Honestly, imagine doing a ‘hoorah!’ with your buds out in the middle of the woods, and you hear ‘ᴴᵒᵒʳᵃʰ’ off in the distance. Now imagine if that came from something that didn’t even sound human. You’d shut up too.
Three sentence horror stories
Well kinda except a lot of birds do this and we don’t find it scary, we find it cute and funny
There’s an entire poem dedicated to a Crow saying ‘nevermore’, and there’s an old cartoon trope of crows saying foreboding things prior to tragedies.
Our love and interest in talking birds has always been also accompanied by unease, especially at what they say.
Well yes but to be a pedant - poes bird is a Raven - both are corvids, but Corvus brachyrhynchos is a different species to Corvus cryptoleucus or Corvus corax.
and Poe’s protagonist is only scared because the coincidence of him praying over his dead love and raven answering him with an ominous word. However, the Simpsons tried to make this a horror thing, but before I saw that episode I always thought it was more about despair than fear: “my soul shall be lifted nevermore” because of his mourning over his lost lady
I am imagining there is like thousands of years of canine lore about how sometimes the humans howl back. Trying to understand why it happens, what triggers it, what it means when the humans howl…
Must feel something like this to them.
For anyone wondering, Adriano Celentano isn’t a one hit wonder, he’s one of Italy’s most celebrated artists who still goes on TV to this day.
He’s got some cracking hits like Azzuro, which is a wistful song about missed connections and watching life go by. It’s basically Italy’s unofficial national anthem at this point (read: what Men At Work is to Australians). I recently found out that Die Toten Hosen did a half-decent cover of it too.
There’s also this fun but somewhat baudy animation for one of his songs, featuring uh… sexy ducks? The song is cracking though, and the animation is amazing: Che T’aggia Di’
…nice HBO feature presentation reference: i almost expected it to break into fantasy…
nice song, but did you reply to the wrong person?
…direct reference in che t’aggia di’…
…Ah, sorry! Thanks for this…
…thanks to takedown bots, this is the most-complete version of the original video i can find on youtube; funny enough it still works pretty well!..
Very accurate, my exact reaction every time I hear this song!
