SOUNDTRACK: ANGEL OLSEN-“Give It Up” (Field Recordings, January 6, 2017).
Angel Olsen has a rough, gritty un-angelic voice. But it’s a powerful voice And the church [Watch Angel Olsen Perform In A Bronx Church] makes it sound even bigger and more powerful than it normally does.
It was raining in New York on Nov. 9, 2016, and New Yorkers, tired as the rest of the country from a late night after a long election season, walked about in a fog of their own. The sky was still overcast when we met Angel Olsen at the Fordham University Church, an 1845 New York City landmark whose carillon is said to have inspired Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Bells.” There, wearing a green raincoat and accompanying herself on electric guitar, she sang “Give It Up,” from her excellent 2016 release My Woman.
Even though she sounds in great voice (and guitar) the naked setting really highlight the ache in her voice (which seems to break at certain point). I’m sure she felt as shitty as the rest of did on that day, and it really comes across. God, I have to stop watching things from November 2016,
[READ: January 25, 2018] “The American Boyfriend”
This story came out in 2001 and was written by a North Korean writer and was translated by Yu Young-nan.
It is set in Moscow in the early 1990s.
McCunly was a young American living Moscow. He got to know a pretty young woman named Katya.
He flirted with her and told her thing like the checkers of my coat symbolize our straightforward lives being intertwined. He also told her that he was unmarried.
She was thrilled at his declaration of love and told her brother all about the American. (more…)
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