The Mysterious \
Laurie Anderson

In the book there are several chapters about women talking and women writing. Now it seems likely that men invented writing and wrote what? Maybe ninety, maybe ninety-five percent of everything that's ever been written. Oh there's the recent theory that a woman, the mysterious J, wrote much of the Old Testament, but only because God was portrayed in this book as patriarchal, tyrannical and inconsistent, the way presumably only a woman would write about a man. But I think I can picture this J scribbling away and laughing although the first time I saw the Bible re-enacted was sometime in the 70s and there was a cable TV show in the Midwest and Bible study groups would act out parts of the Bible. But these were pretty low budget productions and shot in a church basement or somebody's ###160109 and all the prophets had towels wrapped around their heads for turbans, but you could see the tags, the ones with the washing instructions, sort of sticking out and back. There were ver! y few women on these tapes. They tended to be the odd shepherdess sort dancing girl bit part.

Then last year I was invited to perform in Israel and I was very excited because I wanted to see Jerusalem where this mysterious J had spent her life writing and working and the Gulf War had made me even more curious. So I did some asking around, some informal research, and I talked to an Israeli woman who was living in New York and she was really having a hard time living there, and she was always complaining about American men, and she'd say:

You know, American men are such wimps, I mean, they're always talking about their feelings.

And I said:

They are?

And she said she really liked Israeli men because they were so tough and because they all had guns and I said:

Guns, you like guys with guns?

And she said she did and went on about how terrible it was that Clinton wanted to reduce the army and she was so animate about this that I started to get kind of worried. Yeah, I thought, yeah that's true, what are all these military people going to do when they lose their jobs? And then I thought, well, hang on, we've got all these service industries now, things like psychotherapy, and the military approach to psychotherapy would really be kind of perfect, really efficient and fast, you know, listen, you are nothing, you are a worm, and if you don't get that mother complex out by 0400 hours you are dead meat.

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A Curious Phenomenon Another Day in America Baby Doll Babydoll Bagpipe Solo Beautiful Pea Green Boat Beautiful Red Dress Beginning French Big Science Blue Lagoon Bodies In Motion Born, Never Asked Bright Red Broken Cartoon Song City Song Classified Closed Circuits Coolsvile Coolsville Dance of Electricity Dark Angel Dark Time In The Revolution Day The Devil Democratic Way Difficult Listening Hour Dream Before EngliSH Example #22 Excellent Birds Falling False Documents Finnish Farmers Four, Three, Two, One Frames For The Pictures Free Fall Freefall From The Air Gravity's Angel Hey Ah Hiawatha I Dreamed I Had To Take A Test In Our Sleep In Our Sleep [Instrumental][Mix] It Tango It Was Up In The Mountains John Lilly Kokoku Language is a Virus Langue D'amour Late Show Let X = X Let X=X Life on a String Lighting Out For The Territories Looking For You; Walking And Falling Love Among The Sailors Mach 20 Maria Teresa Teresa Maria Monkey's Paw Muddy River My Compensation My Eyes My Right Eye New Jersey Turnpike New York Social Life Night In Baghdad O Superman O Superman (For Massenet) Odd Objects On The Way To Jerusalem One Beautiful Evening One White Whale Only an Expert Over The River Pieces and Parts Poison Poison [Instrumental][Mix] Private Property Puppet Motel Ramon Red Hot Same Time Tommrow Same Time Tomorrow Say Hello Sharkey's Day Sharkey's Day (Single Edit) Sharkey's Night Slip Away Smoke Rings So Happy Birthday Someone Else's Dream Song For Two Jims Speak My Language Speechless Speechless (The Eagle and the Weasel) Statue of liberty Steven Weed Stiff Neck Strange Angels Strange Perfumes Structuralist Filmmaking Sweaters Talk Normal Talkshow Telephone Song The Beginning of Memory The Big Top The Cultural Ambassador The Day the Devil The Dream Before The Dream Before (for Walter Benjamin) The End Of The World The Geographic North Pole The Guests The Healing Horn The Hollywood Strangler The Island Where I Come From The Lake The Language Of The Future The Mailman’s Nightmare The Mysterious "J" The Mysterious "J" The Night Flight From Houston The Ouija Board The Puppet Motel The Rotowhirl The Salesman The Soul Is A Bird The Stranger The Ugly One With The Jewels The Visitors Thinking Of You Three Songs For Paper, Film And Video Three Walking Songs Tightrope Time And A Half Transitory Life Turning Time Around [Lou Reed] Voices On Tape Walk The Dog Walking & Falling Walking & Falling Walking Falling Washington Street White Lily Word Of Mouth World Without End Yankee See

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