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ellenkushnerJust got back from seeing Laurie Anderson's new piece, "Homeland." I didn't find it as engaging as some of her other stuff (Strange Angels is still in my Top 10 list) - but as she said in the program interview, "[We're] living in a culture where it's a given that there is something wrong with you. People feel that they need to be fixed and that sort of thinking sometimes manufactures problems.... It's claustrophobic. It's a niche thing. Artists suffer from this niche thing as well. 'What's your niche? Stay in it!' This is another reason I experiment with other perspectives. For me it's hard to stay in that one little place. There's just not a lot of room in there."
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melodican thinks she's the ultimate Interstitial artist.
My favorite line was: "You know why I love the stars so much? Because we can't do anything to them."
Her band was terrific, too: the hard-working glitterati of the New York new music scene (including one of the founders of Tin Hat Trio) . . .So we notice there's an empty chair to one side, with a guitar next to it. And sure enough, 3/4 of the way through the program she stops to introduce the band, and then brings out "special guest LOU REED." Oh yeah. We were in Row Q, so I didn't get to look up his nose or anything, but it was a thrill anyhow. Turns out they've done this before, and it's up online on her website, a song called "Lost Art of Conversation" - only he actually sang; they did it as a duet tonight . Audience went nuts, of course - she may be a hero to us, but he's a genuine celeb and Figure of an Age. (They've been married for about 10 years.) So during the riotous applause that followed, it was especially nice to see the way he looked at her like, "You are just amazing."
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melodican thinks she's the ultimate Interstitial artist.My favorite line was: "You know why I love the stars so much? Because we can't do anything to them."
Her band was terrific, too: the hard-working glitterati of the New York new music scene (including one of the founders of Tin Hat Trio) . . .So we notice there's an empty chair to one side, with a guitar next to it. And sure enough, 3/4 of the way through the program she stops to introduce the band, and then brings out "special guest LOU REED." Oh yeah. We were in Row Q, so I didn't get to look up his nose or anything, but it was a thrill anyhow. Turns out they've done this before, and it's up online on her website, a song called "Lost Art of Conversation" - only he actually sang; they did it as a duet tonight . Audience went nuts, of course - she may be a hero to us, but he's a genuine celeb and Figure of an Age. (They've been married for about 10 years.) So during the riotous applause that followed, it was especially nice to see the way he looked at her like, "You are just amazing."