Damien’s Essay in new Paste Magazine

[standonlytofall]

Damien Rice wrote an essay for Paste Magazine (www.pastemagazine.com) and it's in the new issue (with Bright Eyes on the cover). It's called "My Mission to Burma" and it's all about the time he spent in Burma (Myanmar) with Ani DiFranco back in July '04 to visit refugee camps. It's a really powerful article. I know you can get the magazine at Borders and Barnes & Noble and any of the stores you find on www.pasterecommends.com. As far as anyone not in the States, I'm not entirely sure where you'd find the magazine, but I'd guess if you have a Borders or Barnes & Noble, that'd be a place to check. I'll let ya'll know when they post the article on their website.

[minneken1911]

sounds good. i'll check it out tomorrow.

[OSully]

This issue is up on the website now, but I can't seem to find the article anywhere...maybe they just don't have it up yet?? (or maybe I'm just blind??!!) Bummer--I know it's in this issue, cause I got an email about it a while back, and if you look really closely at the cover it's listed on there. Guess I'll just have to wait til it comes in the mail.[img]smileys/smiley1.gif[/img]

[standonlytofall]

Here's the essay! http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/...rticle_id=1460

check it out!

[OSully]

Thanks for the link!![img]smileys/smiley1.gif[/img] Whatbeautiful, heartbreaking words. I find myself wondering how that trip will influence his music (not to mention his whole life). Like, you know how some experience just make you open your eyes to the point where you never want to open your mouth and complain ever again...about anything???Complaining isn't the right word...but you know, like, maybe even writing about personal relationships will somehow seem less....important? in the grand scheme of things?

[dizzy cannon]

Originally Posted by OSully

Thanks for the link!![img]smileys/smiley1.gif[/img] Whatbeautiful, heartbreaking words. I find myself wondering how that trip will influence his music (not to mention his whole life). Like, you know how some experience just make you open your eyes to the point where you never want to open your mouth and complain ever again...about anything???Complaining isn't the right word...but you know, like, maybe even writing about personal relationships will somehow seem less....important? in the grand scheme of things?

[img]smileys/smiley9.gif[/img]thats almost exactly what i was gonna ask and say


so ill just say diddo to what u said

[#Ian#]

Well he writes well but he's basically saying very little.

[Angela]

Am I missing somehing or is this already the abrupt end of the article [img]smileys/smiley5.gif[/img]


"Send the kids ahead and sure they may end up dead and their mothers may cry for mercy and beg but there’s nothing like a nice bomb to take off a child’s leg."

[administrator]

hey, thanks for the link!

[standonlytofall]

Nope, that's the end...it ends with the italic quote. if anyone picks up the magazine, it's on the page right after the sampler CD and DVD (well, i guess the DVD is only going to subscribers now)

[minneken1911]

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wow. very poetic.



don't know what to do with myself. whenever i hear stories like
these, it makes me feel guilty for the ease of my life relative to the
pain and suffering that many people around the world endure day to day.


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[Loveless]

..like the 9 survivors of the tsunami found found on the Andaman Islands who survived on coconuts for the past 38 days
news.google.ie/news?hl=en&gl=ie&ie=UTF-8&q=tsunami+survivors

[SisterMidnight]

Originally Posted by Angela

Am I missing somehing or is this already the abrupt end of the article [img]smileys/smiley5.gif[/img]


"Send the kids ahead and sure they may end up dead and their mothers may cry for mercy and beg but there’s nothing like a nice bomb to take off a child’s leg."

That sounds like a piece of a poem or lyric to me... maybe he added it in for emphasis. He was starting to get really poetic and almost rhymey in that last paragraph if you read it with a rhythm. I like how the editors suggested that you read the article out loud... it was very short and introspective, but I like how Damien writes. [img]smileys/smiley1.gif[/img]I'd never read anything he had written before except lyrics.

[cille]

i'm really impressed with damien's style of writing in this piece. sort of mysterious, yet very open and personal. if he'd write a book like that one day i'd love every word.

[Sniffer]

I have to agree with Ian; very flowery but fairly light and fluffy on content.
To moan about "missing a shag" in the face of what those people have
(and are) going through leaves me cold.
Sorry to be negative towards Damien on a site in his tribute but it really
sounded like puffed up prose done so just because he's an "artist".
I was not moved.

[mari]

Originally Posted by Loveless

..like the 9 survivors of the tsunami found found on the Andaman Islands who survived on coconuts for the past 38 days
news.google.ie/news?hl=en&amp;gl=ie&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=tsuna mi+survivors

That's incredible 38 days! Wonderful news for the families involved, makes me wonder if there are more people clinging onto life waiting to be rescued...


Damien's article did seem to end very abruptly,perhaps ithad been cut.Edited by: mari

[Banjaxed]

Originally Posted by Sniffer

To moan about "missing a shag" in the face of what those people have
(and are) going through leaves me cold.

He wascomparing the pathetic things that were bothering him during his stay there with those living and suffering in Burma.


Just as well it wasn't any more 'flowery' or you might've thought it was about gardening.

[cille]

Originally Posted by Banjaxed

Just as well it wasn't any more 'flowery' or you might've thought it was about gardening.

[img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img]!

[fmmc]

yeah he doesn't really say much about the people, but of his feelings
while he was among them. it's a different approach to the amount of
info we are given usually in articles like these. You know the ones
that tell us about a persons troubles and how difficult their life is,
the problem with that is that people see so many of these the stop
being moved by them. But I don't think Damiens article
really allows for passion fatigue because when you read it you can
actually
imagine yourself there, having these thoughts.

It moved me and i think he did a really good job.


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[mestonf]

good stuff that article

you legend damo!

"missing a shag" [img]smileys/smiley36.gif[/img]

[Miss Pink]

good artical.....but i agree its mising sth still very well written tho

[mestonf]

isn't the abrubt ending due to the fact you have to subscribe to the website or buy the magazine to see the full article? Or am i completely wrong?

[standonlytofall]

No, that's the way the article ends...it ends the same way in the magazine

[Angela]

Originally Posted by mestonf

isn't the abrubt ending due to the fact you have to subscribe to the website or buy the magazine to see the full article? Or am i completely wrong?

No, they do publish full aticles on their web site.

[ThirdInLine]

Originally Posted by mestonf

good stuff that article

you legend damo!

"missing a shag"

I think Banjaxed got it right here - Damien iscontrasting his own concerns at the timewith those of the people he was visiting, to show how fundamentally trivial the desire for a 'fag or a shag' really is. In face of people who have suffered so much, sex and cigarettes are nothing. It doesn't sound to methat he isjoking about his own sexual desires as such, it's moreas ifhe's almost ashamed by them in comparison to what he is witnessing.


God, I'm a wordy good-for-nothing sometimes...