High Hawk Season

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Banter

• That song was the second one I wrote after we moved across town here in Durham, right. And our new backyard — the hawks were landing in it, which I suspect they were doing because there were two new cats in the neighborhood, right, so they're checking it out. But, if you get more than one hawk, like, two hawk sightings in your backyard, in the space of a week, for an excitable animal person like me, that means you just won at life, you know, everything else is great once I, you know — I really love to have animals in my environment, I would live in a zoo if I could. And, but, yeah — this was this hawk on the back, and my wife knows a lot about birds and she was explaining how, you know, it does this — this is not going to translate well on radio but — they do this thing with their necks where they sort of look like they're kind of checking you out and they dart their — and that's because they're getting perspective to figure out whether they, how far you are from them, right, in case they need to eat you, right. And I thought that was awesome, so I got this really sort of surrounded vibe from them and I was, you know, there's something really neat about feeling surveilled by birds of prey. (2011-04-08)
• This song is just basically, a narration to the script to 'The Warriors'. (2012-06-30)

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