Words that could've moved mountains

Worlds are largely finite. Only this is correct. Forget every word that i said, that you heard, OH.



A Silver Mount Zion exists because your life might be okay, but that is no reason to listen to happy music, and believe that the world will be okay, because the world will definitely not be okay, and it is getting less and less okay by the second. If you would rather not think about it, then i will not blame you.

In November 1999 Efrim made songs with his piano. I used a paper check and a stamped envelope and i sent these things to Quebec, and a little later i got the songs. The songs extinguished any pathetic hopes that i had about the world ever being an okay place. That's pretty impressive for a musics to do.

The first song had dirge instrumentals interwoven with a preacher talking about doomsday, and how world peace will set the stage for complete destruction of civilizations by civilizations which secretly have no tolerance for one another. That is my favorite one, most days.

The last song is not about any lofty hopeless ideas. It is just dedicated to Efrim's dog, who had died a few weeks before. You can taste things in your mouth from when you were five, sometimes, listening to that one. It has field recordings of ghostly fireworks and people laughing. It is dedicated to a dead dog, is all. It is called For Wanda, you should never ever listen to it, because it is sadder than Górecki.

They were never supposed to really do anything else or play live in front of people, but that is what ended up happening anyway. Tonight i am going to see them for the first time. Maybe i will die of sadness part way through, except that they do not play their piano on tour, because pianos are heavy. I bet that they are not half as hopeless without a piano.

Don't worry i will see a band who is not tragically sad, eventually. Maybe Led Zeppelin will stop through.