“By the time she would weave onstage, beer in one hand, cigarette in the other, Ms. Marshall, 34, was wasted. And it showed. It would seem that every fan has a Cat Power concert story: the time she mooned the audience, cursed out techies, talked to a squirrel (outdoors), played three chords and changed her mind (song after song) or played fragments of a few songs and then told everyone to get out, even encouraging fans to sue her.”
-New York Times review, Cat Power
“It is foolhardy to describe a Cat Power event as a concert,” citing “rambling confessions” and “[talking] to a friend’s baby from the stage.”
-New Yorker review, Cat Power
And there, from the ruins of herself, she made this.
handkerchief tied to stick 
I still would have loved to see her… just to be part of the world that voice comes from for a few minutes.
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