(original liner notes)
SEWING CIRCLE
A MIXED UP SENSE OF THE FIRST-PERSON IDENTITY
or
HOW TO PUNK UP YOUR SELF AWARENESS
The Lucky Dragon [Fukuryu Maru] was the name of a Japanese tuna trawler which was caught in the
fallout of the United States' hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll on March 1st, 1954. All 23 members of
the boat's crew suffered the effects of radiation
sickness after being rained on by ash from the
explosion, 500 miles away.
Once the boat itself had been determined free of
dangerous radiation, it was painted entirely black
and put out to sea again, still for use as a fishing vessel,
but re-christened The Dark Falcon.
side one:
HEARTBREAKER (2.9 mb mp3)
i know not, and i ask not, if guilt's in thy heart.
i but know that i love thee, whatever thou art.
thou has called me thy angel in moments of bliss,
and thy angel i'll be mid the horrors of this.
through the furnace unshrinking, thy steps to pursue,
and shield thee, and save thee, or perish there too.
Holly kept a large green sketchbook into which she pasted photos, bits of writing and other pretty things through the years. Along with the photos of friends and pencil drawings was this poem, divided across a couple slips of paper, and facing a collection of carefully cutout body parts from a transvestite magazine. The words got stuck in her head, and attached themselves to a melody, which she recorded on a tape and mailed to Luke. He and Brendan recorded the guitar and banjo sitting in the kitchen on Ring Street in Providence, Rhode Island, and Mike played the drums in the living room. It was around the 4th of July so the kids in the neighborhood were setting off firecrackers constantly--so close to the kitchen window that sometimes it was all you could hear on the tape. A little research discovers the words were accidentally stolen from the Irish folk song "Come Rest In This Bosom, My Own Stricken Deer".
NEW HOMES (2.5 mb mp3)
CHERCHEZ LE DRAGON (3.5 mb mp3)
ABOUT PETER (1.5 mb mp3)
i cant... i cant talk to them when they're not there.
yeah you can...just pretend they're right here.
if you talk into the tape recorder they'll hear you.
just pretend you're right there talking to them.
im not talking to you about something, about peter... like peter...like peter...
NEW TREES (1.5 mb mp3)
RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER (2.9 mb mp3)
you are a sailor.
sail baby sail.
say hello to god in outer space.
don't be afraid to sail, baby, sail, baby, sail away with me.
you've got the best dance moves, that i've ever seen.
don't be afraid to dance, baby, dance, baby, dance away with me.
One explanation for the end of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey comes from the historian Arnold Toynbee: that time moves neither in circles nor in a straight line, but in a spiral, so that the past and the future intersect in unexpected places, and in unexpected ways. Sometime in the eighties the phrase TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER was stenciled at street intersections in several cities by someone who seems to have felt the urgency connected with this point of view enough to reproduce it over and over everywhere they went. The words to this song belong to a series of dreams Holly had after our friend Shira died in the winter of 1997, dreams of a place where the past and the future met, and the dead were resurrected. The music is made from a recording of the chimes hanging on Holly's parents' porch, when freezing rain fell in the dead of winter.
IT'S HARD TO FALL ASLEEP (2.4 mb mp3)
what about you?
SCHJELDAHL'S PARTY (492 kb mp3)
I'D PLAY AT THE ROTUNDA (2.4 mb mp3)
here, point it towards the hole
FIREWORKS AT HOME (404 kb mp3)
I HEAR HORRIBLE MUSIC (3.4 mb mp3)
side two:
FIELD CALLS (748 kb mp3)
IMAGINARY HOME (1.9 mb mp3)
IT'S HARD TO WAKE UP (3.7 mb mp3)
you're hard to hold onto, like a dream upon waking
FORTRESS LOOP (600 kb mp3)
GIRLWORLD (3 IN A BED MIX) (3.7 mb mp3)
still, you are the girl, you are the girl.
in love with the world, in love with the girl
Pablo recorded the original "Girlworld " on a walk early one fall morning right before he moved to Glasgow. When Luke and Holly made it to Scotland to visit him, the days were slowly starting to get longer again, no one was in love with anyone any more, and all three of them shared a single bed in his often unheated flat.
I LOVE DEATH TO YOU (1.1 mb mp3)
through the furnace unshrinking, thy steps to pursue.
and shield thee and save thee, or perish there too.
you know?
WHAT AM I SO MAD ABOUT? (876 kb mp3)
ALL THESE WIRES BETWEEN US (3.7 mb mp3)
you're already talking funny
MERCY (6.3 MB MP3)
LEAVING THINGS AS THEY ARE (1.7 mb mp3)
Bells from the church near Will And Peter's house in Philadelphia, Will's stereo bleeding in from his room on the first floor. Cricket, Holly, and Bill talking and laughing three winters ago, Holly playing the piano. A first attempt at ending things cleanly.
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TAK TIL
Holly, Stewart, Kristian, Claire, Cricket, Kevy B, Both Peter F's, Will, Brendan, Frankie
Pablo, Opa, Nikki, Mooner, Pathos, Etherea, Diskono, Vanity of the Vanities, Emma, Suzi, Lauren, Annika, Shira, Harmony, Broklyn Beats, Rob P, Megan, Julia, Gary, Ignacio, Michelle, Marianne, Annie, Mike B, Scotty P, Myles, Nick F, Alfred, Ivan
Peter S, Mike C, Josh M, Josh P, James, Eliza, Emily, Greta, Valerio, Dan S, Dan H-S, Guido, Sarah K, Løppen, Noemie, Jina, Kris, Andrew W, Andrew S, Disco-bruit, Record Hospital, Datamusik, Weekend, Rough Trade, Hotel Du Dragon,
Dot Dash, Spaceboy, Sound and Fury, Sea Level, Vanessa, Bill, Rhiz, Bjarke, English Muffin,
Safety In Numbers, Baked Goods, Swerve, Justin K, Hausmusik, Wrists and Pistols, RArms,
Shock Out, Work For Sleep, Friends, Enemies, Parents, Children, Houses, Cities, Airplanes, Food, and Beds.
Compiled in the Northern Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia, Augtember 2002
Written and Illustrated by Luke, Claire, and Brendan. Product by 555 recordings,
as executed by the dualpLOVER family.
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