happy all hallows' eve, though no one celebrates it here.

[intertribal]

I am currently rediscovering Sigur Ros, whom I've neglected for the past year or more.

I think Von is my favorite album of theirs, which is strange because it has the lowest rating on iTunes (early, undeveloped sound). But the song "Victory Rose" is so scary I can't listen to it. My favorites are "Mother Earth", "Dawn", "Darkness", and "Hope" (my name - Von). I like their other albums too, of course, but Von really is the most hopeful, at the same time that some of the sounds are absolutely frightening. It reminds me of that place I used to imagine when I was little, that I think I saw in an in-flight magazine - the cold, purple fields of grain under an undying sunset. Of watching the sun rise while crossing the Pacific Ocean. It makes me remember my life in totality, instead of just the latest advancements or the past ten years, which is what I usually define as my life - with a huge void missing. Von is the kind of music that makes me remember emotions, not from when I was younger, but emotions that last forever, emotions of being in tune with the planet. Life emotions. No, I know what it is:

the sublime.

Felicity has been trying to make us think of what the sublime is for us all semester. Apparently it's very important for a great deal of film theory. Jacques Ranciere and the like. It's not bliss, it's something better.

Comments

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

I don't know what to say to this exactly, but i feel the need to comment a general "yes." To Sigur Rós, frightening sounds, the sublime, and that strange landscape that seems somehow familiar...(I think we talked about this before?)

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Have we? Maybe during Cognard's assignment in AP Lang? I don't really remember.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

I think I mentioned a scene sort of like it in Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind, and how it seemed familiar to me and/or reminded me of something you'd said...