#piss factory

[saramencken]

Patti 1974

Image : Frank Stefanko

[bitter69uk]

“Soulful, haggard and emaciated yet raffish, swaggering and seductive, she is mad saint, ephebe, dandy and troubadour, a complex woman alone and outward bound for culture war.” Camille Paglia on Patti Smith.

Happy 79th birthday to fierce punk poetess, beatnik earth mother, musician, playwright, shamanistic visionary, personification of jolie laide androgyny, role model and the woman Salvador Dali once likened to “a gothic crow” – Patti Smith (née Patricia Lee Smith, 30 December 1946). Seen here photographed by Charles Steiner in 1975. No one asked, but my favourite Patti Smith song is "Pissing in a River” (followed by “Dancing Barefoot”).

[calimarikid]

[ouvindoantesdemorrer]

#587. Piss Factory - Patti Smith (1974)

Como bem ressaltado, Patti Smith é um daqueles raros casos em que poesia e ~rock~ dão certo de um jeito inegavelmente legítimo.

Funciona até com quem não suporta tal linha literária.

Lançada como lado B ao lado de uma versão de Hey Joe, depois de ver o Television (banda com quem dividiria residência no CBGB’s no ano seguinte) mandar essa dobradinha, a música fala de seu emprego numa fábrica de brinquedos aos 16 anos em New Jersey (fada da consciência de classe) com a maravilhosa promessa “I’m gonna be somebody, I’m gonna get on that train, go to New York City / And I’m gonna be so big, I’m gonna be a big star and I’ll never return”.

...”and America’s Rimbaud-meets-Stones version of punk was born”

[ifuckingloveangelolsen]

[i-wont-share-you]

"I'm gonna be somebody [...] And I will never return Never return, no, never return, To burn at this piss factory And I will travel light."

[deweydecimalchickens]

"'You're screwing up the quota

You're doing your piece-work too fast

Now you get off your mustang, Sally

You ain't going nowhere, you ain't going nowhere.'

I lay back, I get my nerve up

I take a swig of Romilar and I walk right up to hot-shit Dot Hook and I say:

'Hey. Hey, sister. It don't matter whether I do labour fast or slow

There's always more labour after'

(She's real Catholic, see)"

Patti Smith, 'Piss Factory'

This always confused me because I think of a work ethic as Protestant. But I guess if Dot Hook had a Protestant work ethic she'd be in favour of working as hard and fast as possible. Whereas the Catholic ethic says suffering is eternal and you can't get out of it by working harder.

[thesingingknives]

I lay back. I get my nerve up. I take a swig of Romilar And walk up to hot shit Dot Hook and I say "Hey, hey sister it don't matter whether I do labor fast or slow, There's always more labor after."