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COMICOPERA

The new Robert Wyatt album is breathtaking...


Old article...

kate to martha to rufus, the wainwrights

Been listening to an old Kate and Anna McGarrigle record called 'Heartbeats Accelerating.' So many stunning songs. I am always immobilized by the sadness and beauty of 'I Eat Dinner' when Kate McGarrigle talks about the loneliness of her life post breakup from Loudon Wainwright. She mentions eating dinner with her 'daughter, who is thirteen.' She is referring to Martha Wainwright, the singer and songwriter.

Martha Wainwright deals with that time in her life in her song 'Bloody Motherf*cking A**hole' from her first record. The song is quite powerful. She talks about her father leaving home and the damage it did. God, I love her. What a singer. What a song.

It's quite the domestic portrait, the mother and the daughter sharing their point of view.

Check out the songs:

'I Eat Dinner' (lyrics) from Heartbeats Accelerating and

'Bloody Motherf*cking A**hole' (mp3) from Martha Wainwright's eponymous debut CD.


Guardian UK article about Martha Wainwright
Of course, Rufus Wainwright is Kate and Loudon's son and Martha's sister. Songwriting is in the blood in this family.

A Roving He Will Go

Oh, for the most part we will stick to music. But JOhn Olver is too funny and the occasion too auspicious.

California trip... me, deb and david.