I was digging deep again, as I do every year or so, into my box of keepsakes and relics that I really don't know why I kept them but did. Stuff I wrote as a kid (some of that, I must say, rather disturbing), old letters of the real life mailed sort, newspaper clippings of miscellany, that have strangely yellowed and gotten brittle already and that shit just ain't right since it seems not so long ago ... whatever, I'm getting old. From the Kansas City Kansan , newspaper that we got delivered daily, Friday, July 25, 1975, I had cut out and kept this one particular article headlined "Youngster completes first novel." I was always writing as a kid, so I remember very well snipping this one item, on account of the twelve-years-old youngster was my same age, and I very much wanted my own novel published. Of course I hadn't written it yet, but I figured this proved I could do it, too, kept it for an affirmation thingy. Over the years I've remembered saving that s...
Love, love, love them! I have every cd except Amy's(my husband's fave, b/c she's more rock) solo, which I still want, even though Emily is my favorite. I even have cds that I didn't even originally realize Emily sang back up for like Sister Hazel and I love her duet with Vonda Shepard. My all-time fave IG song is Virginia Woolf off the Rites of Passage cd, which is also my favorite album. I still think their first cd is classic. All of their songs are poetry.
ReplyDeleteI've always listed Indigo Girls and Depeche Mode (total opposites)as my top two all-time faves.
I didn't know Emily as backup for Sister Hazel, I love that group. I particularly like Change Your Mind, which I had forgotten about til you mentioned them! As far as the IG go, I agree that *all* of their songs are poetry. I adore them. Even if they are girls.
ReplyDeleteAlso a really big Depeche Mode fan here, I have all of their CDs. Between your IG collection and my DM collection we've got the gamut covered. :-)
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ReplyDeleteGreat song! I am not familiar with The Indigo Girls, though of course I've heard of them. *dork*
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of lesbians...my dad was so cute a few years ago...
"Yeah, I played golf the other day. My buddy brought his friend. Honey, she was a "lisbian." (his eyes pop open a bit shocked that he golfed with one)
Me smiling: Oh really? A "lisbian."
Him: Yeah...nice lady...nice lady...good golfer...just a normal person...but yeah, she was a "lisbian" honey.
It was like he had been "enlightened" having had a blast with a "lisbian." Who knew they were just normal people too huh?
Parents...whadya gonna do with 'em? ha
I really can't pick a favorite Depeche Mode song, I guess, but Enjoy the Silence would be up there. I do like Personal Jesus, a lot actually, too. I guess if I HAD to pick one it would be People Are People.
ReplyDeleteAs far as lisbians are concerned, well, I have to admit I like Dad sometimes find some of them scary and enjoy when I do find some that are "normal people." :-) But then again, I'm one of those nancy boys, I scare easily.
Well, fuck, it just occurred to me that I'm way off course here. My point of the post, despite getting all sidetracked and stuff, is the point of the song, that there is no one "right" path to whatever answer one might be seeking and that when we realizes that, the closer to being okay with wherever we might be here and now. Jeez.
ReplyDeleteMy Bad. I got it O.T.
ReplyDeleteI also love the lines :
"I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of Rasputin, and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry, or see a b-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
I got my paper and I was free"
I like that they're all about being "real." Real life wisdom and different/varied life choices can sometimes trump inexperienced intellectualism.
Sorry bout that.
ReplyDeleteIt just stirred up the sweet memory for me.
I LOVE the song and now might check out more from The Indigo Girls!
"I like that they're all about being 'real.' Real life wisdom and different/varied life choices can sometimes trump inexperienced intellectualism.
ReplyDeleteFantastically said, sister!
Lumina - why sorry??? But for whyever, yes, do check out more of the Girls, well worth it!
I am confused. Maybe your dad played with a woman from Lisbon. Although...once I was a security guard at a women's golf tournament and the locker room looked more like a gay bar. Jane Oliver.
ReplyDelete*giggle* Diane,
ReplyDeleteYou are kidding right? My dad just doesn't know how to pronounce "lesbian." I thought that was cute, as well as his excitement/amazement that she was "A really nice lady hon...AND a GREAT golfer." :)
I love the quip about your dad, that was cute. Why am I all of a sudden thinking of the Dinah Shore Golf Tournament and 18 holes?
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