Photographs as Memories
June 23rd, 2009
My friends live behind an abandoned building which apparently had the chest above full of lost photos from it’s previous inhabitants. I have no idea where I put the batch of photos I collected but it reminded me of the Eyeless in Gaza album I started listening to obsessively the day I unpreparedly left to Minneapolis. Thanks to Stevie, I have mp3s of almost all of the Eyeless in Gaza albums save for Pale Hands I Loved So Well. The evocative “Others” and idiosyncratic “Fixation” are from their first album, 1981’s Photographs as Memories, my favorite album thus far.
Found photos to come as soon as I find them, being something of an anonymous visual anectdote. My favorite is the recurring woman’s goth phase in the early ’90’s.
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June 23rd, 2009 at 4:09 am
The lazy trumpet on “Others” reminds me of early Di6. Funny era.
June 25th, 2009 at 12:59 am
I am a sucker for horns and saxophones.
June 25th, 2009 at 1:32 am
I love it in Di6, because it sounds like a war trumpet or something. The context. Saxophone in Sisters of Mercy is brilliant… great representation of the 80s.