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17 November 2005
Godstar (7" version) I spent a week in the hospital (or 'in hospital', for those of you that identify yourselves as 'blokes'), and found myself with little to do to pass the time.→[More:]
I didn't bring any music with me - this was a public hospital in NYC and I didn't want to lose my mp3 player to either a nurse's or a patient's sticky fingers - but on my last night ther, my wonderful wife brought me her ipod and I found myself listening to this song over and over and over. She's always dug it while, though a fan of throbbing Gristle and Chris & Cosey, I'd never given it much thought - something to do with the drums sounding 'too 80's (they do).
Anyways, the words and music of Genesis P-Orridge and company were strangely comforting. I wore down the battery listening to it and Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah).
Fast forward to last Thursday night. I was at an art opening in Soho. Neat stuff, and plenty of odd, cult celebrities in attendance, among them Michael Richards, John Cale, and Genesis P-Orridge. That's pretty much the end of it.
Oh - I forgot to describe 'Godstar'. In short, it's a near-perfect pieve of pop craftmanship, and coming from someone as anti-pop as Genesis P-Orridge (NSFW), that's no small feat.
I once thought I had small feet, but with time I realized they're not really all that small at all.
My hands are pretty damn small, though. So goes it.