Dok (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cyberinsekt) wrote,@ 2009-02-10 01:30:00 |
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The Lovely Eggs - I Collect Snails
As a young boy, I had unconventional hobbies. I was tremendously fond of worms. While other children amused themselves in games of football, I would carefully unearth and study them, enjoying the sensations they made as they wriggled through my fingers, marvelling at the way they managed to grip. I liked spiders too. Spiders of all sizes were tremendously cool. I know precisely why I was not afraid of them, too. One of my earliest memories is of my mother picking up a spider and letting it play across my hands, as she introduced me to my new "little friend".
While worms and spiders and katydids and beetles were all very good, my favourite animal was the slug. I loved slugs. I loved them for their mucus and for their simple nature. I loved them for their colours. While most slugs are black or brown, some species show amazingly vivid colours: pure white, lemon yellow, bright scarlet. In my 20s, on moving to Edinburgh, I was excited and delighted to discover that the local slug population was actually grey/brown, with leopard-like black spots. Aged 8 or 9, I would collect slugs, and bring them back home, releasing them in our back yard to play in the "adventure playground" I had built for them out of bricks and bits of wood. Although they always wandered away, I refused to be disappointed by this, and kept up this pursuit for several months.
I also collected broken fragments of pottery, discarded shoes, and corporate logos.
It seems that The Lovely Eggs understand this kind of behaviour. Although the subject of their affection is the humble snail (and the humble horse, matchbooks, and shoe polish) I feel that they are my kind of people. Of course, such music is by necessity terribly twee. It's also endearingly lo-fi, and crammed full of recorders, tambourines, toy glockenspiels and the like. I am charmed. Utterly. I Collect Snails is taken from their 2008 EP, Have You Ever Heard The Lovely Eggs?
The Lovely Eggs - I Collect Snails
(alternate download)
As a young boy, I had unconventional hobbies. I was tremendously fond of worms. While other children amused themselves in games of football, I would carefully unearth and study them, enjoying the sensations they made as they wriggled through my fingers, marvelling at the way they managed to grip. I liked spiders too. Spiders of all sizes were tremendously cool. I know precisely why I was not afraid of them, too. One of my earliest memories is of my mother picking up a spider and letting it play across my hands, as she introduced me to my new "little friend".
While worms and spiders and katydids and beetles were all very good, my favourite animal was the slug. I loved slugs. I loved them for their mucus and for their simple nature. I loved them for their colours. While most slugs are black or brown, some species show amazingly vivid colours: pure white, lemon yellow, bright scarlet. In my 20s, on moving to Edinburgh, I was excited and delighted to discover that the local slug population was actually grey/brown, with leopard-like black spots. Aged 8 or 9, I would collect slugs, and bring them back home, releasing them in our back yard to play in the "adventure playground" I had built for them out of bricks and bits of wood. Although they always wandered away, I refused to be disappointed by this, and kept up this pursuit for several months.
I also collected broken fragments of pottery, discarded shoes, and corporate logos.
It seems that The Lovely Eggs understand this kind of behaviour. Although the subject of their affection is the humble snail (and the humble horse, matchbooks, and shoe polish) I feel that they are my kind of people. Of course, such music is by necessity terribly twee. It's also endearingly lo-fi, and crammed full of recorders, tambourines, toy glockenspiels and the like. I am charmed. Utterly. I Collect Snails is taken from their 2008 EP, Have You Ever Heard The Lovely Eggs?
The Lovely Eggs - I Collect Snails
(alternate download)
