Nine Days...

...Till pay day then I can buy this! And a couple of other Handsome Family albums!

I suppose I could ask Garfield to download them for me, but it is nice occasionally to have CD's rather than MP3's. Especially as Retro Goth media player seems to be obsessed with playing Depeche Mode at the moment - bloody random option isn't so random.

Anyway it also seems that the Handsome Family also may be touring here soon - although no where near the south of England, unless you count the unconfirmed London date :-( poopy.

Been listening to this particular track a lot lately:

The Giant of Illinois
The giant of Illinois died from a blister on his toe after walking all day in the first winter's snow. Throwing bits of stale bread to the last speckled doves, he never even felt his shoe full of blood. Delirious with pain, his bedroom walls began to glow and he felt himself soaring up through falling snow. And the sky was a woman's arms. A boy with a club foot had sat next to him in school. Once upon a summer's day they went wandering through the woods. They spotted a sleeping swan on the banks of a muddy stream and they stormed it with rocks till it collapsed in the reeds. They lay out on a green lawn full of chocolate and lemonade, but under the blue bowl the giant was afraid because the sky was a woman's arms.
(Handsome Family, Through The Trees, 1998).

I hope when I die the "Sky is a woman's arms", because death doesn't sound so bad that way
:o)