Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found

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Warren Ellis is a multi-instrumentalist and frequent collaborator with Nick Cave as well as a member of The Bad Seeds and the trio Dirty Three among other music projects. More recently, Ellis has become a soundtrack composer much in demand, working either alone or with Cave. Ellis was initially invited to play on a recording session by Cave, who was a fan of Ellis’s other band, Dirty Three, an instrumental group who came together in 1991 and are still going strong. I want to build this big stone replica of the gum and place it in the middle of a water feature so that the bears and monkeys can play on it.

That curiosity in that absurd book lead to one of my all time favorite book discoveries, a book about MAGIC, ART, and things having a life of their own.Ellis’s book gives a similar sensation — that you are in the company of a person with immense joie de vivre, combined with great intelligence and vitality, who wants to pass some of it on to you.

I also have a big discontent with spirituality, and I’d probably appreciate it more if I like, believed in God still. On my days off from work, I like to lay in bed and just take my sweet time getting ready to join the rest of the world.On one hand, it’s just a piece of gum, but on the other hand it’s the fuck-you power of a titan in her waning years, pulling out all the stops despite everything.

He bundled it in the towel she used to wipe her brow, wrapped that in a Tower Records bag, and proceeded to keep it with him for the next two decades. Kitabın devamında ise Nina Simone'un teriyle muhafaza edilen bu sakızın nasıl karşılaştığı herkesi bir şekilde etkisi altına alan bir kutsal nesneye dönüştüğünü okuyoruz ki kitabın büyüsü de burada yatıyor; bunları Ellis'in ağzından, onun geçmişiyle ve deneyimleriyle iç içe okuduğunuzda her şey anlam kazanıyor. It is also about Warren Ellis, and what he made of that, its about connection, music, art, and the possibilities of seeing someone who changes your life.Over the course of plumbing his fellow attendees’ impressions, Ellis contacted the photographer Bleddyn Butcher to see if he’d captured any images of the performance. Although by that late date Simone was unwell and in considerable physical and mental pain, Ellis documents the way she was buoyed by the audience’s “screams and adulation,” and how she began “tapping into the genius that had defined her all her life,” ultimately “[s]ummoning herself to her own rescue. It is a story about the meaning we bestow on objects and experiences, and how these things can become imbued with spirituality.