What’s your theme, little girl?
If you had 10-15 would you play?
Did I hang John Ashbery on my wall many years ago? Did he stick? What does it mean to stick? To become transparent? Sometimes I get a kick out of comparing reading to eating (but writing isn’t vomit or shit, so).
So, Ashbery eloquent mercurial visionary silly-elegant, low-hi, unpretentious. I haven’t read him in years, but in a way I’m always reading him. Thanks John.
“Everytime I see a garbage can/ I think of her and that garbage man/ My woman left me for the garbage man.” Beautiful slow blues….
Speaking of digestion, one of the lines she repeats when she’s in San Francisco is “y’all used to take acid, now you all take antacid.
The blues-band here is a little slick for me, but her voice is strong and passionate and the melody on the chorus good.
This album with his then pre-teen (I’m pretty sure) son on drums! After he won the lifetime achievement award, some ‘purist’ types in the poetry world took it as an affront that he was reduced to having to then give an award to Carrie Underword. Ugh, get me out of your petty-attitude, poet-people, Ornette has a lot to teach you (and not just about music!). Luckily, two poets, David Baptiste Chirot and Joel Lewis understood where Coleman was coming from, as one quoted Coleman saying that it would be no worse for artists to go to business school than art school….
One of the best Bay Area bands in recent years; more attention being paid to them, and lead-singer Andrew Poisoner would increase happiness.
The culminating, and best, song off her debut album; an otherwordly trans-feminist mystigue Mitchell would later eschew, or make more earthly/vulnerable in later more known songs, but part of her early attraction in part because it so brilliantly played against the male-dominated scenes naturalizing of the Petrarchan love-conventions. Brutally, Mitchell twists the knife while being all matter-of-fact about it, “he has lost her in the forest,” etc. Ah, eat your heart out, Joanna Newsome or you could compare it to fellow Canadian Leonard Cohen’s debut released within the same year.
Because sometimes you just have to…
Great songs, and the first time I heard a sample of what Chuck Prophet can do on the guitar
