[2008] Gas & Dust

[2008] Gas & Dust

Inspired by the David Brooks book "Bobos in Paradise" and an article I read on the so-called "Prosperity Gospel", which is one of the weirder religious movements I've heard of.

My heart’s sinking, and folded, and shattered, to pieces And my heart’s sinking deep down to the ocean floor And my blood has given up on oxygen it needs no more And your love was photosynthesis, but now that star is gone So we live beneath…

Gonna let this moment bend us into circles so we have no ends in light of everything you think of being isn’t always knowing something isn’t coming, something in you still denying love, love is never wanting to be all alone and so we roam…

titus passes by his old home, decides not to go back.

this is titus alone and the brown dog affair. that, combined with the slowness, makes for a long-ass song.

titus and gertrude throughout Gormenghast

in our vision of this world these guys live out in the foothills and are threatened not by floodwater, as in Gormenghast, but by landslides, as in The Control of Nature (John McPhee).

this one almost didn't make it. jess turned in heroic gtr+vox through a sore throat.