gloom

[egypturnash]

A Friday that feels like the bleakest of Mondays.

The sky is grey. From one building-strewn horizon to the other, an unbroken, almost featureless light grey. The light is sourceless; cars have puddles of shadow beneath them, but people have only the vaguest hint. Everything is ungrounded and ghostly.

Days like this remind me of home. Even the brightest of summer days had a little of this ethereal quality from the sheer volume of humid air the sunlight has to plow through to shine on New Orleans.

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[electricgecko.livejournal.com]

San Francisco, particularly the part where I grew up and still live, is prone to fog. Sometimes it's low, dense and wet, like you'd expect of stereotypical fog, but other times (particularly during the summer) the fog is higher up, and creates a more-or-less blanket of pure unbroken white across the sky.

When I was a little kid, I honestly thought that the sky was blue on some days, and white on others. I actually remember disbelieving when it was suggested to me that these might be clouds, and not the sky itself. Goes to show how our senses can fool us...

[dustmeat.livejournal.com]

What, this is MY weather! I ordered it

[dour.livejournal.com]

Life's too long (as the Lemming said)
as the candle burned and the Moths were wed.
And we'll all burn together as the wick grows higher—
before the candle's dead.

...damn you, that's going to be stuck in my head all day now...

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

It returned to the back of my head, so I went out today and picked up 'Heavy Horses' on CD. (I have it... on vinyl, in New Orleans. Little use to me with no turntable in LA.)

[dour.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to replace my copy of Stormwatch, lost two years ago now. Half the catalog's out of print while they work on remastering. Missed 'em on tour this year, too. Blugh.

Wonder how soon they plan another album... been three years, now.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

I love weather like that. Flee, Californians!