The Lightning Bug Situation
The Lightning Bug Situation the stage name for Brian Miller, from San Francisco, California. He is also half of another band called The Speakers, who are Miller and Peter Musselman. They are childhood friends from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
A Leaf; A Stream is one of those albums that needs to be listened to in one entire sitting because each track flows into each other. Just keep that in mind when you listen to the audio track that I’ve picked out for you: “The New Dad”.
This album came to me via, Brent, a massive fan, who’s convinced that the A Leaf; A Stream (2007) album is the alternate soundtrack to Solaris (1972). He even went so far as to setup a myspace page for his theory.
Fortunately, in my 2,000 DVDs, I do have the Criterion Edition of Solaris and the first thing I did was compared the minutes: they obviously don’t match up. Solaris is a very long movie, clocking in at two hours and forty-nine minutes, while the A Leaf album is only 51 minutes (you will have to repeat the album more than three times).
To test this theory, I followed the instructions by Brent and will include an excerpt on our Stage6 Video. Let me know if this theory holds up. The two songs featured in the Solaris video is “Under Your Jacket” and “Topher’s Last Song”.
Also, The Lightning Bug Situation and A Leaf; A Stream album was recently featured on NPR’s Open Mic
I know lately I’ve been putting in a lot of videos, and especially Stage6 which requires you to download and install their web player. I personally prefer Stage6 because they offer high-definition content, but many people don’t want to install additional software like the divx web player… but trust me, once you get a taste, you will not go back to the poor youtube quality.
August 19, 2007 10:36 PM vu my♥posts vu@weheartmusic.com thespeakers.info