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Laurie Anderson - O Superman
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Laurie Anderson - Big Science
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Laurie Anderson - Language Is A Virus
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Laurie Anderson - Same Time Tomorrow
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Laurie Anderson - Born, Never Asked
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Laurie Anderson - Let X=X
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Laurie Anderson - Walking & Falling
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Laurie Anderson - Speechless
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Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels
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Laurie Anderson - Falling
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Laurie Anderson - Gravity's Angel Lyrics
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Laurie Anderson - Hiawatha
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Laurie Anderson - Kokoku
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Laurie Anderson - One White Whale
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Laurie Anderson - Speak My Language
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Laurie Anderson - Strange Perfumes
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Laurie Anderson - Broken
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Laurie Anderson - Example 22
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Laurie Anderson - Free Fall
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Laurie Anderson - From The Air
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Laurie Anderson - It Tango
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Laurie Anderson - Monkey's Paw
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Laurie Anderson - Muddy River
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Laurie Anderson - Poison
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Laurie Anderson - Sharkey's Day
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Laurie Anderson - Slip Away
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Laurie Anderson - Smoke Rings
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Laurie Anderson - Sweaters
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Laurie Anderson - The Day The Devil
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Laurie Anderson - The Dream Before
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Laurie Anderson - The Lake
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Laurie Anderson - Washington Street
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Laurie Anderson - World Without End
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Laurie Anderson - Another Day in America
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Laurie Anderson - Baby Doll
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Laurie Anderson - Beautiful Pea Green Boat
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Laurie Anderson - Beautiful Red Dress
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Laurie Anderson - Blue Lagoon
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Laurie Anderson - Bodies in Motion
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Laurie Anderson - Bright Red
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Laurie Anderson - Coolsville
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Laurie Anderson - Dark Angel
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Laurie Anderson - Dark Time in Revolution
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Laurie Anderson - Excellent Birds
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Laurie Anderson - In Our Sleep
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Laurie Anderson - John Lilly
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Laurie Anderson - Langue d'Amour
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Laurie Anderson - Late Show
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Laurie Anderson - Life On A String
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Laurie Anderson - Love Among The Sailors
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Laurie Anderson - Maria Teresa Teresa Maria
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Laurie Anderson - My Compensation
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Laurie Anderson - My Eyes
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Laurie Anderson - My Right Eye
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Laurie Anderson - Night In Baghdad
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Laurie Anderson - On The Way To Jerusalem
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Laurie Anderson - One Beautiful Evening
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Laurie Anderson - Only An Expert
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Laurie Anderson - Pieces And Parts
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Laurie Anderson - Puppet Motel
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Laurie Anderson - Ramon
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Laurie Anderson - Sharkey's Day (Single Edit)
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Laurie Anderson - Sharkey"S Night
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Laurie Anderson - Someone Else's Dream
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Laurie Anderson - Statue Of Liberty
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Laurie Anderson - Talk Normal
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Laurie Anderson - The Beginning of Memory
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Laurie Anderson - The Cultural Ambassador
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Laurie Anderson - The End Of The World
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Laurie Anderson - The Geographic North Pole
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Laurie Anderson - The Hollywood Strangler
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Laurie Anderson - The Island Where I Come From
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Laurie Anderson - The Mysterious "J"
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Laurie Anderson - The Night Flight From Houston
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Laurie Anderson - The Ouija Board
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Laurie Anderson - The Puppet Motel
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Laurie Anderson - The Rotowhirl
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Laurie Anderson - The Salesman
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Laurie Anderson - The Soul Is A Bird
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Laurie Anderson - The Ugly One With The Jewels
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Laurie Anderson - Thinking of You
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Laurie Anderson - Tightrope
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Laurie Anderson - Transitory Life
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Laurie Anderson - White Lily
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Laurie Anderson - Word Of Mouth
The End Of The World
Laurie Anderson
Ooooaaaah!
Ooooaaaah!
Hi. This evening I'll be reading from a book I just finished and since a lot of it is about the future, I'm going to start more or less on the last page, and tell you about my grandmother. Now she was a Southern Baptist Holy Ruler and she had a very clear idea about the future, and of how the world would end.
- In fire.
In fire.
- Like in Revelations.
Like in Revelations.
And when I was ten my grandmother told me the world would end in a year. So I spent the whole year praying and reading the Bible and alienating all my friends and relatives. And finally the big day came. And absolutely nothing happened. Just another day.
Ooooaaaah!
Now my grandmother was a missionary and she had heard that the largest religion in the world was Buddhism. So she decided to go to Japan to convert Buddhists.
- And to inform them about the end of the world.
And to inform them about the end of the world.
And she didn't speak Japanese. So she tried to convert them with a combination of hand gestures, sign language and hymns, in English.
Ooooaaaah!
The Japanese had absolutely no idea what she was trying to get at. And when she got back to the United States she was still talking about the end of the world. And I remember the day she died. She was very excited. She was like a small bird perched on the edge of her bed near the window in the hospital. Waiting to die. And she was wearing these pink nightgowns and combing her hair so she'd look pretty for the big moment when Christ came to get her.
Ooooaaaah!
And she wasn't afraid but then, just at the very last minute something happened that changed everything. Because suddenly, at the very last minute she panicked. After a whole life of praying and predicting the end of the world, she panicked. And she panicked because she couldn't decide whether or not to wear a hat.
Ooooaaaah!
And so when she died she went into the future in a panic with absolutely no idea of what would be next
