{"id":3767,"date":"2023-01-31T11:18:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T11:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yayforeverything.com\/helices\/?page_id=3767"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:54:42","slug":"m8-jenny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yayforeverything.com\/helices\/m8-jenny\/","title":{"rendered":"Movement 8 – Jenny"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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8<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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In her Movement 7<\/a>, Binda made a music video of \u201cThe Body and the Story of the Body\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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response<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Jenny<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Switch to Binda<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I loved all of Binda\u2019s video. The dancers holding up the dancer, the winged figure, her own translucent hag-screaming. The part that immediately pinged me, though \u2014 the part that I\u2019ve come to recognize as \u201cprobably the thing that I\u2019m going to end up responding to this next movement\u201d \u2014 was the moment when she reversed the footage of the hand drawing a line. Whoa! I literally gasped when I saw it; my body was that surprised. <\/p>

The moment made me think of an old song of mine, one of the first I’d ever written, called \u201cThe Dream.\u201d The first verse:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Knife in the mouth like glass<\/div>
Test the point against your tongue<\/div>
What is done<\/div>
Can never be undone
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By anyone
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But, by the last verse: <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Ice in the mouth like glass<\/div>
Melt the point against your tongue<\/div>
What is done<\/div>
Can always be undone <\/div>
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I love the song but never really play it; there’s something that doesn’t quite work for me. It’s too… square, or something. I don’t like the strumming pattern. (It was one of the first songs I wrote when I learned how to play the guitar, so it’s pretty rudimentary that way.) What if I could rewrite the song, or figure out a new style or beat for it, that would give it new life?<\/p>

So for the first week of the movement that\u2019s what I worked on. The process was interesting \u2014 I enjoyed figuring out how to play the shifting time signature on the drums \u2014 but the results weren\u2019t anything I cared for.<\/p>

At that point I had an interesting conversation with my son Emerson. \u201cI don’t believe in undoing things and doing them over,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything you\u2019ve done has taught you something, even if it\u2019s a \u2018failure.\u2019 You can go on and do it another way, but I don\u2019t like just writing over it and pretending it was never there.\u201d<\/p>

That seemed wise to me.<\/p>

So I wrote a song about that<\/i>.<\/p>

Luc (hubs) kept asking me, \u201cAre you trying to tell me something? Are you sick of this?\u201d But the truth is that I was trying to put words into his<\/i> mouth \u2014 to say, \u201cYes, my life is very hard, but I love you, Jenny, and I wouldn\u2019t choose a different life because in this life I have you.\u201d<\/p>

There you go: Full transparency of my longing.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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