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A] beautiful, strikingly idiosyncratic book — part memoir, part essay, part conceptual art project, all testament to humans at their strangest and best . At one point during the casting of the gum into a limited series of metal pendants, Ellis notes that he feels “overwhelmed by Hannah’s care. Fearing it would be damaged or lost, Ellis had it cast in silver and gold, sparking a chain of events that no one could have predicted, transporting him back to his childhood and his relationship to found objects. We're lucky that Warren Ellis saved this piece of gum, and shared that piece of gum and it's magic with the rest of us. I didn’t want to get into it too deeply, but something exploded in the house when we were teenagers, and it was just irretrievable.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 . The 66-year-old star slowly made her way to the piano, sat down, took the gum from her mouth and stuck it on a towel atop the Steinway. Probably if you read the book you'll think that's not that weird either, it's just that kind of book. Nina Simone's Gum is hilarious and moving at turns, and is easy to pick up and read in a couple of sittings.

There he stood in the hot and muggy air, cicadas buzzing in the trees, with his wife and sons, his lanky frame and lengthy beard unmistakable, his shirt three buttons unbuttoned, looking like some kind of hypnotic shaman. View image in fullscreen Warren Ellis with his wife Delphine and Nick Cave with his wife Susie Bick in 2017. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The universe will guide you and these objects of intense meaning into your life and sometimes they are for you, and sometimes they are for the world. Ellis' opus is a lyrical reminder that the ephemera we collect in life, that ignite our imagination and memory-- become the things we leave behind.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. Kurguyu gerçeğe her zaman tercih ederim zaten, doğrudan gerçeği ilgi çekici bir şekilde anlatmak için ise gerçekten iyi bir anlatıcı olmak gerekiyor (bknz. We spend many hours improvising music together, sitting and playing in good faith without the politics and power grabs of many partnerships. When Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester, for instance, encountered the gum, "it made her stomach tie itself in knots.

Musician and composer Ellis debuts with an enchanting story of how his life was changed by a seemingly insignificant object: a piece of gum chewed by Nina Simone.With his blessing, the Belgian fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester produced an intricately carved silver ring in its image and, in September, her sculpture of the gum will be exhibited in Waterstones, Piccadilly, to mark the book’s publication. Ellis's fascinating relationship with the artifact took an intriguing turn--which he details with whimsy and admiration--as the gum's "unique transmission of creative energy" connected him to a number of artists entranced by its power. The story it tells is of a man from his childhood thru to present time and how he values of small things as l do, a collector of trivial things but each one is special for a reason. After the show, in a state of transcendent awe, Warren Ellis crept onto the stage and took Simone’s piece of chewed gum from the piano, wrapped it in her stage towel and placed it in a Tower Records bag.

As he does so, he weaves in ardent anecdotes about artists he’s admired, including the Greek musician Arleta, the jazz composer Alice Coltrane, and the poet Emily Dickinson. I wanted that magic of the story of Nina Simone's Gum and it's impact on the author and every one who came into contact with this silly little artifact.I read the majority of this book in one sitting, and could have finished it there, but instead I put it down for a few weeks, because I didn't want it to end. It’s about true wonder, the sort that children have before they get too old – a love for the mysteries of the world, for things that seem useless to adults but which have a hidden power, invisible to anyone in double digits. On stage, his extravagantly expressive playing is something to behold, all flailing arms and furrowed brow, his bow held aloft like a matador’s sword before being drawn across the strings of his amped-up violin. And then she said it would make a good connections text if the theme was how fame inspires people do weird things. When Ellis takes Nina Simone’s gum from her piano after a transcendent performance, it takes him on an epic adventure while he contemplates the meaning and importance of these precious objects that we carry with us.