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THE SOUND OF WINGS
by Sean
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photo by katja materMount Eerie - "In Moonlight". A hundred black cats cross your path. A hundred black birds cross your sky. A hundred black thoughts cross your mind. & in moonlight you go walking, not even knowing what i'm looking for / my life is just saying one thing / "i will find you". And there where you expect stillness: noise. The same black shapes, thousands of them, shrieking, and as the moonlight meets their fur & feathers you see your own face reflected there, the colour of never. [buy] Rajaton - "Mita kaikatat, kivonen?". This is a song whose English translation is "Wherefore Grumblest Thou, O Grindstone?", performed by a Finnish folk-choral acapella group. It's also wonderful. The reason the grindstone is grumbling is that life seems hard, but the song Rajaton are singing says: uh, dude, no it's not; check out all the good stuff that happens. And then they sing it in sweet-tea, cardinals, bluejays, kites. [buy] --- Elsewhere: A thoughtful introduction to Jim Woodring's wise, broken, baffling, genius Frank comic. Love Michael's comment -- I always saw Frank as equal parts smelling salts and embalming fluid. --- Visiting the site today you might be lucky enough to have landed on our new header graphic by Kit Malo. If not, you can hit reload a bunch of times til you see it. Kit's a dear gramo-friend and long ago did a guestpost for us, with Alden Penner. Thanks so & so & so much, K Quebec. Posted by Sean at May 26, 2008 12:13 AMComments
the mount eerie song begins with a promise and ends in despair. strange how this song was aptly chosen for these days. It's always so spot on over here--I am like, "hey, I am interested in [band]," and then a few days later, there's a StG post about it. Thanks for the Mount Eerie introduction. Amazing description, too, as always. Thank you for constantly living up to what music writing should stick to in the first place: the concept of criticism-as-describing. Posted by Jim Withington at May 28, 2008 2:54 PMPost a comment |
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about the authors
Sean Michaels lives in Montreal, where he is writing a novel. His work also occasionally appears at McSweeney's. Follow him on Twitter or reach him here.
Dan Beirne is an actor and writer living in Montreal. He writes fiction fiction fiction on here. It may feel true, but it is never True. He is most proud of his most recent project The Bitter End. Email him here Jordan Himelfarb lives in Toronto, where he is editor in chief of The Mark. Jordan's posts appear at Said the Gramophone only on the last Wednesday of every month. Email him here. Site design and header typography by Neale McDavitt-Van Fleet. The header graphic is randomized: this one is by . 
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