song 077 : Hypervigilant (Suburban Legends + Outtakes)
This song is about post traumatic stress, specifically the PST of a rape victim. Fellow survivors will recognize the irrational and hyper-alert paranoia that can suddenly sweep over you in the night.
When serious poets began comparing me to Gertrude Stein I hadn’t read her work yet. When I did I was stunned by the compliment, and Gertrude became a huge influence on me. Not only was she the Jimi Hendrix of words, proving there are no mistakes, but the way she piled up work and didn’t trouble herself too much about how many people noticed, made sense to me, and inspired me to focus on recording instead of live shows.
An example of the word games that earned me those comparisons to Gertrude Stein is the way I take the cliché “everything is going for me” and apply it to lights and other appliances left running for reassurance. .
Here’s what Allen Ginberg’s assistant Randy Roark had to say about this song: "Hypervigilant" is the smartest (and spookiest) song on Suburban Legends--a truly frightening monologue on what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, listening so hard that even silence has its own sound--a sound strikingly similar to Edgar Allan Poe's "Telltale Heart."
Listen to the song: Click Here
When serious poets began comparing me to Gertrude Stein I hadn’t read her work yet. When I did I was stunned by the compliment, and Gertrude became a huge influence on me. Not only was she the Jimi Hendrix of words, proving there are no mistakes, but the way she piled up work and didn’t trouble herself too much about how many people noticed, made sense to me, and inspired me to focus on recording instead of live shows.
An example of the word games that earned me those comparisons to Gertrude Stein is the way I take the cliché “everything is going for me” and apply it to lights and other appliances left running for reassurance. .
Here’s what Allen Ginberg’s assistant Randy Roark had to say about this song: "Hypervigilant" is the smartest (and spookiest) song on Suburban Legends--a truly frightening monologue on what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night, listening so hard that even silence has its own sound--a sound strikingly similar to Edgar Allan Poe's "Telltale Heart."
Listen to the song: Click Here
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