ORIGIN OF LOVE

So far it's been over 12 hours since I started thinking of writing my essay... So far I have got the header in place and my name... However, here is an extremely good song from a good film. I have been trying to figure out if it's Hedwig's story that somehow touched me or if the song is just so good, well, I still don't know but I know that the song is good. It might have a lot to do with the fact that I like the story behind it about people being originally a four-legged and four-handed creatures who were split in half...

Check it out, the video I mean, but of course check out the story also (Aristophane's speech from Plato's Symposium).

ISABELL

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

Hedwig and the Angry Inch was quite an interesting film which at first didn't feel like anything special. Although, if you've read the screenplay it obviously let one know that the actual story is quite interesting (personally, I preferred reading the screenplay before watching the actual film).

The film is basically about Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell) touring with her band in the States and at the same time following her ex-boyfriend, who stole her songs and thus became a famous singer. Through the song the main character tells her life-story starting from her origins, East Germany. The story is pretty unusual in a good way full of witty lines and besides believable acting the film has animation parts, which pretty much complete the story (in my opinion).

Check out the trailer and yeah, this isn't a must-watch (in my opinion although all the awards might speak differently) but definitely a good way to spend time. So, if this comes off as your kind of film make sure to take a look.

Directed and written by John Cameron Mitchell

ISABELL

THE ORIGIN OF LOVE

When the earth was still flat,

And the clouds made of fire,

And mountains stretched up to the sky,

Sometimes higher,

Folks roamed the earth

Like big rolling kegs.

They had two sets of arms.

They had two sets of legs.

They had two faces peering

Out of one giant head

So they could watch all around them

As they talked; while they read.

And they never knew nothing of love.

It was before the origin of love.

The origin of love

And there were three sexes then,

One that looked like two men

Glued up back to back,

Called the children of the sun.

And similar in shape and girth

Were the children of the earth.

They looked like two girls

Rolled up in one.

And the children of the moon

Were like a fork shoved on a spoon.

They were part sun, part earth

Part daughter, part son.

The origin of love

Now the gods grew quite scared

Of our strength and defiance

And Thor said,

"I'm gonna kill them all

With my hammer,

Like I killed the giants."

And Zeus said, "No,

You better let me

Use my lightening, like scissors,

Like I cut the legs off the whales

And dinosaurs into lizards."

Then he grabbed up some bolts

And he let out a laugh,

Said, "I'll split them right down the middle.

Gonna cut them right up in half."

And then storm clouds gathered above

Into great balls of fire

And then fire shot down

From the sky in bolts

Like shining blades

Of a knife.

And it ripped

Right through the flesh

Of the children of the sun

And the moon

And the earth.

And some Indian god

Sewed the wound up into a hole,

Pulled it round to our belly

To remind us of the price we pay.

And Osiris and the gods of the Nile

Gathered up a big storm

To blow a hurricane,

To scatter us away,

In a flood of wind and rain,

And a sea of tidal waves,

To wash us all away,

And if we don't behave

They'll cut us down again

And we'll be hopping round on one foot

And looking through one eye.

Last time I saw you

We had just split in two.

You were looking at me.

I was looking at you.

You had a way so familiar,

But I could not recognize,

‘Cause you had blood on your face;

I had blood in my eyes.

But I could swear by your expression

That the pain down in your soul

Was the same as the one down in mine.

That's the pain,

Cuts a straight line

Down through the heart;

We called it love.

So we wrapped our arms around each other,

Trying to shove ourselves back together.

We were making love,

Making love.

It was a cold dark evening,

Such a long time ago,

When by the mighty hand of Jove,

It was the sad story

How we became

Lonely two-legged creatures,

It's the story of

The origin of love.

That's the origin of love.

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I was just reading Hedwig and the Angry Inch, written by John Cameron Mitchell. Particularly these lyrics which somehow made my mind wonder to pleasant places. The lyrics are beautiful.

I haven't heard the song and frankly I don't want to (until Friday when I will actually have to watch the film) because simply reading them makes me feel (oddly so) good on the inside. Makes me think of love.

Enough with this blabbering.


ISABELL