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Don't you wish you'd never, never met her?
Got my page proofs for "The White Swan" (in TEL : Stories) today, and they are beautiful. I can't wait to see—and read—the entire anthology. [edited 2005-03-31 16:28] And it has a nice-looking advertisement, too!
In other news, I'm trying to figure out how on earth I managed to make it all the way to grad school without ever listening to PJ Harvey. I love her work. A professor of mine introduced me to her last fall with To Bring You My Love: it was instant addiction. A day ago, I borrowed Rid of Me; and given that I've been listening to it almost nonstop since then, it may be about to displace To Bring You My Love as my favorite PJ Harvey album. I'm not really familiar with any of her recent stuff, though. I've got Dry and Is This Desire?, which are likewise fantastic—I retain a certain preference for the three earlier albums, but Is This Desire? has "Angelene," "The Wind," "A Perfect Day, Elise," and "No Girl So Sweet," which are individually some of my favorites—but I've never heard either Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea or Uh Huh Her.
Recommendations, warnings, abstract thoughts, anyone?
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In other news, I'm trying to figure out how on earth I managed to make it all the way to grad school without ever listening to PJ Harvey. I love her work. A professor of mine introduced me to her last fall with To Bring You My Love: it was instant addiction. A day ago, I borrowed Rid of Me; and given that I've been listening to it almost nonstop since then, it may be about to displace To Bring You My Love as my favorite PJ Harvey album. I'm not really familiar with any of her recent stuff, though. I've got Dry and Is This Desire?, which are likewise fantastic—I retain a certain preference for the three earlier albums, but Is This Desire? has "Angelene," "The Wind," "A Perfect Day, Elise," and "No Girl So Sweet," which are individually some of my favorites—but I've never heard either Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea or Uh Huh Her.
Recommendations, warnings, abstract thoughts, anyone?
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I realize that probably didn't help you at all . . . If so you wish (and this doesn't violate your beliefs about copyright), I will send you a couple songs from each album so you can get a feel for them. Let me know.
everything else about you indicates that you would listen to Patti Smith.
Er . . . like what?
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I'd assumed you'd heard of Patti Smith because she's a) one of the proto-punk-gothic people who is the direct musical ancestor in some ways of the things that, say, the Dresden Dolls do and b) she's one of the great poets and wordplayers of rock music, and uses language in an impressionistic and layered way that reminds me of, for instance, Angela Carter. So she seemed like someone you'd have been likely to have run across.
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Music forthcoming!
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How do you feel about Bjork? She's often classified with PJ Harvey, though I don't know enough PJ to say if that's accurate. But the two have worked together; I have an mp3 of them doing "Satisfaction" live at some sort of MTV event. Bjork's newest album, "Medulla", is almost all vocal. There are choruses, Tuvan throat-singers, vocal percussion, etc. It's very weird, but you might enjoy it. If you're downloading tracks, go for "Where is the Line" or "Who Is It". But her best song is still "Bachelorette", from the album "Homogenic".
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