Something Interesting For You All, About Kentucky

Strange days are these, i’m constantly under ibuprofene, who knows why. I bet it’s a mix between the frequent hot temperatures and the cold air-conditioned places i keep going into, plus the tons of things happening that won’t let me sleep cause i keep thinking about them during the night time.

Yesternight then, was deeply buried in a substance that is formed while spilling water on old coffee stains and accumulated dust. Like smelling wet bricks and stones and recalling Rome, I smell that substance and the first thing that rushes through my mind is my table.

Point is, this revived coffee smell counterbalanced the dizziness coming during the late hours while i was listening to some music videos on youtube and surfing different pages at the same time: suddenly, i realized it was the right time to start listening to something that i was waiting to listen to since some months and i would like to present it to you all. After the first minutes, i didn’t need anymore coffee: i was completely dragged in.

I was listening to the audio documentary “I Can Almost See the Lights of Home”. It’s a sort of radio program that Sandro and Charles Hardy III made during the days of Sandro’s on-field research in Kentucky.Sandro’s book on this field trip is almost finished and so it’s a good time to talk about this.

I’ve never been there myself, but Enrico and Sandro are talking a lot about it and i feel like i almost have been there in some way. I’m planning a trip there for 2010 (time and money permitting of course), part of a trip that crossess the Smokey Mountains from the surroundings of Knoxville and goes across Tennessee up to Damascus in Virginia, where we can then turn to Lexington passing by Harlan. So hopefully one day i’ll be able to see the place – for now, let’s all dive into this bluegrass music video for now. Randy Wilson plays an amazing banjo made from a fruit cake tin and gives a great time.

Back to the subject: as the authors say, “Part ethnography, part oral history, part radio documentary, ‘I Can Almost See the Lights of Home’ is a hybrid work, an ‘essay-in-sound’ designed to be heard, not read“.

You’ll need a computer, plus an internet connection, a program called Real7ime that you can download from HERE or HERE and a pair of comfortable headphones.If you’re going to stay home one of these evenings, prefere this link over a tv show or a movie, it’s very well worth your time, trust your friend!

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OK, go for it —-> I CAN ALMOST SEE THE LIGHTS OF HOME

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Later,

Ale

~ by Alessandro on July 16, 2008.