peninsula

Simon Brown

Week 4 of "good composer/dead composer"--an ongoing collaboration between Composer Simon Brown and filmmaker Josh Deane. The project consists of 52 music videos made and released over the course of a year--ending in a massive art show featuring Simon Brown's music, all of the videos, and visual art made especially for the occasion. Coming Halloween 2021. To catch the live premier of "good composer/dead composer" watch WEEKLY SLUDGE, Josh Deane's weekly live show Thursdays @8:30 on twitch.tv/sacredashstudios LYRICS i am a peninsula and you are the other, reclining far out into the ocean, head rests on arm tiny trees dot body there are plenty of ways to sail that don't involve drowning: rafts and shanties, shindigs and quaint little poor-people words that rich people imagine themselves as shack knapsack tack smack rack i am a mime and now you are my box; out of sight but i pretend i can't escape and your mouth curls down when i plan to be houdini for a month when i come back will the world's plates have shifted? maybe my home will be swallowed by a hungry mother earth and only a gaping hole with magma and a few pieces of tchotchke will remain. if you feel overwhelmed, as a child crying on a carousel, embrace your golden pole and smile at the shapes and colors. if i am not what you thought– a forger able to work iron out of lives, a forager able to imagine angels and wreath everything in rainbows, a studied architect of quick smiles and things like "i bet that's fun"– then make a tectonic break, let the island of your body slide offshore and breast-stroke out into an open sea. but if– although you will fall asleep while i lie entranced by music, and i'm just an idiot in a gangly body who has learned rhetoric– you should decide that the water between us is warm, and you're not too hot already, and the season has been good to your vegetation: swim over to me and lay your head on my shoulder and trust that i will push you away if i want to and pull you close when you're warm and i am cold and things are good.