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“I’m looking for the place the spirit meets the skin
can’t figure out why that place feels so hard to be in
we’re all of us at this ill-fitting party
busy pretending to relate
and it’s getting harder and harder to fake
acting like everything’s in its place”

This is one of Liz Harris’ first intelligible songs and the lyrics are beautiful and succinct. It’s like she knows what its like for me to go to a party on campus these days. Or socializing in general.

Check out two new posts I wrote for Grateful Grapefruit:

JULIANNA BARWICK & GROUPER AS PART OF DIVINE RICOCHET AT THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

and

JULIO TORRES AND RADICAL LOCALISM AT ARTISTS SPACE

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I was wondering where I was in this photo clearly next to Eric and then I remembered I had my head down between my legs with my eyes closed for about 75% of Grouper’s set.
Grouper at the Guggenheim tonight. Photo by Stephen.

Ok I caved and bought that Grouper/Julianna Barwick ticket for the Guggenheim.

A link to where that quote came from about Liz Harris' childhood

I guess the magazine doesn’t have this article anymore or it wasn’t posted online. Either way, it’s incredible.
“There was an older girl living at the property, Harris says, “kind of a big sister”. She and Harris would spend their afternoons exploring the local countryside. One day the pair caught sight of a dead deer lying at the bottom of a ravine. The girl asked Harris whether she’d fetch it for her. “I was pretty scared of her, so I scrambled down this steep ravine and found a trash bag and tried to wrap it round the deer and pull it up the hill. I got it about halfway up, then she told me that she didn’t want it any more.” Harris says that this was a turning point, when she decided she wasn’t going to be bossed around any more.”