I see you Mary Anne; we never knew ourselves

[intertribal]

Dedicated to my uncle's mysterious second wife, Mary Ann(e). She and my uncle were both English professors. I never knew Mary Ann(e). My mother did - she briefly lived with Mary Ann(e) and my uncle between educational pursuits - and says only that Mary Ann(e) was intense and intriguing and smart and hard to live with. They had no children. She's quite long dead, possibly of suicide (my uncle had to go identify the body), and my uncle has a drawer-full of love letters they exchanged. I was there when his third wife found them in the basement.

My uncle is now working on marrying wife #4.

"Pictures of Mary Anne" - Swans

Comments

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

wife #4? really? ....

and yay swans!

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

yeah... he may not marry this one (too old), but he intends to make a life companion out of her.

yes, the song came up on pandora for my death in june station.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

this is your uncle in NE? i would think he was like, still active on the dating scene, but ok.

it's the band michael gira fronts...i forget how i found them. some sort of youtube accident i think. or maybe i heard their joy division cover?

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

well, he is still active on the dating scene, but he's settled for a companion now. i'm not sure how old he is... about 70. he may have decided, however, that marriage doesn't work for him.

I know, you told me this.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

crazy.

eh, most people forget what i say anyway

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

also "There may be good marriages, but there are no pleasant marriages." :P

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Aw. Actually, I kind of buy that.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

yeah, me too, more or less. I'm obligated to correct myself, though: i got the quote one word off--the first 'marriages' isn't there.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Gasp!

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

also if you happen to HAVE pictures of maryanne (I can't find it anywhere), that would be really awesome...

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

no, i have parts or the whole of 4 or 5 swans albums, but not that. i could try to find it though.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

yeah, I downloaded a bunch of albums but it's only on the EP of Love of Life, or the compilation album Various Failures. it's apparently impossible to find.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

heh. and then i read this.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

various failures sound super familiar though. i bet i could find that easily enough.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

LOL.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

yeah, like 10 diff. people have it, but they all have too many people already downloading from them :(

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

it must be Swans day.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

or bad time of day, or people who like Swans tend to be music aficionados with a shitton of music?

argh, i can't get it to share my music anymore. it thinks my files are up for share, but it always tells the server that i'm sharing 0 files, and i thought i set up my firewall so it'd work, but i don't know what i'm doing wrong.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

AHAHA YES I GOT IT TO WORK BY CHANGING MY USERNAME. i have no idea why that helped.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

from now on, you must always do it, or it will never work.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

3 minutes remaining on Picture of Maryanne. pray that it doesn't disconnect halfway through.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

Damn, long download.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

Actually, pretty fast. Longest download = ~2 hrs. Shortest, maybe 2 min.?

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

or did you think i meant it was downloading in my previous comment? b/c i meant that i got file-sharing to work...

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

oh, well, I wasn't really differentiating between the two.

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

ah, yeah, i can download songs regardless of whether i can share mine, although some people will ban you if you don't share. i clicked to download all of the A Picture of Maryanne ones, but I was queued for all of them, which often means the download never starts (unless you're the one in the queue before yourself).

[royinpink.livejournal.com]

all i've found so far is that it's a B-side on the single for Love of Life? in which case it might indeed be hard to find...