rising or falling so far
"Rising or Falling So Far," January 8, 2024
title from Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993)
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick (1994)
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie (1972)
Elvis Presley's From Elvis in Memphis (33 1/3, 150) by Eric Wolfson (2020)
David Bowie's Low (33 1/3) by Hugo Wilcken (2005)
Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good by Tina Turner (2020)
E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith by John Strausbaugh (1995)
I, Tina: My Life Story by Tina Turner with Kurt Loder (1986)
David Bowie: Mixing Memory and Desire by Kevin Cummins (2023)
My Love Story by Tina Turner (2018)
Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels by Stephen B. Heard (2020)
Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick (2000)
"Sunrise, Sunset" by Bright Eyes (2000)
"Woodstock" by Joni Mitchell (1970)
Rising or Falling So Far
It's a give-and-take proposition in that they give me back the
pink monkey bird and I'm bustin' up my brains for the words
in which he could call all the shots on location and price. The success of
stress is on capitalising on error as a way of drawing in randomness,
expanding our hearts and minds while celebrating our differences and
a world pilgrimage site. Thousands of smaller and more personal
marshals to keep us from going onstage--subpoenas, restraining orders--
almost make it disappear, so that there is an invisible connection between
my legs. Black women who were full and curvy were considered beautiful
and all of European ancestry, which is one small reflection of a problem,
sang all night long. Femme fatales emerged from shadows to watch
a focal point for whatever resentment did exist, and their general
change of heart or address. Is there nothing that remains? For a sunrise
we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
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