Electric Renaissance

This is the first song I played today! And today being thanksgiving in 'merika, and me being a Canadian in 'merika making a bunch of food for some 'merikan friends this song and video seemed very fitting (to my mind, which enjoys nothing more than to make loose tangential connections between themes and mediums). Here we go: the song sounds at once retro and futuristic, which is kinda how American culture has always seemed to me- especially big budget American culture. After spending a few thanksgivings in the States I've noticed that it is much more of National event (than our Canadian holiday) that - at the same time- encourages Americans to focus on the family. So there's this weird push to merge the two histories- the national long duree history of the US (which usually is pretty bad with regards to accurate Settler interactions with Indigenous Americans...) with the personal history of the family. This type of merging is present in the video that accompanies belle and sebastian's beautiful song-- american technology (and the imperialism that usually accompanied these drives) being taught and learned in intimate/familial spaces as well as in more popular mediums of art, television and film...

this was trip down random erin lane- hope it wasn't too confusing
gotta go bake!

Also THIS!!