Track Listings (10) - Disc #1| All Artists: Kathy Acker Title: Redoing Childhood Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Kill Rock Stars Original Release Date: 1/18/2000 Re-Release Date: 1/25/2000 Genres: Alternative Rock, Special Interest, Pop, Rock Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 759656034920 |
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This is not background listening. Kathy Acker's work is not a love-it-or-hate-it proposition: it's a get-it one. Either you get it, or you don't. Redoing Childhood, excerpted from her book My Mother: Demonology, is in many... more » |
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Amazon.com This is not background listening. Kathy Acker's work is not a love-it-or-hate-it proposition: it's a get-it one. Either you get it, or you don't. Redoing Childhood, excerpted from her book My Mother: Demonology, is in many respects the most accessible way to experience Acker. Her voice, cool and precise but with an almost invasive intimacy, gives her work clear depth and dimension, creating a full and rich landscape. Every so often, entire concepts spring from throwaway lines: "But this is the question: is it possible to communicate with another person?" "I've got a terrible need to write to you, and for you not to reply." "Virginity doesn't know its own name." And, in the midst of a panoply of sensual images that wouldn't be out of place in a Terry Gilliam film, there's this: "I don't know what to do about all I see and experience." Between the often stunning visuals that arise from her words, the incredible variety of background music (ranging from chanting monks to San Francisco hardcore band Tribe 8), and the startlingly Zen-like revelations, Kathy Acker on record might be one of the last legal hallucinogens on the planet. Happy tripping. --Genevieve Williams Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsOh, Just Buy It Already ® 06/02/2000 (4 out of 5 stars) "I love Kathy Acker. I really do. I also love spoken word as an important & necessary art medium. But Kathy Acker, the writer, and Kathy Acker, the spoken word artist, are miles apart. Like the difference between alone and lonely. Perhaps it's Kathy's strong, unfaltering voice on "Redoing Childhood" that leaves me unimpressed by her speech. I truly expected more emotion on this album - something to make her more human to me as I listened to her through my headphones. But there was nothing. I felt closer to her words, closer to understanding her, when I read her book than when I listened to this CD. However, I still give this album 4 stars and recommend that you buy it, simply because Kathy Acker remains an important, irreplacable voice for girls and boys of all ages to read and hear. The highlights of this album are "President Bush," not because its about the ex-prez, but because of its eye-opening honesty involving the old 'power corrupts' theme. "Miss Savage's" made me laugh in a way that I hadn't when I read the same words in her book. Definitely buy this album if you're familiar with Kathy Acker. If not, perhaps you should buy the book first."
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