"Nič manj značilna ni enakost pravic v staroslovanskih družbah. Polno pooblastilo je pripadalo celotni skupnosti, in zatorej so se morali sklepi sprejemati soglasno. Prvotno je beseda mir pomenila občinsko skupščino in hkrati soglasnost njenih sklepov[...] Izraz mir odseva obdobje v katerem je imel vsak član skupnosti -- ženske ravno tako kot moški -- enake pravice."
-- M. Eliade
Born in Tasmania, songwriter Julien Poulson fronts The Green Mist (and features members of The Violent Femmes and The Beasts of Bourbon). Poulson writes and records songs in the fashion of "some kind of sonic road-trip where sounds and scenarios present like old pieces of Super-8. Runaways, convicts, alco’s, junkies and psychotics rub shoulders with the occasional, hopeful, soul seeker. Narratives unfold like surveillance camera imagery: a shadowy neverworld of broken lives, cheap motels, too much booze, dim-lit city streets, winter hideaways, a myriad of small dreams, fragmented and shattered, like broken dressing-room mirrors in theatres that long-passed their glory days..."