Listen to track 1
INTERVIEWER: What do you think of this first bit?
RESPONDENT: It's like this chick is smashing a car when she might be singing a song about "I love you, baby." Is she saying the car is evil and the music is in "the" background? It's like she's out there reading poetry with this little green and gold robe on while smashing an M.G. ...
Listen to track 7
INTERVIEWER: Have you heard this one before?
RESPONDENT: I've heard the beautiful lights but they don’t sound like they did before. This is nicer, a nice little cat in her own groove, all about flowers and people wearing golden underwear. I like that nobody is going to listen to it. It's really groovy, but her group ought to be a little less creative. These days everybody thinks everybody else has to have trips, and people are singing about trips.
Listen to track 8
INTERVIEWER: She's just making up words at this point.
RESPONDENT: Yeah, it's like we're all being filmed. As we listen to it, shivering, the night and the ice descend. The chill air maybe picks this one up. Like this was not part of the formal trip, so she could just rap, because this isn't where she is at all. And that--that's where we're going, man.
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this is great stuff, i also love your writing. very enjoyable and fun
ReplyDeletefeel like i am there in queens.
loved the bit about the cheese and
edgar varese, etc. i once wrote a piece for an sf news rag that was a review of john cage as if written by richard braitigan. which pissed off both fans of cage ( i am one) and poets. it was fun. thanks
robert