Laurie Anderson’s 'The Ugly One with the Jewels' changed my life. In particular, the song John Lilly. Ostensibly a short prose piece about a whale in an aquarium, it is actually a sickening, stomach crunching indictment of just how shit the human race is. That's right, we keep animals in small enclosures for their whole lives. Aren't we fucking cool? Ideal for listening to at night, when drifting off to sleep, the tug of the violin is truly heart rending, and when the whale finally speaks all you can do is cry. “Do all oceans have walls?” Oh you humans...
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