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The Curse is another breathtaking music video by one of my absolute favorite artists (turned author!), Josh Ritter. On one surface the song is a love story between a mummy and a young archaeologist who uncovers his tomb. Yet underneath that whimsical plot is another more universal message about the way people can use one another relationships until there’s nothing left.The animation is both darling and eerie; prepare yourself to re-watch this one a few times in a row.

Long ago on the ship, she asked “Why pyramids?”
He said “Think of them as an immense invitation”
She asks “Are you cursed?” He says “I think that I’m cured”
Then he kissed her and hoped that she’d forget that question

Song I am currently obsessed with:

“The Queen and the Soldier” Suzanne Vega

And he said, “I want to live as an honest man
To get all I deserve and to give all I can
And to love a young woman who I don’t understand
Your highness, your ways are very strange.”

This movie is on a good deal of crack, metaphors and modernist BS, but I love it anyways.

“Ah there’s a reception committee too and they’re bound to want a speech.”

“You make it.”

“Where are you going?”

“To the lavatory.”

“You can’t, what shall I tell them?”

“Tell them their music gives me the shits!”

Mahler (1974)