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2026-07-26 20:53 UTC

This is ending in a few minutes, so I'll reply now. The context is a song by the Orb called Little Fluffy Clouds. It samples an interview with musician Rickie Lee Jones, in which the interviewer asks her this question and she talks about the skies from her childhood in Arizona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Fluffy_Clouds

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@evan@cosocial.ca 2026-07-26 20:56

I like it because it's a batshit crazy question to ask anyone, in an interview or elsewhere. The sky is a fixture -- a universal experience. The idea that someone would be able to provide a meaningful answer to it that would provide any information is kind of nutso.

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@evan@cosocial.ca 2026-07-26 23:55

From what I've read, Rickie Lee Jones hates this song.

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@rickscully@heads.social 2026-07-26 22:23

@evan@cosocial.ca iirc Paul Simon wrote this verse from Under African Skies for Linda Ronstadt (who sings on the track) based on her description of the skies in Arizona when she was a child. “In early memory Mission music Was ringing 'round my nursery door I said take this child, Lord From Tucson, Arizona Give her the wings to fly through harmony And she won't bother you no more” I’ve been to Grand Canyon, Tucson, Sedona & a few other places over the years ago and the Arizona skies are impressive.

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