forgiving Ani DiFranco

[fflo]

I think I have. Of a sudden. Thanks to this online radio thingie putting her in my ears, reminding me of why we were together to begin with.

I may not get with her again, with who she's being now. Don't know. Might consider it. But, anyway, I'll take her back now. The her of what we had once.

And I thought I'd be a hard-ass with her forever.

What's next: Joan Armatrading? Joan and I had reached an understanding. But I might even let her in again, a little more.

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I have to chuckle. I just inherited my brother's filk CD collection. It'll take months to give the whole stack of 60-soem CD's a listen. And, well, I'd guess about half of the musicians I've been listening to are on my friends list. So, you know, if I posted what you just did about an artist I've been listening to, they'd be all like, "Huh? What did I do? I'm sorry we didn't have time to chat when I last saw you, let's get together and work this out."

It's like being part of an oddball music scene or something.

Nah, that would be too close to being cool.

[kohkae.livejournal.com]

I know exactly what you mean. Not about Ani DiFranco, but about another... It can never be the same now - the the magic is just gone. But I can remember and enjoy our good times without regret.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Women! [or whatevers!]

[fflo.livejournal.com]

don't resist the cool, Pete... it's been threatening to spill all over you for quite a while now

[radicalteacher.livejournal.com]

Ani and I had a wild fling when I was first coming out. We'd meet up in random cars and sneak around speaking poetry to each other. Well, she wasn't so good at listening, but I tried!

You know how first relationships are.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

duuuude, ya

but but but

[(Anonymous)]

what'd joan do??

Re: but but but

[fflo.livejournal.com]

she went and got herself associated with my first ladylove

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I don't understand why anyone was ever mad at Ani in the first place. What David Bowie did was much worse, but I've still managed a sort of grudging tolerance of it. (But it's still wrong of him. He really ought to convert back to queerness.)

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

You want cool? Go to quadrivium's latest, and download that song, "Just Dessert."

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Ani can fuck whomever. Ani can embrace full heterosexual privilege. Whatever. I'm not unsympathetic to---and have felt---the betrayal-like sense of that thing I've been "guilty" of myself, but really of course, as we all know, to claim the right to "be" queer, by choice or otherwise, you can't object to the right not to be.

What's kept me from getting with that old fling again is the same thing that came between me and Joan, only moreso.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

The right not to be queer, sure; but that doesn't mean I can't think it's a lousy decision. :p