Song lyrics: O superman. o judge. o mom and dad. mom and dad. o superman. o judge. o
mom and dad. mom and dad. hi. Im not home right now but if you want to leave a message, just
start talking at the sound. hello? this is your mother. are you there? are you coming home? hello?
is anybody home? well, you don't know me, but I know you and I've got a message to give to you.
here come the planes. So you better get ready, ready to go. you can come as you are, but pay as
you go. pay as you go, and I said: ok, who is this really? and the voice said: this is the hand, the
hand that takes. this is the hand, the hand that takes. this is the hand, the hand that takes. here
come the planes. they're american planes. made in america. smoking or non-smoking? and the
voice said: neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift
completion of their appointed rounds, cause when love is gone, there's always justice, and when
justice is gone, there's always force. when force is gone, theres always mom. hi mom! so hold
me, mom, in your long arms. so hold me, mom, in your long arms: in your automatic arms, your
electronic arms, in your arms. so hold me, mom, in your long arms. your petrochemical arms, your
military arms: in your electronic arms
Textile: A textile is a flexible material consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres
formed by weaving, knitting, crocheting, knotting, or pressing fibres together (felt).
Laurie Anderson: Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson, on June 5, 1947, in Glen
Ellyn, Illinois) is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and
keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. Initially trained as a
sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s,
Anderson did a variety of different performance-art activities. She became widely known outside
the art world in 1981 when her single "O Superman" reached number two on the UK pop charts.
O Superman: Anderson constructed the song as a cover of the aria "O Souverain, o juge, o
père" (O Sovereign, O Judge, O Father) from Jules Massenet's 1885 opera Le Cid. She got the
idea after listening to a recording of the aria made by African-American tenor Charles Holland,
whose career was hampered for decades by racism in the classical music world. Overlaid on a
sparse background of two alternating chords formed by the repeated spoken syllable "Ha," the
text of "O Superman" is spoken through a vocoder. A saxophone is heard as the song fades out,
and a sample of tweeting birds is subtly overlaid at various points within the track. As part of the
larger work United States, the text addresses issues of technology and communication, quoting
at various points answering machine messages and (what is falsely perceived to be) the United
States Postal Service creed: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night shall stay these
couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." This line is in fact the inscription
over the entrance of the James Farley Post Office in New York and is derived from a line in
Herodotus' Histories (8.98), referring to the ancient courier service of the Persian Empire. All of
this is in the context of an attack by American planes and arms. Several times, including in an
interview with the Australian magazine Bulletin (22 January 2003), Anderson has claimed that the
song is connected to Iran-Contra affair occurring when she wrote it. However, because the song
was released in 1981 and the first public reporting of the weapons-for-hostages deal happened
on November 3, 1986, this could not be true. It is also possible that Anderson simply used the
wrong term for the original Iran hostage crisis which took place in 1979-1980, a time frame which
does more closely fit Anderson's description. The lines "Cause when love is gone, there's always
justice / And when justice is gone, there's always force / And when force is gone, there's always
Mom" derive from the fourth sentence of Chapter 38 of the Tao Teh Ching: "When Tao is lost,
there is goodness. When goodness is lost, there is kindness. When kindness is lost, there is
justice. When justice is lost, there ritual. Now ritual is the husk of faith and loyalty, the beginning of
confusion."
Superman: Superman is a fictional character, a comic book superhero widely considered to
be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born artist
Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective Comics, Inc.
in 1938, the character first appeared in Action Comics #1 (June 30, 1938) and subsequently
appeared in various radio serials, television programs, films, newspaper strips, and video
games. With the success of his adventures, Superman helped to create the superhero genre and
establish its primacy within the American comic book. The character's appearance is distinctive
and iconic: a red, blue and yellow costume, complete with cape, like a circus costume, with a
stylized "S" shield on his chest. This shield is now typically used across media to symbolize the
character.
Christopher Reeve: Christopher D'Olier Reeve (September 25, 1952 – October 10,
2004) was an American actor, director, producer, and writer. He established himself early as a
Juilliard-trained stage actor before portraying Superman in four films, from 1978 to 1987. On
May 27, 1995, Christopher Reeve was paralyzed in an accident during the cross country portion
of an Eventing competition. He was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. He lobbied on
behalf of people with spinal cord injuries, and for human embryonic stem cell research after this
accident. He founded the Christopher Reeve Foundation and co-founded the Reeve-Irvine
Research Center. Reeve died at age 52 on October 10, 2004 from cardiac arrest caused by a
systemic infection.