Let X = X

This is the best news I've heard in forever! Not only are they releasing a remastered edition of Laurie Anderson's Big Science for its 25th anniversary, but Laurie is at work on a new album to be released next year!

Weird timing for this rare bit of news, because I've been on a total Laurie Anderson kick lately. In fact, 4 of the 6 slots in my CD deck in the car currently house her albums. And I've been gaining some insight into my own life because of it. Take, for example, Let X=X, which can be found on Big Science:

I met this guy - and he looked like he might have
been a hat check clerk at an ice rink.
Which, in fact, he turned out to be. And I said:
Oh boy. Right again.

Let X=X.

Yeah, sometimes things really are just as they seem. You don't have dig for hidden meanings and hidden agendas in everything that people do. There's someone I need to say that to. And he just so happens to be a Laurie Anderson fan as well, which gives me the perfect "in."

Here's another of my favorite Laurie Anderson lyrics (from My Eyes):

If I were the president
If I were Queen for a day
I'd give the ugly people all the money
I'd re-write the Book of Love
I'd make it funny

I thoroughly approve of both of these proposals.