This weeks tune, "Young Men Throw Rocks", comes from a mix of War of The Worlds imagery from early on in the story, the imminent threat rather than the actual invasion, which to me is the best part, and also the heftiest. It also is a mix of a whole bunch of other images and ideas about machines and such that my brain has gathered over the years, one such image being from the Japanese animated film, Roujin-Z where a machine designed to care for old folks, in which lives an old man, (sort of alive, but not really, the film is very much on the side of not submitting old people to inhumane treatment, the machine being I think a sign of things to come, or maybe of a terrible care system for old folks in Japan at the time?), is inhabited by the spirit of his dead wife and goes on a rampage, collecting bits of other machines and things on it's way to the ocean, where it's taking the old man, growing larger and large as it goes. Great film it was, I recommend it, has a lot of heart. Anyhow, the image of the hulking, foreboding robot from that film is definitely an image my head was attaching itself to while I wrote this song. There's a hint of steam punk in there too, the machine in the song is old, cogs and such, spurting steam, rusty and clunky and slow. Hope you like it anyways. Be back next week with more.
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