http://redroomcompany.org/wordpress/2006/10/06/karin-revisited-by-david-prater/ The Redroom Company Blog Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:04:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://redroomcompany.org/wordpress/2006/10/06/karin-revisited-by-david-prater/comment-page-1/#comment-89 Redroom Company » Blog Archive » Karen Carpenter, Justine Bateman, Kim Gordon Tue, 17 Oct 2006 05:55:41 +0000 http://www.redroomcompany.org/wordpress/?p=94#comment-89 [...] While these three women might not ostensibly have much to do with one another, in my poem Karin Revisited they are transformed and re-connected, a little like in the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. While Justine Bateman meets herself as Karin in the 1980s movie Can You Feel Me Dancing?, a further connection is made between Karin, Karen Carpenter and Kim Gordon by the poem’s title, echoing as it does the Sonic Youth songs “Tunic (Song For Karen)”, “Karen Koltrane” and “Karen Revisited”. “Tunic”, in particular, captures the world-weary sadness I was trying to achieve in my poem. The band’s sense of iconography, as expressed by co-lyricist and bassist Kim Gordon, fuses in the poem with a cyber-punk future, where blind people can see movies and the weather in Los Angeles is always snowy. [...] [...] While these three women might not ostensibly have much to do with one another, in my poem Karin Revisited they are transformed and re-connected, a little like in the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. While Justine Bateman meets herself as Karin in the 1980s movie Can You Feel Me Dancing?, a further connection is made between Karin, Karen Carpenter and Kim Gordon by the poem’s title, echoing as it does the Sonic Youth songs “Tunic (Song For Karen)”, “Karen Koltrane” and “Karen Revisited”. “Tunic”, in particular, captures the world-weary sadness I was trying to achieve in my poem. The band’s sense of iconography, as expressed by co-lyricist and bassist Kim Gordon, fuses in the poem with a cyber-punk future, where blind people can see movies and the weather in Los Angeles is always snowy. [...]

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