going to a town
that is this town that is the town that rufus wainwright played in just blocks from my apartment two nights ago after which I have not stopped singing in my head and out loud his exuberant or melancholy or exuberantly melancholy songs. I think something broke open inside me that night and has stayed broken open. I feel all raw inside.
in other news, I read yesterday that there was a tornado in brooklyn. I hope people and people's houses and cars and my favorite taco stand are okay. also, and does a body need to say it? how surreal. really - it puts the elder french to shame.
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Huh, I think you are my first American friend to like that song. Canadians can't get enough, of course. ;)
you clearly know the wrong americans.
I'm realizing right now that I'm really ill-versed in canadian history (sooo like an american, I can already hear you saying), and I have to say I am unfamiliar with the ways in which canada is a "town that has already been burnt down" -- am I wrong in assuming that it has, like the US, largely skirted the traumas of other continents (the europian & asian wars, african genocides, etc.)? I figure you'd know better than me. & the other part of the song, the part that laments the perpetuating legacy of puritanism in american, I guess you canadians got lucky on that one. I just heard they're trying to pass a law in georgia that makes the showing of thongs & boxers under jeans illegal, restricted by the state's "indecency laws." stupid government.
oh - and when I say "skirted the trauma" I don't mean the lost lives of soldiers sent overseas (which surely was and is traumatic) but rather the bombings of cities and mass-death-by-machete. just a caveat. :-)
I read the lyrics as Rufus on tour in the US, tired of it, and deciding to go home--which is Montreal.
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yeah, you might be right. I knew he was from montreal but I guess I read the "home" a bit more metaphorically. and if I were canadian, he'd be my national hero. I'd elect him to public office. I'd have a parade for him. hell, I'm from freaking atlanta georgia and I may just do it anyway.
& feed? what feed?
His mom and her sisters are national heroes. And his sister has a great album--love this track [mp3].
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