Pull of the Moon— At West End Gallery
Let me sleepIn the slumber of the morningThere’s nowhere I need to beAnd my dreams are still calling
–Damien Jurado, Silver Joy
Working on a large piece which is nearing completion so I want to be brief this morning. Wasn’t going to write at all but I have a song stuck in my head this morning.
The song is Silver Joy and is from singer/songwriter Damien Jurado. from his 2014 album, Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son. It was originally featured, along with several other Jurado songs, in the 2015 film, Tumbledown. More recently, it has garnered attention for its inclusion in a newer film The Holdovers. It stars Paul Giamatti as a gruff longtime teacher at a New England prep school in the early 70’s who is forced to stay at the school through the Christmas holidays to oversee a small group of students who are unable to return to their homes for the vacation period.
Saw the film recently and found it to be charmingly bittersweet. If you like charmingly bittersweet films, you’ll probably enjoy it. The song fits the film’s tone well as it is also charmingly bittersweet.
Okay, got things to do. Listen and leave, okay?
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