Songs For Your Day

I’m not processing anything today. Tomorrow morning, early, I leave on a flight to Denver to visit my dear friends that I’ve come to know through, as lame as it sounds, the Anathallo messageboard. This will be the 3rd time that we’ve all come together as a group. Here is a video that my good friend, Jeremy Albert, made of the last camp featuring Anathallo’s song “Dokkoise House (With Face Covered).”

anathallo camp, 2008 – millington, tn**dokkoise house (with face covered) by anathallorandom shots from an amazing weekend.

That a community like the one that has developed on Anathallo’s messageboard could develop should serve as something of a testimony to the heart of their music. It’s hard to even write about my friends, or the times we have gotten to spend together, so I’ll simply copy and paste what I wrote once to a friend after the first ‘Thallo Camp:

“this weekend…to describe it would be something of an injustice. the only thing i could really say, the only thing true that i know you’d easily understand, is that everyone is just as beautiful as you imagine them to be on the boards. i could say the things we did–shake face pictures, s’mores around a constantly vigiled campfire, sleeping bags beneath boundless stars, staring down an impending stormfront to make time to break camp, a perfectly timed Colour Revolt show at the Jackpot Saloon in downtown Lawrence, a single hotel room crammed to overfilling with hearts simultaneously laughing and breaking that they should have to leave again so soon–i could speak of these things as best I could, and hope that you could only know how much you were missed…”

if all the world could have seen us this weekend, an example of how it could be, instead of how it is, i don’t know that another war would ever be fought, or another stomach ever hungry.

So, I’m leaving tomorrow morning early, to experience that again. All of you enjoy your holiday weekends, and I will see you again on Tuesday.

this weekend certainly has the potential to inspire plenty more ‘songs’.

see you soon, papa bear.

Comment by rachel May 23, 2009 @ 2:13 pm

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have superly amounts of funtime

Comment by lcrelyea May 24, 2009 @ 2:47 pm

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represent!

…well. mostly.

Comment by rima May 25, 2009 @ 3:58 pm

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