cat_power no reason what a healing voice 100113 ... no reason i've been revisiting her/them a lot lately 100113 ... rt moon pix? you are free? 100113 ... no reason you are free, lately, but everything before that too i want to see if i can get the later stuff to grow on me, too 100114 ... cr0wl my daughter hilary used to sing by herself at coffee houses and house parties as "monkeyface." she did an amazing cover of the cat power song, "crossbones style." 100114 ... no reason i'm curious as to people's opinions on this album. i'm not a huge fan, but i don't hate it or anything. (i don't think i could ever hate anything chan marshall sings.) 120913 ... i mean on "sun," the new album. 120913 ... hex i like it, with some reservations. but i don't love it, and i'm not sure i ever will. one reviewer likened the new album to a grown-up mirror image of "moon pix". i don't get that. i don't get all this talk of it being chan's masterpiece, either. "moon pix" hits me in the gut and makes me feel something every time i listen to it. when i listen to this album, it's nice, but it's just kind of there, until it isn't anymore. as different as the music is from past cat power albums on a sonic level, the production starts to seem kind of monochromatic and samey after a while. as personal as the songs are here, most of them feel strangely distant to me. and where a song like "colors and the kids" almost moves me to tears, "nothin' but time" comes off as being little more than a bunch of empty platitudes strung together. even iggy pop wailing away can't inject it with genuine pathos. the keeper track for me is "peace and love". i wish there was more of that weird energy swimming around. i like "manhattan" and "cherokee" ("if i die before my time, bury me upside-down" goes on my list of best chan marshall lyrics). "ruin" manages the neat trick of being almost maddeningly catchy at the same time it's not a warm fuzzy pop song at all. nothing else really grabs me, and it doesn't feel like an album i'll want to return to much in the future. having said that, i enjoy the fact that it's mostly a one-woman show. and chan's voice is as great as ever. 120913 ... PeeT sun is evidence of her evolving genius. it requires a multitude of listening sessions to finally and seriously channel her greatness. hey skites...check out the interview with her in the archives of interview maagazine. 120914 ... no reason she cancelled the show here tomorrow due to health reasons. i hope she feels better, but selfishly, i am so sad. i was more excited for this show than i have been for one in a long time. gahhhhhhhh. 141007 ... kerry popped up in a lovely blathe i read today. strange timing since i was listening to her last night, wishing she would reemerge--the Greatest, her last solid album in my opinion, back to What Would the Community Think (first one i bought, on CD) to Myra Lee. melissa introduced me to cat_power in one of the first mixtapes she gave me. we listened to "nude as the news" in her beat-up '92 nissan. (i had one too, but mine was manual, white with a spoiler, and hers was maroon, and magical, and named bessie, and she was my mentor, and i was so young and didn't know anything about anything it felt like) she said cat_power grew up in cabbagetown, where my grandpa lived and where stacey moved and where iz and i went to eat mussels every year until the pandemic--she worked at fellini's, doling out slices like i later did down the road. the kids working at fellini's always looked so cool. i thought that even before i knew she'd worked there. melissa saw cat_power live and i said i'd die to see her, and she said you'd be disappointed--she played with her back to the audience and ended early. said sometimes she doesn't even finish a set, just cries and runs off stage. i saw her after she released The Greatest. we were at the tabernacle, that old church painted black and red and gold inside where i saw bob_dylan and the_strokes and the_yeah_yeah_yeahs and i forget who else, and i was so excited. but she was trashed. songs began and ended in drips, sputters, she forgot lyrics and made them up. no encore. when i listen to "metal heart" i cry but i don't know why. 210817 ... nr i honestly can't think of a word to describe her voice more accurately than "otherworldly." there wasn't much light on her onstage last night, but she still shone. and she seems a LOT more comfortable with performing than she used to. she put on a great show. i like how her live renditions of even her own songs become nearly unrecognizable at points. some dude in the audience yelled "you're killing it, marshall!" and she laughed and said thanks. 220420 ... nr i can't even handle how many of my favourite artists i have seen or will see this year. my wallet may not be able to either, but that's neither here nor there. already seen: cat_power patrick_watson smokey_robinson sharon_van_etten/angel_olsen/julien_baker to see: wilco/bahamas/kathleen_edwards badbadnotgood father_john_misty kevin morby arcade fire maybes: jack_white (maybe even one of his US dates with cat_power? one can dream) pavement (if i can sell my ticket that happens to be on the same night as father_john_misty and get a ticket for the second night) 220813 ... oops kevin_morby (maybe he'll have a page sometime) arcade_fire 220813 ... nr ack! this was supposed to be under "concerts." sorry, cat_power. but at least you were mentioned twice here? 220813 what's it to you? who go blather from