tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post6100406231592890198..comments2024-03-21T22:36:54.451-04:00Comments on HISTORIES OF THINGS TO COME: All Saints' DayLC Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-49026188463151053172010-11-03T21:47:04.643-04:002010-11-03T21:47:04.643-04:00Thanks very much for your interesting suggestions,...Thanks very much for your interesting suggestions, pblfsda, I haven't heard Cale's name come up in quite awhile! But I think that's because I stopped following what Brian Eno was up to at some point.LC Douglasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04250961297714038453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2905155363976375938.post-25544448401564953992010-11-02T19:02:31.688-04:002010-11-02T19:02:31.688-04:00About twenty years ago John Cale released an album...About twenty years ago John Cale released an album called "Words For The Dying" which set Dylan Thomas' words to music, largely prompted by Cale's loss of his father and precipitated during the Falkland Islands conflict. The details of the circumstances and that period are in his memoir "What's Welsh For Zen?", which itself is of added interest to comics fans as the graphic layouts of the entire book were done by Dave McKean. <br />The album was originally released on Brian Eno's Opal imprint, which at the time was manufactured by WEA/Warner Bros. Opal only existed for a few years and I knew it's catalog has since been reissued (mostly or completely?). I wanted to recommend it and thought I should first check its availability. When I found it, it occurred to me that the reason it came to my mind when I read your post on commemorating the dead wasn't just the relevance of the poems. Perhaps unconsciously, I may have remembered that the label that reissued it was All Saints. <br />Oh, and the elections are always the first Tuesday to follow the first of the month. But, yeah, that's all the spooky coincidences I want to deal with this Halloween. Let's hope the zombies aren't registered.pblfsdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07471473189061385119noreply@blogger.com