Moments of pleasure and life's banquet
May. 20th, 2011 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fingertroubleListening to Kate Bush's Director's Cut - surprisingly good actually even if I don't really like the re-record of Deeper Understanding, but I prefer the new versions of Never be Mine, Red Shoes, Woman's Work, Top of the City and Moments of Pleasure - and came across this quote by Delicon about this song on songmeanings:
'One of our purposes in life is to give pleasure to others, and it is these fleeting, given pleasures which others remember and which illuminate [our] little lives. There is an old story about a sumptuous banquet, when a beautiful bird flies in at one door. It flies over the banqueters and they all stare in wonder as it flies out of the far door. That little flight, wondrous to others, is our life.'
Still would prefer an album of original songs, I'm not a massive KATE FAN OMGZ!!!! though, and if it would be another Aerial you can keep that...strange how she said she was annoyed it takes 10 years per album...then DON'T DO IT. Change how you work, your process, get inspired elsewhere, lose the perfectionism or do it differently. Strange to get annoyed by your own artistic processes, when you can change it surely?
BTW Bill is the lighting technician who fell and died during her only tour (strangely excised from this version), Maureen is her aunt?, Murph is Alan Murphy who died of AIDS, Michael Powell and dancer Gary Hurst (Bubba). Teddy I dunno - thought to be possibly John Barratt. Funny all those trying to work out who 'George the wipe' is when it's obvious it's one of those family in-jokes where you had to be there...
'One of our purposes in life is to give pleasure to others, and it is these fleeting, given pleasures which others remember and which illuminate [our] little lives. There is an old story about a sumptuous banquet, when a beautiful bird flies in at one door. It flies over the banqueters and they all stare in wonder as it flies out of the far door. That little flight, wondrous to others, is our life.'
Still would prefer an album of original songs, I'm not a massive KATE FAN OMGZ!!!! though, and if it would be another Aerial you can keep that...strange how she said she was annoyed it takes 10 years per album...then DON'T DO IT. Change how you work, your process, get inspired elsewhere, lose the perfectionism or do it differently. Strange to get annoyed by your own artistic processes, when you can change it surely?
BTW Bill is the lighting technician who fell and died during her only tour (strangely excised from this version), Maureen is her aunt?, Murph is Alan Murphy who died of AIDS, Michael Powell and dancer Gary Hurst (Bubba). Teddy I dunno - thought to be possibly John Barratt. Funny all those trying to work out who 'George the wipe' is when it's obvious it's one of those family in-jokes where you had to be there...