Diamanda Galas...
...sits on my balcony. well, the book i'm reading on her is, but it's getting dark, the sun is about to set, and i can still see the sun reflect in her fingernails and teeth through the book cover. There is much bone in her.
She talks about the occult, and how witches back in them witch-hunting days possessed the power over both sexes: a transsexual power that she herself presents with her voice, and her appearance (does she look more like Gaiman's Death character, or Marc Bolan?) is, although certainly not androgynous, decidedly confronting.
I put one of her recordings on the stereo in the shop that I work in once, and for a while, it seemed like a different space; a series of bony corridors; a dark vault; the rows of cds along the walls were tombstones. Cds really are tombstones, aren't they? There are names on them, and some kind of title:
Eric Clapton
"Eric was here"
R.L. Burnside
"Wish I was in Heaven sitting down"
Phyllis Dillon
"Love was all I had: 1966-71"
The Diamanda section would have the best inscriptions, then:
DIAMANDA GALAS
YOU MUST BE CERTAIN OF THE DEVIL.
So is a record a symbol of death?
She talks about the occult, and how witches back in them witch-hunting days possessed the power over both sexes: a transsexual power that she herself presents with her voice, and her appearance (does she look more like Gaiman's Death character, or Marc Bolan?) is, although certainly not androgynous, decidedly confronting.
I put one of her recordings on the stereo in the shop that I work in once, and for a while, it seemed like a different space; a series of bony corridors; a dark vault; the rows of cds along the walls were tombstones. Cds really are tombstones, aren't they? There are names on them, and some kind of title:
"Eric was here"
R.L. Burnside
"Wish I was in Heaven sitting down"
Phyllis Dillon
"Love was all I had: 1966-71"
The Diamanda section would have the best inscriptions, then:
YOU MUST BE CERTAIN OF THE DEVIL.
So is a record a symbol of death?
posted by singingwhale at 9:53 PM
3 Comments:
I'd like to register my concern that there is no new material for ... quite some time ... when will the next post be up. -AS
no a record is a symbol of pizza. also, i agree with a.s.
FTMs gather and chat away. What are they talking about? Mostly about the progress of the penis: the surgical process, the cost, the care, the pain, etc. Those who have got it are heroes; those who have not done it or are still struggling through the process diligently listen to the elders’ instructions and reminders. Penis, we love you, we care about the unborn you. Are you going to be pretty? Are you going to be big? Are you going to be hard? Are you going to perform precisely the mission that we will put you to? How would you fare? We care, we care, we care so much.
Xiao‐Ren and Josephine Ho (2006) "Reflections of an unorthodox TS: the border war continues" in Inter Asia Cultural Studies, pp. 198 - 201
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