and that ass won't get you nowhere tonight
Ok, in typical lj fashion I am now going to make my secretest, most shameful confession: I bought Ani Difranco's new cd tonight. I didn't even know she had one. It's just...sometimes you get curious about what someone you loved long ago is up to these days. ((This is not an oblique reference to you, Kate, I still love you.)) Well, she is just plodding along I guess. This is better than her last cd, at least so far. It mostly seems to be way lowkey, and you can't go too wrong there. Maybe her appeal is convincing people that their sadness(/anger) is inherently meaningful, and not just run-of-the-mill meaningfull either? Well, I don't know.
This is causing me to think more about another fallen god of mine, Muriel Rukeyser. The thing about Muriel is that it is hard to find a middle ground between worship and derision because there is that whole in-your-face-righteousness level to her. I was reading this article about her the other day, and the guy was like, "Sure, we like her politics, but she's no Bishop, she's no Auden." Well, Auden and Bishop are no fucking Rukeysers, either. It just seems completely beside the point.
Well, this is funny, I keep wanting to write on here because I am obsessively checking my friends list, and since there's nothing more to read I have to write. But I can't even focus on it, not even a little. I just write a few words and then drift into another firefox tab of celebrity gossip or "real news" or random googlings, and that is just the way. Hopefully some kind of focus will come into being when it is time for the papers to get written.
This is causing me to think more about another fallen god of mine, Muriel Rukeyser. The thing about Muriel is that it is hard to find a middle ground between worship and derision because there is that whole in-your-face-righteousness level to her. I was reading this article about her the other day, and the guy was like, "Sure, we like her politics, but she's no Bishop, she's no Auden." Well, Auden and Bishop are no fucking Rukeysers, either. It just seems completely beside the point.
Well, this is funny, I keep wanting to write on here because I am obsessively checking my friends list, and since there's nothing more to read I have to write. But I can't even focus on it, not even a little. I just write a few words and then drift into another firefox tab of celebrity gossip or "real news" or random googlings, and that is just the way. Hopefully some kind of focus will come into being when it is time for the papers to get written.