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Human Animal

by Vanessa Aricco

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1.
Seasons 00:47
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2.
So I'm Alive 02:31
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3.
Starving Natives 02:14
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4.
I Forgo the Comfort 01:02
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5.
Human Animal 02:09
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6.
Black Shadow 01:37
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Why Do Sad Hearts Clap 01:57
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Should I Bow Down and Weep 01:12
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How To Love a Junkie 01:28
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I've Danced the Tired Dance 00:59
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"Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is eternal and immutable.” —Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life

"The poem is about a pursuit of modern happiness that results in an erotic failure. Happiness is a matter of good timing, when two people meet at the right time, in a right place and somehow manage to arrest the moment. The time of happiness is like a time of revolution, an ecstatic modern present. The encounter brings the poet a shock of recognition followed by spatial and temporal disorientation. The time of their happiness is out of joint.

The unknown woman is an allegory of modernité at once statuesque and fleeing, she exemplifies eternal beauty and the modern transience. She is in mourning, possibly a widow, but for a poet her veil is that of anticipatory nostalgia for the lost chance of happiness. Her mourning mirrors his, or the other way around. The poet and the woman recognize each other’s feeling nostalgias. Desiring to arrest time, he mixes opposites in a fury; in one moment he experiences a new birth and death, a pleasure and pain, darkness and light, the present and the eternal. The woman is lost and found and then lost again and then found again in the poem. Rhyming functions like a form of magic, it slows the reader down, making the poem reflect on itself, creating its own utopian temporality where the fleeing erotic fantasy of a lonely urban dweller can be remembered and even memorized.” —Syvetlana Boym (The Future of Nostalgia) describing Baudelaire's poem À une passante from in Les Fleurs du mal

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released August 25, 2018

Music composed by Ashley Raines (Grass Strand Music)
Words written and spoken by Vanessa Aricco (Pettinella-Winters)

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