Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found

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As the audience rose to its feet as one, cheering and applauding, she stood for a few moments at the front of the stage, one clenched fist raised, and glared out into the sea of adoring faces as if ready to do battle with them.

On one hand, it’s just a piece of gum, but on the other hand it’s the fuck-you power of a titan in her waning years, pulling out all the stops despite everything. Net jei nelabai žinot kas tas Ellis, net jei nelabai žinot su kuo valgoma ta Simone (ir jos guma), vis tiek visa širdimi rekomenduoju – turbūt viena geriausiai nuteikiančių per gyvenimą skaitytų knygų, o guma yra jos saulė, visus nušviečianti ir net šešėlių nepaliekanti.It’s an incredible privilege to work with Warren,” Cave tells me when I get in touch to ask him about their relationship. A] beautiful, strikingly idiosyncratic book - part memoir, part essay, part conceptual art project, all testament to humans at their strangest and best . My girlfriend thinks I'm a hoarder, but I collect and keep things that have this magical kind of powers about them and this book. It shows how the world is full of magic, of possibilities, not just by music and expression, but by the symbolism that we can place in something, and make it become important. And that’s really what this work is about: about letting go of things which bring you joy and strength.

Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol’s piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.

Bu değer vermenin insanlar arasında paylaşılabilen, o nesnenin zamanla bir nevi "müritler" oluşturmasına olanak sağlayan toplumsal bir hadiseye dönüşmesi Nina Simone's Gum'ın da temel meselelerinden birisi. having read this book again, I can affirm that it's the most quietly odd memoir I've yet read, and actually so so good. Nuostabaus grožio knyga, kurią skaitydamas, jausdamas tą spinduliuojančią meilę gyvenimui, jo ypatingumui, sutiktų žmonių reikšmingumui, negali ir pats nesišypsoti iki ausų.

Both solo and alongside Nick he is also a multi-awardwinning film composer whose soundtracks include The Proposition, The Road, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford , Mustang and most recently This Train I Ride . After the show, in a state of awe, Warren Ellis crept onto the stage, took Dr Simone's piece of chewed gum from the piano, wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records bag. I know people who would go, I probably would too (maybe not if it were just the gum but you get the idea).The pair have created hauntingly atmospheric scores for a dozen movies, including The Proposition (2005), The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford (2007), The Road (2009) and Lawless (2012). The absurd yet perfect story of the gum reaching back into his life and then involving dozens of people who got the power in that little clump of stuff. I want to build this big stone replica of the gum and place it in the middle of a water feature so that the bears and monkeys can play on it. Nina Simone’s Gum] is a metaphor for [Ellis’] creativity — the blossoming of a small idea into something bigger and bolder — but also a journey inside the impulsive, improvisatory mind of Warren Ellis, his passions, obsessions and superstitions. The pair have recently finished a soundtrack for Blonde, their friend Andrew Dominik’s much anticipated film about Marilyn Monroe, to be released next year.