Songs of the Holygrams: Holy Hail

To be born again...

...sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly. Tat-taa! Taka-thun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love, mister, without a sigh? Baba, if you want to get born again...' Just before dawn one winter's morning, New Year's Day or thereabouts, two real, full-grown, living men fell from a great height, twenty-nine thousand and two feet, towards the English Channel, without benefit of parachutes or wings, out of a clear sky. 'I tell you, you must die, I tell you, I tell you,' and thusly and so beneath a moon of alabaster until a loud cry crossed the night, 'To the devil with your tunes,' the words hanging crystalline in the iced white night, 'in the movies you only mimed to playback singers, so spare me these infernal noises now.'

--Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Holy Hail - Cool Town Rock

Ran across this video for Holy Hail's new single "Cool Town Rock" on Gorillavsbear.com.

I only sort of dig the song, but I liked the video enough to post it here. Has an aestheic like weird sketches in a 70's era graphic artist's journal. But whatever. just watch it.