Shepherd in Romania
“On a number of levels, Rid Of Me was an album rooted in carnal lust and sexual betrayal. When Harvey hissed “You snake / You crawled / Between / My legs” on the tense howl of ‘Snake’, she was raging about her “fake” “liar” of a lover. However, it was the track ‘Dry’ that painted an even more vivid mental image. “I caught it in the face,” Polly revealed on the song’s opening line, before the chorus kicked in with the repeated refrain of “you leave me dry.” Taken literally, it was a brutally honest assessment, but while ‘Dry’ may well have been partly about the unaroused state of Harvey’s vaginal mucosa, I always assumed it was written about the breakdown of relationships in general – and the song struck a deep chord within me. At the time, I was in a particularly joyless relationship, and knew that I was not providing love, support or any level of happiness to my partner. A song like ‘Dry’ was my cardiac dagger – Polly had vocalised how my girlfriend ‘might’ be feeling and I flinched at the notion. Rid Of Me was a particularly difficult and compelling listen.”
Queen Sized Polly: PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me Revisited
I feel that the characters in the story already exist in a limbo outside my control, and what I’m doing over the months of gestation is getting in touch with them and learning about them.
P. D. James (via theparisreview)
Very true, at least in regards to my usual process.
“Once and forever, capitalism is a worthy tool and a necessary one for creating mass wealth, but as to the distribution and uses of that wealth within a society? No, capitalism is not a metric for anything but profit itself. This is the lie at the core of free-market ideology and libertarianism. And free markets are never the whole or complete answer when addressing any societal goal, compact or responsibility. It’s easy to make money when all you give a fuck about is making money, to invoke Orson Welles. And the Koch brothers and others of their kind wish to build a society that does little but transfer wealth to a select few while obliterating any other ambition for American society. If newspapers can help them secure that future, so be it. But journalism in those cities where they own the daily newspaper and its digitized versions will be crippled until alternative news sources are developed by independent, professional journalists. What do you call it when capital has purchased not only government, but all plausible means to criticize governance? A prelude to fascism.”
David Simon (The Wire) on what happened to journalism.
As erotic language, such as we use in dalliance, is a kind of secretion, a concentrated juice that flows from the lips only in moments of the most intense emotion, of plaint, as this language is, in other words, the essential expression of passion, each pair of lovers has its own peculiar language, a language which has a perfume, an odor sui generis which belongs only to that couple…
Jean Genet, Miracle of the Rose
via foxesinbreeches (via frenchtwist)
Oh nice, new Tricky is streaming and “False Idols” sounds like his return to form:
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/19/184813703/first-listen-tricky-false-idols
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