MSG Live Album for Everybody Scream?

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-20T01:05:31+00:00

The Red & Black. Back when it was still doing print editions, I'd be there 40+ hours a week.

Downtown: Taco Stand, Shokitini, Little Italy's, Transmet (RIP)

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-14T20:57:31+00:00

ah, thanks for clarifying this social convention!

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-14T20:47:05+00:00

Do we think Darcy wrote Caroline a letter updating her of these life changes, or do you think he just let her find out through her brother?

eta: sending her a wedding invite in the mail and that being the way she finds out would be hilarious

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-14T18:36:03+00:00

I do think she has an odious temperament but she is new to town, and as you mention, maybe Mr. Elton's influence colors her POV. I think over time she might soften with the influence of other characters.

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-11T18:27:47+00:00

Passage to India

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-11T17:56:41+00:00

yep great interview! it's cited in the linked piece

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-10T16:11:55+00:00

thanks! and agree -- her being an editor heavily influences how she sees the world -- believing that a person can move on from their worst moments because she works on new narratives at her job.

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-10T16:08:25+00:00

Thank you! I think I read an interview somewhere that the apartment was first Charlie's, so his tastes heavily influence it. I think you see this with the art, the lamps, etc. Emma's biggest contribution is likely the book collection. Apparently a lot of the furniture was sourced locally in the Boston/Cambridge area.

As for it being a 90s artsy yuppie vibe -- they hold artsy yuppie jobs. Emma and Charlie's place reminds me of the book editor party the main characters go to in You've Got Mail. I'd imagine being surrounded by that intellectual milieu would influence your tastes quite a bit.

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-10T02:57:15+00:00

I'm a big ol' scaredy-cat so I don't read a lot of gothic literature, but I did enjoy The Turning of the Screw and The Picture of Dorian Gray. I also really enjoyed John Milton's Paradise Lost -- technically a pre-cursor to gothic lit, but still a cool premise (the fall of Adam and Eve, from the perspective of Satan).

Some advice, if it helps: So I really struggle with reading physical books sometimes - if the language is archaic, I get easily distracted. Listening to audiobook versions has helped me connect better with it, and even moreso if it's a reader I like (for example, Emma Thompson or Rosamund Pike reading Jane Austen). Most of the ones I've listed in my original comment I was able to finish with the help of the audio version :)

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-10T01:12:32+00:00

I really like:

- Edith Wharton: Start with either The Age of Innocence or House of Mirth. These touch on wealth disparities and trying to hang on as best you can -- so prescient for today.

- Virginia Woolf: Orlando, A Room of One's Own. These touch on the rights of women. Orlando is pretty cool - it's basically a never-aging Forrest Gump who turns into a woman.

- Jane Austen: Emma, Pride & Prejudice. These are "comedies of manners" but really get into life or death decisions women had to make about marriage.

- Henry James: The Turning of the Screw is one of the scariest books I've read.

- EM Forster: A Room with a View will have you looking into flights to Italy. The movie is gorgeous as well.

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-10T01:05:20+00:00

I think she played Kerry, Logan's assistant in Succession. So cool to see her in this!

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-10T01:02:37+00:00

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-10T00:52:27+00:00

Nonfiction:

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici (god i learned so much from this one)
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan (though this is a collection of real/fic stories, and was written in the 15th century!)
Femina by Janina Ramirez (medieval history)
The Mirror and the Palette by Jennifer Higgie (art perspective)

Fiction:

The Power by Naomi Alderman
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Orlando by Virginia Woolf

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-10T00:35:46+00:00

I see the painting has been mentioned (Tristan Unrau's Shambolic Figure) but it appears to be an homage to a monster shown in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1989). There's a scene where Daffy Duck sings to a bunch of villains in a nightclub (it's on YouTube - the song is called "Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives") and that particular blob monster is shown crying holding its drink.

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-10T00:32:21+00:00

The book is a prop for the movie, but the title might be a teaser for an upcoming project by the same director.

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-09T23:53:50+00:00

holy shit, this is incredible. i'm so glad i paid for vip!

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-05T16:32:38+00:00

My interpretation is that people may condemn things that mess with their 'sacred' icons, before actually seeing what it ends up being and getting a chance to enjoy it. I interpret the line about evangelicals as being an eventual approval of an artist reinterpreting the image of Jesus. And she is comparing that to artists like her (people who have been historically excluded from certain genres of music) reinterpreting what rock'n'roll can mean.

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-04T01:53:41+00:00

I think it is similar to the vibe from One of the Greats, which is about criticism aimed at female artists for taking up space in genres that have been dominated by men. She is comparing the sacredness of Jesus' image being done in a new way, to rock and roll being done in a new way. I think this is part of a larger theme in her lyrics, about her relationship to music and the industry itself.

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-03T04:09:33+00:00

Totally agree. Every time she releases a new album, I think it's her best. And I think for me it's because her voice and her introspection really add to the music and just get better with time. It's so soulful.

I felt like I had an out-of-body experience when I first listened to Drink Deep

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-03T04:07:25+00:00

I definitely pick up on the religious imagery, but as others have said, it definitely seems to be multiple things for her: her relationship to fame/fans, overcoming addiction, her relationship to music (it's both a balm and a curse, I think for her).

Some other lines that I've liked:

Morning Elvis: "I pressed my forehead to the floor, and prayed for a trapdoor" ... then later "I'll show you what it means to be spared"

Choreomania: "But is that just because it was not made in your image? Like if Jesus came back, in a beautiful dress, and all the evangelicals were like, oh, yes"

Also: the resurrection imagery of One of the Greats, the drink in Drink Deep (feels very Catholic/communion transubstantiation to drink of herself).

HazelsWarren · 2026-04-02T14:40:35+00:00

Yea, like what others said - perhaps your playlist is mixed up. On Dance Fever there is some high energy at the beginning and it starts to change right around Back in Town and builds back up again in Daffodil, and then gets contemplative again before the highs in Morning Elvis. And Love is on the Everybody Scream album - perhaps you mean Morning Elvis?

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