One of the roads leading to the Marikina River is now a waist-deep canal where an eerie line of slow-moving evacuees could be seen on Thursday afternoon making their way from a submerged neighborhood to higher ground.
"The harder you look the less you know" - this eerie line from the Coen brothers' thriller The Man Who Wasn't There hovers in my mind as I puzzle once more over the mysterious death of the Elizabethan author Christopher Marlowe.
Other strings enter with sustained tones that build into elemental chords, pierced by eerie, high lines on the violins.
★ BEACH HOUSE (Wednesday) This male-female Baltimore duo plays gorgeously languid songs highlighted by eerie organ lines and the amorous alto of Victoria Legrand.
And the waltzing melody of "The Main" by Grant Hart became a high, eerie violin line over shimmering harplike sounds, then had an infusion of Latin percussion.
"This album brought me back to Africa," she said, recalling the powerful first impression it made: " 'This is African, yet it's got something that is turning my head upside down.' " She did "Listening Wind," from the second side of "Remain in Light," with Loueke suggesting the wind in the song's lyrics through eerie electronic-guitar lines.
In "Hieroglyphics 3" (1958), for example, a lachrymose solo viola is set against a timpani rumble or sometimes an eerie mezzo-soprano line; and tactile, delicately plucked sounds from a harp contrast with brisk, staccato organ figures.
The elusive second movement was riveting, as Mr. Runge played the eerie pizzicato cello line with deceptive nonchalance and spectral colorings.
Laura Schwendinger's "Garden of Earthly Delights," inspired by the famous Bosch triptych of that name, was a suspenseful tangle of bristling lines and eerie dissonances with passages of melancholy respite.
It's worth tracing the surprising number of times the word "electricity" is uttered in the series, the role played by ordinary socket power in the show's crucial dramas, the ominous ubiquity of images of overhead power lines, the eerie buzz of electrical devices, the uncanny flickering of lights.
