Comments on Fragments of a Cale Season: Hedda Gabler

See, I don't hear the ending as sympathetic or abs...

2007-09-15T17:20:00.000-04:00

See, I don't hear the ending as sympathetic or absolving; I hear it as Cale dancing on the dirt of this miserable bitch's grave, celebrating because she and the sickness she represents are dead and in the ground.

Oh yeah the ending of "Hedda" is one of the highli...

2007-09-15T15:36:00.000-04:00

Oh yeah the ending of "Hedda" is one of the highlights in Cale´s oeuvre. It sort of releases the despair of the song. Beautiful. He´s generally good at endings I think.

I have uploaded some of the Rockpalast show on youtube. Enjoy.

Corrections made. Boy, I'm really batting 1000% t...

2007-09-14T10:04:00.000-04:00

Corrections made. Boy, I'm really batting 1000% today. Uh, I was just checking if you guys were reading! Yeah, that's it.

I loved that show, Hans. I thought it flowed much better than Circus Live and am still sorry they didn't release it in its entirety instead.

This show was at the Paradiso. One of the highligh...

2007-09-14T05:19:00.000-04:00

This show was at the Paradiso. One of the highlights of an otherwise pretty boring show.

That's a pretty sweet live version. I mostly know...

2007-09-14T01:57:00.000-04:00

That's a pretty sweet live version. I mostly know of the Melkweg for hosting Spacemen 3's superb live album Performance - it's kind of weird seeing the term in any other context.

Heh, that must be where I got the idea. But how B...

2007-09-13T19:02:00.000-04:00

Heh, that must be where I got the idea. But how Bryant turned into Pallenberg in my memory, I cannot say. The connections to Ibsen, Hitler, and a murderous mother seem even more remote, though. Oh well, such is art.

I'll have to correct my post. Thanks!

Huh. The liner notes for Seducing Down The Door sa...

2007-09-13T18:25:00.000-04:00

Huh. The liner notes for Seducing Down The Door says the song is about Anita Bryant, the American singer, orange-juice shill, and (most pertinently) radical anti-gay activist—fundamentalist Christianity as fascism. Dunno where that one came from.