The End Of The World (Live)-Laurie Anderson

[ti:The End Of The World(live版)] [ar:Laurie Anderson] [al:The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The End Of The World (Live) - Laurie Anderson [00:02.86]Ladies and gentlemen please welcome back to London Laurie Anderson [00:07.04] [00:29.90]Ooooaaaah [00:33.55] [00:44.63]Ooooaaaah [00:47.93] [00:54.33]Hi This evening I'll be reading [01:00.93]From a book I just finished [01:02.77] [01:04.16]And since a lot of it is about the future [01:06.44] [01:07.82]I'm going to start more or less [01:10.30]On the last page [01:11.76] [01:13.14]And tell you about my grandmother [01:15.89] [01:19.49]Now she was a Southern Baptist Holy Ruler [01:22.46] [01:23.11]And she had a very clear idea about the future [01:27.05] [01:28.46]And of how the world would end [01:30.69] [01:32.18]In fire [01:33.13]In fire [01:33.94] [01:37.17]Like in Revelations [01:38.28]Like in Revelations [01:39.55] [01:42.96]And when I was ten my grandmother told me [01:45.86]The world would end in a year [01:48.28] [01:49.84]So I spent the whole year praying [01:52.18] [01:52.69]And reading the Bible [01:53.70] [01:54.81]And alienating all my friends and relatives [01:58.00] [01:59.74]And finally the big day came [02:02.97] [02:04.96]And absolutely nothing happened [02:08.50] [02:10.95]Just another day [02:11.99] [02:16.11]Ooooaaaah [02:21.99]Now my grandmother was a missionary [02:23.61] [02:24.14]And she had heard [02:25.26]That the largest religion in the [02:26.81]World was Buddhism [02:29.52] [02:30.23]So she decided to go to Japan [02:32.14] [02:32.83]To convert Buddhists [02:34.46] [02:35.99]And to inform them about the end of the world [02:38.41]And to inform them about the end of the world [02:42.31] [02:44.24]And she didn't speak Japanese [02:46.36] [02:47.00]So she tried to convert them with a combination [02:49.45]Of hand gestures [02:51.21] [02:51.87]Sign language and hymns in English [02:57.44] [02:59.34]Ooooaaaah [03:03.29] [03:06.65]The Japanese had absolutely no idea what [03:10.32]She was trying to get at [03:11.87] [03:14.30]And when she got back to the United States she was [03:17.77]Still talking about the end of the world [03:20.18] [03:21.40]And I remember the day she died [03:23.42] [03:24.81]She was very excited She was like a small bird perched [03:29.62]On the edge of her bed near the window in the hospital [03:32.85] [03:33.61]Waiting to die [03:34.47] [03:36.43]And she was wearing these pink [03:37.55]Nightgowns and combing [03:40.58]Her hair so she'd look pretty for the big moment [03:45.50]When Christ came to get her [03:47.86] [03:50.70]Ooooaaaah [03:53.68]And she wasn't afraid but then [03:56.99]Just at the very last [03:57.93]Minute something happened [04:00.47] [04:01.29]That changed everything [04:02.76] [04:05.09]Because suddenly at the very [04:06.98]Last minute she panicked [04:11.15] [04:13.66]After a whole life of praying and predicting [04:15.60]The end of the world she panicked [04:19.90] [04:22.12]And she panicked because she couldn't decide [04:24.43] [04:25.83]Whether or not to wear a hat [04:32.06] [04:35.98]Ooooaaaah [04:42.09] [04:42.84]And so when she died she went into the future [04:46.60] [04:49.36]In a panic with absolutely no idea of [04:54.45] [04:57.64]What would be next