Running Up That Hill
The song itself has often been misinterpreted. Kate Bush herself has said, "I was trying to say that, really, a man and a woman, can't understand each other because we are a man and a woman. And if we could actually swap each others roles, if we could actually be in each others place for a while, I think we'd both be very surprised! [Laughs] And I think it would be lead to a greater understanding. And really the only way I could think it could be done was either... you know, I thought a deal with the devil, you know. And I thought, 'well, no, why not a deal with God!' You know, because in a way it's so much more powerful the whole idea of asking God to make a deal with you. You see, for me it is still called "Deal With God", that was it's title. But we were told that if we kept this title that it wouldn't be played in any of the religious countries, Italy wouldn't play it, France wouldn't play it, and Australia wouldn't play it! Ireland wouldn't play it, and that generally we might get it blacked purely because it had 'God' in the title." [1] Musically, the background vocal chants ("e-yo") are almost identical to singing in classical Japanese musical theatre such as Noh, and the prominent drumming pattern appears to be influenced by Japanese taiko. A less highbrow analysis reveals the drum pattern to bear a striking resemblance to Sylvia's 1970s R & B hit "Pillow Talk". Both songs deal quite frankly with the subject of lovemaking. The rhythm would show up again in 1987 on Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love" single, which also explores sexual politics in its lyrics.



Originally titled, "A Deal with God", representatives at EMI were hesitant to release it, as they feared the title could have prevented radio play, especially in the United States. Because the singles from her previous release, The Dreaming, had done so poorly in the charts, Bush relented and changed the title. The executives of EMI initially wanted to release another song, "Cloudbusting", as the lead single from the album. Bush successfully convinced them to release "Running Up That Hill" first, citing that it was the first song to be written for the album, and felt that it better represented the broader feel for "Hounds of Love".
The music video featured Bush and dancer Michael Hervieu, in a tightly choreographed piece. Bush felt that in most music videos, "dancing happened around the artist, but never truly involved the artist at all". She wanted the dancing in "Running Up That Hill" to be more of a classical performance, and therefore enlisted Dyanne Gray, a dance teacher Bush had been working with.
The dance draws upon contemporary dance with a repeated gesture suggestive of drawing a bow and arrow (the gesture was made literal on the image for the single in which Bush poses with a real bow and arrow). At the climax of the song, Bush's partner unexpectedly withdraws from her. In a surreal sequence, both are swept away down a long hall in opposite directions by an endless stream of anonymous figures wearing masks that are pictures of Bush and Hervieu's faces.

MTV however, decided to play a live version rather than the studio version due to the fact that there was no lip-synching.The B-side of the 7" single contains her song "Under the Ivy". The 12-inch single is an extended remix of "Running Up That Hill", and the B-side also has an instrumental version, as well as "Under the Ivy". The 1986 BBC childrens television drama Running Scared is notable for its use of the song as its main theme.

Sorry that all of that was off wiki! Also it has been covered by Placebo, Faith and the Muse (Alternative rock), Within Temptation (Symphonic metal, Gothic), Elastic Band (Trance), Patrick Wolf (Folktronica), Infusion (Progressive House), Kiki and Herb (Cabaret) - performed throughout their career, and used as the closing number in their sold-out "farewell performance" at Carnegie Hall in 2004. Andrew Poppy & Claudia Brücken, and Blue Pearl. You might also be interested that some of the song is bakwards (the video too in parts apparently) and it reached #2.

Running Up That Hill is one of my favourite songs of all time, and i just LOVE the video too. Enjoy! Critisisms too please - have fun dudes.
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Posted on 31 Aug 2007 by cathy
Sloshy sloshy washing machine
More recently kate's style has changed very dramatically, but then i guess she haddn't released anything for like 12 years or something so we cant see the slow change. I guess her style did change quite dramatically between albums in the past, i mean .. just compare the kick inside with the dreaming with hounds of love! major differences. Me loves it. Kate, i think, said the song was about how she had become a mother and that these everyday tasks were part of her life. Something about Mrs. Bartolozzi is the woman who is in the story, doing the tasks, but it's also her. Shes become this person? and yet its a seperate person? sortof half about her half about mrs. b. Get it? no? never mind. Makes sense to me. I, along with most other kate fans love this song. The first time i heard it i just cracked up at the line "washing machiiiiinnneee" but now i love it. I agree with kate too when she says that the song is quite sexy, because it is! Kate can still pull off a song like this which is good. Looking in the washing machine it reminds her of being by the sea with her loved one. It's also comparing it to, sorry to say it, sex (in a very unusual way haha). At least i think it is. In one of kate's early demos that were never published she talks about "little fish" wetting the sheets so really this song can refer to either that, or nice little innocent fishies in the sea. prob meant to be both. Also with the waves. In kate's early song "feel it" (which is about a one-night stand so really you know... yeah never mind) which is also a very sexy song, she sings lines like "nobody else can share this", "here comes one and one makes one - the glorious union". Just before the second run-through of the chorus (which basically consists of "feel it, oh feel it my love" etc) she sings with so much passion the line "sycronise rhythm now", she sings the line so well - me wuvvy, and i think this is similar to the waves in this song, like rhythm. She so clever hehe. I also heard that some people thought that it was about her cleaning after a murder, getting the blood off the clothes. Kate said that she loved the way someone had thought this because she wanted everyone to interpret it in their own way, and the way i explained above is my way. A housewife at home, and a very sexy washing-machine song and here it is:

I remember it was that Wednesday
Oh when it rained and it rained
They traipsed mud all over the house
It took hours and hours to scrub it out
All over the hall carpet
I took my mop and my bucket
And I cleaned and I cleaned
The kitchen floor
Until it sparkled
Then I took my laundry basket
And put all the linen in it
And everything I could fit in it
All our dirty clothes that hadn’t gone into the wash
And all your shirts and jeans and things
And put them in the new washing machine

Washing machine
Washing machine

I watched them going ’round and ’round
My blouse wrapping itself around your trousers
Oh the waves are going out
My skirt floating up around my waist
As I wade out into the surf
Oh and the waves are coming in
Oh and the waves are going out
Oh and you’re standing right behind me
Little fish swim between my legs
Oh and the waves are coming in
Oh and the waves are going out
Oh and the waves are coming in
Out of the corner of my eye
I think I see you standing outside
But it’s just your shirt
Hanging on the washing line
Waving it’s arm as the wind blows by
And it looks so alive
Nice and white
Just like it’s climbed right out
of my washing machine
Washing machine
Washing machine

Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy
Get that dirty shirty clean
Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy
Make those cuffs and collars gleam
Everything clean and shiny

Washing machine
Washing machine
Washing machine

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Posted on 29 Aug 2007 by cathy
The Free Wind
http://www.ear-tweak.com/iy_manga/v38/374/

It's a spoiler, so if you don't want to know, don't read it.
I'll try not to give it away when I write.
I regret that I won't be able to see this animated for a loooonng time. If at all. But all of the chapters that have been like this, that I've seen have been done so well. And ch. 465. In a way, both of them needed to happen, and both times, and can't think of anyway Rumiko Takahashi could have done it better.
I can't really find a way to describe this, without sounding majorly depressed, or giving it away.
I know perhaps it's over used, every time Inuyasha saves Kagome, or "Houshi-sama" comforts Sango (and vice versa) but I love the "you're not alone" feeling of this....
Anyways, see ya!
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Posted on 29 Aug 2007 by paperstars
Wilhelm Reich Museum, Orgonon

http://www.wilhelmreichmuseum.org/index.html
If you follow the link adn then go to biography you can find out about wilhelm reich. To be honest, i don't think i will ever read all of the biography on that page because it is just so long! And most of it i'm not interested in anyway. I can't see the cloudbuster mentioned which is anoying. More interestinly, they have a list of all his books that were burned. Actually scrap that i can see the cloudbuster mentioned. It is obvious why he was locked away as i can understand that some people would find him dangerous and his new ideas overwelming. But then, the dude who said the sun was the center of the universe was killed and guess who was right? “It is sexual energy which governs the structure of human feeling and thinking.” I like that quote but i guess most people won't. Wow they're re-selling one of his books now i think. Actually ... maybe you have to go to the museum ... or its published monthly what? don't get it. It's called "orgone energy bulletin" I don't get it oh well. There's a small bit on the cloudbuster under the header "reich and the cloudbuster". It says:

"Reich continued to develop new ways to visualize, measure, and harness orgone energy from the atmosphere. The cloudbuster, for example, was an experimental instrument that could affect weather patterns by altering concentrations of orgone energy in the atmosphere. It comprised a set of hollow metal pipes and cables inserted into water, creating a stronger orgone energy system than that in the surrounding atmosphere. Water, which strongly attracts and absorbs orgone, draws the atmospheric orgone through the pipes. This movement of orgone from a lower to a higher energy system was used by Reich to create clouds and to dissipate them.

Reich used the cloudbuster to conduct dozens of experiments involving what he called “Cosmic Orgone Engineering (C.O.R.E.).” One of the most notable occurred in 1953. During a long drought that threatened the Maine blueberry crop, several farmers offered to pay Reich if he could bring rain to the parched region. The weather bureau had forecast no rain for several days when Reich began his cloudbusting operations. Ten hours later, a light rain began to fall. Over the next few days, close to two inches fell. The blueberry crop was saved, and in local newspaper articles the farmers credited Reich."

Enjoy reading, dudes.
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Posted on 29 Aug 2007 by cathy
This Woman's Work - lyrics
Kayomi - shockingly - requested the lyrics to the song "this woman's work". I just posted the video that goes with it in the last post with the NSPCC advert. I just found theese two really nice pictures of kate too so i'll post them with it. On second thoughts ... no yes i will post them both even though she looks constipated in the second one. She stwill lwooks pwettyfwul though ... I hope you find them interesting and they help the story become more ... clear. Here they are:



Pray God you can cope.
I stand outside this woman's work,
This woman's world.
Ooh, it's hard on the man,
Now his part is over.
Now starts the craft of the father.

I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.
I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.

I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking

Of all the things I should've said,
That I never said.
All the things we should've done,
That we never did.
All the things I should've given,
But I didn't.

Oh, darling, make it go,
Make it go away.

Give me these moments back.
Give them back to me.
Give me that little kiss.
Give me your hand.

(I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.
I know you have a little life in you yet.
I know you have a lot of strength left.)

I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking

Of all the things we should've said,
That were never said.
All the things we should've done,
That we never did.
All the things that you needed from me.
All the things that you wanted for me.
All the things that I should've given,
But I didn't.

Oh, darling, make it go away.
Just make it go away now.


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Posted on 29 Aug 2007 by cathy

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