See, the problem is I don't want to have to say anything vaguely academic or insightful here anymore (not sure that I ever did). See, when one actually puts effort into school, it's rewarding. It's tiresome. I kind of just want to post a new wave cover of 'Funky Town', and talk about the opening montage of 'Revenge Of The Nerds'.

But no, there's always something more. I found a badly kept secret that I'm sure most of you are already in on.

Elizabeth Fraser & Jeff Buckley - All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun

Not helping that I am currently, once again, buried in between seasons three and four of 'Six Feet Under'... here comes this thing, like going through your attic and finding your deceased grandmother's lifetime of correspondence. Kind of makes you view her in a new light.

Or maybe somewhat like hearing a tape recording of yourself from years passed. Saying things your present self cannot conceive. I sounded like Newhart on Red Bull & vodka. But I digress. Depends who is dead, and how.

I can empathize what it's like... doing a duet with a ghost. But not just a ghost in the hackneyed, Boo Berry sense. More with ghosts of potential, of time fading. Of doors slowly closing, things like that.

But it's not about me. It's a fairly rudimentary song- by far neither of their best vocal pieces. Yet there remains something inexplicably comforting or settling within the cloying guitar line. Images of, like, Casey & Finnegan doing a cameo in the Green Forest.

-kam

Buy Jeff Buckley's 'Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk'

Buy The Cocteau Twins' 'Stars & Topsoil'

This song is on neither. As far as I can tell (ie- allmusic can tell me) it is on nothing. Thank you, internet!