Mitski Song Intros
This song begins "Treasure hunter, you are dead, the light of the world is fading" after a few lengthy hums, and shares its name with the job description of ama.
What is Pearl Diver?
An action performed after a fish bites, or a dance in 4/4 time.
What is a reel?
James Herriot grew up in this city, Scotland's most populous.
What is Glasgow?
In this short story by Shirley Jackson, a not-so-lucky woman is stoned to death by her family and neighbours to purge her small town of bad omens.
What is The Lottery?
Surrounded by carbon dioxide with just a touch of argon and nitrogen, dusted with iron oxide, with an intriguing hint of water ice
What is Mars?
At the beginning of First Love/Late Spring, the night breeze carries something sweet, perhaps this tree that originated in the Zhejiang province of China.
What is a peach tree?
A common name for these soft shoes sounds similar to an organ that exchanges gases in fish.
What are ghillies (accept reel shoes, pomps, pumps, light shoes, soft shoes)?
Herriot was born in this English port city in the northeastern county of Tyne and Wear, 10 miles south of Newcastle, where residents are known as Mackems. It was once important to the salt trade.
What is Sunderland?
In this Chekov short story, 2 married people, a banker named Dmitri and a young woman named Anna, who has brought her companion animal, have an affair while vacationing in Yalta.
What is The Lady with the (Pet/Little) Dog?
A tempting melange of hydrogen and cosmic dust forming stunningly luminescent part of interstellar medium
What is a nebula?
This song begins "Oh, one, two, Honey, what'd you take", and explores themes of feeling stuck in a pattern of self-destruction. Perhaps a relocation is in order.
What is Brand New City?
Headed out on a long deep sea fishing excursion? Bring your hard shoes, because Captain Cook recommends you perform this dance daily to maintain your health. It's perfect because you don't need a partner.
What is the Sailor's Hornpipe?
This North Yorkshire town is home to the Herriot museum and is where he lived for most of his career. The fictional town of Darrowby is based upon this place that features a castle built by the Mowbray family.
What is Thirsk?
The title of this J.D. Salinger short story refers to its deuteragonist, an orphan girl who is trying to be more compassionate, who sends the narrator, Sergeant X, her father's wristwatch in a letter.
What is For Esmé with Love and Squalor?
A delicious helium brulée. Be careful, it's hot! With luminous options like Bellatrix, Epsilon, Mimosa, the dazzling cerulean will make your evening.
What is a blue giant?
I cry at the start of every movie. I guess 'cause I wish I was making things too. Instead I'm doing this
What is Working for the Knife
You can catch cod, ling, and pollock in this city on the west coast of Ireland where, according to Celtic Woman's rendition of a popular folk song, the sailors are searching for a young lady (such as yourself?) "for reels and jigs and maybe more". Pick up your spoons!
What is Galway?
The Channel 5 series based on Herriot's books is filmed in this North Yorkshire town of 1,126, the main tourist centre in Upper Wharfedale, and site of a monument to trade unionist Tom Mann.
What is Grassington?
In Roz Chast's Memoir, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant, Chast's father mentions this Nathaniel Hawthorne short story where a young man visits a family that near a mountain and shares with them his dreams of greatness before the entire family, the young man with them is killed by a rock slide.
What is The Ambitious Guest?
The most popular type of star in the Milky Way! Might we recommend Proxima Centauri?
What is a red dwarf?
If its beginning lyrics are to be believed, this song was written early in the morning, at the same time that gives name to an edition of Taylor Swift's "Midnights" featuring bonus tracks like Dear Reader and The Great War.
The word names a type of floating bobber for walleye, crappie, and trout, and a type jig in 9/8 time performed exclusively by women.
What is slip?
Herriot lived his final years in this North Yorkshire village of just 134 inhabitants. In the books, it's known as Hannerly. And yes, you can visit his home, High Field House.
What is Thirlby?
In this story, Kenzaburo Oe's debut, 2 biology students and a dog killer debate the nature of cruelty and accountability, and are ultimately confronted by the police because the man who contracted them was found to be a meat broker.
What is A Strange Job (accept synonymous answers, translated from Japanese, accept Kimya na Shigoto)
A rich, dense star (as dense as an atomic nucleus!) periodically producing radio waves near its magnetic poles.
What is a pulsar?