I can't find out much about Pogo: he seems to be a one man band from Perth. His myspace page is here. This video makes me laugh — the dancing chimney sweeps are absolutely mesmerising — and yet the overall effect is sad, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on but possibly having to do with the passing of childhood and the irretrievability of its artefacts.
“Cane was a swan-song. It was a song of an end.” — poet/novelist Jean Toomer
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Jean Toomer was born in 1894 on this day and died in 1967. Toomer’s family
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Yeah, we love that video. And, yes, sad and magical and delightful. Pogo's Alice is really good, too. More one-note, perhaps, but still pretty haunting.
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Have you seen the Pogo Mellow Brick Road video contest? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ilkZZ4Sc8
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