Time Marches On: In the liner notes Patti says that "Ghost Dance" is "dedicated to the union: the communion of the future setting the space for the year to come -1979- the year of the child.I was juicing pure ginger juice if you’ve ever tried that you know that if you even drink a tiny bit it.
The line "so goddamn young" from "Privilege" was referenced in the song "Poor Little Rich Boy" from Regina Spektor's album Soviet Kitsch.Marilyn Manson covered "Rock 'N' Roll Nigger" on his album Smells Like Children."Rock 'N' Roll Nigger" namedrops Jimi Hendrix, Jesus Christ, Grandma and Jackson Pollock as "a nigger".The album cover can be seen in the cover artwork of Dookie by Green Day.And to re-create from excretion of man pure and then soft and then solid gold. Inherent with(in) us is the dream of the task of the alchemist to create from the clay of man. Smith's liner notes refer to Arthur Rimbaud and his brother Frédéric, Privilege, the Concert Film Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones, Alain Delon, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Luc Godard, the Ghost Dance movement note a 19th century religious movement among Native American tribes, British model Jean Shrimpton, British musician Paul Jones (formerly of Manfred Mann), Charles Baudelaire and Little Richard. He must be reconnected via shit, at all cost.A stranger comes up to him: hands him an old, rusty Polaroid