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The train wheels roll along
without that commonplace Pittsburgh tram screech,
And the train wheels slow and stop
to relieve themselves of the heat and sweat of mechanical friction,
they stop at stations with names like Wörgl Früchte,
names that sound like they have less vowels than they should.

As they pass, these towns sing like beautiful old songs, the bricks
and the mountains and the cows and the trees form choirs of intermingling harmonies
in the languages of air and stone and blood,
call and response chants carried across the peaks by the tiny hearts of mountain birds,
and each one is heard for just a moment, but each moment blends
into the next like the ticks on a piano roll.

A black biplane drags a glider between the cleavage of the Alps,
like old friends whose bonds have grown thin and nigh invisible
through time and growth of heart and mind or lack thereof.
from the train windows the wire between them is invisible
and then plane let the glider loose - there was only one direction to glide.
Then the biplane flew behind the mountain and out of sight.

Shows I've seen:
Bon Iver
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy x2
Bowerbirds
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra x10+
Caddywhompus
Jamie Cullum
Pisswolf
Joan of Arc
Abysme
Edhochuli
Bubonic Bear
October x2
The Fucking Hotlights
Out Like Lambs
Jeremy Boyle
Smiling
Humanous Monsteroid x2
Cannibal Corpse
Means To An End x4
Avey Tare
Eric Copeland
Shabazz Palaces
DJ Shadow
The Dismemberment Plan
Masochrist
Dimmu Borgir
TV on the Radio
Gang Gang Dance
Trash Knight x4
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Will Hoge x6
Andrew Ripp
The Music Tapes
The Big Sweet
Behemoth
The Allman Brothers
Chicago
The Red Chord
Job For A Cowboy
Huey Lewis & The News
Psyopus
Edwin McCain x4
Suis La Lune
St. Vincent x2
Dosh
El Ten Eleven
Wildbirds and Peacedrums
Man Man
Cursive
Baths x2
Jandek
Dave Matthews Band
Ed Schrader
The Black Keys x2
The Roots
Bob Dylan
Black Mountain
The Delta Spirit
Gnarls Barkley
The Raconteurs
Girls
Pavement
Lightning Bolt x2
Major Lazer
Dan Deacon x3
No Age x2
Deerhunter x2
G-Side
Sheryl Crow
Flamtronic
Train
O.A.R.
Aesop Rock
The Cool Kids
Magnolia Electric Co.
Tim Fite
The Donkeys
Interpol
Ray LaMontagne
Coheed & Cambria x2
Mewithoutyou
Blood Brothers
Dredg
Tim and Eric
Phat Man Dee
Capax Infiniti
The Wailing Wall
White Rainbow
Infinite Body
Avenged Sevenfold