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| ruttentud |
Posted - 05/29/2005 : 00:35:53
This song reminds me Of Mice and Men. Cause they got chased out of a town called Weed. And "poor soul lost in the shady trees" Lennie (the slow one) runs back to the place they slept that one night, in the forest and couldn't find exactly where he was supposed to go. And he touched a lady's dress that was soft (velvety)...some things match up. But, i don't think it's about this. Anybody have some info on this song? |
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| Spooner St. |
Posted - 06/01/2005 : 22:20:08
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Steinbeck/grapes.html
The Grapes of Wrath
THE EPIC STORY OF THE JOAD FAMILY'S
MIGRATION FROM THE OKLAHOMA DUST BOWL TO
THE PROMISED LAND OF CALIFORNIA |
| Carl |
Posted - 06/01/2005 : 10:01:11
I just heard this for the first time yeterday(I only got DW last week). I much prefare The Pixies instrumental. Joey's guitar really brings out the best in that song. |
| VoVat |
Posted - 06/01/2005 : 06:37:06
Okay, I guess I don't remember it that well.
Didn't "The Grapes of Wrath" take place at least partially in Oklahoma? I don't know for sure, since I've never read it.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| marcusb |
Posted - 05/31/2005 : 07:01:04
It definitely took place in Cali |
| BLT |
Posted - 05/30/2005 : 22:07:52
It took place in Salinas, California, didn't it? I haven't read many Steinbeck novels, but every one I've read was in California.
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| VoVat |
Posted - 05/30/2005 : 12:22:23
There was a town in "Of Mice and Men" called Weed? Interesting. Probably not the same one from "Velvety," though, since I don't believe that book took place in California.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| BLT |
Posted - 05/29/2005 : 11:24:30
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I had called it "Velvety Instrumental Version" because at the time I thought it sounded like the Velvet Underground, which, of course, it doesn't, in hindsight. So then I was kind of stuck with that. Okay, I called something "Velvety Instrumental Version" so now I've got to write the lyricized version of "Velvety." So I had to think about what "Velvety" meant to me, and it's really lyrically the sister song of a Pixies song called "Velouria." It's the same character, the same imagery. Part of the same lore of Northern California, and Mount Shasta. This woman that I have in mind she's covered in velour. She's like a lemur. She's human, but she's kind of like a cat. She's feline, because she's covered in this short soft hair. Velvety. I suppose it's partially based on my wife, mixed in with lots of other things, things that I've read and things that I've seen when driving around that part of the world, that area of Mt. Shasta. Weed, Eureka.Merle Haggard lives around there, actually. It's a funny area. It's a real New Agey area. I don't know if you've heard of Sedona Arizona, but it's similar to Sedona in that it has these vortices that new agers believe in. I might even kind of believe in them. It has to do with magnetic fields in the Earth's crust. Some are negative and some are positive, some are neutral. I don't really understand it. It's a weird area and the Rosicrucians, that is, the modern cult of Rosicrucians, based of course, in California, published a lot of crack-pot books earlier in the twentieth century including one about this kind of Atlantis continent in the Pacific off the coast of Alaska, Canada or Washington. Up there. Like Atlantis, it sank to the bottom of the sea, and everyone died, but of course, in California many of these beings that were somehow superhuman, or I don't know, they're aliens or something. They're humanesque, but they're not like you or me. They went to Northern California and moved into the hollows of Mount Shasta, which is where they lived in these tunnels. I'm blabbing on, aren't I?
http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6416 |
| kathryn |
Posted - 05/29/2005 : 08:14:35
Interesting theory, ruttentud. I'll have to reread that and think about the song. Thanks.
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| n/a |
Posted - 05/29/2005 : 00:40:27
Here you have some good information about it
http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12975
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