A Crow Looked at Me is the eighth studio album by Mount Eerie, a solo
project of the American musician Phil Elverum. Released in 2017, it was
composed in the aftermath of his 35-year-old wife, Geneviève
Castrée's, diagnosis of pancreatic cancer in 2015 and her death in
July 2016. Elverum wrote and recorded the songs over a six-week period
in the room where she died, mostly using her instruments. The lyrics are
presented in a diary-like form and sung in a raw, intimate style. They
bluntly detail Castrée's illness and death, Elverum's grief, and his
relationship with their infant child. It is soundtracked by sparse folk
instrumentation. It was widely praised for its emotional potency. The
album went on to be one of the most acclaimed albums of 2017 and of
Elverum's career. His following albums, Now Only (2018) and Lost Wisdom
pt. 2 (2019), further detail and examine Castrée's illness and early
death.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Crow_Looked_at_Me>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1849:
A personal dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William
Macready in New York City devolved into a riot that left at least 22
dead and more than 120 injured.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astor_Place_Riot>
1916:
Ernest Shackleton and five companions arrived at South Georgia,
completing a 1,300 km (800 mi) lifeboat voyage (launch pictured) over
16 days to obtain rescue for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_James_Caird>
1941:
World War II: German Deputy Führer Rudolf Hess parachuted
into Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace with the British
government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hess>
2005:
Armenian Vladimir Arutyunian attempted to assassinate U.S.
president George W. Bush and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili in
Tbilisi using a hand grenade, which failed to detonate.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Arutyunian>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
abstract away:
1. (transitive) To generalize concepts or their application by using
abstraction into a more usable form.
2. (transitive, by extension) To ignore, to omit.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstract_away>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If nature has offered to produce the maximum effect with minimum
causes, it is in all of its laws that it had to solve this major
problem. It is without doubt difficult to discover the foundations of
this wonderful economy, i.e. the simplest causes of phenomena considered
from such a wide point of view. But if this general principle of the
philosophy of physics does not lead immediately to the knowledge of
truth, it can direct the efforts of the human spirit, by leading it away
from theories which relate the phenomena to too many different causes,
and by adopting preferably those based on the smallest number of
assumptions, which show to be more fruitful in consequences.
--Augustin-Jean Fresnel
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Augustin-Jean_Fresnel>
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