Comments on: Unbeknownst: Sinking in Quicksand

By: GSS

GSS — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:31:52 +0000

Lucky you said ‘not in a gay way’. I might have totally gotten the wrong idea.

By: kpunk

kpunk — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:13:58 +0000

I like this stuff OK. She has a great voice and the music is really good. But I’ve become a fan of your voice (not is a gay way, mind you) which is why I prefer your other stuff.

By: GSS

GSS — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:27:56 +0000

Lyrically, the ‘weather’ song of mine that bears the most resemblance to what you are describing is ‘The Shortest Day’ from ‘the Weather is Far Away’ page.

But I suppose music can have sense meanings all of its own without having anything to do with the lyrics.

Actually, that is kind of what the Song from Years Ago is about: sense meanings, memories, remembrances of the sound and smell of things that link you back to the past in a vivid way, while the real world seems dreamy and remote (and disconnected like you say). So, I wanted to make the song sound kind of like the memory of another song.

By: Janet

Janet — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:02:51 +0000

No, of course it doesn’t ruin it at all (I did say ‘evocative and very moving’, after all). I think I was picking up on a sense of disconnect, or detachment, from a certain violence of emotion. The coming of spring feels that way here, somehow (the end of something, a spinning down of the physical challenges of fighting winter, a release). Although maybe I should stop reading so much in to everything. . .

By: GSS

GSS — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:45:30 +0000

Actually that is about an old woman with senile dementia and a long-dead husband.

Hope that doesn’t ruin it for you. Glad you are enjoying them.

By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:51:21 +0000

I’m enjoying these a lot. I keep re-playing “Song From Years Ago,” which is so evocative, and very moving. As I listen to it, it’s a grim, grey day in a wintry post-industrial Pennsylvania landscape; but the song brings a beautiful languid foreshadowing of spring. . . thank you.