{"id":2796,"date":"2014-09-14T20:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2020-06-13T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T17:42:43","slug":"stories-from-the-nerve-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/?p=2796","title":{"rendered":"Speak my language!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">A few extracts from <strong><a title=\"Laurie Anderson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laurieanderson.com\/home.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laurie Anderson<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimdavies.org\/laurie-anderson\/work\/books\/stories.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Stories form the Nerve Bible<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u2192 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_zdg9Owbav8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">On The Way To Jerusalem<\/a>\u00a0 \u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was a devout nun in the XVth century who decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and she belonged to an order that wore bags over their heads. And the mother superior told the nun that if she walked through the countryside with a bag on her head, she would scare people. But the nun insisted, so the mother superior allowed to her to walk around and around the cloister, every day for three years until she covered the equivalent distance to the Holy City. At the end of her journey the nun was so exhausted that she collapsed. A doctor was called. After examining her he announced that she was too weak to make the return trip. The nun died shortly after.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OxIi9bob3X4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u00b7 \u00b7 \u00b7 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tbMj_1P0yiQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;John Lily&#8217;<\/a> \u00a0. . . \u00a0\u21d1 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>&#8230; the guy who says he can talk to dolphins, said he was in an aquarium<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">and he was speaking to a big whale who was swimming around and around in his tank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">And the whale kept asking him questions telepathically.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">And one of the questions the whale kept asking was: \u00a0<em><strong>do all oceans have walls?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">=<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022\u2192 \u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fIp8w8jLsLw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ugly One With The Jewels<\/a>&#8216; \u21d0<\/strong><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In 1974, I went to Mexico to visit my brother who was working as an anthropologist with Tzeltal Indians, the last surviving Mayan tribe. And the Tzeltal speak a lovely birdlike language and are quite tiny physically; I towered over them. Mostly, I spent my days following the women around since my brother wasn\u2019t really allowed to do this. We got up at 3am and began to separate the corn into three colors. And we boiled it, ran to the mill and back, and finally started to make the tortillas. Now all the other women\u2019s tortillas were 360\u00b0, perfectly toasted, perfectly round; and after a lot of practice mine were still lobe-sided and charred. And when they thought I wasn\u2019t looking they threw them to the dogs.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>After breakfast we spent the rest of the day down at the river watching the goats and braiding and unbraiding each other\u2019s hair. So usually there wasn\u2019t that much to report. One day the women decided to braid my hair Tzeltal-style. After they did this I saw my reflection in a puddle. I looked ridiculous but they said, <em>\u201cBefore we did this you were ugly, but now maybe you will find a husband.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>I lived within in a yurt, a thatched structure shaped like a cob cake. And there\u2019s a central fireplace ringed by sleeping shelves sort of like a dry beaver down. Now my Tzeltal name was \u00abLoscha\u00bb, which loosely translated means <em>\u201cthe ugly one with the jewels\u201d<\/em>. Now ugly, OK, I was awfully tall by local standards. But what did they mean by the jewels? I didn\u2019t find out what this meant until one night, when I was taking my contact lenses out, and since I\u2019d lost the case I was carefully placing them on the sleeping shelf; suddenly I noticed that everyone was staring at me and I realized that none of the Tzeltal had ever seen glasses, much less contacts, and that these were the jewels, the transparent, perfectly round, jewels that I carefully hid on the shelf at night and then put for safekeeping into my eyes every morning.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/articles\/2012\/07\/laurie-anderson-book-reading-stories-from-the-nerve-bible.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-47876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nervebible.jpg\" alt=\"nervebible\" width=\"193\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nervebible.jpg 217w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/nervebible-115x150.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>So I may have been ugly but so what? I had the jewels.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Full fathom five &#8211; thy father lies<\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Of his bones are coral made<\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Those are pearls that were his eyes<\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Nothing of him that doth fade<\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>But it suffers a sea change<\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Into something rich and strange<\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And I alone am left to tell the tale<\/em><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Call me Ishmael<\/em><\/address>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2665 \u00a0&#8216;The Mysterious J&#8217; \u00a0\u2193<\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F84152848\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the book there are several chapters about women talking and women writing. Now it seems likely that men invented writing and wrote what? Maybe ninety, maybe ninety-five percent of everything that&#8217;s ever been written. Oh there&#8217;s the recent theory that a woman, the mysterious &#8216;J&#8217;\u009d, wrote much of the Old Testament, but only because God was portrayed in this book as patriarchal, tyrannical and inconsistent, the way presumably only a woman would write about a man. But I think I can picture this &#8216;J&#8217;\u009d scribbling away and laughing although the first time I saw the Bible re-enacted was sometime in the 70s and there was a cable TV show in the Midwest and Bible study groups would act out parts of the Bible. But these were pretty low budget productions and shot in a church basement or somebody&#8217;s rec-room and all the prophets had towels wrapped around their heads for turbans, but you could see the tags, the ones with the washing instructions, sort of sticking out and back. There were ver! y few women on these tapes. They tended to be the odd shepherdess sort dancing girl bit part.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then last year I was invited to perform in Israel and I was very excited because I wanted to see Jerusalem where this mysterious &#8216;J&#8217;\u009d had spent her life writing and working and the Gulf War had made me even more curious. So I did some asking around, some informal research, and I talked to an Israeli woman who was living in New York and she was really having a hard time living there, and she was always complaining about American men, and she&#8217;d say:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00abYou know, American men are such wimps, I mean, they&#8217;re always talking about their feelings.\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I said:\u00a0\u00a0<em>&#8216;\u00bbThey are?\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And she said she really liked Israeli men because they were so tough and because they all had guns and I said: \u00a0\u00ab<em>Guns, you like guys with guns?\u00bb<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And she said she did and went on about how terrible it was that Clinton wanted to reduce the army and she was so animate about this that I started to get kind of worried. Yeah, I thought, <em>&#8216;yeah that&#8217;s true, what are all these military people going to do when they lose their jobs?&#8217;<\/em> And then I thought,<em> &#8216;well, hang on, we&#8217;ve got all these service industries now, things like psychotherapy, and the military approach to psychotherapy would really be kind of perfect, really efficient and fast, you know, listen, you are nothing, you are a worm, and if you don&#8217;t get that mother complex out by 0400 hours you are dead meat.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\">\u2665 \u00a0&#8216;The Cultural ambassador&#8217; \u00a0\u2193<\/h5>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway, I was in Israel as a kind of cultural ambassador and there were lots of press conferences scheduled around the performances. The journalists usually started things off by asking about the\u00a0<em>avant-garde<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2014 So, what\u2019s so good about new? they\u2019d ask.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2014 Well, new is\u2026 interesting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2014 And what, they would say, is so good about interesting?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u2014 Well, interesting is, you know\u2026 it\u2019s\u2026 interesting. It\u2019s like\u2026 being awake, you know<\/em>, I\u2019m treading water now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014<em>\u00a0And what is so good about being awake?<\/em>\u00a0they\u2019d say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally I got the hang of this: never answer a question in Israel, always answer by asking another question. But the Israelis were vey curious about the Gulf War and what Americans had thought about it, and I tried to think of a good question to ask and answer to this, but what was really on my mind was that the week before I had myself been testing explosives in a parking lot in Tel Aviv. Now this happened because I had brought some small stage bombs to Israel as props for this performance and the Israeli promoter was very interested in them. And it turned out that he was on weekend duty on one of the bomb squads, and bombs were also something of a hobby during the week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So I said: \u00a0\u00a0<em>\u2014 Look, you know, these bombs are nothing special, just, just a little smoke<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And he said: \u00a0<em>\u2014 Well, we can get much better things for you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I said: \u00a0<em>\u2014 No really, these are fine\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And he said: \u00a0<em>\u2014 No but it should be big, theatrical. It should make an impression, I mean you really just the right bomb.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And so one morning he arranged to have about fifty small bombs delivered to a parking lot, and since he looked on it as a sort of special surprise favor, I couldn\u2019t really refuse, so we are on this parking lot testing the bombs, and after the first few explosions, I found I was really getting pretty\u2026 interested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They all had very different characteristics: some had fiery orange tails, and made these low paah, paah, paah, popping sound; others exploded mid-air and left long smoky, slinky trails, and he had several of each kind in case I needed to review them all at the end, and I\u2019m thinking:<br \/>\n<em>&#8216;Here I am, a citizen of the world\u2019s largest arms supplier, setting off bombs with the world\u2019s second largest arms customer, and I\u2019m having a great time!&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So even though the diplomatic part of the trip wasn\u2019t going so well, at least I was getting some instruction in terrorism. And it reminded me of something in a book by Don DeLillo about how terrorists are the only true artists left, because they\u2019re the only ones who are still capable of really surprising people. And the other thing it reminded me of, were all the attempts during the Gulf War to outwit the terrorists, and I especially remember an interesting list of tips devised by the US embassy in Madrid, and these tips were designed for Americans who found themselves in war-time airports. The idea was not to call ourselves to the attention of the numerous foreign terrorists who were presumably lurking all over the terminal, so the embassy tips were a list of mostly \u00a0<strong><em>don\u2019ts\u00a0<\/em>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Things like: <strong>Don\u2019t wear a baseball cap; Don\u2019t wear a sweatshirt with the name of an American university on it; Don\u2019t wear Timberlands with no socks; Don\u2019t chew gum; don\u2019t yell\u00a0<em>\u201cEthel, our plane is leaving!<\/em>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0I mean it\u2019s weird when your entire culture can be summed up in\u00a0<em>eight<\/em>\u00a0giveaway characteristics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And during the Gulf War I was traveling around Europe with a lot of equipment, and all the airports were full of security guards who would suddenly point to a suitcase and start yelling:<br \/>\n\u2014\u00a0<em>Whose bag is this? I wanna know right now who owns this bag.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And huge groups of passengers would struck\u00a0fanning\u00a0up from the back, just running around in circles like a SCUD missile on its way in, and I was carrying a lot of electronics so I had to keep unpacking everything and plugging it in and demonstrating how it all worked, and I guessed I did seem a little fishy; a lot of this stuff wakes up displaying LED program readouts that have names like Adam Smasher, and so it took a while to convince them that they weren\u2019t some kind of espionage system. So I\u2019ve done quite a few of these sort of impromptu new music concerts for small groups of detectives and customs agents and I\u2019d have to keep setting all this stuff up and they\u2019d listen for a while and they\u2019d say:<br \/>\n\u2014<em>\u00a0So uh, what\u2019s this?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I\u2019d pull out something like this filter and say:<br \/>\n\u2014<em>\u00a0Now this is what I\u2019d like to think of as the voice of Authority.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And it would take me a while to tell them how I used it for songs that were, you know, about various forms of control, and they would say:<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 Now, why would you want to talk like that?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I\u2019d look around at the swat teams and the undercover agents and the dogs and the radio in the corner, tuned to the Super Bowl coverage of the war. And I\u2019d say:<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 Take a wild guess.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finally of course, I got through, with this after all American-made equipment, and the customs agents were all talking about the effectiveness,\u00a0no the beauty, the elegance, of the American strategy of pinpoint bombing. The high-tech surgical approach, which was being reported by CNN as something between grand opera and the Super Bowl, like the first reports before the blackout when TV was live and everything was heightened, and it was so\u2026 euphoric<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <strong>\u00a0* \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0* \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*<\/strong><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Daddy &#8211; daddy \u00a0 \u00a0it was just like you said<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0 now that the living \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 outnumber the dead<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 where I come from \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0it&#8217;s a long thin thread<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 across an ocean \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0down a river of red<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0now that the living \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0outnumber the dead<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SPEAK \u00a0MY \u00a0LANGUAGE . . .<\/strong><\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o-UpRavnhYc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51890\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Speak-my-language.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Speak-my-language.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Speak-my-language-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u00ab&#8230;hello. hello. here come the quick. there go the dead.\u00a0<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>here they come. bright red. speak my language.\u00bb<\/strong><\/address>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xBj2feVYwjw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-51887\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/poison.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/poison.jpg 216w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/poison-139x150.jpg 139w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It was one of those black cat night<br \/>\nThe moon had gone out and the air was thin<br \/>\nIt was the kind of night the cat would drag in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;ll never forget it, we had a fight.<br \/>\nThen you turned around turned on the light. You left our bed.<br \/>\nThen you moved downstairs to live with her instead.<br \/>\nYeah just one floor and a shout away.<br \/>\nI guess I should have moved but I decided to stay.<br \/>\n<strong>Did I drink some poison that I don&#8217;t remember now?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Did I drink some poison that I just don&#8217;t remember now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">And every night I open all the windows<br \/>\nI let a cold dark wind blow through.<br \/>\nI play loud organ music and I talk to myself and dream of you.<br \/>\nUh oh! I hear voices coming up through the pipes.<br \/>\nThrough all the springs in my bed and up through the lights.<br \/>\nThe volume goes up then it drops back down<br \/>\nI can hear the two of you playing records<br \/>\nMoving furniture and fooling around.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Did I drink some poison that I don&#8217;t remember now?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Did I drink some poison that I just don&#8217;t remember now?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Is there blood on my hands? \u00a0No, my hands are clean.<br \/>\nDid I do something in another lifetime that was really really mean?<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Yeah I&#8217;m hearing voices.\u00a0Am I losing my mind?<br \/>\nThink I&#8217;m going crazy, I gotta get out.<br \/>\nI run into the street and start to shout<br \/>\nGet out of my way! \u00a0Get out! \u00a0Get out!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Did I drink some poison that I don&#8217;t remember now?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Did I drink some poison that I just don&#8217;t remember now?<\/strong><br \/>\nDid I do something in another lifetime\u00a0that was really really mean?<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A small bullet, a piece of glass<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> And your heart just grows around it. . .<\/strong><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bvhfSH9CbCw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46710 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/onlyanexpert.jpg\" alt=\"onlyanexpert\" width=\"170\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/onlyanexpert.jpg 170w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/onlyanexpert-143x150.jpg 143w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u21d0<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u221e\u2192&#8217;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweetslyrics.com\/781835.Laurie%20Anderson%20-%20Only%20An%20Expert.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Only An Expert<\/a>&#8216;\u00a0 +\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;Falling&#8217;<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Maybe if I fall&#8230; Maybe if I fall asleep.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;ll be a party there.<br \/>\nMaybe if I fall&#8230; Maybe if I fall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Americans unrooted blow with the wind<br \/>\nBut they feel the truth if it touches them&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\">\n<h6><strong>* \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0* \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*<\/strong><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2207 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VaBbHGKLp88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sharkey&#8217;s Day<\/a> \u21d0<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/greatsong.net\/PAROLES-LAURIE-ANDERSON,SHARKEYS-DAY,100509561.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-51889\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sharkeys-Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sharkeys-Day.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sharkeys-Day-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sun&#8217;s coming up. Like a big bald head. Poking up over the grocery store. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It&#8217;s Sharkey&#8217;s day. It&#8217;s Sharkey&#8217;s day today. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sharkey wakes up and Sharkey says:<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I turn around, it&#8217;s fear. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I turn around again. And it&#8217;s love. Oh yeah.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Strange dreams.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> And Sharkey says: All night long I think of those little planes up there. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Flying around. You can&#8217;t even see them. They&#8217;re specks! <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And they&#8217;re full of tiny people. Going places.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And Sharkey says: You know? I bet they could all land on the head of a pin. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And the little girls sing: Ooooeee. Sharkey! He&#8217;s Mister Heartbreak. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>They sing: Oooeee. That Sharkey! He&#8217;s a slow dance on the edge of the lake. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>He&#8217;s a whole landscape gone to seed. He&#8217;s gone wild! <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>He&#8217;s screeching tires on an oil slick at midnight on the road to Boston a long time ago.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And Sharkey says: Lights! Camera! Action! <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TIMBER! <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> You know? They&#8217;re growing mechanical trees. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>They grow to their full height. And then they chop themselves down.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sharkey says: All of life comes from some strange lagoon. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It rises up, it bucks up to it&#8217;s full height from a boggy swamp on a foggy night. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It creeps into your house. \u00a0It&#8217;s life! \u00a0It&#8217;s life! <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I turn around, it&#8217;s fear. I turn around again, and it&#8217;s love. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Nobody knows me. Nobody knows my name. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Deep in the heart of darkest America. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Home of the brave. Ha! Ha! Ha!<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>You&#8217;ve already paid for this. Listen to my heart beat. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong> And the little girls sing: Oooeee Sharkey. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>He&#8217;s a slow dance on the edge of the lake. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>They sing: Ooooeeee. Sharkey. He&#8217;s Mister Heartbreak. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paging Mr. Sharkey. White courtesy telephone please. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And Sharkey says: I turn around, it&#8217;s fear. <\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I turn around again, and it&#8217;s love.<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And the little girls sing: Ooooeee . . .<\/strong><\/address>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<address>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2207 \u00a0\u00a0 Sharkey&#8217;s Night\u00a0\u00a0 \u21d3<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ZrduqmMKIQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/address>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\">\n<address>Sun&#8217;s going down like a big bald head<br \/>\nDisappearing behind the boulevard<br \/>\n(Oooee.) It&#8217;s Sharkey&#8217;s night, yeah, it&#8217;s Sharkey&#8217;s night tonight<br \/>\nAnd the manager says, \u00abSharkey?<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s not at his desk right now. (oh yeah.) Could I take a message?\u00bbAnd Sharkey says, \u00abHey, kemosabe! Long time no see\u00bb<br \/>\nHe says, \u00abHey sport. You connect the dots. You pick up the pieces\u00bb<br \/>\nHey says, \u00abYou know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself and there&#8217;s one in each of your eyes. And they&#8217;re doin&#8217; everything I do<br \/>\nEvery time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs<br \/>\nI take a drink and I look in and they&#8217;re drinkin&#8217; too<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s drivin&#8217; me crazy. It&#8217;s drivin&#8217; me nuts.\u00bbAnd Sharkey says, \u00abDeep in the heart of darkest America, home of the brave.\u00bb<br \/>\nHe says: \u00abListen to my heart beat.\u00bb<br \/>\nPaging Mr. Sharkey, white courtesy telephone please<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;A Cat Named Mouse&#8217;\u00a0 \u21d3<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lCHeAWUUnx4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/address>\n<\/div>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2207\u00a0 \u00a0 w\/\u00a0 The Kronos Quartet\u00a0 \u21d3\u00a0 &#8216;Bodies In Motion&#8217;<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SlYlrQsNESc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We embody the spirit of motion.<br \/>\n<strong>We&#8217;re bodies in motion . . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We dig down in the ocean. Swing up to the stars.<br \/>\nWe own the moon and the earth. We&#8217;re masters of Mars.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re bodies in motion. We embody the spirit of motion.<br \/>\nOur ancestors cowered in caves<br \/>\nAfraid of the dark and the thunder.<br \/>\nWrapped up in black magic and rage<br \/>\nThey were slaves to their hunger.<br \/>\nNow we fly across mountains in planes<br \/>\nWe know all about time and big numbers.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re bodies in motion.<br \/>\nWe embody the spirit of motion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I love you with all my heart You have my devotion.<br \/>\nI loved you from the start. We&#8217;re bodies in motion.<br \/>\nWe embody the spirit of motion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ooo the weight of the world. Eternal spin.<br \/>\nPuts a dent in my shoulder.<br \/>\nA burn in my spin. A burn in my spin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Some say the future is crowds fighting for water and space.<br \/>\nChaotic and dark and loud, everything used up and taken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But I say the future&#8217;s within the still point of the mind.<br \/>\nWhere we escape the bounds of earth<br \/>\nAnd break the bonds of time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If somebody asked me to design a religion<br \/>\nI would make it all about snow.<br \/>\nNo good or evil and no suffering.<br \/>\nJust perfect crystals spinning<br \/>\nIn ecstasy ecstasy ecstasy ecstasy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Ooo the weight of the world. Eternal spin.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Puts a dent in my shoulder.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>A burn in my spin. A burn in my spin &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We dig down in the ocean. Swing up to the stars.<br \/>\nWe own the moon and the earth. We&#8217;re masters of Mars.<br \/>\n<strong>We&#8217;re bodies in motion. We embody the spirit of motion&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"left\">\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2666\u2192 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_RZpphITFM4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;The Beginning of Memory&#8217;<\/a>\u00a0 \u21d0\u00a0 [\u00abHomeland\u00bb_2010]<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There&#8217;s a story in an ancient play about birds called The Birds<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s a short story from before the world began<br \/>\nFrom a time when there was no earth, no land.<br \/>\nOnly air and birds everywhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But the thing was there was no place to land.<br \/>\nBecause there was no land.<br \/>\nSo they just circled around and around.<br \/>\nBecause this was before the world began.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And the sound was deafening. Songbirds were everywhere.<br \/>\nBillions and billions and billions of birds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And one of these birds was a lark and one day her father died.<br \/>\nAnd this was a really big problem because what should they do with the body?<br \/>\nThere was no place to put the body because there was no earth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">And finally the lark had a solution.<br \/>\nShe decided to bury her father in the back of her own head.<br \/>\nAnd this was the beginning of memory.<br \/>\nBecause before this no one could remember a thing.<br \/>\nThey were just constantly flying in circles.<br \/>\nConstantly flying in huge circles.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U6tHewLEe6w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bright-red.jpg\" alt=\"bright-red\" width=\"227\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bright-red.jpg 227w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bright-red-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_j8Z0G2hx1k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-47694 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47694\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NYsociallife.jpg\" alt=\"NYsociallife\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NYsociallife.jpg 480w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NYsociallife-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NYsociallife-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/NYsociallife-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2022 \u00a0&#8216;New York Social Life&#8217; \u2191 <\/strong>\u00a0(from 1983 performance<strong> \u00ab<strong>United States<\/strong>\u00ab<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, I was lying in bed one morning, trying to think of a good reason to get up, and the phone rang and it was Geri and she said: &#8216;<strong>Hey, hi! How are you? What\u2019s going on? How\u2019s your work?&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Oh fine. You know, just waking up but it\u2019s fine, it\u2019s going OK, how\u2019s yours?&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Oh a lot of work, you know, I mean, I\u2019m trying to make some money too. Listen, I gotta get back to it, I just thought I\u2019d call to see how you are &#8230;&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd I said: &#8216;<strong>Yeah, we should really get together next week. You know, have lunch, and talk.&#8217;<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">And she says: &#8216;<strong>Yeah, uh, I\u2019ll be in touch. OK?&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;OK.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Uh, listen, take care.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;OK. Take it easy.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Bye bye.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Bye now.&#8217;<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I get up, and the phone rings and it\u2019s a man from Cleveland and he says: <strong>&#8216;Hey, hi! How are you? Listen I\u2019m doing a performance series and I\u2019d like you to do something in it. Uh, you know, you could make a little money. I mean, I don\u2019t know how I _feel_ about your work, you know, it\u2019s not really my style, it\u2019s kind of trite, but listen, it\u2019s _just_ my opinion, don\u2019t take it personally. So listen, I\u2019ll be in town next week. I gotta go now, but I\u2019ll give you a call, and we\u2019ll have lunch, and we can discuss a few things.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd I hang up and it rings again and I don\u2019t answer it and I go out for a walk and I drop in at the gallery and they say: <strong>&#8216;Hey, hi. How are you?&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Oh fine. You know.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;How\u2019s your work going?&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;OK. I mean &#8230;&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;You know it\u2019s not like it was in the sixties. I mean, those were the days, there\u2019s just no money around now, you know, survive, produce, stick it out, it\u2019s a jungle out there, just gotta keep working.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd the phone rings and she says:<strong> &#8216;Oh excuse me, will you? Hey, hi! How are you? Uh huh. How\u2019s your work? _Good._ Well, listen, stick it out, I mean, it\u2019s not the sixties, you know, listen, I gotta go now, but, uh, lunch would be great. Fine, next week? Yeah. Very busy now, but next week would be fine, OK? Bye bye.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Bye now.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd I go over to Magoo\u2019s, for a bite, and I see Frank and I go over to his table and I say:<br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Hey Frank. Hi, how are you? How\u2019s your work? Yeah, mine\u2019s OK too. Listen, I\u2019m broke you know, but, uh, working &#8230; Listen, I gotta go now, uh, we should _really_ get together, you know. Why don\u2019t you drop by sometime? Yeah, that would be great. OK. Take care.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Take it easy.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;I\u2019ll see you.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;I\u2019ll call you.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Bye now.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Bye bye.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd I go to a party and everyone\u2019s sitting around wearing these party hats and it\u2019s really awkward and no one can think of anything to say. So we all move around fast, and it\u2019s:<strong> &#8216;Hi! How are you? Where\u2019ve you been? Nice to see you. Listen, I\u2019m sorry I missed your thing last week, but we should really get together, you know, maybe next week. I\u2019ll call you. I\u2019ll see you.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Bye bye.&#8217;<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I go home and the phone rings and it\u2019s Alan and he says:<strong> &#8216;You know, I\u2019m gonna have a show on, uh, cable TV and it\u2019s gonna be about loneliness, you know, people in the city who for whatever sociological, psychological, philosophical reasons just can\u2019t seem to communicate, you know, The Gap, The Gap, uh, it\u2019ll be a talk show and people\u2019ll phone in but we will say at the beginning of each program: Uh, listen, don\u2019t call in with your _personal_ problems because we don\u2019t want to hear them.&#8217;<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd I\u2019m going to sleep and it rings again and it\u2019s Mary and she says:<br \/>\n<strong>&#8216;Hey, Laurie, how are you? Listen, uh, I just called to say hi &#8230; Uh, yeah, well don\u2019t worry. Uh, listen, just keep working. I gotta go now. I know it\u2019s late but we should really get together next week maybe and have lunch and talk and &#8230; Listen, Laurie, uh, if you want to talk before then, uh, I\u2019ll leave my answering machine on &#8230; and just give me a ring &#8230; anytime.&#8217;<\/strong><\/address>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mua8Pr6uRso\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42640 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/HoTb.jpg\" alt=\"HoTb\" width=\"226\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/HoTb.jpg 226w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/HoTb-150x148.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>\u2190[1986]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Good Evening (instrumental)<br \/>\nZero and One (spoken word)<br \/>\nExcellent Birds<br \/>\nOld Hat (spoken word)<br \/>\nDrum Dance (instrumental)<br \/>\nSmoke Rings<br \/>\nLate Show (instrumental with vocal sample by William S. Burroughs)<br \/>\nWhite Lily (spoken word)<br \/>\nSharkey&#8217;s Day<br \/>\nHow to Write (instrumental with spoken word introduction by Won-sang Park)<br \/>\nKokoku<br \/>\nRadar (instrumental with wordless vocalizations by Anderson)<br \/>\nGravity&#8217;s Angel<br \/>\nLangue D&#8217;Amour<br \/>\nTalk Normal<br \/>\nDifficult Listening Hour (spoken word)<br \/>\nLanguage is a Virus<br \/>\nSharkey&#8217;s Night<br \/>\nCredit Racket (instrumental)<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/14793787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-46959\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Virus.png\" alt=\"Virus\" width=\"288\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Virus.png 266w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Virus-150x77.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paradise Is exactly like \u00a0where you are right now &#8211; Only much much Better.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">I saw this guy on the train and he seemed to have gotten stuck \u00a0in one of those abstract trances.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">And he was going: \u00abUgh&#8230; Ugh&#8230; Ugh&#8230;\u00bb<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Fred said: \u00abI think he&#8217;s in some kind of pain. I think it&#8217;s a pain cry.\u00bb<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I said: \u00abPain cry? \u00a0Then language is a virus.\u00bb<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Language! It&#8217;s a virus! \u00a0 Language! It&#8217;s a virus!<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well I was talking to a friend \u00a0and I was saying: I wanted you.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">And I was looking for you. But I couldn&#8217;t find you. I couldn&#8217;t find you.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">And he said: H&#8217;ey! Are you talking to me? Or are you just practicing for one of those performances of yours?&#8217;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">Huh? <strong>Language! It&#8217;s a virus! Language! It&#8217;s a virus!<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said: \u00a0I had to write that letter to your mother. And I had to tell the judge that it was you<br \/>\nAnd I had to sell the car and go to Florida, because that&#8217;s just my way of saying (It&#8217;s a charm.)<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">That I love you. And I (It&#8217;s a job.) Had to call you at the crack of dawn (Why?)<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">And list the times that I&#8217;ve been wrong. Cause that&#8217;s just my way of saying \u00a0that I&#8217;m sorry. (It&#8217;s a job.)<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Language! It&#8217;s a virus! Language! It&#8217;s a virus!<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paradise is exactly like where you are right now \u00a0Only much much (It&#8217;s a shipwreck,) Better. (It&#8217;s a job.)<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">You know? I don&#8217;t believe there&#8217;s such a thing as tv. I mean &#8211;<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">They just keep showing you the same pictures over and over.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">And when they talk they just make sounds that more or less synch up with their lips. That&#8217;s what I think!<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Language! It&#8217;s a virus! Language! It&#8217;s a virus! Language! It&#8217;s a virus!<\/strong><\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well I dreamed there was an island that rose up from the sea.<\/address>\n<address>And everybody on the island was somebody from tv.<\/address>\n<address><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42644 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/virus.jpg\" alt=\"virus\" width=\"397\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/virus.jpg 340w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/virus-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/virus-150x70.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/>&#8230; Look at me!\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">Paradise is exactly like where you are right now &#8211; Only much much better<\/address>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u2207 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kssJCuTIcIw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Freefall&#8217;<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 \u21d0 \u00a0[feat. <strong>Brian Eno<\/strong>]<\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">You&#8217;re out on the ocean and you get pulled down\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">Freefall to the bottom\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">Like when you&#8217;re drowning or falling asleep\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">You get turned around\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">And when you think you&#8217;re swimming to the surface\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">You&#8217;re swimming straight down.\u2028 Down to the bottom.\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">All the way to the bottom.\u2028\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">Secret codes and cryptograms\u2028I&#8217;m lost in your words<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">I&#8217;m swimming.\u2028 We&#8217;re going down to the bottom.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">All the way to the bottom. Rapture of the deep.\u2028\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">I got your letter. I couldn&#8217;t read it. It was a cryptogram.\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">Did it say Take me with you or Take me as I am?\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">We&#8217;re going down to the bottom.\u2028 All the way to the bottom.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">We get turned around.\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">There is another world spinning inside of this one.\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2028I remember where I came from\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">There were tropical breezes and a wide open sea\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">I remember my childhood\u2028 I remember being free.\u2028\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">We\u2019re going down to the bottom.\u2028 All the way to the bottom.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">We get turned around.\u2028There is another world inside of this one.\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">Rapture of the deep.\u2028\u2028We&#8217;re going down to the bottom.\u2028<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">There is another world spinning inside of this one\u2026<\/address>\n<p><strong>\u2234 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=261&amp;v=yjMQL32zY9E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">w\/ Brian Eno &amp;\u00a0Jan Peter Schwalm<\/a>&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lZI79A2tTpo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-47115 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/im-right-behind-you.jpg\" alt=\"im-right-behind-you\" width=\"207\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/im-right-behind-you.jpg 207w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/im-right-behind-you-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><strong>\u2190&#8217;Like Pictures&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zG5tG1McLzk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51891\" src=\"http:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/in-our-sleep.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/in-our-sleep.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/in-our-sleep-150x131.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>In our sleep<\/strong>\u00a0\u2191 as we speak &#8211; Listen to the drums beat \u00a0as we speak \u00a0. . .<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">. . . As we speak in our sleep &#8211; Listen to the drums beat \u00a0in our sleep\u00a0<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0. . . \u00a0In our sleep \u00a0where we meet \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<strong>In our sleep<\/strong> \u00a0where we meet<\/address>\n<p id=\"watch-headline-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/943-laurie-anderson-discusses-her-new-film-heart-of-a-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48155 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48155\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/heart-of-a-dog.jpg\" alt=\"heart-of-a-dog\" width=\"454\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/heart-of-a-dog.jpg 454w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/heart-of-a-dog-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/heart-of-a-dog-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/heart-of-a-dog-400x210.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/h6>\n<p>This is my dream, buddy, the one I used to walk around &#8230; In my dreams &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In this dream, I&#8217;m in a hospital bed &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The doctor is holding a small pink bundle, and right in the bundle I see the little face of my dog:<\/p>\n<p>a small rat terrier &#8211; I&#8217;m love-bound!<\/p>\n<p>I kissed her on the head \u00a0and I said, \u00a0<em>&#8216;I&#8217;ll love you for ever&#8230;&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">To live in a gap, between a moment that it&#8217;s expiring and the one it is arising<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">And when you close your eyes, what do you see? \u00a0 \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0Nothing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Now open them &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I wanna tell you a story about a story and it&#8217;s about the time I discovered that most of dogs have no idea what they&#8217;re talking about . . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/11\/19\/456655545\/laurie-anderson-reflects-on-life-and-loss-in-heart-of-a-dog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48161 noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-48161\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eoisabi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/anderson_heart.jpg\" alt=\"anderson_heart\" width=\"507\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/anderson_heart.jpg 357w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/anderson_heart-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/englishroam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/anderson_heart-150x59.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But finally I saw it&#8230; The connection between love and death, and that <strong>the purpose of death is the release of love<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">A few extracts from Laurie Anderson&#8216;s Stories form the Nerve Bible.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u2192 On The Way To Jerusalem \u21d0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was a devout nun in the XVth century who decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and she belonged to an order that wore bags over their heads. 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