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June is the start of my rainy season, which means it started raining in July, which in my case means trees fell, roads were flooded and power was lost for some 24 hours last Wednesday. Me, I was happy in my black-out, rained-in state because I had to stop working, which means I had time to think about the weather.
Rain is the end of a fling, huddling together to talk knowingly about dead grandmothers you never knew, spilling your guts out to someone whose name you may forget someday, but only the name. The problem sometimes with spilling your guts out is you wait to do it to someone who really gets you, but once you're in front of someone who really gets you, there is just no need to explain yourself.
It's like conversations are something that occurs between strangers, or for example, the longer you stay in MOG, the less you have to say. So I guess you kind of just babble on.
Here I always try to force something that won't
fit into something I might find.
And we can call it a story or
chalk it up to failure.
- The Spinanes
Rain On : by Dirty Three : from Cinder
Falling : by Soma Sonic : from Future
Dangle : by The Spinanes : from Manos
Koei, Herons in Rain
c. 1960, woodblock print
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Comments (18)
The best part of talking with the one who gets you, is you never have to finish your sentences and you can have the most private talks even in a crowded room because it is as if you are speaking in code.
Enjoy your rain, darling
the last time I spilled my guts, there was no one to clean up the mess and it kinda laid there festering, for all to see. I eventually walked away so as to disassociate myself from the smell.
there is something about smells giving eyesight to the blind?
It eventually rained and washed away my shame...
I sit here swealtering already.
..........Always enjoy your reveries, Ilay, i look forward to them..& whatever music you bring.....today's little essay immediately called to mind an early Dylan masterpiece.."The Chimes Of Freedom". The setting of the song is similiar to the scenerio you lay out...a young, idealistic couple caught in a sudden storm & duck undercover & spend the night in the passionate discussions & utter optimism that only the youth can muster. The hyperbole of the lyric matches perfecrly the hyperbolic feelings of Love in it's early stages.
You can babble on here, anytime- we get you.
I can't predict what the record books will hold, but it's been a very wet and hot summer so far. The humidity just streams off the lush green foliage as if it were overjoyed by the tropical abnormality, but not nearly as jubilant as I am to regard yet another perfectly assembled post. I don't mind the climbing silence of familiarity as long as time holds up its end. You've had such effect on the things I love and the way I love them, I can only say thanks...again.
{{{Sunset}}} - Loveshines II
interesting thoughts on gut-spilling. i think my approach has been a little different, more like an open book. it doesn't rain much here in Venice, CA but i also seem to find the beach as therapeutic as i used to find a good rain.
talk about differences. our power outages usually come from too many people running air-conditioners inland.
rain or shine, good to read you.
nice! enjoy the after-rain coolness!
Rains nice as long as your indoors.
Robin your making me home sick. I feel a little out of my enviroment living in WA at times.
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Even better is the joy of being "cooped up" with someone with whom you don't need to feel afraid of dead air. I find that when I'm with strangers, I feel that need to be "on", to show my best side. Who needs that kind of pressure?
We could use some rain over here, but I pass on trees falling (we had that this winter).
I agree with there is no need to explain yourself when the person is the right one. Not that it happens too often thought.
I loved "Rain on". Downloading the Dirty 3s album at the moment.
The longer the relationship, the more fun confiding.
Isn’t Soma Sonic’s “Falling” beautifully, simply and complexly sung, melodied, rhythmed, percussed, arranged and recorded?
Here's "Rain From the Skies" from Dennis Brown's 1988 album Inseparable.
Amber, i am lucky enough to have that finish-each-other's-sentences kind of a relationship with a few people and treasure each of them more than they know ...or maybe they know.
Paul, it's amazing how you went from guts back to rain with nothing but smells in between. the last time i spilled my guts, someone cleaned it up before it could do the damage i wanted it to.
Jeff, that Dylan song (thankfully, one i know of) is ever the perfect song equivalent of this post, down to the rain tending to bring that hyperbole out. i love the line: condemned to drift or else be kept drifting.
youth and optimism...
Rex, your comment certainly tells me you do. thanks for dropping by.
Scott, sunset + shines makes an awesome juxtaposition, made brighter and twinklier by that lovely song. weather has gotten more extreme (summerer summers, rainier rain) it's so bi-polar and encouraging of mood swings.
Robin, power outage due to a/c overload? i never knew. ours are generally due to inadequate power supply, and yes, mean-ass rain. Cher's singing voice is so good for that song, one i haven't heard in a while.
Frank, you got that right. no matter how awful it got, when the rain stopped, everyone kind of just coooled down.
Ray, i mean, rain was cathartic outdoors, but now that i am older, it is just annoying and flu-inducing. yo, this post was going to be titled "rain when i die" at one point but i decided, well, i did survive.
Dale, i am with you 100%, who needs that kind of pressure? i think i like my current work from home situation because i am so tired of turning it "on". yes, dead air sure is a gauge of closeness, good one.
Danny, falling trees must be a rite of passage to grown-ups living on their own. during the worst typhoon i lived through, years ago, i was alone in a 3rd floor apartment with unscreened, ungrilled glass windows.
Charles, i am with you on what you said so pointedly about Falling. now that Dennis Brown is one celebratory number. one tune i considered for this post, a Vietnamese song called Mwa Ha, has the same vibe but i had posted it before.
Babylon? Babble on! Brooks babble, so why not us? It may rain upon you, poeby, but you ain't no drip.
*nattering* - STAY DRY!
But lets be realistic, a little permeation happens every single time, so I wish you and yours the best this rainy season. Atleast it means that your work is washed out!!
I like huddling in the rain, I like that middle song even more - very trippy Portishead-ilk of sound! Yeah!
Leave it to you to post a Spinanes tune that's related to rainy weather. They so suit rainy/overcast days w/their melancholic sound. So love them. Wish they'd make more albums!
I like the Soma Sonic but it's way too slick sounding for my taste. The Dirty 3 song is quite unusual, I like it.
Hmmm.