Here’s a live version of “Sovay,” recorded in Boulder, Colorado, featuring accompaniment by My Morning Jacket:

I Was Getting Ready To Be A Threat
I Was Getting Set For My
Accidental Suicide
The Kind Where No One Dies
No One Looks Too Surprised
Then You Realize
That You’re Riding On The Para-Success
Of A Heavy-Handed Metaphor
And A Feeling Like You’ve Been Here Before
‘Cause You’ve Been Here Before
And You’ve Been Here Before
Then A Word Washed To Shore
A Word:

Sovay, Sovay, Sovay
All Along The Day

I Was Getting Ready To Consider My Next Plan Of Attack
I Think I’m Gonna Sack
The Whole Board Of Trustees
All Those Don Quixotes In Their B-17s
And I Swear This Time Yeah This Time
They’ll Blow Us Back To The Seventies
And This Time They’re Playin Ride Of The Valkyries
With No Semblance Of Grace Or Ease
And They’re Acting On Vagaries
With Their Violent Proclivities
And They’re Playing Ride
Ride Of The Valkyries

Sovay, Sovay, Sovay
All Along The Day

“Sovay” by Andrew Bird

The song has an interesting backstory. Read about it on RealFake Blog.

When the walls come tumblin’ down

When the walls come crumblin’ crumblin’

When the walls come tumblin’ tumblin’ down

Yeah yeah yeah

from “Crumblin’ Down” by John Mellencamp

The movie’s backstory is pretty interesting. It was filmed as director Charles Burnett’s thesis for UCLA film school in 1977. He had an engineering background, but he developed an interest in film and enrolled in the program. At the time, UCLA tuition for in-state students was $25. Yes, $25.

Killer of Sheep was shot on location in Watts in a series of weekends on a budget of less than $10,000, most of which was grant money. Finished in 1977 and shown sporadically, its reputation grew and grew until it won a prize at the 1981 Berlin International Film Festival.

Since then, the Library of Congress has declared it a national treasure as one of the first fifty on the National Film Registry and the National Society of Film Critics selected it as one of the “100 Essential Films” of all time. However, due to the expense of the music rights, the film was never shown theatrically or made available on video. It has only been seen on poor quality 16mm prints at few and far between museum and festival showings.

Now, thirty years after its debut, the new 35mm print of Killer of Sheep, brilliantly restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive, is ready for its long-awaited international release.

Milestone’s premiere of the restored Killer of Sheep was at the 2007 Berlinale Film Festival and the theatrical release begins in Spring of this year.

If skin turns hard, pale and cold and starts to tingle, go numb or even blister and turn black, think frostbite. Don’t believe the myth that rubbing snow on the area will help. Instead, place the affected area under warm (not hot) water or warm up hands by putting them under your armpits. If the skin doesn’t look normal after thawing, head to the emergency room.

Thumbing their noses at critics of MLB who have called for the resignation of the man who presided over the Steroid Era, the owners have instead given the car salesman a new contract.