8-19-08 Britta’s Summer Blog
Just spent two days in Bryce Goggins’ Trout Studio in Brooklyn recording a bunch of tracks for the Warhol Screen Tests. Tomorrow, we will rehearse Galaxie 500 songs for our show on Thursday. It has been a busy summer. Not enough time for reading or movies, although I have been enjoying the Olympics this year. Our friend Sonic Boom is coming to town next month for the All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival upstate which I am REALLY looking forward to! He just emailed us this French album cover he found from 1970…
SUMMER MOVIE:
I’ve only been to the movie theater once so far this summer. I was disappointed by Batman even though Heath Ledger was great. I wanted the whole movie to be as real as Ledger (who was as small as he was big), but the relentless score wore me out before the final third (when will action movies retire the oversized, mechanized military drums?) by which point I was just wishing it would wrap itself up quickly. It didn’t. The film’s final third was bloated with exposition and my boredom turned into annoyance, which is a shame because I really did enjoy the first half of the movie. My brother told me about a scientific experiment involving colonoscopies.
No matter how painful the test was at any point, as long as it ended with minimal pain, the subject remembered it as not being so bad and would not avoid a future test. Hollywood endings always explain things to us as if we were almost old enough to get into a PG-13 movie. No loose ends to worry little minds so that they ask difficult questions. Not too hot, not too cold. Just right. Sigh…. I’m sleepy….
SUMMER BOOK:
What lights a fire in me these days is Octavio Paz’s book on poetry, “The Bow & The Lyre.” It blows my mind. Reality will never be the same. His voice is intellectual and philosophical (so deep that I have to read certain passages over and over again until their sense begins to surface) and is often overtaken by poetic fever. I can’t wait to start reading it again as soon as I finish it. I also loved his book, “The Double Flame,” (on Love & Erotica), but this one is so much more.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:32 am
I’ve been reading Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. So far I recommend it. It is an insanely violent book though. I had to shut the book a few times and kind of look out the window to reset my brain so that I can continue further.
I was going to go to ATP but chickened out at the last minute. It’s going to be amazing though.
Very excited for tomorrow nights show. Not so excited to ride the Chinatown bus from Philly to New York, but I’ll deal with it.
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
Hey. The show last night was awesome. A+. Jody and I will be coming to the next Zipper Factory show. Again, thanks for the great night.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
We’ve been waiting years to hear these songs again … just to make sure the echoes in our heads were real. Your take on “Don’t Let Our Youth Go To Waste” was totally unexpected.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
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