I'm traveling with the co-op lot. Shiro are moving into a house. I'm accompanying Rosa to a gathering with them. When we get there Pete gives her a really big hug that I think will crush her, but it doesn't.
They are all collecting wood for their woodburners. They have been given
permission by this house to take the old scrap wood out of the cellars
for burning, so they are gathering all they can find. There are other
useful things they find in the cellar which they take with them as
well.
I meet some spirits who talk to me about my grandfather, and tell me
about how he had a really close connection to Odin, and all these
ancient beings. It was to do with the theme of dying gods, and the
merging of Christianity with the old Norse religions.
I'm now with my brother Joe and all the Sheffield friends.
The older generation would like us - to do a performance. Mum and
Nicky are choosing which songs they want to see and which they don't.
I see the set list of choices. Its written in runic letters which read
both across and backwards and up to down and down to up.
My brother Joe gives them a taster of each of the songs that he has
chosen to show them.
Some are in liking with the elders. The ones that are in liking are
mostly nice traditional and folky things, but some are not. One song
film in particular which has this swearing, and the content of which is quite disturbing
- a political piece about a guy who is good but who gets killed by the
people. He gets shot in the end and the elders don't like it. Its not
entertaining but challenging to them and their ideas. I watch it with
the elders and it begins with a very quiet and eerie ambient sound
wash that builds up slowly over a number of minutes into this scary
horror movie esk disturbance and with all these guys dragging this one
guy over to this place to kill him.
My mum says to Joe that he can't show this song film. Joe asks why
not, and my mum says that some things are within our resources and
some things are not within our resources and that this one is
definitely not. It is using up all these special effects all in one
go, and shows no thought to future generations.
My brother protests, and says that she just wants to see what she
wants to see and is not open to new ideas. I see both sides of the
picture, and can empathize with both view points.
Saturday, 25 May 2013
The song-film which gets rejected by the elders
Labels:
acting,
ceremony,
elders,
friends,
gatherings,
performance,
song-film
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