Time Flies, Time Crawls

Tiny Tuesday: Time Flies Time Crawls

"Time flies, time crawls
Like an insect up and down the walls
The light pours out of me
The light pours out of me

The conspiracy of silence ought
To revolutionize my thought
The light pours out of me
The light pours out of me

The cold light of day pours out of me
Leaving me black and so healthy
The light pours out of me
The light pours out of me

It jerks out of me like blood
In this still life, heart beats up love
The light pours out of me
The light pours out of me"

Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me

I couldn't decide which of these two shots (both taken in our wet back garden this evening) to feature for today's blip.  They both have something to recommend them, but in the end I've gone with the crawling ant as I don't think I've blipped that many of them and its less likely to disturb anyone than the fly which is my extra.  The ant is crawling along the edge of a camellia flower, which I now realise has fronds at its edge where I imagine something has been nibbling at it!  The ant looks like the prime candidate.   In the extra I rather like the detail of the tiny fly's compound eyes.

To be fair most Blippers seem fairly inured to macros of insects, although spiders on the other hand definitely cause more of a ripple of disquiet to many when seen at close quarters (me included for some of the more gruesome shots).

I couldn't resist featuring the lyrics above, and a link to Magazine whose 1978 Album "Real Life" got played a lot in my second year of University as did their next album "Second Hand Daylight".  The combination of Howard Devoto's weirdness on vocals, John McGeoch's truly amazing and unique guitar playing,  and Dave Formula's keyboard work really made an impact for me.  I am a big fan of McGeoch's guitar playing, so unlike what was being produced by the other guitarists I was listening to at the time .  For me he is one of Scotland's unsung guitar greats.

Devoto had been one of the original members of the Buzzcocks but had left in 1977 to form Magazine with Art student McGeoch, just before the Buzzcocks became successful.  McGeoch went on to play with Visage of "Fade to Grey" fame, and then to play with Siouxsie and the Banshees and eventually PIL.  Sadly he suffered a nervous breakdown attributed to the stress of touring and drinking and never really got the financial recognition his playing abilities probably deserved. Sadly he died in 2004 aged 49. 

Siouxsie said of him "John McGeoch was my favourite guitarist of all time. He was into sound in an almost abstract way. I loved the fact that I could say, "I want this to sound like a horse falling off a cliff", and he would know exactly what I meant. He was easily, without a shadow of a doubt, the most creative guitarist the Banshees ever had"