Two Fascinating Reads This Week
Saturday, 17 April 2021 15:36![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
derwent_fSometimes, when I'm bored, I open longform.org and hit the random button until I come across an article intriguing enough. This week I read two fascinating articles covering similar subjects.
Gratuitous Pictures of Your Grief by Lindsay Zoladz: On the late singer-songwriter Judee Sill, and how the memorials on "virtual cemetery" site Find a Grave can be more meaningful than a stream of #RIPs.
It was Laura Michelle Kelly's cover of 'Jesus Was a Cross Maker' that introduced me to Judee Sill. The cover is a bonus track on Kelly's underrated album, The Storm Inside. I love the entire album, and after listening for months I finally googled the lyrics. And then I fell down the rabbit hole that was Judee Sill's life. I have yet to listen to her albums - I'm a very 'the right mood' kind of person, in that I need to be in the right mood to listen/watch/read something (which is why despite one year in quarantine I still haven't caught up with Peaky Blinders seasons 4 & 5 yet, I haven't found the right moment).
Our Band Should Not Be Your Life by Amos Barshad: Six days on the road with Quarterbacks, a young band on the brink of… something.
I've never heard of Quarterbacks before I stumbled upon this article. But it contains all my favourite things: people who lack direction, 'what's next?' without answer, the pervading sense of restlessness.
Gratuitous Pictures of Your Grief by Lindsay Zoladz: On the late singer-songwriter Judee Sill, and how the memorials on "virtual cemetery" site Find a Grave can be more meaningful than a stream of #RIPs.
It was Laura Michelle Kelly's cover of 'Jesus Was a Cross Maker' that introduced me to Judee Sill. The cover is a bonus track on Kelly's underrated album, The Storm Inside. I love the entire album, and after listening for months I finally googled the lyrics. And then I fell down the rabbit hole that was Judee Sill's life. I have yet to listen to her albums - I'm a very 'the right mood' kind of person, in that I need to be in the right mood to listen/watch/read something (which is why despite one year in quarantine I still haven't caught up with Peaky Blinders seasons 4 & 5 yet, I haven't found the right moment).
Our Band Should Not Be Your Life by Amos Barshad: Six days on the road with Quarterbacks, a young band on the brink of… something.
I've never heard of Quarterbacks before I stumbled upon this article. But it contains all my favourite things: people who lack direction, 'what's next?' without answer, the pervading sense of restlessness.
