I met Laurie Anderson once after a show. I was in my 20’s. She was super cool and nice. I was star struck and couldn’t think of a damn thing to say. lol
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Gee, that must have been an experience. I’ve seen a few interviews and she actually gives a very friendly vibe, but I totally understand not being able to utter a word in front of her. I don’t do any better with the girls I meet.
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She did this super cool spoken word mixed media performance at the University of Washington. After the show a small group of 4 or 5 friends of mine and I were standing by the folding chairs in front, all the sudden Laurie Anderson was there. She said “Hey guys, how’s it going?” I was totally tongue tied! She was really short; she looked tall on stage. Very friendly & low key.
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Here are some more slide players I love
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和你約在師大路
一個人坐在路邊等待你的時間
不知不覺又過了三年
一切都沒改變
朋友們相聚的夜
抽煙的你和不抽煙的我坐在公園
除了無止盡的抱怨
一切都沒改變 一切都已改變
看著鏡子 裡面的自己
告訴自己還年輕
戴上耳機 想大聲唱出聲音
這是我現在的歌
又看到日出
有種豁然開朗的感覺
又看到日出
因為冷而縮著身體的我們
口中呼出了白煙
有種豁然開朗的感覺
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I wanted you. And I was looking for you
But I couldn’t find you
I wanted you. And I was looking for you all day
But I couldn’t find you. I couldn’t find you
You’re walking. And you don’t always realize it
But you’re always falling
With each step, you fall forward slightly
And then catch yourself from falling
Over and over, you’re falling
And then catching yourself from falling
And this is how you can be walking and falling
At the same time
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Once upon a time, a long long time ago there was a planet floating all alone in space. Miraculously it sustained many forms of life moving and non-moving creatures and they would all take great pleasure in watching the heavens above them revolving in perfect harmonic order. Before televisions and radios existed, before podcasts and internet pornography had even been imagined, families would gather round the fire and they would tell folk the stories to pass the time and take wisdom from the elders. Once upon a time, a god asked a great king ‘What is the most amazing thing in the world?’. The king replied that every day a million souls pass into the abode of death and yet none believes that they shall follow
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Music therapy!!
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One of Italy’s most appreciated song-writers is Fabrizio De Andrè. I don’t know if he’s known abroad, so I’ll post two songs, the first being his version of “Suzanne” by Leonard Cohen.
This second one, instead, has original lyrics:
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Oh yes! Let’s!
Yes, let’s!
Let’s go to that new place
With a name a bit like… uh, that place
Where the famous get so out of their face, they die of fatal cocktails all
Chemically mace
We’ll be rubbing shoulders with the stars in, uh… outer space
There will be seven foot women there
Five o’clock shadow, rammed into ladies underwear
And the animals go in
Two by two
Into the circus, into the zoo… into the loo
And hog boars snuffle
With curly pig tails
Guest lists cysts leaving trails like snails
There will be the pierced
And the piercing screaming studs
Fiercer than Elvis
Pure phets, no duds
Fake diamonds, holographic
Cheekier than Jesus, but uh, pornographic
Oh do, yes!
Oh do, yes! Let’s!
Let’s go to the new place!
And user friendly all are we
And the tired tried
And what do you do?
I’m God, you lied
And the animals go in two by two
The warthog, the snuffleupacus and the anteater
All drinking 5 pound beers by the litre
It’s all right, she says
You don’t have to pay, 'cause
(he’s a member) he’s a member
Wearing nothing but a peanut in the middle of December
Suddenly, I’m on top form and terribly bright
Glitter, tinsel, sparkle me baby, uh, every… night
I’m an extraordinarily curious creature and I know it
How bohemian! Shush for the poet
Nah f**k that! Let’s go to the loo, like animals, two by two
And what was it you said you do?
Is there any way I can network with you?
And you tell me about a movie you’re making, hopefully making
Hopefully making, starring Uma Thurman, hopefully making
Hopefully
And you talk for too long
And then you say “I love this song”
Must shake a leg on the dance floor
With that fashion type wild boar
And she needs an apple shoved into her fat gob
Oh look! It’s that junky lead singer, I hear he’s a nob!
No, I know him actually and he’s alright, going solo
And he’s good for a line any night
Oh! Come on, let’s go to the place with a name like that place
And come on, give me more, give me more to consume!
I’m fatter than Elvis and I’m cheekier than Jesus in this VIP room
With the super models, the rock stars and the… super fly
And then she said, morbidly
“now would be a good place to die.”
Out of my face, in the place with the name like that place
On the front page tomorrow, my face
Headline reading “mystery death in new place”
For she was best top lover girlfriend of that singer with the chart topping hits
That actress, that director and that model with the fabulous tits
And then everyone will really want to go to that place, 'cause it’s got a name… uh, like that place
Where you get so out of your face (face, face, face!)
And then everyone will want to go to that place
You’re in a place with a name like that place
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If you want to have fun, watch this masterpiece by Seijun Suzuki. I wanted to post the amazing intro song but wasn’t able to find it.
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I never know what song of Frank’s to show people, I usually just start with this one.
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Here is a nice gateway into two very amazing composers, John Zorn and Ennio Morricone. Dig them both up. John Zorn is genre defying, his work expansive, which can make it hard for people to find a warm spot to step into… Morricone? Just an elegant film composer. If you thought you had never heard of him, you know his theme from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly…
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Willie the “Pimp”
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Pump up the Volume
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I thought this performance by Japanese singer MISIA was breathtaking. Also, the Chinese at the end of the song was a delightful little surprise. 
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