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HoB #6: The lost flammable history of particle physics + nitrate film in "Split Screen" | post |
12/18/2020> # 6 on Herd of Birds is "Split Screen", the final # on side 1. We originally called this song "Last Picture Show," just cuz the phrase popped into our head while strumming these chords + we liked the sound of it... we'd never seen the movie, tho we did see it recently (after writing the #) + while it was good, we wouldn't write a song about it. "Split Screen" is more about vanity of trying to capture something on film + how by capturing something u kill it, this Copenhagen interpretation/uncertainty principle theme that seems to reoccur w/ us (we did study physics after all)... that's what the plum pudding + tissue paper references are about (the history of quantum mechanics). Perhaps we thought The Last Picure Show (1971) would be more like Cinema Paradiso (1988) cuz we also had this image of the volatile nature of old nitrate film + how it would eventually spontaneous combust (+ thus we've lost 70% of silent films). SPLIT SCREEN the picture fades to cellulose souls found in an Oldsmobile choose life over death the lines’s drawn in the sand then ushers us to the concession stand J.J. stuck in his thumb + pulled out a plum from past blasphemy |
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# 828 <(current)> 830> #7 (#1 side 2): A southern cassowary couched in the constitutional loopholes of "Novus Ordo Seclorum" | ||
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