Fiona Apple

[Frances]

Chi ama i cani può capire

Anche chi ama i gatti. Chiunque abbia avuto un animale per tanto tempo e soprattutto se lo ha assistito in un ultima fase di malattia comprende in pieno.

Lei e Cat Power comunque dovrebbero fare terapia insieme. Lo dico con affetto, intendiamoci.

[AFX]

Lei e Cat Power comunque dovrebbero fare terapia insieme. Lo dico con affetto, intendiamoci.

decisamente

tuttavia queste sono personaggE vere sul serio, gente che sta al mondo in questo modo da sempre e che ha vissuto la musica come uno degli aspetti del loro spirito rock. Non sarebbero le stesse se non fossero così. Altre si sono date una imborghesita, loro sono rimaste così com'erano, con le loro crisi e la loro imprevedibilità. Di questa gente c'è sempre bisogno per come la vedo io, e questa storia del cane morente per quanto possa sembrare stupida, stupida in realtà non lo è per niente. Proprio perché è la realtà.

[Frances]

Non ero riuscita a leggere bene la lettera perchè dalla foto dell'originale era faticoso. Ma se avete due minuti leggetela perchè è davvero bella, scritta molto bene.

It's 6pm on Friday,and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet.
I am writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.
Here's the thing.
I have a dog Janet, and she's been ill for almost two years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now.I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then ,an adult officially - and she was my child.
She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.
She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.
She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight ,or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.
Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact.
We've lived in numerous houses, and jumped a few make shift families, but it's always really been the two of us.
She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.
She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me all the time we recorded the last album.
The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks every 6 or 7 years.
She has Addison's Disease, which makes it dangerous for her to travel since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and to excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.
Despite all of this, she’s effortlessly joyful and playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago.
She's my best friend and my mother and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.
I can't come to South America. Not now.
When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.
She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.
I know that she's not sad about aging or dying. Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That’s why they are so much more present than people.
But I know that she is coming close to point where she will stop being a dog, and instead, be part of everything. She’ll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.
I just can't leave her now, please understand.
If I go away again, I’m afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes to pick which socks to wear to bed.
But this decision is instant.
These are the choices we make, which define us.
I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love and friendship.
I am the woman who stays home and bakes Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend.
And helps her be comfortable, and comforted, and safe, and important.
Many of us these days, we dread the death of a loved one. It is the ugly truth of Life, that keeps us feeling terrified and alone.
I wish we could also appreciate the time that lies right beside the end of time.
I know that I will feel the most overwhelming knowledge of her, and of her life and of my love for her, in the last moments.
I need to do my damnedest to be there for that.
Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.
When she dies.
So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and reveling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel.
And I am asking for your blessing.

I'll be seeing you.
Love, Fiona

[Starn]

Toccante. Che persona squisita.

[Viktor Serge]

Che poi The Idler Wheel (etc) è un disco che trasuda sincerità, è un disco vero come lo è lei.

[AFX]

Sto riascoltando a bocce fermissime l'ultimo di Fiona Apple. E' bello soul blues e profondo come pochi.
L'anno scorso l'abbiamo liquidata troppo velocemente, presto potremmo pubblicare un articolo su di lei.

[AFX]

Bellissima questa: http://www.scarecrowgame.com/film.html

[Frances]

Bellissima questa: http://www.scarecrowgame.com/film.html

molto

(non sapevo adesso si facessero anche i trailer delle app)

[Starn]

Fiona Apple Plays New Song "I Want You to Love Me" Live

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https://soundcloud.com/powerpower/fiona-apple-untitled-i-want

[Tyler Durden]

Esce in questi giorni il nuovo mi pare.
Io ammetto di non averle dedicato tutta l'attenzione che meritava gli anni scorsi. Voglio prendere l'occasione del nuovo per riascoltare bene tutto il resto.