The WELL: deadsongs.vue.95: Here Comes Sunshine

#23: Gary Burnett (jera) Thu 29 Mar 07 14:43

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:43:00 PDT

Indeed. The Pixies were great. [Read entire topic]

#22: Scott MacFarlane (s-macfarlane) Wed 28 Mar 07 08:50

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:50:00 PDT

"Doolittle" is a cool Pixie CD with uplifting tunes such as "Wave of Mutilation" and "Gouge Away." "This Monkey's Gone to Heaven"is my favorite. When they came to Phoenix, we bought tickets from some guy on the street out front. Though there was no moshing, we were directed to the mosh pit. With a full house there was no moving back. Ouch. Both of us left TTF deaf for a few days. Xian's right, they're definitely both harsh and listenable with interesting lyrics and compelling tunes. [Read entire topic]

#21: Christian Crumlish (xian) Wed 28 Mar 07 07:04

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:04:00 PDT

Pixies, not Pixes [Read entire topic]

#20: Christian Crumlish (xian) Wed 28 Mar 07 06:54

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:54:00 PDT

Frank Black is the lead singer and protagonist of The Pixes, one of the greatest bands of the '90s, recently re-formed. They are probably too harsh / acerbic / noisy for a lot of old-school Deadheads but their music yields up many rewards once it becomes familiar enough for the initial gloss of noise to become listenable-through. [Read entire topic]

#19: Bryan Miller (bamfinney1) Sun 18 Mar 07 16:58

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:58:00 PDT

It don't mean no harm. [Read entire topic]

#18: Bryan Miller (bamfinney1) Sat 10 Mar 07 16:05

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:05:00 PST

Something else I was thinking about: "laughing water"--this phrase is certainly not the townspeople's perspective, but the perspective of the flood, happily crashing through every un-natural barrier (the dam)to live out its watery being. [Read entire topic]

#17: Bryan Miller (bamfinney1) Fri 9 Mar 07 07:39

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:39:00 PST

"public officials led the population to believe that the damage would be slight, and in both cases the government response to the disaster was harshly criticized. Many have attributed the poor response, in both cases, to racist attitudes on the part of officials, who allegedly neglected to respond appropriately to the destruction of heavily-black communities."

"On the morning of Memorial Day on Sunday, May 30, 1948, the Housing Authority of Portland issued the following statement:

REMEMBER:

DIKES ARE SAFE AT PRESENT. YOU WILL BE WARNED IF NECESSARY. YOU WILL HAVE TIME TO LEAVE. DON'T GET EXCITED.

At about 4:17 PM the western (railroad) dike burst, sending a ten foot tall wall of water into the area of Vanport College. Because of the numerous sloughs and backwaters in the area, the progress of the flood was delayed about 30 minutes, giving residents more time to escape.

An emergency siren began to sound shortly after the initial breach, and residents began to head up Denver Avenue to higher ground.

At the time of the flood, the population of Vanport was down to about 18,500 people. Because of the holiday, many residents were away from their homes for the day. These factors contributed to the low loss of life: there were only sixteen deaths. Nonetheless, the city was a complete loss."

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanport,_Oregon> [Read entire topic]

#16: Bryan Miller (bamfinney1) Fri 9 Mar 07 07:33

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:33:00 PST

Just a few quotes from that article from Tim:

"Because of extraordinary heavy spring runoffs, Vanport was fifteen feet below Columbia River water level by the end of May 1948. On Memorial day the dike broke. A wall of water wiped out the town, leavning almost 20,000 without homes and an estimated fifteen people dead.... [Vanport was] the largest public housing project ever built in the United States."

Wake of the Flood came out in '73 only 25 years after this flood (I don't know when Hutner actually penned the words for Here Comes Sunshine). That flood was a pretty recent event for '73, a very vivid memory for those that did escape. [Read entire topic]

#15: Bryan Miller (bamfinney1) Fri 9 Mar 07 07:23

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:23:00 PST

NOw, Tim's link calls for Oregon, not WA, as the location of Vanport. [Read entire topic]

#14: Bryan Miller (bamfinney1) Fri 9 Mar 07 07:21

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 07:21:00 PST

Oh, wait, duh. <Masonskids> already provided a link in #9. I've got to be more observant. Thanks Tim. [Read entire topic]