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Prospective Immigrants Please Note

Either you will
go through this door
or you will not go through.

If you go through
there is always the risk
of remembering your name.

Things look at you doubly
and you must look back
and let them happen.

If you do not go through
it is possible
to live worthly

to maintain your attitudes
to hold your position
to die bravely

but much will blind you,
much will evade you,
at what cost who knows?

The door itself
makes no promises.
It is only a door.


1962

An Unsaid Word

She who has power to call her man
From that enstranged intensity
Where his mind forages alone,
Yet keeps her peace and leaves him free,
And when his thoughts to her return
Stands where he left her, still his own,
Knows this the hardest thing to learn.


by Adrienne Rich

Magnetic Ladies

Diamanda's performance was one of the most powerful ones that i saw in a long time. The flows of energy were almost unbearable, a need for muscle relaxants was so intense. Breathless for two hours. and her last encore was the obsessing "Gloomy Sunday". Her diamond mask belt is one of the fetishist objects that are marking the culture of a becoming goddess.

Diamanda Galas' concert in an Austrian 13th century Gothic church follows the line of Misha Katz conducting Fantastic Symphony, Roberta Carrera acting Judith, Robert Smith playing his third encore, Silviu Purcarete's Lucky giving the speech, disappearing of an old clown in Fellini's "Clowns".

On a different note, Alexis O'Hara was a glitchy-noisy surprise, all those weird sounds were made on stage by her body and were mixed only by her hands. My crystal clear image of PoMo Feminsim. As she told me after the show: Don't worry! It's quite simple: just use two microphones.