Colorist Orchestra & Emiliana Torrini - "Thinking out loud"

haunting.


Other songs also nice, but this one stands out.

Lankum

Sad but beautiful music.

Wednesday, 29 March 2023

Gene Chandler - "Duke of Earl"

amazing 50s or 60s song, mum-and-dad music

Headie One & Fred Again - "Told (Brian Eno remix)"

Strange rap-electro vocoder stuff.  Not my usual cup of tea, but nice.

Sunday, 26 March 2023

Karen Russell - "Vampires in the lemon grove and other stories"

 




Fila makes the lemonade and monitors the hot dog machine, watching the meat rotate on wire spigots. I'm fascinated by this machine. The Italian name for it translates as "carousel of beef." Who would have guessed as such a device two hundred years ago? Back then we were all preoccupied with visions of apocalypse; Santa Francesca, the foundress of this very grove, gouged out her eyes while dictating premonitions of fire. What a shame, I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.



I once pictured time as a black magnifying glass and myself as a microscopic flightless insect trapped in that circle of night.



Wind blows the leaves apart. Lemons wink like a firmament of yellow stars, slowly ripening, and I can see the other, truer night behind them.