What is the symbolic significance of a raven’s feather fresh from the nest?
Well, they say ravens travel between worlds. So what does that do if it’s on your head? I don’t know. I just think about how time is an illusion—in a sense, we’re all everybody all the time. But we normally don’t really have a consciousness of that. Maybe the mythology associated with the feather is a reminder that that’s true? I don’t know. This is like 13th Floor Elevators liner notes. Have you read that book? No, but I did just read a really good book about Townes Van Zandt written by John Kruth. To Live’s To Fly. One of my favorite parts in it is they talked about how they mixed a posthumous record, and there was poltergeist activity in the studio. And that meant a lot to me because when I made The Living And The Dead there was some poltergeist activity. It was really freaky. It happened twice—once I didn’t see it. And then it happened with me. It was all about the second song—about a friend of mine that killed himself. So the lights were going off and on above the performers, but
