schokokokokeks (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I like your video and especially the black and white photos. They have a lot of power... I'm speechless - really. And the title is something very special for me. One word, but it has so much to say. But there is a feeling which makes me a little bit sad. I don't know why..

TheCompleteGuitarist (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

It's impossible to offend me, so no worries. You must have an impressive CV if your Facebook and Youtube are anything to go by. I bet you checked to see if Philip Larkin had left a pair of slippers under the counter at Hull University Library. I never went to Hull, though it was the birthplace of the first woman I ever truly fell in love with, but that's another story.Nothing wrong with analysis unless you're one of my students. They must think I love the sound of my own voice.

dsbuchalter (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'm sorry--I shouldn't have made that ph/f correction; actually, that was my ("pathetic") attempt to make a joke--I'm often told to keep my day job when I do that. To be honest, I've often misspelled that word myself. So, now that I think about it, I was probably projecting my own insecurity about spelling it wrongly onto your comment.As you probably are aware by now, I analyze things waaay too much! Anyway, u r a good sport!I studied in Hull & York - lots of rain! loved it though.

TheCompleteGuitarist (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Yes atrocious spelling, it's in my nature. I think rain has a significant power to different cultures. In GB we moan about the weather, talk about it far too often, use it as an excuse for conversation or the lack of.Also knowing Davids lyrics, they are dark in nature and he kind of slices open relationships with songs. I think he's using the rain to suggest that it will test a relationship or that he's hoping almost for the pain that comes with a separation. Secretly wishing.

dsbuchalter (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Thanks for responding (& subscribing- and I like your Tom Waits, btw). :) I think you mean fallacy (unless there's something phallic about rain). But--not to be too contentious--I mean to converse, not to dispute) isn't is a pathetic fallacy to project onto rain the idea that it destroys happiness? In other words, what makes you say that rain is not happy? True, it is associated with sadness traditionally; but that doesn't mean that that association is not a pathetic fallacy.

TheCompleteGuitarist (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The beauty is in the brevity, like a haiku poem, tho' I confess to not little more about Haiku than it's brevity.It's like savouring a morsel hoping that there will be more, but there isn't, so you have to work hard to absorb as much as possible in the short time you're exposed.

TheCompleteGuitarist (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Subtext, we say, but we're not sure, the rain is a kind of pathetic phallacy, boding ill, that perhaps we'd prefer something to come and destroy the illusory happiness. David says it much better than me.

dsbuchalter (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

what's the subtext to you?

saprenda (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Bello... bello.

gregonline6506 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

questo piccolo capolavoro lo ho scoperto oggi! Conocsco la canzone da un paio di anni, ma con questi immagini è più bella ancora. grazie accabadora ;-)