From the HBO show “Tell Me You Love Me”
“Maybe” - Janis Joplin
This was a perfect choice. Explaining the context would be a bit much, suffice it to say that an incredibly repressed and sad couple are trying to find their way back to knowing each other.
So I’m not the only one watching this show?!
It’s a killer isn’t it? Happiness as a choice-what a revelation-one that too many people miss.
You are absolutely right…that song was perfect.
Glad to see you back with a vengeance.
So many contexts, so little time….
Janis does bring it home tho’, don’t she?
I have tried to watch it a couple of times. I just can’t do it. If I want to watch a bunch of people making shitty relationship and life decisions I just have to watch the kids that work for me. It is truly baffling.
And yes, Janis is an ass-kickin’ vocal goddess. Two bad her demons laid claim so long ago.
Please make that “two” a “too.” *hangs head in shame*
A link to a YouTube of Leonard Cohen-Chelsea Hotel. This song breaks my hear every time. You can here the pain of losing Janis.
Afraid I don’t watch a lot of TV but don’t need a context to enjoy Janis.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame had a small but poignant display for her when we were there a number of years ago. I hope they’ve added more since then because it just seemed like such a small display to represent such an enormoous talent. But maybe that’s the point - she didn’t need all the trappings of her art that most of theothers had representing them . One of the items in the case was a letter she had written home and possibly never sent, it wasn’t clear. A woman stopped and patted my shoulder and told me not to cry - whatever was in the letter didn’t matter anymore now. I didn’t even realize I was crying and I have no recollection of the actual words in the letter - - it was more a reaction to the whole lousy waste of what might have been. It was a couple of months before I could listen to her music - - it still seems selfish to get so much pleasure from something created out of someones pain.
Sorry - - melancholy mood tonight I guess . . . . . . .
I go back and forth between being able to watch the show and thinking that it’s insufferable. Compared to the rest of the crap on broadcast - at least I think about it.
Aye, if you took away football, I would watch much less tv. There is some glimmer on the horizon though. After this writers strike, Joss Whedon will start up his new show. It has been hard with out both him and Sorkin this season.
Shouter-I agree. I watched the first three episodes somewhat reluctantly—but I couldn’t help but get swept into these stories. The pace is achingly slow, but I think it only adds to the intensity of it. In “real life” time slows down in the midst of crisis, which only makes one feel more and more tortured by the intensity of the emotions accompanying the upheaval. I think the pace of the show helps us to “feel” the show.
Kired-please keep us posted. Would love to have a television show to look forward to. I miss Sorkin as well. However, Studio 60 seemed to be reeling along to a dead end from it’s inception. Too bad really, since I’m always yearning for dialogue that brilliant. *sigh* If only the original Jed Bartlett was a real person.
Link to E! Online interview with Joss