Stillness Is The Move

Fell asleep with this song playing and ended up in the most vivid dream because of it. All color and motion and light, the kind you can’t hold onto once you wake up. If I’d managed to remember any of it, that would be my next film. No luck.

I’ve never quite grasped what Dirty Projectors is actually about. The band exists since 2002, but Dave Longstreth just seems to cycle through musicians constantly—the list of former members is endless. It’s hard to keep track of who’s actually in it at any point.

But Stillness Is The Move just lands. Something about it gets to you. The video’s similarly strange—there’s a frontwoman who’s genuinely hot, same oddball timing as with Those Dancing Days, and apparently that’s a recurring pattern for me. There’s also some animal in the video that could be a llama, maybe an alpaca, possibly a crane. No idea what it actually is. Let’s call it Udo.

That’s about all I have for this one. The song did its thing, the dream did its thing, and now I’m left with whatever this is.