It is an overcast and rainy day here and a
Wednesday to boot; the weather sets the mood and makes tooling pots a chore as
I wait incessantly for them to dry. Days like this create a mood for me and it
for some reason brought me back to the 90's thinking about working in
Cleveland, Japan and about the east coast here in the States. One song in
particular stands out and is certainly a great match for the day and quite
possibly one of the most memorable songs of the 1990s, BLACK HOLE SUN, the
Soundgarden anthem that was all over the radio and in every CD player at every
potter workspace I would visit. It is a great song that has a lot to say about
the time and continues to echo its sense of melancholia with purpose even today
and to my ear, it typifies the decade. I am sure you may ask yourself, what
does this have to do with pottery and my typical Wednesday answer would be;
both everything and nothing, this is a rambling blog after all.
Black Hole Sun acoustic version by Chris Cornell
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