Only the dented brasswork on some Long Island Rail Road stairways and some old photos in the Amtrak waiting area point to the half-forgotten memory of something far better that used to occupy the space.
Mr. Argento's setting here is poignant, with the poignancy of someone slowly piecing together a half-forgotten melody.
This elegiac take on Linkin Park's "In The End" is a perfect slab of end of the night melancholia, a creeping, crepuscular, crystalline vision of that moment when things are coming to an end and all you've got to look forward to are half-forgotten memories and an afternoon of uncertainty and regret.
That led me to think would it be possible; at this point, with so much imagery available in the digital archives, to reconstruct my memoirs through all the DVD re-releases, eBay ephemera, YouTube uploads and above all the resource of the internet itself; the way it can actualize half-forgotten memories and produce a niche for seemingly every remembrance".
Listen on YouTube A gorgeous, swelling lament from Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid), whose synth/ string combinations hold an almost Proustian quality in teasing tears from half-forgotten memories.
It is remarkable the tiny, half-forgotten memories which resurface when one contemplates a big event, such as the forthcoming referendum on the European Union.
So many Amerasians continue to search, typically working with little more than badly translated names, half-forgotten memories and faded photographs.
Confessional yet mysterious, telling stories without being storytelling stool-rockers, rekindling half-forgotten memories that could puncture the present: all this and tunes that channelled early Velvet Underground, Love and 1970s children's television.
As likely, he would delve into the background of his week's chosen topic, often consulting dusty memoirs in libraries, his own long memory or a half-forgotten white paper.
By 1990, he was a half-forgotten, penniless paranoiac.
