![]() ![]() As an appeal to God for leniency, Cave wrote one of these holy poems every day for a week in lockdown. His new record, The Seven Psalms, is a series of spoken word compositions, set to music made by Cave and Warren Ellis during the sessions for last year’s Carnage album. ![]() You can see that in the songs I write because I think I was always naturally a visual artist.” I have a very visual sensibility towards things. “But I always missed the making of things, you know, creating objects as my principal form of creativity. Not what he calls art as such, not since dropping out of art school. Even so, words aren’t everything, and Cave has always produced physical pieces in parallel to his lyrics. His storytelling is expansive, yet lean, his revelations are sacred, yet laced with acid wit. In his songwriting, they can summon scenes of pitch-dark comedy and unfathomable grief with ease, when for anyone else words would fail them delivering lines from crooked love songs that land with the romance of a Glasgow kiss. ![]() “Words can pretty much do anything you want them to,” he says. “Words are good” – the mother of all understatements, given this is Nick Cave talking. ![]()
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Bobo, an eccentric old man training a mouse circus in the upstairs flat. ![]() Her neighbors are Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, two aging former actresses who live in the downstairs flat, and Mr. They also cook food that Coraline doesn’t enjoy. Coraline’s parents work from home in separate offices and have little time for her. Coraline is a perceptive and adventurous girl whose family has recently moved into a flat within a large, divided house. ![]() ![]() ![]() One year later, Sophie Beck, girlfriend of a new headteacher at the local school, is walking the woods, only to find a sign saying „Dig here“ – so she does, and suddenly there is maybe hope that they’re going to find Zach and Tallulah. ![]() When Kim wakes up next day, they’re still not back home yet –d id something happen? 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