Sim BarrMan From Mars
When record producer Larry Klein asked former wife Joni Mitchell to write a song for the 1995 film Grace of my Heart she refused. The movie, based on the a songwriter + aspiring singer in the mid 60s (think Carole King) required an innocence + vulnerability that Mitchell no longer felt she could offer.
Enter Nietzsche, Joni's cat, also known as Man From Mars ("he's a little lavender lion who looks like an alien + walks on his hind legs"). Nietzsche had peed all over a couple of chairs + so Joni said to him, “if you're going to act like an animal - you're going to live like an animal.”, grabbing him + kicking him outside. Well, he disappeared for 18 days. Night after night, Mitchell called him from her yard + waited. The song's sounds mimic what she heard: the rustling of leaves, bird songs, the drone from a distant freeway. , "It took me 17 days to write this song, + the night I finished it, my amazing little mancat appeared in a neighbor's yard "
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