Slog - Comments on My Motherland http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland Even to this day, I can find no quick way around this image: It's the cover for Natalie Merchant's 2001 album Motherland. What kind of power is this? It's a power that is opposite that of the ascetic. And as the rich once admired the ascetic's power of nothingness, of restraint, of absolute self-control, here we admire Merchant's power of abundance, of unrestrained production. The production of milk, of life, of the universe. Here in this moment under the tree she is pure positivity.... Copyright 2008 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:03:14 -0800 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:34:31 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Bubba BaBoom wait, are you talking about her rack? her abundant, unrestrained rack?

are you over 18? buy yourself a copy of juggs and CALM THE FUCK DOWN. this is natalie merchant we're talking about.

]]> Bubba BaBoom http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735541 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735541 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:31:06 -0800 Comment by Switzerblog In other words: BOOBIES

]]> Switzerblog http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735542 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735542 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:31:56 -0800 Comment by Switzerblog Seriously, Charles, your thing with women is disturbing. Go back to architecture.

]]> Switzerblog http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735543 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735543 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:33:40 -0800 Comment by NotStipe Hey Jack Kerou"Rack"

]]> NotStipe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735556 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735556 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:42:12 -0800 Comment by elswinger We already know he doesn't like pregnant women. Or at least having sex with pregnant women (horses yes).

I kid.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735559 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735559 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:43:25 -0800 Comment by Goody Proctor Thank God her ample breasts aren't accompanied by a pregnant belly. Otherwise you would have to go and do a barf, right?

]]> Goody Proctor http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735571 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735571 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:48:10 -0800 Comment by maxsolomon i agree with charles. i've always found that cover disturbing. i've always found her music unbearable, yet i am forced to think "nice rack" by a photo with about zero sex appeal. a photo of a mom on an album who's title evokes fascism.

]]> maxsolomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735573 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735573 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:50:32 -0800 Comment by Vooodooo84 I get more of natural fertility from this picture, not the soulless production of Max Weber, but rather Demeter and female goddesses of reproduction

]]> Vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735621 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735621 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:09:54 -0800 Comment by Vooodooo84 We should organize a movement to bombard Mudede's e-mail with pictures of pregnant porn

]]> Vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735623 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735623 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:11:59 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Have to agree about what they said, Charles.

But I like how she has both hips and mammary glands in reasonable proportion, too.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735648 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735648 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:32:50 -0800 Comment by vegetable lasagna Appears to be a problem with the posting time on this piece. I'm guessing it was 4:20; otherwise, whoa! Will 15 minutes a day of listening to Carnival really render a man sterile or is that an urban myth?

]]> vegetable lasagna http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735651 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735651 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:35:13 -0800 Comment by Jim Demetre As long as she sits there and doesn't sing, I'm fine.

]]> Jim Demetre http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735660 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735660 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:45:13 -0800 Comment by Jack Kerouac Natalie Merchant fucking sucks.

]]> Jack Kerouac http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735695 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735695 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:45:02 -0800 Comment by Garrett @11
just downloaded Carnival, neat song, video is great I remember, cool Tai-Chi segment, great guitar work-- what a weird and provocative question you ask

Thanks Chuck! Awesome cast on Motherland- Seattleite Matt Chamberlain, Joe Jackson's bass player, T-Bone Burnett, and a song about....Henry Darger! I Gotta Have it!

http://www.10kmaniacs.org/nam/motherland.htm

]]> Garrett http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735696 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735696 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:46:28 -0800 Comment by JMW I love Natalie. That's all.

]]> JMW http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735830 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735830 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:16:04 -0800 Comment by arrgh good god Mudede. Yes, yes, we all know that you are hyperintelligent. Please, just *say* it - nice tits, Natalie. There, now, doesn't that feel better to just say what you feel?

]]> arrgh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735832 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735832 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:26:43 -0800 Comment by arrgh good god Mudede. Yes, yes, we all know that you are hyperintelligent. Please, just *say* it - nice tits, Natalie. There, now, doesn't that feel better to just say what you feel?

]]> arrgh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735833 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735833 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:26:57 -0800 Comment by Matt from Denver @ 9, I thought about posting some in the comments of his "I won't see 'Knocked Up' " post but didn't want to spend the time trying to find a porn page that would allow you to see the source (a key requirement for my elementary HTML skills).

]]> Matt from Denver http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735885 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c735885 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:15:28 -0800 Comment by brad it's not the opposite of ascetic. it IS ascetic. im sure the blogger is a great guy, but truly smart people don't have to go on thesaurus.com to try and prove their worth.

]]> brad http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c736617 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c736617 Arts Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:19:00 -0800 Comment by Poetry 4 June 2007

After the storm, my mind cleared.


And a high wind arose and blew the tropics north.

running quartz crystals through a blender.

sand through your engines.

bubbles in your bays.

estuaries reaching out toward forbidden seas...

sand through your eyes.

5 June 2007


Calm as baby's breath


as peaceful as the storm's eye


Clouds spread and drawn with rough strokes of stratospheric winds


a warm and windy tropical day.


7 June 2007


Black water at dusk.

Lighting on the horizon.


Warm winds coming in across the darkening waters.


A flash of white wings as an egret takes flight.


And Thunder like God clearing his throat.


8 June 2007


Morning star in the still of the clear, dark waters.


a sky as clear eyed as a young girl.


bruised and tattered storm remnants limp off in the gathering light.


9 June 2007

Tickled her fancy.


giggling all the day long.


pretty good for a Saturday.


Clouds on the lake floating aimlessly by.

She smiled big--grinned really.

]]> Poetry http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c739291 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/my_motherland#c739291 Arts Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:56:00 -0800 Comment by Bill MSN I NIIPET
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