From: Kevin J. Bonham, sleepycat@eudoramail.com Subject: AENT + sign / Goldfish video Date: 2/3/2002 4:24:39 AM To: seance@lists.no-fi.com OK folks, I have the best eyesight of anyone I know (I spend some of my time catching snails that are 1-2mm wide and identifying them *to species* without magnification, so this is no idle boast - I can also read the bottom line of the eye test chart at twice the distance used for eyetests.) I am giving you all the news that you should not strain your eyes trying to read what is on that goddamn sign on the AENT cover because ...*drumroll*... it is facing the other way. I clearly see the pole extending up the middle of the back of it, so there. :P As for the meaning of the cover itself, my wanky impression is of "the strange but soothing end of a very long journey", goes well with the title in this regard. The sign is both desolate in its isolation and state of decay, but also mysterious because the content's on the other side. The back cover is very interesting - the top section of the beach does not look real. I really like this cover art, BTW. I'd like to make it clear that my strange reaction to "After Everything" was largely because I was sick (completely recovered now), but I still find the thing quite poignant (it's significant that it was the only song to affect me that way even in my strange condition) - alongside 'this wonderful little wristslitter "Electric" ' (as I introduced it on radio once) it is one of the most relentlessly miserable songs they have ever recorded. I just don't detect a single note of hope in this song, all just quiet measured resignation, reminds me of Joy Division's brilliant "The Eternal" in this regard. It's so negative that it's not even *dark* - it's just plain *down*. Today I watched a silly bit of merchandise called "Goldfish" which I bought off ebay last week. There are two very strange things about this (a) not only was it in my own city but I discovered that I already knew the seller when I went to pay for it (b) although I have something like 700 records + CDs, and dozens of t-shirts and posters, this is actually the first *video* I have ever bought. A few questions occurred to me: * I was sure there is a video off one of the Heyday tracks where *most* of the video is footage of Papua New Guinea tribespeople. Did one of the videos have two versions, or is this a song not included on "Goldfish". * Goldfish is very outdated because it only goes until 1990, but how many videos have the band actually shot since then? I could only think of 'Ripple' and 'Two Places At Once' (excluding live videos and side projects) - have there been any more or have they completely quit this line of marketing? Cheers, Kevin. --- Self-Appointed President, Oxydental Fan Club Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com