Just my thoughts of the evening… Ani DiFranco is still great to listen to, I think I even appreciate her songs more now than before. Let’s not discuss the newest albums which have aren’t quite on the same path as her older stuff but much respect to her.

Because my level of cohesiveness (is that even a word?) is about as limited as one of a lemon at a funeral at the moment, I’ll just post the lyrics to one of the poems of hers I’ve never forgotten…

my i.q.

when i was four years old, they tried to test my i.q.
they showed me a picture of 3 oranges and a pear
they said, which one is different and does not belong?
they taught me different is wrong
but when i was 13 years old, i woke up one morning
thighs covered in blood, like a war, like a warning
that i live in a breakable takeable body
an ever increasingly valuable body
that a woman had come in the night to replace me
deface me
see, my body is borrowed, yeah, i got it on loan
for the time in between my mom and some maggots
i don’t need anyone to hold me, i can hold my own
i got highways for stretchmarks to see where i’ve grown
i sing sometimes like my life is at stake
’cause you’re only as loud as the noises you make
i’m learning to laugh as hard as i can listen
’cause silence is violence
in women and poor people
if more people were screaming then i could relax
but a good brain ain’t diddley
if you don’t have the facts, we live in a breakable takeable world
an ever available possible world
and we can make music
like we can make do
genius is in a back beat
backseat to nothing if you’re dancing
especially something stupid like i.q.
for every lie i unlearn i learn something new
i sing sometimes for the war that i fight
’cause every tool is a weapon – if you hold it right.

danah dot org had lyrics to all her songs if I remember right…

Oh and… cheers to uni being over… ya know, minor landmark in my life… that would explain drinking at home and ordering pizza by myself while all my friends went home to pass out n sleep… *shrugs*