Highsmith-Matmos

Visual description of the song "Snails and Lasers for Patricia Highsmith" by Matmos

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Music

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• Matmos
• Patricia
• Highsmith

[BertoConsalvi]

Angelo Badalamenti?

[AwkwardRamen]

She was a distant cousin of mine we are a weird brood I'm on here under my daughters account but we are Highsmith's and we are all writers, artist ,and musicians I didn't see eye to eye with pat because she hated capitalism but she

didn't seem to mind spending money From her books.

[setamonkeytoy]

i love the snail solo at the end those crazy crazy snails

[lesmorriset]

i love this piece of music, most alluring

[BeatBuddy]

There's an excellent bio by Andrew Wilson called Beautiful Shadow. It came out some four or five years ago. He also offers some analysis why she is far more popular in Europe than in the USA and why Hollywood is afraid to touch her.

[danceofthegoblins]

Have you read a bio of HP? Just curious how you know these things (not that I doubt them)?

[BeatBuddy]

She really did consider snails her pets, but perhaps less so than cats. She preferred the company of animals over that of people, even though she had a few friends, two of them being Arthur Koestler and Jeanne Moreau.

BTW, this music is on CD as part of larger work, just like Shostakovich's tribute to Garcia Lorca falls under the heading of the 14th Symphony.

[danceofthegoblins]

Or for a 5150 observation!

[danceofthegoblins]

Also, a little creepy and, if in a certain mindset, perhaps disturbing: other reasons PH woulda loved it-perhaps even more so!

[BeatBuddy]

A cop did ask her once for her ID and noticed a purse full of snails. He could have taken her in under suspicion of being under the influence.