Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey
Good morning, and happy 30th birthday toIf you’re less in the mood for a claymation masterpiece about an evil penguin, and more in the mood to scroll your phone and think about big ideas, here are some of the more interesting articles I’ve seen around this week: on home, health, love, belonging, self-actualisation – the whole Maslow’s hierarchy.‘We’re triggered. We’re processing our trauma. We’re doing the work.’ The rise of therapy-speak.
“Some therapists believe that the expressive nature of therapy-speak is, actually, not all that expressive,” Morgan writes. Her description of the language of actual therapy sounds more appealing: “a singular relationship … with its own intimate context and idiosyncrasies”.Tom Waits with his wife, Kathleen, during the making of Swordfishtrombones in LA in 1982.
Tim Adams opens with a close-up on 1983’s Swordfishtrombones, where “there is, in among a lot of fabulously unhinged musical experimentation, a 90-second ballad of such tender beauty that it explains all the rest”. Waits wrote it for his wife, Kathleen Brennan – “She’s my only true love/ She’s all that I think of, look here/In my wallet/That’s her”.
The way Adams sees it, their relationship was the crucible in which Waits transformed from “bar-room balladeer” to something more interesting. In the musician’s words, his life got “more settled”, his work “more scary”.And Jarmusch: “I have always seen Kathleen as a reliable kind of navigator, but she is always taking the ship further out into space,” he says. “What they have is not going to get broken, not in this lifetime at least.” ‘We are fiercely opposed to ageism and paternalism.
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