Dig Yourself a Dichotomy

Just bought the new Nick Cave. It imagines Lazarus is brought back to life in modern day New York. Things do not go well for him, being as he's left to his own devices. Poor Larry. Well, I'll let Nick, ever the biblical scholar, explain it:

"Ever since I can remember hearing the Lazarus story, when I was a kid, you know, back in church, I was disturbed and worried by it. Traumatized, actually. We are all, of course, in awe of the greatest of Christ's miracles - raising a man from the dead - but I couldn't help but wonder how Lazarus felt about it. As a child it gave me the creeps, to be honest. I've taken Lazarus and stuck him in New York City, in order to give the song, a hip, contemporary feel. I was also thinking about Harry Houdini who spent a lot of his life trying to debunk the spiritualists who were cashing in on the bereaved. He believed there was nothing going on beyond the grave. He was the second greatest escapologist, Harry was, Lazarus, of course, being the greatest. I wanted to create a kind of vehicle, a medium, for Houdini to speak to us if he so desires, you know, from beyond the grave."

Nick usually sticks with the Gothic Old Testament material. Interesting. Video:



The dichotomy? Well, while I'm enjoying Nick's aggressive darkness, I'm really obsessed with The Great Lake Swimmers. What do they sound like? Kind of like laying on your back in a swimming pool on a day where the weather is perfect so that the air, the water and your body are all the same temperature so you can just float and stare at a clear blue sky and lose yourself in a deep meditative happiness.

Plus, they wrote the best love song that uses cartography to describe a woman's body:


This one makes me want to sit and drink a beer while looking out over a valley toward the morning mist lifting out of dense trees on a mountaintop. In fact, there's a woman at 1:37 who looks exactly how this band makes me feel. Which is awesome because since yesterday I've billed out half the hours I billed out in a five day period last week. And that five day period was a record week for me. Looks like I'll beat that this week. Me tired. Enjoy:



And this song makes me, well, want to be in the video. I wonder if my large family will meet me in a green field for a picnic? At about 1:50 you will start rooting for the drummer to hit the cymbal. You know he wants to. But he shows amazing restraint.