Pacing around her home's makeshift kitchen, the cawing and chirping of birds audible through the smoke-stained tarpaulin roof, Sweet is forlorn as she talks about her family's future.
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The place looks fantastic, airy and bright, nothing like the cramped cigarette-smoke-stained walls that held in the surplus Army bunk beds in Marquette University's McCormick Hall circa 1989.
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But even as smoke stained the sky of the popular vacation spot an apocalyptic red, some hoped to stick it out, only to become hemmed in by fire on all sides.
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So where exactly does that leave them today, at a time when plastic skulls and smoke-stained velvet curtains feel pretty dated, but when the need to save independent institutions that cater to a specific subculture feel important to swathes of us who still value it?
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A deep, graduated filter fades from black to a rich tobacco brown like the smoke-stained inside of an old London pub — which is exactly where I like to imagine English director Tony Scott and his American DP Jeffrey Kimball discussing the look and feel for Top Gun.
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Fled the fire on foot, descending half a mile into Hazelton like refugees, and returned five days later, when Vedders Hill was reopened to civilians, to discover a ravaged landscape: more than half the houses had burned to the ground, while others, eerily, including their own, remained standing, scarcely touched, except for smoke-stained façades and broken windows.
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Art of the Underground, 2002. Still Kissing Last Night's Smoke Stained Lips. Art of the Underground, 2004. The Beautiful and the Afternoon.
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The station was mostly destroyed by a fire of mysterious origin overnight the 21-22 of November 2018. Despite the efforts of around fifty firefighters from Figeac and surrounding areas, the station's smoke-stained walls were pretty much all that remained standing. An inquiry ruled the fire as "accidental," but questions remain. As of Summer 2020, the station is still not rebuilt, and doubts linger as to whether it will be restored.
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Aboriginal waterhole and grinding grooves (top right) along the Gadyan Track Berry Island contains aboriginal rock carvings, middens, a smoke-stained cave and a stone tool grinding site. It has a 20-minute (750 metre) loop walk called the Gadyan Track, with interpretive signage describing the significance of points around the island. The main feature of the track is a large Aboriginal rock carving of a whale, with a boomerang-shaped carving, a waterhole and grinding grooves alongside it.
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The painting is full of opaque symbolism." And in the Brooklyn Rail, Alex Jen describes It Happened on the Corner (2014), on view in Lure of the Dark At Mass MoCA in 2019, "a man lies sick on the ground as pairs of scuffed oxfords walk past. The sidewalk is painted to look like board game tiles. A smoke- stained sliver filled with monsters projects out of his belly like a magnified microscope illustration, and combusts at the bottom in a brilliantly painted fire so thick and crusted it looks whittled.
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If the rice paper is left to dry too long, it will be brittle, but if not left to dry long enough, it will be tough. The rice paper is then grilled over a fire of peanut shells, and the cooks turn the rice paper over regularly to prevent it from being burned or smoke-stained. When night dews begin to drop, the rice paper is left outside to be wetted by the dew; the length of time it's left outside depends on the amount of dew which falls that day.
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In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau gave Happy Woman Blues an "A–" and called Williams a "guileless throwback to the days of the acoustic blues mamas" who "means what she says and says what she means". In a retrospective review, AllMusic's Kurt Wolff gave it four out of five stars and said "King of Hearts", "Sharp Cutting Wings", and "Lafayette" are well composed, emotionally powerful "classics" on an album that was bold, refreshing, and "stunning for its mixture of blues, folk, and country traditions with [Williams'] captivating, complex, and visceral approach to writing and singing". Trouser Press felt the record was more "rock-oriented" than Williams' debut album, writing that she used timeworn ideas such as "smoke-stained bars, open roads and a heart that never learns" but reimagined them "in a way that is both contemporary and uncynical".
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