4.13 Wild at Heart, Negative Space, and Petering Out

What Now with Simo by Simo Sakari Aaltonen

Episode notes

Weather totally amyaazing — Midsummer — Drifting and talking — Quick course correction — Too close to a marker — A whole episode about negative space — Other thoughts — David Lynch film Wild at Heart (1990) — Starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern — Beautiful sequence — Gas station — Drive through a desert — Trying to get good music on the radio — 100 miles to go — Horrible stuff — Violence, death, health issues — Lula — Sailor Ripley — Powermad (band) — Letting go — From heavy metal to a classical song — Richard Strauss’s “Im Abendrot” (“At Sunset”) (1948) from Four Last Songs (Vier letzte Lieder) — “Abendrot”: “evening red” — Different versions of the song — Rowing — Great tempo — Finnish for “world”: “maailma” — “Earth” (“maa”) + “air” (“ilma”) = “earthair” (“maailma”) — Concise way of saying “planet” — Earth surrounde ... 

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