Laurie Anderson The Mysterious "j" Lyrics:
In the book there are several chapters about women
talking and women writing. Now it seems likely
that men invented writing and wrote what? Maybe
ninety, maybe ninety-five percent of everything
that's ever been written. Oh there's the
recent theory that a woman, the mysterious
"J", wrote much of the Old Testament, but only
because God was portrayed in this book as
patriarchal, tyrannical and inconsistent, the way
presumably only a woman would write about a man.
But I think I can picture this "J" scribbling
away and laughing although the first time I saw
the Bible re-enacted was sometime in the 70s and
there was a cable TV show in the Midwest and Bible
study groups would act out parts of the Bible. But
these were pretty low budget productions and shot
in a church basement or somebody's ###160109 and
all the prophets had towels wrapped around their
heads for turbans, but you could see the tags, the
ones with the washing instructions, sort of
sticking out and back. There were ver! y few women
on these tapes. They tended to be the odd
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shepherdess sort dancing girl bit part. Then last
year I was invited to perform in Israel and I was
very excited because I wanted to see Jerusalem
where this mysterious "J" had spent her life
writing and working and the Gulf War had made me
even more curious. So I did some asking around,
some informal research, and I talked to an Israeli
woman who was living in New York and she was
really having a hard time living there, and she
was always complaining about American men, and
she'd say: — You know, American men are such
wimps, I mean, they're always talking about
their feelings. And I said: — They are? And she
said she really liked Israeli men because they
were so tough and because they all had guns and I
said: — Guns, you like guys with guns? And she
said she did and went on about how terrible it was
that Clinton wanted to reduce the army and she was
so animate about this that I started to get kind
of worried. Yeah, I thought, yeah that's true,
what are all these military people going to do
when they lose their jobs? And then I thought,
well, hang on, we've got all these service
industries now, things like psychotherapy, and the
military approach to psychotherapy would really be
kind of perfect, really efficient and fast, you
know, listen, you are nothing, you are a worm, and
if you don't get that mother complex out by 0400
hours you are dead meat.
Lyrics: The Mysterious "j", Laurie Anderson [end]