{"id":365,"date":"2002-02-25T01:02:01","date_gmt":"2002-02-25T09:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/25\/hedwig-first-impressions\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:49:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:49:45","slug":"hedwig-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/25\/hedwig-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedwig &#8211; first impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16531,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005QW5X\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00005QW5X\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I just got done watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005QW5X\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Hedwig and the Angry Inch\">Hedwig and the Angry Inch<\/a> and&#8230;well&#8230;to be honest, I&#8217;m not really sure right off the bat just what I thought of this film. I&#8217;m going to let it percolate in my brain for a bit &#8212; I&#8217;ve got to get to bed right now and post more thoughts on it later.<\/p>\n<p>For now, though, I did want to put up the lyrics to one of the songs in the film, &#8220;Origin of Love.&#8221; Wonderful song, great lyrics.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>The Origin of Love<\/h2>\n<p>  When the earth was still flat,<br \/>\n  And the clouds made of fire,<br \/>\n  And mountains stretched up to the sky,<br \/>\n  Sometimes higher,<br \/>\n  Folks roamed the earth<br \/>\n  Like big rolling kegs.<br \/>\n  They had two sets of arms.<br \/>\n  They had two sets of legs.<br \/>\n  They had two faces peering<br \/>\n  Out of one giant head<br \/>\n  So they could watch all around them<br \/>\n  As they talked; while they read.<br \/>\n  And they never knew nothing of love.<br \/>\n  It was before the origin of love.<\/p>\n<p>  The origin of love<\/p>\n<p>  And there were three sexes then,<br \/>\n  One that looked like two men<br \/>\n  Glued up back to back,<br \/>\n  Called the children of the sun.<br \/>\n  And similar in shape and girth<br \/>\n  Were the children of the earth.<br \/>\n  They looked like two girls<br \/>\n  Rolled up in one.<br \/>\n  And the children of the moon<br \/>\n  Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.<br \/>\n  They were part sun, part earth<br \/>\n  Part daughter, part son.<\/p>\n<p>  The origin of love<\/p>\n<p>  Now the gods grew quite scared<br \/>\n  Of our strength and defiance<br \/>\n  And Thor said,<br \/>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna kill them all<br \/>\n  With my hammer,<br \/>\n  Like I killed the giants.&#8221;<br \/>\n  And Zeus said, &#8220;No,<br \/>\n  You better let me<br \/>\n  Use my lightening, like scissors,<br \/>\n  Like I cut the legs off the whales<br \/>\n  And dinosaurs into lizards.&#8221;<br \/>\n  Then he grabbed up some bolts<br \/>\n  And he let out a laugh,<br \/>\n  Said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll split them right down the middle.<br \/>\n  Gonna cut them right up in half.&#8221;<br \/>\n  And then storm clouds gathered above<br \/>\n  Into great balls of fire<\/p>\n<p>  And then fire shot down<br \/>\n  From the sky in bolts<br \/>\n  Like shining blades<br \/>\n  Of a knife.<br \/>\n  And it ripped<br \/>\n  Right through the flesh<br \/>\n  Of the children of the sun<br \/>\n  And the moon<br \/>\n  And the earth.<br \/>\n  And some Indian god<br \/>\n  Sewed the wound up into a hole,<br \/>\n  Pulled it round to our belly<br \/>\n  To remind us of the price we pay.<br \/>\n  And Osiris and the gods of the Nile<br \/>\n  Gathered up a big storm<br \/>\n  To blow a hurricane,<br \/>\n  To scatter us away,<br \/>\n  In a flood of wind and rain,<br \/>\n  And a sea of tidal waves,<br \/>\n  To wash us all away,<br \/>\n  And if we don&#8217;t behave<br \/>\n  They&#8217;ll cut us down again<br \/>\n  And we&#8217;ll be hopping round on one foot<br \/>\n  And looking through one eye.<\/p>\n<p>  Last time I saw you<br \/>\n  We had just split in two.<br \/>\n  You were looking at me.<br \/>\n  I was looking at you.<br \/>\n  You had a way so familiar,<br \/>\n  But I could not recognize,<br \/>\n  Cause you had blood on your face;<br \/>\n  I had blood in my eyes.<br \/>\n  But I could swear by your expression<br \/>\n  That the pain down in your soul<br \/>\n  Was the same as the one down in mine.<br \/>\n  That&#8217;s the pain,<br \/>\n  Cuts a straight line<br \/>\n  Down through the heart;<br \/>\n  We called it love.<br \/>\n  So we wrapped our arms around each other,<br \/>\n  Trying to shove ourselves back together.<br \/>\n  We were making love,<br \/>\n  Making love.<br \/>\n  It was a cold dark evening,<br \/>\n  Such a long time ago,<br \/>\n  When by the mighty hand of Jove,<br \/>\n  It was the sad story<br \/>\n  How we became<br \/>\n  Lonely two-legged creatures,<br \/>\n  It&#8217;s the story of<br \/>\n  The origin of love.<br \/>\n  That&#8217;s the origin of love.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lyrics by Stephen Trask<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got done watching Hedwig and the Angry Inch and&#8230;well&#8230;to be honest, I&#8217;m not really sure right off the bat just what I thought of this film. I&#8217;m going to let it percolate in my brain for a bit &#8212; I&#8217;ve got to get to bed right now and post more thoughts on it later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,2123],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-hedwig-and-the-angry-inch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}