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First, science. The NY Times article traces the shrug/upturned palm gesture back to a primordial submissive gesture used by reptiles on up. Including chimps, who understand it to mean "gimme" or bonobos, for whom it often means "play."
Hmm. Where have we seen this before? Dogs, maybe? The play bow is one of their most distinctive moves, and is pretty much the opposite of the aggressive, on the toes stance. Well, then there's plain rolling over.
But anyway, I find this interesting because of the links I've already discerned between human and animal behavior. In reading books on dog aggression, so much of what I've learned seems to relate to children and people as well. I mean, dogs are pretty much two year old children all their lives. Lots of the same techniques apply.
And now for something completely different.
Neil Young. If you like him at all, you owe it to yourself (and him) to go out right now and get Live at Massey Hall, 1971. Young was 24 and in the best voice of his life. Seriously--if you've ever said, "Man, he writes good songs, but was his throat ripped out by coyotes?" you will take it back. He's crystal clear here, isn't straining for any of the notes, and achieves a strange, androgynous quality that made me tear up multiple times on first listen.
It's also a really good time for him song-wise, and most of these songs were unknown to the public at the time. He plays them all on acoustic guitar or piano, and I was surprised to learn how great an acoustic player he is--usually, I'm so focused on his electric solos. The other surprise is hearing these songs before they became Young/Crazy Horse arrangements: "Cowgirl in the Sang" without the harmonies, "Ohio" as a quiet acoustic plea. "A Man Needs a Maid" is intriguingly paired with "Heart of Gold" and, stripped of that atrocious string arrangement, stands as a lonely man's testament to what he thinks will save him, and won't.
This isn't the only place you'll hear Young on acoustic guitar. But it's a pitch-perfect concert, and one he once said (in the biography Shakey) that he'd never release because it's "too good."
I kind of agree. I mean, not that it shouldn't come out, and obviously he doesn't actually think that either. But it's so beautiful it almost hurts. If I wasn't already a fan--and I admit, it took a few years for me to really respond to him--this would have got me there.
Side note: this is a precursor to a purported archive of Young's work, including video footage of various things. The trailer, here, looks intriguing.
On the Way Home
Tell Me Why
Old Man
Journey Through the Past
Helpless
Love in Mind
A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold Suite
Cowgirl in the Sand
Don't Let It Bring You Down
There's a World
Bad Fog of Loneliness
The Needle and the Damage Done
Ohio
See the Sky About to Rain
Down by the River
Dance Dance Dance
I Am a Child
First, science. The NY Times article traces the shrug/upturned palm gesture back to a primordial submissive gesture used by reptiles on up. Including chimps, who understand it to mean "gimme" or bonobos, for whom it often means "play."
Hmm. Where have we seen this before? Dogs, maybe? The play bow is one of their most distinctive moves, and is pretty much the opposite of the aggressive, on the toes stance. Well, then there's plain rolling over.
But anyway, I find this interesting because of the links I've already discerned between human and animal behavior. In reading books on dog aggression, so much of what I've learned seems to relate to children and people as well. I mean, dogs are pretty much two year old children all their lives. Lots of the same techniques apply.
And now for something completely different.
Neil Young. If you like him at all, you owe it to yourself (and him) to go out right now and get Live at Massey Hall, 1971. Young was 24 and in the best voice of his life. Seriously--if you've ever said, "Man, he writes good songs, but was his throat ripped out by coyotes?" you will take it back. He's crystal clear here, isn't straining for any of the notes, and achieves a strange, androgynous quality that made me tear up multiple times on first listen.
It's also a really good time for him song-wise, and most of these songs were unknown to the public at the time. He plays them all on acoustic guitar or piano, and I was surprised to learn how great an acoustic player he is--usually, I'm so focused on his electric solos. The other surprise is hearing these songs before they became Young/Crazy Horse arrangements: "Cowgirl in the Sang" without the harmonies, "Ohio" as a quiet acoustic plea. "A Man Needs a Maid" is intriguingly paired with "Heart of Gold" and, stripped of that atrocious string arrangement, stands as a lonely man's testament to what he thinks will save him, and won't.
This isn't the only place you'll hear Young on acoustic guitar. But it's a pitch-perfect concert, and one he once said (in the biography Shakey) that he'd never release because it's "too good."
I kind of agree. I mean, not that it shouldn't come out, and obviously he doesn't actually think that either. But it's so beautiful it almost hurts. If I wasn't already a fan--and I admit, it took a few years for me to really respond to him--this would have got me there.
Side note: this is a precursor to a purported archive of Young's work, including video footage of various things. The trailer, here, looks intriguing.
On the Way Home
Tell Me Why
Old Man
Journey Through the Past
Helpless
Love in Mind
A Man Needs a Maid/Heart of Gold Suite
Cowgirl in the Sand
Don't Let It Bring You Down
There's a World
Bad Fog of Loneliness
The Needle and the Damage Done
Ohio
See the Sky About to Rain
Down by the River
Dance Dance Dance
I Am a Child
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I haven't heard the latest. Greendale was... uh, interesting. At first. But the film was ridiculous.
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I was going to burn that cd and send it to you *months* ago. It was one of the things I've been meaning to send you for ages. God, I'm such a bad person. I knew you'd love it and thought you might not've gotten it yet. (at least it says something about me being on the money re: your tastes. I mean, I knew you liked Neil Young, but I find this collection particularly special.)
Esp. enjoy some of the different lyrics on Man Needs A Maid.
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Yeah, MNaM usually disturbs me, like, "dude, I DON'T like this guy," but this one stands as more of a single person's broken musing rather than a Statement of Purpose.
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Exactly. I was talking about the "a man feels afraid" lyric, which is something I hadn't heard before in any version, and it made me understand the song so much more. (The way Heart of Gold moves into it and back out emphasizes that also.) God, I really like it.
Don't Let It Bring You Down, btw, is my favorite song. Like, ever.
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Yes to all of it.
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Even if the title *is* my least favorite song.
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