Maria Teresa Teresa Maria (Live)-Laurie Anderson

[ti:Maria Teresa Teresa Maria(live版)] [ar:Laurie Anderson] [al:The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Maria Teresa Teresa Maria (Live) - Laurie Anderson [00:03.73]Last spring I spent a week in a convent in the midwest [00:08.85] [00:10.24]I'd been invited there to do a [00:11.99]Series of seminars on language [00:14.87] [00:16.65]They'd gotten my name from a list in washington [00:19.20] [00:20.13]From a brochure that described my work as [00:23.00] [00:24.17]Deals with the spiritual issues of our time [00:27.73] [00:29.63]Undoubtedly a blurb I had written myself [00:33.73] [00:36.31]Because of this and also because men [00:40.24]Were not allowed to enter the convert [00:43.08] [00:44.47]They asked me to come out [00:45.85] [00:48.50]The night I arrived they had a party [00:51.20]For me in a nearby town [00:53.83]In a downstairs lounge of a crystal [00:56.81]Lane's bowling alley [00:58.88] [01:00.36]The alley was reserved for the nuns [01:03.58]For their tuesday night tournaments [01:05.33] [01:07.43]It was a pizza party [01:08.72] [01:10.24]And the lounge was decorated to look like a cave [01:14.30] [01:15.27]Every surface was covered with that spray on rock [01:19.32]That's usually used for soundproofing in this case [01:24.14] [01:25.00]It had the opposite effect: it amplified every sound [01:29.52] [01:31.70]Now the nuns were in the middle [01:33.75]Of their annual tournament playoffs [01:35.86] [01:36.47]And we could hear all the bowling balls [01:38.90]Rolling very slowly down the aisles above us [01:42.75] [01:43.66]Making the rock club stalactites [01:46.46]Tremble and resonate [01:48.81] [01:51.61]Finally the pizza arrived and the mother superior [01:56.67]Began to bless the food [01:58.32] [01:59.54]Now this woman normally had a [02:01.06]Gruffed low pitched [02:02.49]Speaking voice but as soon as she [02:05.56]Began to pray her voice rose [02:09.48] [02:10.71]Became pure bell like like a child's [02:18.10] [02:20.38]The prayer went on and on increasing [02:23.22]In volume each time a sister got a strike [02:26.16]Rising in pitch dear father in heaven [02:35.13] [02:38.70]The next day I was scheduled to begin [02:41.27]This seminar on language [02:43.11] [02:44.73]I'd been very struck by this prayer and [02:47.71]I wanted to talk about how [02:48.95]Women's voices rise in pitch [02:52.23]When they're asking for things [02:53.72] [02:55.00]Especially from men [02:57.40] [02:58.93]But it was odd every time I set [03:01.76]A time for the seminar [03:03.77]There was some reason to postpone it [03:06.03] [03:06.96]The potatoes had to be dug out [03:09.22] [03:09.88]Or a busload of old people would [03:12.07]Appear out of nowhere [03:15.32] [03:16.07]And have to be shown around [03:18.04] [03:19.47]So I never actually did the seminar [03:23.58] [03:25.75]But I spent a lot of time there [03:28.07]Walking around the grounds [03:29.83] [03:30.60]And looking at all the crops [03:32.32] [03:32.95]Which were all labeled [03:34.29] [03:35.52]And there was also a neatly laid out cemetery [03:38.65] [03:39.41]Hundreds of identical white crosses in rows [03:43.38] [03:44.39]And there were labeled maria [03:47.29] [03:49.07]Teresa maria teresa [03:53.88] [03:55.71]Teresa maria and the only sadder cemetery [04:00.58]I saw was last summer in switzerland [04:05.02] [04:06.32]And I was dragged there by a [04:07.88]Hermann hesse fanatic [04:09.40] [04:10.06]Very serecirely swide [04:12.13]Who had never recovered from reading [04:14.38] [04:16.59]And one hot august morning [04:18.49] [04:19.45]When the sky was quiet [04:21.08] [04:21.96]We made a pilgrimage to the cemetery [04:24.51] [04:25.87]We brought a lot of flowers and we [04:28.40]Finally found his grave [04:29.80] [04:30.96]It was marked with a huge fur tree and [04:33.90]A mammoth stone [04:35.55]That said hesse in huge helvetica bold letters [04:40.01] [04:41.09]It looked more like a marquee than a tombstone [04:44.06] [04:44.77]And around the corner was this [04:47.01]Tiny stone for his wife [04:49.45] [04:49.96]Nina and on it was one word auslander foreigner [04:59.68] [05:02.45]And this made me so sad and so mad [05:06.75] [05:07.98]That I was sorry [05:08.77]I'd brought the flowers anyway I [05:13.60]Decided to leave the flowers [05:15.26] [05:16.04]Along with a mean note and it read [05:23.20]Even though you're not my favorite [05:24.91]Writer by long shots [05:30.14] [05:32.85]I leave these flowers on your resting spot