A new album!

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It's not often you get a new Laurie Anderson album, so a brief yippee! for "Laurie Anderson Live At Town Hall, New York City, September 19-20, 2001"

The time and place are significant, especially since one of the tracks is "O Superman", which dates back to 1980 but suddenly means something entirely different. ("Hello? Are you there? Are you coming home? [...] Here come the planes.They're American planes. Made in America.")

Eeek.

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no intimacy

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, I suppose she must do intimate shows, sometimes. I've never seen her anywhere but in ruddy great barns, though. Somewhere up near the ceiling, I was a long way off. I couldn't have got my drawing to her, not even by making it into the best paper aeroplane in the world and throwing it at the stage. But then I kind of get nervous at intimate concerts, where the people performing can see your eyes. It makes me worry that however good a time I'm having it won't be good enough to convince them that what they're doing is fantastic, and then I get distracted and it gets harder to hear the music. Suppose I'm just a crowd type.