A straitjacket is a garment shaped like a jacket with long sleeves that surpass the tips of the wearer's fingers. Its most typical use is restraining people who may cause harm to themselves or others. Once the wearer slides their arms into the sleeves, the person restraining the wearer crosses the sleeves against the chest and ties the ends of the sleeves to the back of the jacket, ensuring the arms are close to the chest with as little movement as possible.



Straight Jacket

The Pigeon

Farstick

time and nothing

As life peacefully flows...

This is the first song on the first volume of The Hungry Pyknic. Ricochet is a short anthem or theme song to set up the rest of the album. Five fell from their path -- what will happen to them?

LYRICS:
Won't paintings talk to you
Well I don't think about it
Ideas ricochet off walls every day
Step to the plate again
Let me see your face
Climb down there's something wrong
Let’s see embrace

One so cold in their own home, dah dah dah
Reaping rewards of seeds that, la da de da dum

Counting hallways, my own pictures
Lively scenic sets once stood these halls
Step to the plate again
Let me see your face
Climb down there's something wrong
See embrace

Five fell from their path
They’re right, they’re left, straight ahead
Crooked all you do is don’t, to do, to won’t
Make up your damn mind
So fate can see you at the show
Five fall down the path
A right, a left, straight ahead
Look in you do, you don’t, don’t you do
Damages you prove
But fate will see you at the show.

Ricochet

"Four Strong Winds" is a song written by Ian Tyson and recorded by Canadian folk duo Ian and Sylvia. Tyson has noted that he composed the song in about 20 minutes in his then manager Albert Grossman's New York apartment in 1962. A significant composition of the early 1960s folk revival, the song is a melancholy reflection on a failing romantic relationship. The singer expresses a desire for a possible reunion in a new place in the future ("You could meet me if I sent you down the fare") but acknowledges the likelihood that the relationship is over ("But our good times are all gone/And I'm bound for moving on ...").
The song has a clear Canadian context and subtext, including an explicit mention of the province Alberta as well as references to long, cold winters. In 2005, CBC Radio One listeners chose this song as the greatest Canadian song of all time on the program 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version. It is considered the unofficial anthem of Alberta.
Ian Tyson would recall "Four Strong Winds" as the first song he ever wrote and credits Bob Dylan with giving new impetus to Ian & Sylvia's career by inspiring the duo to follow his lead in writing "original folk songs":(Ian Tyson quote:)"We had to go in some direction, because we had used up all the real roots music from the Delta on north. Bob blazed the trail into the wilderness, into unknown territory." Specifically Tyson would recall meeting up with Dylan in the autumn of 1962 at the Greenwich Village bar Kettle of Fish:(Ian Tyson quote:)"this kind of little grubby kid in there"...said: 'I got this new song': it was Bobby Dylan - he sang me 'Blowin' in the Wind', he'd just wrote it. And I thought: I can do that"...He wrote 'Blowin' in the Wind' and the next day I wrote 'Four Strong Winds'."     Wikipedia

"Four Strong Winds"- Neil Young/ Ian Tyson (Cover)

Tears Away

My new piece, inspired by a Sydney man, Arthur Malcolm Stace also known as 'Mr. Eternity' (9 February 1885 – 30 July 1967), who for many years left the word 'Eternity' written in chalk on buildings, footpaths, stairwells etc.
This is dedicated to 'Mr. Eternity' and members of my family who have passed into 'Eternity', R.I.P.

'Eternity'

WAH WAH

Projekt Abraxas

I recorded the drums and electric bass guitar around 2012. Last year, I started to record it on a better system. After re-recording the drums several times and then reworking the multiple guitar parts, I decided to go with this version. It could change again before it's over...

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