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Playing the Body

by Minim

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1.
The Vessels 05:51
Woman wrought from salt compacted of vengeance Her only name is the wife of a one-syllable man And the men with feet run from the sulphurous fire She is left looking back and thinking, don’t leave He said, you can’t be my wife, you must be my sister Your role will be just one in a massive harem Then they glean in plagues that she is protected She is left looking back and thinking, don’t leave Dress is spotted with blood Unclean for seven days Give birth to a boy Unclean for thirty-three days Give birth to a girl Unclean for sixty-six days All impurities Render you unclean Instead of breaking bread he would break me He lusts and then he loathes when he lies with me Now I hold my head, I tear at my sleeves From my brother Absalom’s house I can’t leave Dress is spotted with blood Unclean for seven days Give birth to a boy Unclean for thirty-three days Give birth to a girl Unclean for sixty-six days All impurities Render you unclean
2.
May be a figment but it’s perfect I can’t speak I just blush and stammer Press my body close to this apparition Physical in theory but it can’t seem to be When I feel its breath I just blush and stammer When I see its lashes I lose my head See it can be whatever is my fancy It’s a mirage it’s a perfect beast In its fact I just blush Blush and stammer
3.
Comme vous voulez Whatever you need Comme vous voulez Whatever you want I’ve been yearning I’ve been burning One part through another part of me I’ve been spreading I’ve been threading Your part through another part of me Comme vous voulez Whatever you need Comme vous voulez Whatever you want Gauge his size gauge his weight How much can he pay for his pleasure Slip under this door locked and cold And enrapture in screaming leisure Comme vous voulez Whatever you need Comme vous voulez Whatever you want Lean my head back throw my hips back One place where I never thought I’d be
4.
I like monkeys They’re funny I like midgets, too And ice cream Puppies and sunshine You could see it in his face He was a drinker What’s it like to be a loser? Is there a name for what’s wrong with you? I’m very cheerful, can’t you see? I’m very, very cheerful And people like me Can I have a monkey? I like monkeys They’re funny
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Imitate 02:22
Fissures cut so clean Stars beneath the hairline She’s half machine She’s a mechanized dream Exorcise what’s a piece of me Pull skin over tight Cast me in a synthetic pallor I’ll imitate your light Just as I was meant to be Surely suits me fine Shed my ribs shrink my perimeters Imitate your lines
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Drinking Man 04:24
Chunks of meat and lemon meringue pie Blast through this chubby sky My pinkie is made of clay She's pointing at the Milky Way Skip, skip, skip to my bloodhound Punch that clown down Down down frowny town Drink a fish and make a wish That we may live To see the light of May Is Friday ok? I am a drinking man Trapped inside this can Clinkity clinkety clinkety clop Run and run and run and stop Come, sit your lazy flesh down on this beam Next to all my broken dreams And we'll sit together In the silence and black and slop Small talk in circles with squares Who drink to avert my vacant stares They talk in private about my hair Or nod politely and pretend to care Everyone loves a clown And my old suit is all pressed now So that the wool is shiny and dank Compressing the smoke and vomit and stank And I wait Until the booze I crave Washes over me I am a drinking man Can’t you see?
9.
Myth Fatale 02:20
There’s more than one And she’s one of his two Child ripped from the head Head of Zeus He could keep her In a pretty box With a special key And a special lock Unattainable perfection Numb and pale And she can’t contain All the ways He wants her to remain She’s discontent With her entity Scrapes for herself So frantically Intellectual pedestal There’s more than one And she’s one of his two Sister deity as nemesis And you perpetuating her same paler myth Please You’ve got to let her go
10.
House Fire 02:49
Larry's waiting for his calling But Larry's always falling down Larry's drinking till the morning But morning’s never coming 'round Larry's life is passing slowly There’s poetry in lying down Larry hasn't a got a cigarette But Larry's house is burning down Larry is falling Always falling down Now's a good time to fall to the ground Larry has a guilty secret That no one cares to figure out He hides behind a moving target And wallows in his charming doubt Don't accuse him of ambition Don’t believe him when he shouts He says, Fee-fi-fo-fum I'll chase you Till I break your fading spirit down
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Je vous ai vue dans la rue ma chérie Vous êtes toute belle vous êtes à Paris Mais vous vous cachez dans votre chambre petite Encore assez grande pas encore réduite Je vous ai vue dans votre chambre petite Prédiction qui se réalise l’agoraphobie Où sont les amis? Où sont les salons? Revenez ma chérie vous vivez trop loin Je vous ai vue dans la fleuve ma chérie Écrivaine en herbe la nouvelle Ophélie Je vais vous traduire vivez en moi Tu seras à moi je serai à toi Vivez en moi Tu seras à moi je serai à toi Vous pouvez vivre en moi Tu seras à moi je serai à toi
13.
In this song I could be Built like Marilyn Five foot three I’m all hips I’m all lips I’m a sexual tyranny In this song I could be Idealized hanger A six-foot tree Branded and banded Strapped in heels I’m all towering Over me Write it up and down my legs But that won’t make it me My mind it’s running so far ahead But I become a woman When I’m playing the body In this song I could be National average One forty three Quantify me And sexualize me As I’m singing Can you hear my body There are footsteps in the hall But you can’t tell the sex of the step In this neutered tongue Suis-je belle? Suis-je belle? Suis-je belle? My body stops before my thoughts If a body’s a woman Can her head be a man’s? La tête le corps In this song I could be Anything you want me to be Not a woman I’m not a man I am textual androgyny

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released October 4, 2022

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CREDITS
All songs written by Jenn Solheim and James Gillespie (1996-2000), except 5 traditional Irish air, 7 with Tim Daisy, and 10 James GIllespie (1992).

PERSONNEL
Jenn Solheim: vocals, bass, samples 2
James Gillespie: vocals, guitar, organ 1, flute 4, tin whistle 5, samples 8, accordion 12
Tim Daisy: drums, percussion, marimba 3, 4, 10, 11, and organ 10
Chad Lind: drums 2, 9, 13
Steve Alford: bass clarinet 1, 4
Mike Lusst: samples 5

RECORDING/MIXING
Mike Lusst at Noizefloor (2000–2001), except 2, 9, 12, 13 by Mike Hagler at Kingsize Sound Labs (1999)

MASTERING
Original Master by Mike Hagler at Kingsize Sound Labs (2001)
Remaster by Mike Hagler at Kingsize Sound Labs (2020)

PHOTOGRAPHY
Kim Turner-Smith

COVER DESIGN
James Gillespie

THANK YOU
Evelyne Accad, Dave Aksland, John Amberger, Nicole Cardi, John Choi, Tom Collier, Laura Coy, Choke Inc, Niki D’andrea, Chris Daisy, Doug and Michelle Daugherty, Duane Denison, Thax Douglas, Dyslexic Records, Cyndi Elliot, Michael Flatley, Kevin Foote, The Get Hustle, Mark Glinski, Mike Hagler, Hairy Mary's, Peter Hallan, Jim Holmes, Mark Howard, Mary Jones, Dag Juhlin, Sharon LaRose, Daniel Leary, Brian Leach, Eric Mahle, Monkey, Doc Pedrolie, Q101, Kristi Richter, Malachi Richter, Kristina Risvold, Brent Ritzel, Jay Ryan, Steven Sostak, Danielle Soto, Supersphere, Mark Tatara, Tiffany Tekieli, Kim Turner, The Underground Publishing Conference, Venusflow Magazine, James Wallace, Bob Weston, Johnny Winjoe, WLUW, WNUR, and all our friends and families.

CONTACT
Email: minim29@yahoo.com
Social: www.facebook.com/MinimChicago/

Tour de Vis Records
Original Master (TDV001) Copyright 2001
Remaster (TDV002) Copyright 2022

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Minim Chicago, Illinois

“Midwestern power post-punk with wit, math rock with sex appeal.”—Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader

Minim (1996-2003) was Jenn Solheim and James Gillespie, with drummers Eric Mahle, Chad Lind, Tim Daisy, Tom Collier.

Listen to our 7"/EP on Dyslexic Records (1997): dyslexicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fine-or-superfine-70-lbs-bonus-track

Band web site: www.facebook.com/MinimChicago/
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