The Following Aesthetic Reasons
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts
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| General | A FLASH-BACK IN PARADISE
_Beauty, who was born anew every hundred years, sat in a sort of outdoor
waiting room through which blew gusts of white wind and occasionally a
breathless hurried star. The stars winked at her intimately as they went
by and the winds made a soft incessant flurry in her hair. She was
incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one--the beauty of
her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by
philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of
winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in
the contemplation of herself._
_It became known to her, at length, that she was to be born again.
Sighing, she began a long conversation with a voice that was in the
white wind, a conversation that took many hours and of which I can give
only a fragment here._
BEAUTY: (_Her lips scarcely stirring, her eyes turned, as always, inward
upon herself_) Whither shall I journey now?
THE VOICE: To a new country--a land you have never seen before.
BEAUTY: (_Petulantly_) I loathe breaking into these new civilizations.
How long a stay this time?
THE VOICE: Fifteen years.
BEAUTY: And what's the name of the place?
THE VOICE: It is the most opulent, most gorgeous land on earth--a land
whose wisest are but little wiser than its dullest; a land where the
rulers have minds like little children and the law-givers believe in
Santa Claus; where ugly women control strong men----
BEAUTY: (_In astonishment_) What?
THE VOICE: (_Very much depressed_) Yes, it is truly a melancholy
spectacle. Women with receding chins and shapeless noses go about in
broad daylight saying "Do this!" and "Do that!" and all the men, even
those of great wealth, obey implicitly their women to whom they refer
sonorously either as "Mrs. So-and-so" or as "the wife."
BEAUTY: But this can't be true! I can understand, of course, their
obedience to women of charm--but to fat women? to bony women? to women
with scrawny cheeks?
THE VOICE: Even so.
BEAUTY: What of me? What chance shall I have?
THE VOICE: It will be "harder going," if I may borrow a phrase.
BEAUTY: (_After a dissatisfied pause_) Why not the old lands, the land
of grapes and soft-tongued men or the land of ships and seas?
THE VOICE: It's expected that they'll be very busy shortly.
BEAUTY: Oh!
THE VOICE: Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between
two significant glances in a mundane mirror.
BEAUTY: What will I be? Tell me?
THE VOICE: At first it was thought that you would go this time as an
actress in the motion pictures but, after all, it's not advisable. You
will be disguised during your fifteen years as what is called a
"susciety gurl."
BEAUTY: What's that?
(_There is a new sound in the wind which must for our purposes be
interpreted as_ THE VOICE _scratching its head._)
THE VOICE: (_At length_) It's a sort of bogus aristocrat.
BEAUTY: Bogus? What is bogus?
THE VOICE: That, too, you will discover in this land. You will find much
that is bogus. Also, you will do much that is bogus.
BEAUTY: (_Placidly_) It all sounds so vulgar.
THE VOICE: Not half as vulgar as it is. You will be known during your
fifteen years as a ragtime kid, a flapper, a jazz-baby, and a baby vamp.
You will dance new dances neither more nor less gracefully than you
danced the old ones.
BEAUTY: (_In a whisper_) Will I be paid?
THE VOICE: Yes, as usual--in love.
BEAUTY: (_With a faint laugh which disturbs only momentarily the
immobility of her lips_) And will I like being called a jazz-baby?
THE VOICE: (_Soberly_) You will love it.... | | Music | Experimental underground electronic. Minimal tech, minimal house, ambient, dub. | | Movies | French. | | Television | Anime. | | Books | The Beautiful and Damned, Lolita, Battle Royale, Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories | | Heroes | Anyone with wild hair. People that ride horses. The window washers of skyscrapers. The Inuit eskimo peoples, who supposedly don't have the emotional experience of anger. Nocturnals. Amelia Earhart, wherever she may be. |
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| Status: | In a Relationship | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Zodiac Sign: | Gemini | | Occupation: | DJ |
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About me:
The Following Aesthetic Reasons is a radio show/magical mystical experience hosted by Carrigan, on WZBC, in Newton Mass.
Broadcasting LIVE on MONDAYS from 7-10pm.
Listen at 90.3 FM on the Boston Radio Frequencies or stream live online at WZBC.org
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http://thefollowingaestheticreasons.blogspot.com/
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Minimal techno and house, electronic music that's warm and melodic or else cool, deep and dark. It's mood music based on the boundary-pushing playlists of Berlin and beyond.
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"The show is vivid—created out of fantastical imagery so spectacular that to describe it in words is futile. But if it were to be described in words, it could be called ''Fitzgeraldian'', which is a broad adjective and can be applied to the Roaring 20's, to zany authors, to Ivy League haberdashery, to excessive drinking, to extravagance or to disillusionment. On the other hand, if it were a music video it would involve beautiful women eating their vibrantly red lipstick as they apply it."
-Carrigan, talking about her own show
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"A buzzing musical experience composed of the hippest of the non-hits, the hippie hits, and the type that makes you want to hit your hips. Somehow it miraculously comes together like Courtney Love made-over for the Oscars. "
-Carrigan again, talking about her own show
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"The shit"
-Said by many people about things they like, maybe it's been said about Carrigan's show
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Gradiva, Euterpe, Alma Mahler, Lee Miller, Dora Maar, Any of Fitzgerald's jazz babies, Lady Ashley, Zeus, Sailor Moon.
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