His debut was clouded in pirate-radio crackle and cassette fuzz, the soundscapes dotted with the sound of rain, fire and distant voices.
But the hum of the Fiat's engine, the flow of rubber on asphalt, the smell of rain and wet, distant wool — these were enough to keep me going, on and on and on, all night if necessary.
I put the handset back in its cradle and stood still, listening blankly to the burr of the fridge, the thrumming of the rain and the distant engines of the school-run traffic.
What follows is a detailed tableau of recrimination, remorse, spite and self-pity, sometimes evoked without recourse to words – as in "High and Lonesome", a bleak found-sound fragment of thunder, rain, footsteps, traffic and distant tolling bell that's like a modern-day representation of Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".
Today - A Montreal journalist accused of fabrication, China makes it rain in South America and distant dying star nears collapse.
THE heat wave this past week made all the recent rain seem as quaint and distant as the Carter administration; but while it was raining, everyone around me was miserable.
"The night was around us, the darkness and the rain, the distant city with its occasional disembodied rumblings and sirens, the long past, nameless dangers lurking and predators on the prowl".
Collectively, these global on-shore tectonic and ocean-atmospheric events provide the foundation for our modern world a mixture of new and rejuvenated orogenic belts and their far-field effects (distant epiorogenic uplift, rain-shadow deserts, large alluvial aprons, and distant deltas) as inherited Gondwanan landscapes persisted remote from plate boundaries.
SHRA DSNT N-E-SE AND DSNT NW = moderate rain showers in the distant north through east through south-east and distant north-west.
And yet, at a time of fast-melting glaciers and strange rains, of spreading deserts and rising seas, it is a frail and distant promise.
